Staying Connected
Spring 2021: Syllabi Scanning Service
Law Library staff will again scan the first two weeks of required assigned course readings for all courses and post them to a folder in each course’s Sakai page. If your syllabus is not yet posted to your course Sakai site, please email either the syllabus document or detailed information about your first two weeks of reading assignments to cir@law.duke.edu. Our staff will work to create the scans and post them for your students to access. As in the fall semester, we remain unable to physically circulate Course Reserve textbooks or other short-term loan items in the Reserve collection, due to quarantine protocols on library materials. These two weeks of scanned readings provide time for students to obtain their own textbooks beyond this time period, while complying with copyright restrictions on the amount of scanned material that the library can supply.
New Books: December 2020
Visit the Law Library’s New Titles page to virtually browse acquisitions within the past month for both new print materials in the Law Library collection and new e-books available to the Duke community that include discussion of legal topics. Click on the book cover or title links in order to view more information for that title from the library catalog, and to access e-books or request contactless pickup of print titles.
Selected Titles
ExpressO Closure
On Friday, the ExpressO law review submission service announced that it will cease operations on June 30, 2021. New manuscript submissions will be accepted until March 31, and author and law review accounts will remain active until June 30 in order to complete this year’s submission cycle. Duke Law maintains institutional accounts to ExpressO as well as Scholastica. Faculty may register using their @law.duke.edu address to automatically connect to the Duke Law administrative account and avoid submission fees. Faculty members may also recommend Scholastica account creation for individual Law School students who wish to submit a publication-quality paper; JD students and recent alumni are eligible to have their first 20 submissions subsidized by the Law School account. For more information about the account creation or submission process, please contact Associate Director for Administration & Scholarship Jennifer Behrens (behrens@law.duke.edu) directly, and/or Faculty & Scholarly Services Librarian Wickliffe Shreve (shreve@law.duke.edu).
Questions?
For questions about the Law Library collection or help with accessing particular resources, please Ask a Librarian.