Name___Dustin Green_____________________
ASSIGNMENT
Class 2-3
International Legal Research
Due September 30, 2015
UB Online Catalog and WorldCat
Please state your general topic (use your possible Annotated Bibliography topic, OR
choose another international law-related topic that interests you.
Your Topic choice for this assignment :__International Copyright____________
ONLINE CATALOG
1. Use the UB Online Catalog to conduct a variety of searches for materials relevant to
your topic. Remember,you are not searching the full text of the resources, so you may
need to use broader terms than you would searching a full-text resource.
List 5 searches you did in the UB Online Catalog to try to locate relevant materials.
a. International and copyright
b. International and (copyright or “intellectual property”)
c. “intellectual property” and “international law”
d. international copyright law
e. (“international copyright” or “intellectual property”) and international law
2. Which of these searches worked best? Briefly explain why.
The third search worked the best because I used terms recognized by the catalog
as subjects, so the search returned books cataloged similarly to useful resources I had
already found.
3. Cite the three (3) most useful sources (books or other materials) retrieved using the
Online Catalog. Include: Author, title, publisher, date, Call Number (if available) or
URL (if eBook). (NOTE: keep track of additional titles you find useful—you may
decide to use them in your Annotated Bibliography).
1. International Treaties on Intellectual Property – Marshall A.
Leaffer
a. K1401 .A35 I57 1997
b. Bureau of National Affairs
2.
The International Intellectual Property System: Commentary
and Materials – Frederick Abbot, Thomas Cottier, Francis Gurry
a. K1401 .A913 1999
b. Kluwer Law International
3. International Protection of Intellectual Property – Gene
Grossman, Edwin L.-C. Lai
a. http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8704
b. National Bureau of Economic Research
4. Of these three titles (from Question 3 above), what are the most relevant SUBJECT
HEADINGS? (you need to click on the item in the results list to see full record with the
“subject headings”)
1. Intellectual Property (International Law)
2. Copyright
3.
4. Piracy (Copyright)> Prevention
5. Foreign Trade Regulation
5. Use one or two of the most useful subject headings listed in question (4) above, in
some additional searches in the Online Catalog. You can click on the subject heading in
the relevant catalog record, or you can type it into a new search. Feel free to add
additional terms to your “subject heading” search to narrow it, if desired.
a. Please list the most useful search you conducted using a subject heading:
The Intellectual Property (International Law) subject provided the widest
number of sources as well as the most that were on topic.
b. Please list one new resource you located in the Online Catalog using this “subject
heading” approach that looks potentially useful. Include: Author, title, publisher, date,
Call Number (if available) or URL (if eBook) :
Currents and Crosscurrents in the International Intellectual Property Regime – Peter K.
Yu
K1041 .A6 Y935 2004
Michigan State University College of Law
WORLDCAT (Advanced Search)
6. Conduct in WorldCat the same 5 searches (as closely as possible) as in Question 1
above.
List the three (3) most useful sources retrieved searching WorldCat that you did not
locate using the UB Online Catalog. Include: Author, title, publisher, date. If desired,
you can SORT your results by “relevance only”. (NOTE: keep track of additional titles
you find useful—you may decide to use them in your Annotated Bibliography):
1.
2.
3.
7. Of these three titles (from Question 6 above), what are the most relevant SUBJECT
HEADINGS? (you need to click on the item in the results list to see full record with the
“subject headings”)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
8. Use one or two of the most useful subject headings listed in question (7) above, in
some additional searches in the WorldCat. You can click on the subject heading in the
relevant WorldCat record, or you can type it into a new search. Feel free to add additional
terms to your “subject heading” search to narrow it, if desired.
a. Please list the most useful search you conducted in WorldCat using words from a
subject heading:
b. Please list one new resource that looks potentially useful (that you had not previously
identified) that you located in WorldCat using this “subject heading” approach. Include:
Author, title, publisher, date:
9. As a result of this assignment, briefly describe your observations about integrating
terms from “subject headings” into your searches in the Online Catalog and WorldCat.
Was it more fruitful to include or not include these subject terms in your searches? Did
the subject headings lead you to any new ideas for your research?
10. As a result of this exercise, have you come across any additional terminology
relevant to your research project? If so, please list here:
-----------------------------------------------------TIP: Examine some of the resources identified in this exercise (find on the shelf in the
Law Library, or look online at any E-Books, or order via Delivery+ any that we do not
own that you would like to look at). It is not part of this particular assignment, but if you
have time, you may be curious to see if any of these are particularly valuable for your
research.