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Primary Law Databases & Article Indexes

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LexisNexis Legal Research
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Primary Law Databases & Article Indexes

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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Comprehensive indexing with abstracts of the scholarly literature and applied literature on criminology and related disciplines. Subject areas covered include: causes and correlates of crime, criminol...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.

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HeinOnline
Also Known as: Hein Online
Legal research database containing fulltext documents (PDF) organized into collections including: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Libr...   [more]
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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
International law, comparative law, and municipal law of countries outside the US, UK, and Commonwealth....   [more]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

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NationalJournal.com
Online fulltext access to National Journal periodicals and resources. Provides coverage of current US government activity and policy, as well as technology and health care issues. Additional resources...   [more]

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PolicyFile
Also Known as: Policy File
Indexing with abstracts of U.S. and foreign domestic and international public policy research literature. ...   [more]

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ProQuest Congressional
Also Known as: Congressional Universe, LexisNexis Congressional, Lexis Nexis Congressional
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional heari...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with document series
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Social Science Research Network
Also Known as: SSRN
Recent research results through abstracts, fulltext working papers, and journal articles in economics, finance, business and economic law, accounting, and business. Professional job openings and annou...   [more]
Holdings: 1997-present. Updated daily
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State Net (formerly LexisNexis State Capital)
Also Known as: State Capital Universe
State government information from all United States, including legislative statutory, and regulatory information, and news coverage about state governments....   [more]
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VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah)
Also Known as: Blue Chip Financial Forecasts
Blue Chip Financial Forecasts (Excel) w/Archive (2001+) on VitalLaw platform OmniTax (Biddle Subscription starting in March 2022) on VitalLaw platform...   [more]
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Important Law Databases & Article Indexes

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AccessUN
Also Known as: Readex United Nations Index, Access UN
Topics of concern to the United Nations through its publications and documents: international affairs and diplomacy, political science, contemporary history, international law, peacekeeping, human rig...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present. This subscription covers retrospective indexing back to 1946 as it becomes available

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American Indian Law Collection
Also Known as: HeinOnline's American Indian law collection , HeinOnline American Indian law collection
- from HeinOnline
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Annual Review of Population Law
Summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1974-present.
Unrestricted Access

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BOPCRIS
Indexing for selections among British parliamentary papers....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Constitutions of the World Online
Also Known as: Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century Online
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Current Index to Legal Periodicals
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1945-

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Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Ops, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]
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Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
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Documents Online - World Trade Organization
Fulltext official documentation of the WTO, 1995-present, including Trade Policy Reviews and legal texts of WTO agreements. Includes selected Uruguay Round documents and GATT documents....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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Early Republic: Critical Editions on the Founding of the United States
Also Known as: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Online edition of Documentary History of the First Federal Congress (Johns Hopkins Press). Primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members...   [more]

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Earmarks
US OMB-hosted database of funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents the merit-based or competitive allocation p...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

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EUR-Lex
Also Known as: Access to European Union Law
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Fulltext European Union / European Community legislation, case law, and preparatory documents. Includes treaties between EU member states, international agreements, seconda...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
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Foreign Law Guide
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945
Also Known as: Franklin D Roosevelt and Race Relations 1933-1945
- from Archives Unbound
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Gale Primary Sources (Law Resources)
Also Known as: Artemis Making of Modern Law, Artemis Primary Sources (Law Resources)
MOML 1; Legal Treatises 1800-1926 MOML 2: Primary Sources MOML 3: Trials 1600-1926...   [more]

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History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

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Hollywood, Moral Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968
- from Archives Unbound
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Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution Of Nazi War Crimes
Also Known as: Holocuast and the Records of Concentration Camp Trials
- from Archives Unbound
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Index to Legal Periodicals (Current and Retrospective, 1908 -)
combined search of Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson) and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 (H.W. Wilson)...   [more]

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Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
Also Known as: Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (HW Wilson)
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Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1908-1981
Also Known as: Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1908-1981 (HW Wilson)
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Islamic Law Materialized
This site provides a bibliography listing a lot of published editions of Islamic legal documents, Classical as well as modern....   [more]
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Kindex: An Index to Legal Periodical Literature Concerning Children
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1965-2001

