Article Indexes & Databases

All databases are available both on campus and remotely, unless otherwise indicated. You will need to supply your BroncoWeb ID and password to access these resources off campus.

Periodicals

To determine the library's holdings for each of the following publications, click on the journal title, and then enter the journal name in the search box.

There are few periodicals aimed specifically at the Paralegal/Legal Assistant. However, the good news is that some of them are available free of charge on-line.

• Facts & Findings: the official publication of the National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc.
  This is a quarterly publication, and the older, bound, volumes are shelved under the call number KF 320 L4 F3. Recent issues will be found on the first floor, shelved in alphabetic order by title.
   
• IDALS in brief
  Published by the Idaho Association of Legal Secretaries. Bound volumes will be found under the call number KF 318 A1 I33, recent issues will be unbound and shelved on the first floor in alphabetic order by title.
   
• Legal Assistant Today
  Issued by a commercial publisher. Bound volumes in the BSU Library are shelved under the call number KF 320 L4 L435 while recent, unbound, issues are shelved on the first floor, in alphabetic order by title. The online access begins with 1997.
   
• National Paralegal Reporter: Official publication of [the] National Federation of Paralegal Associations
  Published quarterly. In BSU the bound volumes will be found under the call number KF 320 L4 N38 while recent, unbound, issues will be found on the first floor in alphabetic order.

Reference Books

The following books are located in the reference section of the library and are useful for providing brief, introductory information on a given topic.  For more detailed information, go to the Library's catalog or to the Library's Indexes to Journals and Databases.

• Bieber’s dictionary of legal citations: reference guide for attorneys, legal secretaries, paralegals, and law students
  Legal citations provide the source of many frustrations and confusion, this dictionary lists and explains abbreviations for the various reporter and journal series.
  KF 246 P73 1997
   
• Black’s Law Dictionary
  Coverage is much more broad than title would indicate, it is a good source for many subjects and essential to understand history and practice of law and legal matters.
  ref KF 156 R53 (2 vols)
   
• Bouvier’s law dictionary and concise encyclopedia
  Newer than the date would indicate, but dated. Definitions are easy to understand.
  ref KF 156 B6 1914x
   
• Encyclopedia of legal information sources
  Somewhat dated but still useful guide to sources in the field of law.
  KF 1 E53 1988
   
• Encyclopedia of the American judicial system: studies of the principal institutions and processes of law
  The scope and majesty of the law and its application within the judiciary.
  ref KF 154 E53 1987
   
• Guide to American law: everyone’s legal encyclopedia
  A statement of the concepts of law in lay-person’s language.
  KF 156 G77 1983
   
• West’s Encyclopedia of American Law
  From one of the largest publishers of legal reference sources this encyclopedia is exhaustive in its coverage.
  ref KF 154 W47 1998

Below are listed some of the important basic manuals important to this field.

• Greene, Christine Bergen
  Disposition manual for paralegals
  KF 8900 G74 1993
   
• Cummins, Suzanne.
  Evidence for paralegals
  KF 8935 Z9 M35 1999
   
• Elias, Stephen.
  Legal research: how to find and understand the law
  Located in the first floor mini-ref collection.
   
• Nemeth, Charles.
  Evidence handbook for paralegals
  KF 8935 N35 1993
   
• Mauet, Thomas.
  Fundamentals of litigation for paralegals
  KF 8841 M37 2003
   
• Randall, Lynn M.
  Litigation organization and management for paralegals
  KF 320 L4 R36 1993

(For other books on these and related subjects use the library catalog. The term “Legal Assistants” is the one favored in this catalog.)

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