Skip to Main Content

UC Berkeley School of Law Library UC Berkeley School of Law Library BerkeleyLaw Library

Information About Pathfinders: Library Catalogs

LawCat

Lawcat - the  Berkeley Law online catalog — is the first place to start to locate books and journals on a particular topic.
Example: Keyword search for critical race theory

Note the subject headings assigned to the resulting titles:
Critical legal studies--
Race Discrimination --


Example: Keyword search for climate change
Note the subject headings assigned to the resulting titles:
Climatic Changes --
Global warming --
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) --

Example: title search for American Journal of International Law
Note: link to Hein Online

 

OskiCat

OskiCat is the web-based catalog for most of the holdings of the UC Berkeley libraries (but not the law library.) OskiCat works in the same way as LawCat

Example: Keyword search for climate change
Note the subject headings assigned to the resulting titles

Melvyl

Melvyl is the online catalog for all 9 UC campuses. Periodical holdings also include Cal State campuses, Stanford, and many other research and special libraries in California.


Example: Advanced Search | Keyword | International Adoption (and can choose to search Libraries Worldwide; University of California Libraries or UC Berkeley Libraries)

Search LawCat

... by

Ask Us

Library Hours

Spring 2024

Monday-Friday:
8am-9pm

Saturday/Sunday:
10am-6pm

more hours…