Arthur Neef Law Library
Article Databases
Law
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AccessUN:
Index provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library and law school.)
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ArticleFirst:
(FirstSearch)
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
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BNA:
Presents the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA), based in Washington, D.C. Posts contact information via mailing address, toll-free telephone number, fax number, and e-mail. BNA is a publisher of print and electronic news and information. Contains daily news stories. Discusses customer support services and the company's subsidiaries. Offers information on BNA's business products, health care products, human resources products, legal products, and tax products.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library and law school.)
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CALI:
Collection of interactive, computer-based lessons covering numerous legal education subject areas. Designed to augment tradition law school education.
(Access restricted to the law school faculty and law students. See reference desk for access.)
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CCH Intelliconnect:
(CCH)
IntelliConnect is a research platform new and improved search capabilities and access to CCH’s content. IntelliConnect is a new functional and technological way to access the current research platform known as Tax Research NetWork and Internet Research NetWork.
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Chronicle of Higher Education:
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as an online CV's, salary databases, and more.
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Code of Federal Regulations:
(GPO Access)
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis.
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Columbia International Affairs Online:
(CIAO)
CIAO includes original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.
(ILL Allowed. Print or Electronic copies.)
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CQ public affairs collection:
The CQ Public Affairs Collection brings together CQ's unmatched storehouse of current affairs content in a single, easy-to-use, and fully integrated reference tool. Organized by 22 key public affairs subject headings like Advocacy and Public Service, Education, Energy, the Environment, Health, and Transportation the CQ Public Affairs Collection features in-depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas.
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CQ Researcher:
The CQ Library is a subscription-only service that provides Web access to CQ weekly and the CQ researcher.
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Current index to legal periodicals:
Subscription-based current awareness service for legal research. Provides subject indexing and listing of tables of contents for more than 500 law journals. Publisher's interface provides links to current issues, and information about subject headings used, periodicals indexed, bluebook abbreviations, subscription options and pricing, and related topics.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library and law school. See reference desk for access.)
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Current Law Journal Content:
(Washington & Lee Law School)
Washington & Lee Law School project that provides open access to customized search, e-mail alerts, and RSS feeds for the Table Of Contents (TOC) of over 13000 legal periodicals. WSU Law Library provides TOC for 15 titles.
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Ebrary:
eBrary is a collection of thousands of online full text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas.
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EISIL (Electronic Information System for International Law):
EISIL has been developed, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by the American Society of International Law (ASIL), a scholarly association that has been a leader in the analysis, dissemination and development of international law since 1906.
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Environmental Law Reporter:
Litigation, Pending litigation, News & analysis, Administrative materials, and Statutes.
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Equal Justice Magazine:
(LSC)
LSC's Equal Justice Magazine is the countryʼs only feature magazine dedicated exclusively to exploring equal justice issues and the work of public interest lawyers.
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Federal Judicial Center:
Features the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), the federal courts' agency for research and continuing education. Includes sentencing guidelines. Highlights FJC responsibilities, including the conducting and promotion of research on federal court organization, operations, and history; developing recommendations about the operation and study of the federal courts; and the conducting and promoting of orientation and continuing education and training programs for federal judges, court employees, and others. Notes the Center's organization and lists national agencies of federal judicial administration. Contains a telephone directory, job listings, and an annual report. Describes publications and educational programs. Links to other court-related Web sites.
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FirstSearch (All FirstSearch databases):
(FirstSearch)
Comprehensive parent database of databases. Enables the user to search nearly any topic from academic and professional journals within each database. Choose any subject or topic to be searched once the database is chosen. Includes journal database (ECO).
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Foreign Law Guide:
(University of California)
Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World.
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GPO monthly catalog:
Consists of over 380,000 records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. Updated monthly.
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Hein Online:
Full-text online access to legal journals, rare and out-of-print collections, and all back issues of indexed legal journals.
