Most of the Law Library's books and treatises relating to trade secrets are located on the 1st Floor in the KF 3197 call number area. Treatises and other materials relating to intellectual property, employment, or corporate law may also contain information relating to trade secrets.  Books and treatises specific to your state jurisdiction are located on the 3rd Floor. You can use InfoHawk, the Library's catalog, to search for specific titles (see tutorial below).

General treatises and materials on trade secrets include:

Law journal articles may be found using an index to legal periodical literature. Three of the most widely used law journal indexes are the Index to Legal Periodicals, the Legal Scholarship Network, and LegalTrac. Each database provides multiple fields to search, including title, author, subject and keyword.

Once you have identified potentially relevant articles, use the print journal, Hein Online, JSTOR or another full-text database to retrieve the article(s). HeinOnline and JSTOR provide access to legal and non-legal journal literature, respectively.  Both provide .PDF versions of articles, as well as search functionality.  They are particularly useful for retrieving items with specific citations.

You may find useful articles on trade secrets in journals focusing on intellectual property, employment law, or technology issues.  Law journals covering trade secrets include:

You can use InfoHawk+, the University of Iowa's discovery tool, to search for relevant materials. For help using InfoHawk+ or locating items in the Law Library or other University of Iowa Libraries, try any of these resources:

• InfoHawk+ Tutorials
• InfoHawk+ Videos
• InfoHawk+ FAQ
• Help Files for Primo (the system that runs InfoHawk+)