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Scientific Evidence Resource GuideThis selective guide highlights major print and electronic resources available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students researching issues in Scientific Evidence. For resources addressing evidence law in general, consult the Evidence Law Resource Guide. Please contact the research services staff during research services hours, or via email to research.services@law.csuohio.edu, for help in locating these or other resources to meet your needs.
Searching SCHOLAR and OhioLINK Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services Aggregate Databases and Other Web Resources
Scientific Evidence focuses on the admissibility of expert testimony as well as physical, biological, and psychological data. Topics include judicial evaluation of experts and data, particularly the relationship of specific data to its larger scientific field and the scientific foundation of expert opinion, as well as statistical, research, and forensic methods. Depending upon the nature of the case at hand, you will also encounter one or more topics in the vast myriad of life and physical sciences information, such as genetics, epidemiology, psychology, economics, and geology. Current scientific knowledge is primarily found in the journal literature, and one should never simply rely upon books. When searching the journal literature, note that, in addition to supporting keyword searching, scientific indexing and abstracting services tend to use thesauri or controlled vocabulary. This means human beings are involved in the indexing and abstracting of scientific journal literature, resulting in extremely detailed and precise databases. For example, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the thesaurus used by the U.S. National Library of Medicine in its MEDLARS (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System) databases. MEDLARS has over 40 databases, including Medline/PubMed. You may want to use MeSH when constructing search statements to take full advantage of the high quality comprehensive indexing supporting the MEDLARS databases. In general, scientific literature indexing and abstracting services do not provide full-text documents. However, many provide links to full-text document services, and many journals are now available electronically. See the Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services section below for additional information on print and electronic indexes, as well as electronic full-text journals. If you're a student who's trying to pick a topic in Scientific Evidence for a note or article, consider reviewing current issues and hot topics on news Web sites such as American Lawyer Media's American Lawyer, Law.Com, National Law Journal, and New York Law Journal, as well as Lawyers Weekly.
US Code: Public Health and Welfare: Chapter 46: Justice System Improvement: Subchapter 15: Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grants §§3797j - 3797u ; Chapter 136: Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement: Subchapter 9: State and Local Law Enforcement: Part A: DNA Identification 42 USC §§14131-14135 [Links via Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute; "generated from the most recent version made available by the US House of Representatives."] Ohio Code: Health-Safety-Morals: Chapter 3701: Department of Health: Blood analysis to determine alcoholic content 3701.143; Chapter 3742: Lead Abatement and Testing: Public Health Council to adopt rules 3742.50. [Links via Anderson's and State of Ohio.]
Code of Federal Regulations: Judicial Administration: Chapter 1: Department of Justice: Part 28: DNA Identification System 28 CFR 28 [Link via GPO Access.] Federal Rules of Evidence: Article VII: Opinions and Expert Testimony 701-706; Article IX: Authentication and Identification 901-903; Article X: Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs 1001-1008 [Links via Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.] Ohio Administrative Code: Department of Health: Public Health Lead Investigations and Risk Assessments OAC 3701-30; Alcohol and Drug Testing OAC 3701-53 [Links via Anderson's and State of Ohio.] Ohio Rules of Evidence: Article VII: Opinions and Expert Testimony 701-706; Article IX: Authentication and Identification 901-903; Article X: Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs 1001-1008 [Links via Ohio Supreme Court.]