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Hein-on-line: U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library:
(Hein Online)
The Legislative History Title Collection is a collection of full-text legislative histories on some of the most important and historically significant legislation of our time. In addition to major complete legislative histories this collection includes texts related to legislative histories. A legislative history is the collection of documents that are produced in Congress during the enactment of a law.
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Hein-on-line: U.S. Statutes at Large:
(Hein Online)
The United States Statutes at Large, commonly referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the official source for the laws and resolutions passed by the U.S. Congress. Publication began in 1845 by the private firm of Little, Brown and Company under authority granted by a joint resolution of Congress. In 1874, Congress transferred the authority to publish the Statutes at Large to the Government Printing Office, which has been responsible for producing the set since that time.
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ICLE online library:
A collection of 46 Michigan Law books in electronic format.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library and law school.)
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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals:
(Ovid)
International legal information index with citations for articles and books reviews from legal periodicals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports. Coverage from 1985 to present.
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Index to legal periodicals:
(H. W. Wilson)
International coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library and law school.)
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IndexMaster:
A list of legal treatises, searchable within the title, indices and tables of contents. Users may view the actual tables of contents or index, as well as order the titles directly from the publisher.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library.)
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International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation:
Official organ of the International Fiscal Association, I.F.A.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library. See reference desk for access.)
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Isinolaw:
Comprehensive, updated and authoritative bilingual China law materials
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JSTOR (Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV and VII Collections):
(JSTOR)
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. WSU currently subscribes to the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV and VII Collections.
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Landmark Supreme Court Cases:
This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases. While these activities are online, many of them can be adapted for use in a one-computer classroom or a classroom with no computer. The general teaching strategies include moot court, political cartoon analysis, continuum exercises, and Web site evaluation.
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Lawschool.westlaw.com:
Lawschool.westlaw.com is the virtual law school community where law students and faculty can access a variety of legal resources including Westlaw, The West Education Network (TWEN), current legal news, career services and other superior content from Westlaw. A comprehensive collection of primary and secondary legal research materials that includes federal, state, and limited foreign case law, court rules, statutory and regulatory materials, digests, reference publications, and full text legal periodicals, newsletters, newspapers, and publications
(Access restricted to the law students and faculty only. Please see Reference Librarian for assistance. Password required)
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Legal scholarship network:
(SSRN)
Site offers a searchable database of published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to research in various area of law. Articles can be downloaded in pdf format with an adobe acrobat reader.
(Database freely searchable by all users; access to e-mail alerts restricted to WSU law faculty; see Reference Librarian for assistance.)
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LegalTrac:
(Gale)
LegalTrac Database has access to all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association journals to research case studies, government regulations, practice of law, statutes, taxation and international law.
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LEXIS-NEXIS:
(Lexis-Nexis)
Provides access to various databases, including current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
(Access restricted to law students & faculty only; see Reference Librarian for assistance; password required.)
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe:
(Lexis-Nexis)
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
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Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe:
(Lexis-Nexis)
U.S. legislative information including hearings, reports, prints and documents and the CIS Legislative Histories from Congressional Information Service. Provides options to limit searches to the Congressional Record and the U.S. Serial Set.
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Lexis-Nexis U.S. Serial Set:
(Lexis Nexis)
The Serial Set contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. The reports are usually from congressional committees dealing with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. The documents include all other papers ordered printed by the House or Senate. Documents cover a wide variety of topics and may include reports of executive departments and independent organizations, reports of special investigations made for Congress, and annual reports of non-governmental organizations. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, executive-branch materials were also published in the Serial Set
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LLMC digital:
LLMC is a non-profit cooperative serving member libraries' needs for preservation, space recovery, and collection development on film and on-line. In its first 27 years of operation, it filmed over 7,500 titles, some 90,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history. Its backfile comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform. That backfile, and future filming of some 10,000 volumes per year, are being made available for on-line access on this web site. Full bibliographic data for titles already uploaded is provided here.
