Online Resources

LegalTrac

LegalTrac provides access to articles in all major U.S. law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers, as well as some foreign and international titles. Coverage includes articles from 1980 to the present. New journals are being added continually. Some articles are included in full-text online, but most entries are simply index and citation information.

 

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books

WilsonWeb: Accessed via WilsonWeb, the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books is an index to articles from legal periodicals, law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, an government publications from 1980 to the present. It also indexes law books published since 1993.

HeinOnline

HeinOnline is another source for periodical articles in full text. Produced by William S. Hein & Co., a major legal publisher and distributor, the purpose of HeinOnline is to provide electronic access to pre-1980 legal periodical literature which is generally not available from any other online source, although more recent articles are also included. This is a new service, so it is continually growing, including articles from more titles. It is searchable by journal title, article title, author, and full text. Available databases: Code of Federal Regulations, English Reports, European Center for Minority Issues, Federal Register Library, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, Law Journal Library, Legal Classics, Philip C. Jessup Library, Session Laws, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.

ALI Collection

ALI Collection: Includes Model Penal Code and the Restatements), and U.S. Congressional Documents Collection (includes the Congressional Record).

CIS Congressional Universe

CIS Congressional Universe provides comprehensive access to United States legislative information which is available from the publisher, Congressional Information Service, Inc. (CIS). Congressional information, including hearings and reports, is available in full text; the Serial Set goes all the way back to 1789. This is an excellent resource for compiling federal legislative histories or for researching the changes and attempted changes in federal laws. If you need assistance in using Congressional Universe, please ask a reference librarian.

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Chicago Manual of Style Online: An online version of the classic text.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews which appear in nearly 540 legal journals published worldwide.

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) online edition, edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001 under the general editorship of Rudolf Bernhardt.