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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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Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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American Diplomatic Code / Jonathan Elliott
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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Early compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements, originally published in 1834....   [more]

American Friends Service Commitee: FBI Records
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American Legal Publishing's Municipal Code Library
Free online fulltext for municipal codes nationwide....   [more]
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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.
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Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Digital versions of documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government....   [more]
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BOPCRIS
Indexing for selections among British parliamentary papers....   [more]
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Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
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Code of Federal Regulations
Also Known as: CFR
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Includes supplements...   [more]
Holdings: 1938-1983

Collection of Neutrality Laws Regulations and Treaties of Various Countries (Deak and Jessup)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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Fulltext anthology of countries' neutrality laws and regulations and treaty provisions relating to neutral rights and duties for the nineteenth and and early twentieth centuries. Texts provided in ori...   [more]
Holdings: 1800-1938

Constitutional Sources Project
Also Known as: CONSOURCE
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CRS Reports (Thurgood Marshall Law Library)
Congressional Research Service reports on homeland security and terrorism issues and on health law and policy....   [more]
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Current Treaty Index
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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Semiannual companion service to United States Treaty Index: 1776-1990 (with supplements), listing current actions by the U.S. on treaties and agreements. Edited by Igor I. Kavass....   [more]
Holdings: v. 1 (1982)-v. 25 (1999)

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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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]
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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]
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eCode360.com - Municipal Code Library
Collection of browseable fulltext municipal and county law codes and ordinance collections. Includes codes for many Philadelphia-area towns, townships, and counties....   [more]
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EEOC Performance and Accountability Report
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...   [more]
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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]
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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Formerly the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). "The FRA helps to ensure that fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected. It does this by collecting evidence ...   [more]
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Federal Register
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Holdings: 1936-1981 1996 1998 1999-

Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1981-
Tthe full text of the Federal Register. Coverage goes back to July 1, 1980. The file is updated daily, so each day's Federal Register is available online the same day as the printed version. ...   [more]

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
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Fulltext searchable collection of more than 87,000 document pages from the FBI Library covering 1956-1971 on individuals and organizations engaged in civil rights and anti-war activities. Reproduces f...   [more]

Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984
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Fulltext searchable collection of more than 87,000 document pages from the FBI Library covering 1920-1984 on African-American individuals and organizations. Reproduces documents from the FBI's Investi...   [more]

GLIN - Global Legal Information Network
Searchable index, with some publicly-available fulltext, covering national laws, legislative records, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal literature from countries worldwide. Fulltext pr...   [more]
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Government Gazettes Online
Also Known as: Directory of Online Government Gazettes
Listing by country of government gazettes available online....   [more]
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Guide to the United States Treaties in Force
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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Kavass's enhanced finding aid for using TIF, Treaties in Force, providing merged bilateral and multilateral subject indexing, chronological indexing, and updates subsequent to TIF's latest edition....   [more]
Holdings: 1982-present (currently 2003)

Hansard 1803-2005 (UK Parliamentary Debates)
Searchable fulltext for the Official Report of debates in Parliament, including Lords sittings, Commons sittings, and Westminster Hall sittings....   [more]
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History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
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Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties (Kappler)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties (1778-1871), laws (1871 and later), executive orders, and other documents relating to Indian affairs up to 1971. Originally published in 7 chronological volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1778-1971

International Conciliation
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Holdings: 1907-1972

International Legal Materials
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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Reproduces selected recent treaties and agreements, judicial decisions, executive orders, and other government documents on international and legal issues from local, national, and international gover...   [more]
Holdings: 1962-present.

KAV Agreements
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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U.S. treaties and executive agreements since 1950 not published in UST or TIAS. Documents are assigned KAV numbers. Most KAV documents will eventually be published in UST or TIAS....   [more]
Holdings: 1950-present.

