Our faculty services team offers personalized support for your research, teaching, and scholarship.
Research Support
Request Books & Articles
Harvard Law School faculty can use our Faculty Research & Information Delivery Assistance (FRIDA) services to request known documents for retrieval and delivery.
We will find books, articles, court documents, and other materials for you.
If a book or article is unavailable at Harvard, we will get it from another library or request a purchase.
Personalized Research Assistance
We offer faculty members individual research sessions to help you:
- Identify relevant sources and search strategies
- Set-up alerts to follow research topics
- Refresh your research skills
Research Assistants
We can work with your research assistant to introduce them to relevant resources and show them some useful research techniques. A Research Librarian will remain available throughout the project to answer questions and provide additional research assistance as needed.
More Research Support Services
Tools for Research
Publishing Your Work
We offer a range of services to support you in publishing your scholarship, from posting your working papers to publicizing your final work. We can help you:
- Schedule a book talk for the Faculty Book Talks Series
- Post your work to SSRN, DASH, or other open-access research networks
- Update the Publications tab on your faculty profile
- Add your publications to the Library’s Red Set (an archive of faculty works)
- Manage your ORCID and HeinOnline profiles
- Identify where to publish your work
Article Submission Service
The law school supports Scholastica publication submissions by full-time HLS faculty. Our faculty services librarians are available to train you or your faculty assistant on using the Scholastica submission website.
Teaching & Course Material
In-Class Research Instruction
Invite a Research Librarian to your class to demonstrate research strategies. Email us for more information.
Reserves & Course Material
You can find detailed information about course reserves on the Harvard Library website, including:
- Instructions on creating and managing reserves lists
- Deadlines for reserve requests
- Adding new materials to reserves
- Requesting new purchases or scans for reserves
Email access@law.harvard.edu with any questions or requests.
FRIDA can help with finding links for material available through our database collections for articles, cases, e-books, and government documents.
Questions about Canvas? Contact Learning Experience and Technology (LXT) for support.
Create your own H2O Open Casebook
The H2O team can provide training for you or your faculty assistant and discuss the best process for building your H2O book. If you do not have support for a casebook project, H2O can offer a limited number of grants to hire an RA for a summer or semester.
Contact the H2O team to learn more
FRIDA can assist you and your faculty assistant with finding materials and links to the resources you wish to include in your open casebook