Library Guide for VU Law Journals

Borrow from VU using the Journal account or to the carrel using these resources:

• The Library Catalog will search Vanderbilt holdings.
• Access Journals/Periodicals through the law library website.
• Request items from the Annex to be delivered to the law library.
• Visit other campus libraries to access their physical holdings.
• VU items can be renewed via Library Catalog, at the circulation desk, or through an email request to your journal liaison (see the box to the left for your librarian liaison).
• If you pick up a book that another person has requested, then be sure to communicate that to the other cite checker and to the ME.

ILL borrowing using only Journal accounts

• Each journal has one designated interlibrary loan account to request items for cite checks.
• Log-in information and passwords are communicated to ME through the journal’s liaison librarian.
• ILL requests should always be made through these article-specific accounts.
• When requesting items, the individual student must provide their name and email address in the notes field of the request form. Without this information, the request cannot be processed.
• Check Vanderbilt holdings before placing requests for ILL; if VU has an item requested via ILL, then your request will be canceled.
• Required fields for online ILL requests are loan type; title (for periodicals, journal and article titles); page range; publication date/edition; deadline (if relevant). Requests can be sent via email if you experience difficulty.
• Page sections sent as email attachments arrive MUCH faster than entire books that have to be shipped. Request specific page numbers if you only need to see a portion of a publication.
• Most lenders will loan for < 1 month. Renewal requests must be sent at least one week in advance of due date or item must be returned. 
• Any questions regarding interlibrary loan can be answered by contacting Law_illiad@list.vanderbilt.edu.

Perma

• Perma helps cite checkers to create permanent records of web sources.
• A link is created for each new source and that link will never break, preventing link rot.
• https://perma.cc/ and https://perma.cc/docs#overview.
• Registrars are the law librarian journal liaisons.
• Journals are Organizations and individual students are organizational users.
• Org users can add new users.
• Each Journal maintains its own users; very little input from liaisons.

Study Carrels

• Automatically reserved for Law Review, JET Law, and Transnational Law.
• Items may be checked out to a specific journal when cite checkers plan to leave the item on the carrel.
• Report unauthorized use of your carrels or other concerns to the circulation desk or to your liaison.