League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
PDF-format document collection produced by Northwestern University Library. Contains 260 League of Nations documents, 1926-1946. Includes Statistical Yearbook of the League of Nations....   [more]
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Multilaterals Project
Fulltext of international multilateral conventions, treaties, and other instruments. Topics include environmental agreements, human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other ...   [more]
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MuniCode Municipal Code Library
Also Known as: LexisNexis Municipal Codes Web Library
Fulltext (some restricted) for U.S. city and county law codes. Includes Philadelphia and Los Angeles County....   [more]
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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]
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NBER/Maryland State Constitutions Project
Tagged fulltext versions of U.S. State constitutions with amendments up to ca.2000....   [more]
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OYEZ - U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
Audio recordings in RealAudio format for all Supreme Court proceedings, 1995 to present, with individual cases prior to 1995 back to 1955 selectively covered....   [more]
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
Also Known as: Parliamentary Rolls
Eight million words of text, translation and introductions, recording all surviving records of English Parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII covering the years from 1272 to 1504. Includes scholarly ...   [more]

PARLINE
Also Known as: Parliaments On-Line
Facts about national legislatures: general information on each parliament chamber and its presidency, description of the electoral system, results of the most recent election, and information on the m...   [more]
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Pennsylvania Session Laws
Digitized edition of Pennsylvania public and private laws, covering Statutes at Large (1682-1809), Smith's Laws (1700-1828/1829), and Pamphlet Laws (1980-present). In progress....   [more]
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Philadelphia Code and Charter
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Philadelphia Courts
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Philadelphia Government, phila.gov
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Popular Names of U.S. Government Reports
Reproduces first four editions (1966, 1970, 1976, 1980) of a basic U.S. government documents reference work that provides bibliographic citations to reports by their popular name....   [more]
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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]

ProQuest Congressional Statutes at Large
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, Proquest Congressional
Searchable fulltext for U.S. laws, 1789-present (currently, 1997). Includes U.S. treaties and international agreements, 1778-1949, and treaties with Indian tribes, 1778-1874....   [more]
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Public and Private Laws
Also Known as: GPO Access, Statutes at Large
Searchable fulltext for current and recent U.S. public and private laws. Includes uncollated slip laws and laws published in Statutes at Large....   [more]
Holdings: 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present
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South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission (official website)
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The Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
Also Known as: Hindu Conspiracy Cases
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TRACfed
Also Known as: TRAC Reports, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Trac Fed, TRAC
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Trade Policy Reviews - World Trade Organization
Fulltext of recent WTO Trade Policy Reviews, providing surveillance of national trade policies for individual WTO members. Hyperlinks to earlier editions from 1995 to present....   [more]
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Treaties and Other International Act Series (TIAS)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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U.S. treaties and executive agreements in slip-form, considered the first authoritative publication of the document....   [more]
Holdings: early 1980s-present (currently mid-1990s)

Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Miller)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
An early predecessor to Bevans, containing U.S. treaties and agreements through 1863. Includes notes and citations. Originally published in 8 volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1863.

Treaties and other international agreements : the role of the United States Senate
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Summarizes international and U.S. law on treaty-making. Outlines the treaty-making process, especially focusing on the U.S. Senate. Useful glossary of diplomatic terms. Latest version of a U.S. Senate...   [more]

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949 (Bevans)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
The most complete collection of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1950, originally published in 13 volumes. Multilateral treaties are grouped separately from bilateral treaties. Volume 13 is a subjec...   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1949.

Treaties Conventions International Acts Protocols and Agreements (Malloy)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A predecessor to Bevans, being a compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1937. Originally published in 4 volumes, with volumes 3 and 4 also known as Redmond and Trenwith....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1937

Treaties in Force
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Annually published by the U.S. State Department, lists and abstracts all treaties and agreements considered to be in force for the U.S. as of 1 January for the respective year. TIF separately lists bi...   [more]
Holdings: 1955-present (currently one year delay) 1941 added 1932 added
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    Current year (via GPO permanent archive)

Treaties their making and enforcement / Samuel B. Crandall
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A historical survey of treaty-making procedures in the U.S. and foreign nations, including France and Britain. Originally published in 1904....   [more]

U.S. Congressional Documents: HeinOnline
Also Known as: U.S. Congressional Documents: Hein Online
The Congressional Record and preceeding publications covering the period from 1789-1943 and 1971-present. Includes the Daily Record from 1994-2008. Also includes the American State Papers, U.S. Stat...   [more]

U.S. Government Documents: The Basic Collection
These United States government documents are vital sources of information that support the public's right to know about the workings and essential activities of their Federal Government. List establis...   [more]
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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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UNISPAL
Also Known as: United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine
Texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace, 1915-present....   [more]
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Also Known as: UNTC, UN Treaty Series
Primary sources, fulltext and image for international treaties and agreements deposited or registered with the United Nations since 1946. Ratification and annotation information for individual tre...   [more]

United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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U.S. treaties and executive agreements published in chronological order....   [more]
Holdings: 1950-present (currently 1984)

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