Articles — especially law review/journal articles — will give you detailed discussions of very specific issues, and will cite extensively cases, statutes, regulations, and other useful sources.
The Zief Law Library's Finding Articles guide links to and describes the full range of options for finding law review/law journal articles. This page highlights several tools and methods that are useful for animal law research.
This page also highlights some sources for finding non-legal, scholarly articles relevant to animal law.
Journals of interest may include:
Use the "advanced" search template to boost the relevance of your results.
Use the "Advanced Search" template to boost the relevance of your results.
For full-text law review and journal sources on Westlaw and Lexis, experiment with these strategies to enhance the relevance of your results:
Using the "advanced" template in Westlaw's "Law Reviews & Journals" source or the "Advanced Search" template in Lexis Advance's "Law Reviews and Journals" source
Running terms & connectors ("Boolean") searches, especially using the grammatical connectors. The grammatical connectors are w/p and w/s on Lexis. They're /p and /s on Westlaw)
Searching in the Title field or segment, e.g.,
title(animal and abuse)
Natural language searching
The Law Journals Library from HeinOnline contains the largest collection of full-text law review and law journal articles anywhere, easily surpassing what's available Lexis or Westlaw. The mostly-natural-language search engine is increasingly sophisticated.
Almost complete, full-text coverage of all United States law reviews and journals, in most cases starting with the first volume of the journal and including all but the most recent volume. For search tips, see the cheat sheet. (For current USF students, faculty, and staff.) [If remote access is not working, try this on-campus link for the Law Journal LIbrary.]
For alternatives to the more widely-used article-finding tools, try Index to Legal Periodicals. Broad searches in ILP often return more thorough and more relevant results than you might get from other law review sources.
Comprehensive citations to articles from 1908 to 1981. Full text available for selected articles. (For current USF students, faculty, and staff.) (ILP for years prior to 1908 is available in print at K 33 .I54 Law Reference.)
To find non-legal articles, try starting with Gleeson Library's Databases page. Of the many research options available there, he following selected, specialized tools for finding articles and books in the social sciences will be useful to researchers with multi-disciplinary topics
If you find a citation to an article but no (working) link to the text, use USF's Journal Finder to see if USF has the journal in print or digital format.
Research databases for finding articles, news, dissertations, statistics, books, and more.
"The gold standard when it comes to business research databases."
"The world's definitive scholarly business database."
Citations to articles, essays, proceedings, books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers on economics, from 1969 to the present.
Access to the scholarly literature of sociology.
Access to the scholarly literature of political science (and related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration⁄policy).
Overviews and analyses of current issues.
Citations to and abstracts of articles on U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs, from 1963 to the present.
Citations to and abstracts of articles on world history (excluding the United States and Canada), from 1954 to the present.
Very rich source for federal, state, and non-governmental statistical studies. For search tips check the Quick Start: Statistical Insight guide. [For current USF students, faculty, and staff.]
After you search, you can use "Advanced Search" option to limit by author, journal, or date. For search tips and advice, see Google Scholar Help & Search Tips
Google Scholar, while not comprehensive, provides a quick way to get a cross-disciplinary set of articles. It can be especially useful as you start your research and are still refining your search terms.
So you have a citation to a great-sounding article — but not direct link to the full text....
How do you tell if the article is available at USF?
Just use USF's "Journal Finder" to look up the title of the journal that published the article. If that journal is available at USF, it will (usually) show up in the journal finder.
(One caveat: the Journal Finder doesn't tell you if a journal is on Westlaw or on Lexis Advance.)
Enter the title of the journal to see if USF has the journal and article you need. (A link to "USF Print and Online Journal Holdings" means that one of the USF libraries has the journal - or some years of it - in print.) (For off-campus access to digital journals in your Journal Finder results, enter your last name and USF ID number.)