Finding Academic Articles & Journals
When citing academic articles, source checkers should look for a PDF with identical pagination and formatting to the print version (note, however, that some journals are electronic-only and lack consecutive pagination). To find academic articles:
Step 1: Search the library catalog. Try searching by article name and, if that doesn’t work, by journal title. Some journals are available in print only, requiring manual scanning.
Step 2: Check for an open access version of your article using Google and Google Scholar.
Step 3: For legal scholarship, search HeinOnline's Law Journal Library directly. Typically articles on Hein should appear in library catalog or Google Scholar without the need to visit HeinOnline directly, though occasionally articles fail to appear for technical reasons.
Step 4: Try requesting the article via Interlibrary Loan. Please note that we cannot process ILL requests for front matter alone when an article is otherwise fully available with correct pagination. However, if a correctly paginated version of an article is unavailable, ILL requests can include the front matter.
ScienceDirect Access
If you're unable to access an article on ScienceDirect, you may need to change your institutional affiliation on ScienceDirect to Lewis & Clark Law School. See this guide for step-by-step instructions.
Finding News Articles
Besides the New York Times and Law360, we don’t have direct access to paywalled news sites. We may only have access to an HTML version through a database like Westlaw or Lexis.
To find all other news articles:
Step 1. Search Google for a free version of the article/publication.
Step 2. If an online article is paywalled, try pasting the link into the Wayback Machine at archive.org, which sometimes archives versions of articles with the paywall removed. Alternatively, try the website archive.ph.
Step 3. Search our catalog by article or journal title. This can be useful for finding historical publications.
Step 4. Search for the article on Westlaw news or Lexis news, which aggregate most major U.S. news publications. Bloomberg Law also has a limited collection of some legal news resources. Note that articles on Westlaw/Lexis may have slightly different titles, so you may need to search using language from the first few sentences of the article.
Step 5. Search Multnomah County Library's catalog by article or publication to see if they can provide access. (To access these resources you'll need to create a free Multnomah Library account.)
Step 5. If unavailable, contact a librarian. Recent news articles typically can’t be requested via interlibrary loan, but we may be able to help you find a workaround.
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Library Proxy
Accessing resources via the library catalog will affix the library proxy to the beginning of the URL, allowing off-campus access.
When accessing materials via Google, you may need to affix the proxy to the beginning of the URL:
https://library.lcproxy.org/login?url=[resource URL]
Alternatively, we've created a bookmarklet that, when clicked, will reload a page with our proxy prefix. To install the bookmarklet, drag the button below into your browser's bookmarks:
