Faculty Services

The Jameson Law Library provides a variety of specialized services designed to assist faculty with their scholarship and teaching. This page details the highlights of our faculty services program. Please contact us if there is any additional service we can provide.

Scholarship

Research is what we do best! We can assist with small research projects or work with you or your research assistant to plan larger projects and find sources. For research assistance, contact us at law.library@umontana.edu or (406) 243-2699.

The Scholarly Forum has merged with ScholarWorks. ScholarWorks is a service of the University of Montana Mansfield Library that centralizes, preserves, and provides access to the research, creative scholarship, and unique resources produced and curated by University of Montana faculty, students, and staff. To facilitate adding your scholarship to ScholarWorks, please retain the following:

  • A clean PDF of your published work (not a copy from Hein Online).
  • A copy of your author agreement in which you retain the right to post your published work in electronic databases such as the Scholarly Forum. 
  • A citation to your published work.
 Contact us for assistance at law.library@umontana.edu or (406) 243-2699.

Faculty can also upload their scholarship to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). For SSRN you will also need a clean PDF or your work, not from HeinOnline. You will have to create a free account following the detailed submission instructions.

The law school has a Scholastica account to facilitate faculty submission of scholarship to law reviews. We can assist you with this process. Contact us at law.library@umontana.edu or (406) 243-2699.

Teaching

To obtain a complimentary copy of a textbook you plan on using for a particular class, please contact the publisher.

Mansfield Library has a useful guide to copyright for the University of Montana, Course Reserve Copyright Guidelines.  Another source that is very clear and helpful is from Columbia University Library's Copyright Advisory Office.  In particular, you may find their "Fair Use Check List" helpful to use as a general gauge to determine whether or not your purpose for copying materials for the classroom favors or opposes fair use.

We have put together a list of Teaching Resources for law faculty.  The list includes books in the Law Library collection along with selected websites and other online resources you may find useful.

Course reserve materials are placed on reserve in the library at the request of the instructor and circulate for two-hour blocks.

The library has several specialized databases that you may want to direct your students to for research for your courses. See the library's Databases page for a full listing.

The library subscribes the West Study Aids for all students. Students and faculty are able to access hornbooks, nutshells, question-and-answer guides, Gilbert's summaries, "law stories" series and more. The subscription allows free, full access to over 400 titles in electronic book format. Students can access the books from any computer using their Westlaw passwords and highlight and take notes in the books.

To see a list of titles available for your class, visit the Law School Portal and click on the Study Aids Subscription link. If you have not used the Study Aids Subscription before or have not updated your password, you will be prompted to create a West Academic Account. After that you will be able to login to the Study Aids Subscription using your Westlaw password.

The library also purchases many of the West titles as well as several other study guide series in print including:

  • Glannon Guides (Wolters Kluwer)
  • Essentials (Wolters Kluwer)
  • Examples & Explanations (Wolters Kluwer)
  • Mastering (Carolina Academic Press)
  • Understanding (LexisNexis)
  • Questions & Answers (LexisNexis)

Library Materials

The library purchases print, electronic and audio-visual materials in accordance with our Collection Development Policy (currently under revision).  If you would like to make a purchasing recommendation, contact us at law.library@umontana.edu or (406) 243-2699.

Materials purchased by the library become part of the library collection but the law school maintains a fund to purchase personal materials for faculty. Contact Hannah Singleton to order personal copies at hannah.singleton@umontana.edu or (406) 243-2694.

The library is part of a consortium made up of all the academic libraries in Montana. The libraries in the consortium share a catalog and there is a feature in the catalog you can use to request that books from any of the consortium libraries be sent to the law library. For assistance with this feature, see any librarian.

Interlibrary Loan

The library is part of an interlibrary loan network that allows us to borrow books from other libraries on a short-term basis. This is a good option for material you are interested in that falls outside the scope of our collection, especially non-law sources. If you would like to request an interlibrary loan, contact Diane Yancy at diane.yancy@umontana.edu or (406) 243-4847.

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