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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926:
(Gale)
Provides digital images of every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.
( User Guide)
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Making of modern law: U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs, 1832-1978:
(Gale)
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America’s first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States.
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Netlibrary:
Contains a searchable collection of electronic books in the public domain and available for purchase.
(NetLibrary Tutorial)
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North American Free Trade Agreements:
Up-to-date, full-text versions of NAFTA, the full text of the US-Canada FTA, much of which is incorporated by reference into NAFTA, and complete texts of the Annexes and supplemental agreements.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library.)
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Oxford reference online:
(Oxford University Press)
Multi-part database of the online versions of seminal Oxford University Press texts. Main screen contains quick search capability. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. Online texts will be updated after new editions of the print monographs are published.
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PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records):
(U.S. Courts)
The PACER Service Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records. Michigan courts accessible through PACER: US Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, Eastern District Court, Western District Court, Eastern Bankruptcy Court, Western Bankruptcy Court.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library. See reference desk for access. Access to the pilot PACER project is free. Printing in the law library is 10c/page.)
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PAIS International:
(CSA)
Formerly PAIS Decade, this database provides indexing and abstracting of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
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Project Muse:
(Project Muse)
A searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses.
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RIA Checkpoint:
Collections include United States tax reporter library, Federal tax coordinator library, Public domain library, RIA citator 2nd, RIA tax alerts, WG & L journals (include corporate taxation, Journal of taxation, Practical tax strategies), and State and local tax materials.
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Shepard's Citations:
Primary resource for validating and locating case information by citation.
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SourceOECD:
SourceOECD is the publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and consists of sections that include Books and Reports by Theme, Periodicals, reference titles, and Statistical databases. To access SourceOECD users have to subscribe to the portal on an annual basis. OECD, based in Paris, France, is a forum permitting governments of industrialized democracies to study and formulate policies in all economic and social spheres.
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STAT-USA:
Site provides access to approximately 3,000 statistical publications including economic and trade related records.
(Partial access available at no charge ; Full access to this database available at Purdy Library, WSU Oakland Center; Do not use the proxy server for access to this database; For access from Shiffman Medical, Law, and Science and Engineering, please ask at the reference desk for assistance.)
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USA.gov:
USA.gov is a virtual system that allows Internet users to search millions of U.S. Government web pages without having to know where that information lives. USA.gov allows people to navigate through government web pages using topic listings, key word(s) searches, or by clicking to executive, legislative, and judicial sites. It contains links to state and local government web pages. USA.gov also provides a means for people to give feedback to agencies and to USA.gov itself.
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Vault Online Career Library:
Job seekers, students and professionals can use Vault as the Internet's destination for insider career and education information.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library and law school)
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Welcome to the United Nations:
The United Nations (U.N.) is an international agency headquartered in New York City that provides peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance worldwide. The U.N. consists of 30 affiliated organizations, known together as the U.N. system. The U.N. outlines its organizational structure, lists its member states, and highlights its publications.
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Westlaw (Public Access):
(Westlaw)
Westlaw database public access
(Access restricted to three computers in the law library. See reference desk for access.)
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WilsonSelectPlus:
(Wilson)
Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text in periodicals from H.W. Wilson General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
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WorldCat:
(FirstSearch)
Over 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.
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WorldTradeLaw.net:
A searchable database containing information which provides detailed summaries and commentaries on WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports. Each document provides a basic summary of the panel's or Appellate Body's legal findings and conclusions, a timeline, references to other reports and materials, and expert analysis on many of the key issues in the report. There is also access to the full text of the Panel and Appellate Reports.
(Access restricted to the computers in the law library and law school. See reference desk for access.)
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WTO Reporter:
the only daily news publication providing targeted, timely coverage of the activities of the World Trade Organization in Geneva.
(Online access restricted to the Law Library; password required. Ask at reference desk.)
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