Alex Zhang

Forthcoming

Chinese Legal Research in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, forthcoming)

Works in Progress

Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries (December 1, 2024) (with others)
Replication Crisis in the U.S. Supreme Court Litigation (July 1, 2024) (with others)

Books

Global Animal Law Research: Strategies and Resources (Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (editor with Katherine Siler)

Articles & Essays

Goodson Law Library, Duke University Law School, in 3 Organizational Structures of Academic Law Libraries: Past, Present, and Future 83-104 (Elizabeth Adelman & Jessica de Perio Wittman eds., 2025)
Information Retrieval in the Age of Generative AI: A Mismatch That Matters, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Advance article 1-10 (August 1, 2025)
NLP Driven Citation Analysis of Legal Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities, in Handbook of Trends and Innovations Concerning Library and Information Science 177-201 (Barbara Jane Holland ed., 2025) (with Jiebei Luo)
Examine Law Library Practice Through the Lens of DIKW Model, 41 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 156-159 (2022)
New Column: Librarians As Model Thinkers, 41 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 98-100 (2022)
Researching Chinese Animal Law, in Global Animal Law Research: Strategies and Resources (Alex Zhang & Katherine Siler eds., 2022)
The Gaps Model and Faculty Services: Quality Analysis Through a “New” Lens, 112 Law Library Journal 95-115 (2020) (with Sherry Xin Chen)
China, People's Republic of, in Foreign Law Guide (Marci Hoffman ed., 2019)
Sustainable and Open Access to Valuable Legal Research Information: A New Framework, 111 Law Library Journal 229-253 (2019) (with James Hart)
Asian American Law Librarians Caucus: A Jewel in the Crown, in Asian American Librarians and Library Services: Activism, Collaborations, and Strategies 51-56 (Janet Hyunju Clarke, Raymond Pun & Monnee Tong eds., 2018)
General Works on Sexual Orientation and the Law - Introduction, in Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography, 2006-2016, 1-19 (Dana Neacs̜u, David Brian Holt & Margaret Butler eds., 2018)
Legal Status of Lesbians and Gay Men, in Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography, 2006-2016, 21-41 (Dana Neacs̜u, David Brian Holt & Margaret Butler eds., 2018)
Taiwan, in Foreign Law Guide (Marci Hoffman ed., 2018)
A Tale of Two Resources: Foreign Law Guide v. Globalex, 30 Reference Reviews 1-6 (2016)
Discovering the Knowledge Monopoly of Law Librarianship Under the DIKW Pyramid, 108 Law Library Journal 599-622 (2016)
Book Reviews, 32 Government Information Quarterly 216-217 (2015) (reviewing Internetsociety.org [website], administered by the Internet Society (Retrieved September 25, 2014), https:/internetsociety.org)
Researching Chinese Law Using Legal Periodicals in English and Chinese: A Critical Overview, 34 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 1-38 (2015) (with Evelyn Ma)
On Describing Chinese Legal Research, 3 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 193-197 (2014) (reviewing Paul Kossof, Chinese Legal Research (2014))
Public Access to Primary Legal Information in China: Challenges and Opportunities, 14 Legal Information Management 132-142 (2014)
Book Reviews, 41 International Journal of Legal Information 236-238 (2013) (reviewing The Landscape of the Legal Professions in Europe and the USA: Continuity and Change (A. Uzelak & C.H. van Rhee eds., 2011))
Guide on Researching Chinese Mass Media Law, GlobaLex (2013) (June/July 2013; updated 2018)
Issues and Trends in Collection Development for East Asian Legal Materials, 105 Law Library Journal 321-351 (2013) (with others)
John C.H. Wu and His Comparative Law Pursuit, 41 International Journal of Legal Information 196-221 (2013)
Keeping up with New Legal Titles, 104 Law Library Journal 594-596 (2012) (reviewing Laura Stark, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research (2012))
Taiwan Legal Research Guide, GlobaLex (2012) (November/December 2012; updated 2016, 2019)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Asian Legal Responses to COVID-19, Asian Legal Responses to COVID-19 (issue 1, June 2020-) (with Sherry Chen, project co-coordinator)
Resource Reviews: China Law Translate, 34 FCIL Newsletter (May 1, 20201-3)
Book Review: Indigenous Peoples, Customary Law and Human Rights – Why Living Law Matters, DipLawMatic Dialogues (June 30, 2015)
Free Access to Government Legal Information in China: A Path Full of Hopes and Thorns, IALL Blog (January 1, 2014)

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Books

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Newspaper Articles and Commentary