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Databases & Indexes

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Databases

Lexis-Nexis
http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/
:: Directory of Online Sources
password required. Password problem? Check here for help.

Westlaw
http://www.lawschool.westlaw.com
:: Database Directory
password required. Password problem? Check here for help.

BNA Databases
Over 100 titles in the BNA All online library, providing access to some of the foremost reference and update titles in the law.
Subject List | A-Z List | E-Mail Updates | About

LexisNexis Congressional
(off-campus: link)
First stop for legislative history materials. Index now complete from 1789 - present. Links to full-text when available: see coverage & update schedule

Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1941)
(off-campus: link)
American State Papers (1789-1838)
(off-campus: link)
Full-text searchable images of the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Congress & Executive departments.

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
(off-campus: link)
Full-text searchable images of over 350,000 briefs from more than 150,000 U.S. Supreme Court cases

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
(off-campus: link)
Digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law

HeinOnline Databases
(off-campus: link)

LLMC Digital
(off-campus: link)
Digital library of images of U.S. & foreign legal documents. Fine source for U.S. federal agency decisions and executive documents, U.S. court reports, U.S. statutes and journals, Canadian law, and military law.
:: Title list

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

(off-campus: link)
Digital library containing over 100,000 English texts from 1475-1700. Search by keyword, author, title or browse by subject.

RIA Checkpoint Tax Research Library
Access to premier tax database (L&C Law Students only)

Students - Create Your Own RIA password
1. Click here to sign up
(off-campus: link)
(L&C Law students, faculty only)
2. Enter name, L&C email
3. Your individual password will be sent via email

CCH Tax Online
(off-campus: link)
Access to the full set of CCH tax materials.

United Nations Treaty Collection
(off-campus: link)
Status and full-text of multilateral treaties

AccessUN
(off-campus:link)
1966 - Current. Complete index of UN documents and publications. Full-text of resolutions and key documents.

International Law in Domestic Courts

(off-campus: link)
Contains domestic cases deciding international law from over 65 nations. Features expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations into English. Sign up for free case alerts via e-mail.

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
(off-campus link)
Full text of the official records of the meetings of the English Parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485- 1509)

ELR: The Environmental Law Reporter
(off-campus: link)
News and Analysis, ELR Update, laws, regulations, federal, state & international materials, briefs, pleadings, & archived seminars w/audio.

E&E Publishing's Environmental and Energy Policy Publications:
(off-campus: link)

Knowledge Mosaic
(off-campus: link)
News, guidance, regulations and opinions for securities, telecommunications and energy law.

TRACfed
(off-campus: link)
Dynamic access to federal data concerning criminal, civil, & administrative enforcement, staffing, spending and more.
:: Quickstart Guide
:: TRACfed help | Tutorial movies

Casemaker LC Law Community Only
Oregon State Bar
Legal research database for Federal, Oregon and 24 State law. L&C Law community and OSB only.

Loislaw LC Law Community Only
Low-cost legal research site, free to current law students & faculty.
password required
Get the Access Code and instructions for signing up here. L&C law community only.

VersusLaw
Low-cost legal research site, free to current law students & faculty.
Law student registration

Britannica Online
(off-campus: link)
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
(off-campus: link)
Online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary

Chronicle of Higher Education
(off-campus: link)
News for faculty and administrators

Catalogs

Lewis & Clark Catalog
Combined Law/Undergraduate Catalog

Summit Union Catalog
Quickly borrow items from 26 regional libraries

WorldCat (from FirstSearch)
(off-campus: link)
Mega catalog. Use for Interlibrary Loan when Orbis does not have the item or for law review cite checking requests.

Portals
Links to catalogs of Portland area libraries, including one not on Summit: Multnomah Cnty

 

Journal Indexes and Full-Text Articles

LegalTrac
(off-campus: link)
1980 - present
Index to over 1,300 legal journals, many over 100 full-text journals.

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text and ILP Retrospective
(off-campus: link)
1908 - present
Index to over 1300 legal journals, with full-text from over 300 journals & law reviews.

Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922 (Jones & Chipman)
(off-campus: link)
Citations to legal articles. Retrieve full-text from Hein-On-Line (below), the Library collection, or via interlibrary loan.
Also available from this site: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature & Index to Periodicals.

HeinOnline Law Journal Library
(off-campus: link)
Full-text images, searchable collection of over 900 law reviews and journals, starting as early as 1808.

EBSCO Legal Collection
(off-campus: link)
Full-text of 250 leading law journals from 1965.

Working Papers / Self-Archive Repositories

WorldCat (from FirstSearch)
(off-campus: link)
Mega catalog - Use for Interlibrary Loan

The Oregonian from Newsbank
(off-campus: link)
Full-text Oregonian articles from 1988.

Wall Street Journal
(off-campus: link)
Full-text articles, updated daily, 1984-present
Search by keyword.
Read today's paper/Browse by date

New York Times, Historical
(off-campus: link)
Full-text, full-image articles from 1851-2004. Digital reproductions of every page of every issue.
Search by keyword.
Browse by date: 1851-1857 | 1857-2004

JSTOR
(off-campus: link)
Searchable full-text archive of academic journals

Index Master
(off-campus: link)
Indexes and tables of contents of thousands of treatises

LawTRIO
(off-campus: link)
Search three indexes at once: Legal Looseleafs in Print, Legal Newsletters in Print and the Directory of Law-Related CD-ROMs

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
(off-campus: link)
Leading directory of journals, magazines, zines, newspapers and serials.

Non-Legal Databases & Indexes

WorldCat (from FirstSearch)
(off-campus: link)
Mega-catalog - Use for borrowing from other libraries via interlibrary loan

EBSCOhost Research Databases
(off-campus: link)
Wide selection of leading article databases in variety of subjects.

Academic Search Premier
(off-campus: link)
Over 7,900 multidisciplinary journals, more than half full-text.

Business Source Premier
(off-campus: link)
Full-text for thousands of scholarly business journals.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Over 600 titles in library and information science from 1966.

MasterFILE Premier
(off-campus: link)
Full-text of reference books, biographies, dictionaries, maps, and general periodicals

Newspaper Source
(off-campus: link)
Selected full-text for over 200 newspapers, newswires, and radio & tv transcripts.

More EBSCOhost Databases
(off-campus: link)

ArticleFirst
(off-campus: link)
Index to over 12,500 general periodicals

GPO Monthly Catalog
(off-campus: link)
U.S. government publications

Other FirstSearch Indexes
(off-campus: link)
Connect to over 60 subject indexes to articles in business, finance, medicine, public affairs, social science, and more.

JSTOR
(off-campus: link)
Searchable full-text archive of academic journals

ERIC Database
Education literature from the Education Resources Information Center of the U.S. Department of Education. Citations from 1966, full-text documents from 1993.

Open Web Resources

Find Articles
Free index/subject guide to academic, industry and general interest publications. Many of the articles are available for free, full-text.

Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature from a variety of publishers and on the open web. Strongest in the sciences, but many areas, including law are represented.
How to search