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Searching the Catalog

Learn how to search the library catalog to find materials you need, both print and electronic, and be able to understand your search results. You will also learn how to construct more sophisticated searches to help find the materials you need.

Legal Periodical Research

This guide offers an introduction to researching legal periodicals and law reviews, using Index to Legal Periodicals, LegalTrac, and more. The guide focuses on using index terms to find articles by topic, and building sophisticated searches to help sort through search results.

Pennsylvania Administrative Law Research

Administrative law consists of rules, regulations, decisions, and guidance documents issued by executive branch agencies, boards, commissions, departments, and offices. These agencies are generally created by statute. This research guide will help you research Pennsylvania administrative law resources both electronic and in print.

Legislative History for Pennsylvania Laws

The purpose of a legislative history is to collect the documents relating to a particular statute in order to better understand the legislative intent, including hearings, committee reports, and floor debates. This guide helps you research legislative history, as well as current bills, in Pennsylvania using a variety of resources.

Pennsylvania Practice Resources

The Legal Research Center (LRC) has a variety of practice guide resources that provide guidance on how to perform various tasks. These guides provide summaries of the law governing specific matters, checklists of tasks that need to be performed, procedural guidance, and examples of litigation and transactional forms. All the resources listed in this guide are specific to Pennsylvania law.