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Faculty Services

Course Reserves

If you are interested in print reserves, please contact DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu

If you are interested in electronic reserves, please use the University Library's Electronic Reserves System.

Guest Lectures

Librarians are available for guest lectures on a variety of topics. Lectures can cover subject-specific research resources or more general issues, like the Bluebook or topic selection and writing a research paper. We can create guest lectures for courses or extracurricular activities, such as moot court and law review. We can also do presentations at programs offered by the Career Services Office and at continuing legal education seminars.

Lectures can be delivered in person, via Zoom, or prerecorded to add to Canvas. Often, it makes sense to pair a guest lecture with a course-specific research guide that can be linked to in Canvas after the lecture.

If you are interested in a guest lecture, please feel free to contact a librarian directly. They will help you or try to identify a colleague who best matches your needs. Alternatively, you can email your request to DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu.

Course-Related Research Guides

Upon request, we will prepare a customized research guide for your course. Guides are easy to update and modify, allowing you to adapt them to the changing needs of your course and students. Guides can be linked to in Canvas to ensure that your students have access to the information.

Often, it makes sense to pair a course-specific research guide with a guest lecture going over how to use the resources identified by the guide. 

If you are interested in a course-specific research guide, please feel free to contact a librarian directly. They will help you or try to identify a colleague who best matches your needs. Alternatively, you can email your request to DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu.

Review Copies of Textbooks

Faculty can request access to review textbooks from most legal publishers at no cost. While we cannot request these for faculty, because each faculty member typically must create their own account with the publisher, we can help facilitate the process. Most publishers now offer digital review copies of textbooks, but are still willing to send print review copies of selected texts, if requested.

 Important Information for New and Adjunct Faculty

Most textbook publishers verify that you are a member of the Penn State Dickinson Law faculty by checking the law school website. If your name is not on the website, email us at DickinsonLawLibrary@psu.edu and we will facilitate the request for your account directly with the publisher. 

 

  • Go to the West Academic Faculty Webpage
  • If you don't already have an account, click the link for Create an Account in the top right corner. Otherwise, sign in to your faculty account.
  • Follow the prompts to create your account. Note that it might take a day for the publisher to verify that you are a Penn State Dickinson Law faculty member.
  • Once your account is created and you are logged in, you can search for casebooks. When you locate a casebook you would like to review, click the link under the picture of the book that says View Digital Copy to open an online version of the textbook.
  • If you would like to request a print review copy of a textbook, reach out to our rep, Taylor Isaac, at taylor.isaac@westacademic.com, (312) 260-0976

Aspen (Includes Wolters Kluwer, CCH, and Aspen)

  • Go to the Aspen Publishing Webpage.
  • If you don't already have an account, click the link for Register in the top right corner. Otherwise, sign in to your faculty account.
  • Follow the prompts to create your account. 
  • Once your account is created and you log in, you can search for textbooks. Once you locate a textbook you would like to review, click the button that says Professor Review Copy. Fill out the form and click the Order Now button. You will receive a link to a digital copy of the title within 2 business days. 
  • If you would like to request a print review copy of a textbook, reach out to support@aspenpublishing.com. 
  • Note that the publisher does not offer free textbook review copies for books published by Wolters Kluwer, but they will offer a discount for purchase. 
  • Go to the Carolina Academic Press Law Website.
  • If you don't already have an account, click the button for Account & eBooks in the top middle of the page. Otherwise, sign in to your faculty account.
  • Follow the prompts to create your account. 
  • Once your account is created and you log in, you can search for textbooks. When you locate a textbook you would like to review, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the button labeled "Comp Copy." Fill out the form, and they will mail you a copy of the book or provide digital access. 
  • Please email comp@cap-press.com if you have questions.