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Law in Eastern Europe
- from HeinOnline
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Lawn's Legal Information Service
- from E-Korean Studies
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Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
the term primary sources is used not in the historian's sense of a manuscript, letter, or diary, but rather in the legal sense of a case, statute, or regulation. Designed to complement The Making of ...   [more]

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Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Monthly Catalog (1951-)
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Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976
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N-Lex: A Common Gateway to National Law
Access the official databases of national laws in 23 EU countries through a common interface maintained by the European Union. Includes Official Gazettes and other sources, where available....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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NATLEX
Abstracts of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation from more than 170 countries. Topics include: freedom of association, collective bargaining, elimination of child lab...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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New York Legal Research Library
New York Statutes, Session Laws, Attorney General and Comptroller Reports, State Reports, Trials and related material....   [more]

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Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Also Known as: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
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Papers of John Marshall
Also Known as: The Papers of John Marshall, Rotunda, American Founding Era
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Papers of Thomas Jefferson
"Since 1950, Jefferson's writings have been compiled in the ongoing project The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Rotunda's digital edition brings together all thirty-three volumes published through 2006 in...   [more]

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PARLIT
Also Known as: Parliaments and Literature
Bibliographic citations for books and articles on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments, and on electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science....   [more]
Holdings: 1992-present
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Peace Research Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing all aspects of peace research, including the causes and correlates of conflict, case studies in conflict, tension, and war, international laws and con...   [more]
Holdings: 1964-present.

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Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: Beyond the Daughters of Bilitis
- from Archives Unbound
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POST Library Catalog: Law Enforcement Articles
Also Known as: California Commission on Peace Officer Standards & Training Library Catalog
Searchable library catalog that includes journal articles selected from approximately 100 journals on law enforcement agency issues, including interagency cooperation, technology, recruiting, firearms...   [more]
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Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Proquest Congressional CRS (Congressional Research Service) Reports 1916-Present
Also Known as: Congressional Research Service Reports, LexisNexis Congressional
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Holdings: 1916-

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Proquest Congressional Hearings (1824 - present)
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979
Digital access to the fulltext of over 150 years of U.S. Congressional hearings. Searchable by committee name, geographical location, topic, witness name or affiliation, and more. Includes abstracts, ...   [more]

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Proquest Digital U.S. Bills & Resolutions 1789-2013
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ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 1: Federal Government Records
Also Known as: History Vault , Black Freedom , ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom I Digital Archive
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Proquest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 2: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1
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ProQuest History Vault: NAACP Papers 2: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 1 Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
Also Known as: NAACP
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 3: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 2 Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 4: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 3 Legal Department Files
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 5: Special Subjects 1912-1972
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Proquest History Vault: Slavery and the Law
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest Legislative Insight
Also Known as: Legislative Insight
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Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
- from Archives Unbound
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Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
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Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
Also Known as: The Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
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Tax Foundation Archive Publications
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Taxation and Economic Reform in America, A Historical Archive
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1781-2009

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The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
Also Known as: War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
- from Archives Unbound
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UN ODS
Also Known as: United Nations Official Documents Search
UN ODS, also known as UN Official Documents Search or UN Optical Disk System, provides fulltext documents, official records, and resolutions of the United Nations covering all topics of concern to the...   [more]
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Women and the Law
Also Known as: Women & the Law , Peggy
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Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
Bibliographic citations for books and articles on women's participation in political life worldwide. Produced by the Inter-Parliamentary Union with support from United Nations Development Programme....   [more]
Holdings: 1948-present
Unrestricted Access

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World Constitutions Illustrated
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World Law Index: Index to Hispanic Legislation
NOTICE: Access to the Index to Hispanic Legislation (World Law Index, Part I) through RLG's Eureka service ended on Saturday, June 30, 2007. Please contact the RLG Information Center with any question...   [more]
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World Treaty Library
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Also Known as: WPSA
- from CSA Databases
67% of the more than 1500 monitored journals are published outside the United States, and there are nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Some of the records have fulltext links and coverage inc...   [more]
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Related Law Databases & Article Indexes

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Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

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Incites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: ISI JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]

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