The Art and Science of Expert Witnessing: the Definitive Guide for Experts and Attorneys / Olen R. Brown. Cypress Publishing, c2002. KF8961 .B768 2002 Changes in the Standards for Admitting Expert Evidence in Federal Civil Cases Since the Daubert Decision / Lloyd Dixon and Brian Gill. Rand, c2001. KF8961 .D59 2001 Criminal Law Handbook on Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence and Testimony / John Parry and Eric Y. Drogin. American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, c2000. KF9674 .P37 2000 DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications / Lawrence Kobilinsky, Thomas F. Liotti, Jamel Oeser-Sweat. Wiley-Interscience, c2005. KF9666.5 .K63 2005 Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: the Scientific Approach / Alan D. Gold. Irwin Law, c2003. K5485 .G64 2003 Experts in Civil Cases: an Inside View / Fred Prichard. LFB Scholarly Pub., c2005. KF8968.25 .P75 2005 Experts in Court: Reconciling Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge / Bruce D. Sales and Daniel W. Shuman. American Psychological Association, c2005. KF8965 .S25 2005 Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law / Terrence F. Kiely. CRC Press, c2001. KF8961 .K54 2001 Forensics for Lawyers. Ohio State Bar Association CLE Institute, c2003. HV8073 .F6 2003 A Guide to Forensic Testimony: the Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony as an Expert Technical Witness / Fred Chris Smith and Rebecca Gurley Bace. Addison-Wesley, c2002. KF8961 .S63 2002 & KF8961 .S63 2002eb (Electronic) Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation: Forensic Tools and Technology / Eoghan Casey, ed. Academic Press, c2002. HV8079 .C65 H36 2002 Mastering Forensic Psychiatric Practice: Advanced Strategies for the Expert Witness / Thomas G. Gutheil and Robert I. Simon. American Psychiatric Pub., c2002. RA1151 .G884 2002 Medical Evidence: Acquisition and Use / Robert C. Strodel. Lawyers & Judges Pub. Co., c2001. KF8925 .P4 S832 2001 The Methods of Attacking Scientific Evidence / Edward J. Imwinkelried. LexisNexis, c2004. KF8961 .I45 2004 The MMPI, MMPI-2 and MMPI-A in Court: a Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys / Kenneth S. Pope, James N. Butcher, and Joyce Seelen. American Psychological Association, c2000. KF8965 .P66 2000 Modern Scientific Evidence: the Law and Science of Expert Testimony / David L. Faigman, et al. Thomson/West, c2005-. KF8961 .M63 Murderous Methods: Using Forensic Science to Solve Lethal Crimes / Mark Benecke. Columbia University Press, c2005. HV8079 .H6 B4613 2005 Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths / Stefan Timmermans. University of Chicago Press, c2006. RA1063.4 .T56 2006 Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence / Daniel W. Shuman. Thomson/West, c2005-. KF8965 .S57 2005 Psychology and Law: Theory, Research, and Application / Curt R. Bartol and Anne M. Bartol. Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004. KF8922 .B37 2004 Scientific Evidence / Paul C. Giannelli and Edward J. Imwinkelried. Lexis Law Publishing, c1999-. KF8961 .G53 1999 Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law / Angelo N. Ancheta. Rutgers University Press, c2006. KF4755 .A96 2006 The Spine at Trial: Practical Medicolegal Concepts about the Spine / Jose Kuri, et al. American Bar Association, c2002. RA1055.5 .S65 2002 Statistical Science in the Courtroom / Joseph L. Gastwirth, ed. Springer, c2000. K5485 .S73 2000 The Use of Science and Technology in Service to Children in the Courts / Michael Edmond Donnelly. Peter Lang Pub., c2006. KF9673 .D66 2006
Forensic Science: an Illustrated Dictionary / John C. Brenner. CRC Press, c2004. HV8073 .B677 2004 Science in the Law: Forensic Science Issues / David L. Faigman, et al. West Group, c2002. KF8961 .M632 2002
Searching SCHOLAR and OhioLINK (SCHOLAR hands-on instruction) SCHOLAR is the electronic catalog for Cleveland State University's Law Library and University Library. CSU also participates in the state-wide consortia OhioLINK, which provides access to a state-wide central catalog and numerous research databases. For treatises and other materials on scientific evidence, search the SCHOLAR and OhioLINK catalogs with the subject headings Evidence, Expert; Forensic Sciences; and Science and Law. See also the 10+ Forensic Sciences Related Subject Headings and specific topics such as DNA Fingerprinting, Lie Detectors and Detection, and Writing - Identification.
Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services See the Finding Articles in Law Reviews, Journals and Other Legal Periodicals guide for an explanation of the legal periodical indexes and databases available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students and the CSU community. That guide covers print and electronic indexes, as well as electronic full-text journals. In particular, note OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center and its Earth Sciences, Health Sciences and Medicine, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences subject clusters. Selected specialty journals and current awareness materials concerning Scientific Evidence in the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library collection include: Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology. Union University Albany Law School. K1 .L381 & Electronic Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law. Boston University School of Law. K2 .O976 & Electronic Forensic Science Review. Central Police University Press. K6 .O757 Jurimetrics. American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology. K10 .U68 & Electronic Law, Science and Policy: an International Journal. A B Academic Publishers. K9 .N8 Scientific Evidence Review. American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Standing Committee on Scientific Evidence. KF8961 .A75 S25 The Scitech Lawyer. American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law. KF325.188 .B8 (current 2 years only) Temple Journal of Science, Technology and Environmental Law. Temple University James Beasley School of Law. K24 .E45 & Electronic
Aggregate Databases and Other Web Resources
American Bar Association: Criminal Justice Section American Bar Association: Criminal Justice Standards on DNA Evidence American Academy of Forensic Sciences American Association of Physical Anthropologists American Board of Forensic Toxicology American Medical Forensic Specialists, Inc. American Society for Testing and Materials: Technical Committee E30 on Forensic Sciences American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Peter Nordberg's Daubert on the Web Provides information on resolving "Daubert" challenges, over 800 federal appellate decisions, federal appellate decisions by expert field, selected state decisions, as well as a blog and discussion forum. Kim Kruglick's Forensic Resource and Criminal Law Search Site Zeno Geradts' Forensic Science Site Federal Bureau of Investigation: Laboratory Federal Judicial Center: Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (2nd ed.) International Association for Identification The "oldest and largest forensic science/forensic identification organization in the world" that offers bloodstain pattern examiner, crime scene, footwear, forensic art, forensic photography, latent print, and tenprint fingerprint certification programs. Karolinska Institutet's Pathology and Forensic Medicine LexisNexis: Area of Law - By Topic: Litigation Includes federal and state cases, court rules, statutes and legislative materials, administrative materials and regulations, jury instructions, law reviews and journals, treatises and analytical materials, CLE course listings and information, legal news, legal reference materials, medical journals, medical news and information, and medical references (including Medline). National Center for Forensic Science "A program of the National Institute of Justice hosted by the University of Central Florida." National Forensic Science Technology Center "A not-for profit corporation funded by a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Justice" that "provides programs that build individual competency and quality systems for the forensic science community in the United States." Depending upon the nature of your scientific evidence, OhioLINK provides access to numerous topical research databases. Below are links to three of the OhioLINK topical research database groups. Includes Compendex, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, Infotrac, Inspec, Institute for Scientific Information Citation Databases (particularly Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index), Papers First, and Proceedings First. Includes CHID Online (Combined Health Information Database; produced by US government health-related agencies), Clinical Medicine and Health Research (articles not yet published, and may not yet be peer reviewed), Clinical Pharmacology (drug monographs for US prescription drugs, over-the-counter products, herbal and nutritional products, as well as new and investigational drugs), Medline, OT Search (occupational therapy), CINAHL (nursing and allied health), Institute for Scientific Information Citation Databases (particularly Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index), Papers First, and Proceedings First. Includes Congressional Universe (particularly "Hot Bills/Topics" group), Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, LexisNexis Congressional (same as Congressional Universe), LexisNexis Academic (particularly "News" and "Medical" groups), Papers First, and Proceedings First. Scirus for scientific information only Searches over 300 million science-specific Web sites and digital archives, as well as patent and journal databases. Allows one to search by field (eg, author, article title, keyword) and document type (eg, article, conference proceeding, dissertation). Covers 1920 to the present. U.S. National Library of Medicine: Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body U.S. Department of Justice: National Institute of Justice Westlaw:
Topical Materials by Area of Practice: Litigation
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