The Library's document delivery service allows faculty members to have books, articles, conference papers, and reports delivered directly to mailboxes in the Communication Center. Requests can be submitted in person at the Circulation Desk, through faculty liaisons, or online. The Library has compiled some frequently asked questions regarding the document delivery service.
Library staff members will also return books borrowed by faculty members from other UT Libraries. However, the books may not be returned on the same day. To avoid overdue fines, p lease send books from other UT Libraries to the Law Library at least 3 business days before the due date. For more information about the document delivery program contact Jane O'Connell (, 471-8761).
Law School faculty members can request that the Library's copy of current issues of periodicals be routed to them. Faculty members should contact their liaisons and indicate the titles of interest or the areas of interest for routing. Routed serial issues are distributed to faculty mailboxes in the Communications Center.
Because several faculty members may be on the routing list for any one serial, it is important that materials circulate relatively quickly. Serials can be returned directly to the Circulation Desk or to the Library drop box in the Communications Center. Please photocopy articles of interest or request that the serial issue be returned after it has been routed to others on the routing list.
The Library subscribes to the University of Washington’s Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP), which delivers weekly e-mail notices containing topical access to the table of contents pages from over 570 legal publications. Faculty can also set up a SmartCILP profile and receive a weekly e-mail that focuses only on the subject headings and journals they select. To receive CILP notices or set up a SmartCILP profile, please contact .
The Library now offers six subject-specific current legal literature services, covering actual innocence, capital punishment, copyright, domestic violence, energy law, patent law and trademark law.
These services provide basic bibliographic data for recent articles appearing in U.S. legal journals and non-U.S. legal journals published in English. Additionally, the first page of each article is available in .pdf format for 60 days, providing readers with a more complete idea of the scope of each article and the biographical background of the authors.
Each current legal literature service is typically updated two to three times a week, depending on the volume of cites. Additonally, each service is RSS-enabled, providing subscribers with automatic notices of updates.
The Library subscribes to the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN, a division of the Social Sciences Research Network that publishes a wide range of law-related working papers and article drafts accepted for publication. Faculty members may subscribe to any of the LSN journals. Access to the SSRN Economic Research Network and Financial Economics Network may also be available. Contact Jane O'Connell (, 471-8761).
LexisNexis, Westlaw, and other electronic resources can be used to create automatic notification systems that will inform faculty members by email of new primary or secondary source material that relates to particular subjects or that is published by particular sources. Contact your library liaison for more information.
Listings of new titles added to the general and foreign and international law collections are updated on a regular basis. RSS feeds for both a comprehensive title listing and for subject-specific listings are also available. To request delivery of an item to your mailbox in the Communications Center, click on the title in the listing, then on the Request icon at the top of the catalog entry. Requests may also be submitted through the faculty document delivery service or by contacting your liaison.
A monthly listing of selected new U.S. government documents is distributed as a e-mail message on request.
For additional information about these services, please contact your library liaison or Jane O'Connell (, 471-8761).
The Library provides regular updates during Supreme Court terms. Our updates include concise summaries of recently issued Supreme Court decisions and certs granted, with links to the official slip opinions on the Supreme Court website. UT Law faculty can follow our updates and stay current in a variety of ways:
