About the Law Library

The UA Library Catalog searches items available from the University of Akron libraries plus Ohiolink. 

You can search for books, articles, videos, dissertations, etc.

The UA Catalog can search for an article by title or keywords. If you have a citation to an article, you can find the fulltext of the article using the citation search in the library catalog.  If you are in the library catalog, to get to the citation search, click on the three dots in the top right.

HOWEVER,  the Catalog does not search for articles within Lexis, Westlaw, or Heinonline. (although it will search for the names of particular journals and will tell you if a particular journal can be found in HeinOnline, Lexis, or other database). If you can't find the article by title, try searching the catalog for the name of the publication or journal to find the database containing that journal. Then search within that database (such as HeinOnline, etc.) to find the article.

If you can not find an article in the U Akron Library Catalog, in any database you have access to, or the internet, you can do an Interlibrary Loan request for a particular article. Contact a Librarian for help.

• Request Books from Bierce Library: When on the U Akron Library Catalog, if a book is at the Bierce Library, click the link that says Request to have it sent to the law library. This process can take up to 3 business days. Tutorial on How to Request a Book
• Try Ohiolink: If U Akron Libraries do not have something, you can request via Ohiolink. Searching the UA Library Catalog will include Ohiolink results if you are using the default setting to search everything (Dropdown in the search bar says Everything). Be sure you are signed in to the U Akron Library Catalog (Instructions on How to Sign in). Ordering from Ohiolink can take 7 business days.
• Verify the TItle you are searching for via Worldcat. Worldcat is a combined catalog of libraries all around the world. Local public libraries such as Summit County or Cleveland Public are not in Ohiolink. So Worldcat can indicate if an item is in a local public library you can go to.
• Try Searching the Web, particularly if the book is older and out of copyright. Try especially:

• Borrowing from out-of-state: use interlibrary loan.  If the University Libraries and OhioLINK do not own the material, you will have to request the material using the online interlibrary loan form.  The Law Library requests the material from out-of-state. The form can be used to request articles, books, book chapters, reports and conference papers.  This can take 10 business days.  Contact Tiffanie Nevins with questions about ILL requests.