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ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
Index to United Nations documents and publications including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.
Includes full-text reports of state and federal laws and regulations, industry self-regulating guidelines, and new developments.
Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals
A subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.
Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report (BNA)
Federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law.
Covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees, and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data as well as browse through year-by-year analyses and fact sheets online.
This reference database has information and locations on nearly 144,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: International and U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local.
Provides in-depth news and analysis of bankruptcy law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
A collection of working papers, many law-related, published using bepress.
BNA Law Resources (Bureau of National Affairs)
A collection of more than 200 law related news, analysis, and reference products, providing intensive coverage of legal and regulatory developments and case law covering a wide range of topics.
The CAT - Penn State Library Catalog Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
CCH Business and Finance Network
Provides primary research materials on mergers and acquisitions, product liability and safety, corporate governance, banking, international business, securities, intellectual property, and antitrust and trade regulation. Full text materials include statutes, judicial opinions, regulations, newsletters, foreign laws and rules, and forms.
CCH Health and Human Resources Network
Provides federal and state research materials on topics such as labor and employment, pensions, benefits, health care compliance and reimbursement, and safety compliance. Full-text materials include statutes, regulations, agency directives and letters, judicial opinions, and forms.
Comprehensive tax service providing federal, state, and international tax research source materials, including full-text statutes, regulations, administrative and judicial opinions, commentary, and citations.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption
The Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database covers all aspects of child abuse and neglect, foster care, dispute resolution, adoption, including Identification, treatment, and prevention programs and strategies, legal issues, research projects, training programs, search and reunion, etc. Include books, journals, multimedia, government reports, conference papers, research projects, state annual reports, legislation, curricula, and unpublished papers.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
A comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It includes full text of selected books on international affairs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. It also, contains abstracts and some full text of selected journal articles.
Congressional Research Service Reports (LexisNexis)
Research papers written by the Library of Congress for the use of Congress. Provide objective, non-partisan analysis of public policy issues before the legislature. Full text PDF of reports.
Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online
Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries, including English translations and introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical and political information. This database is the electronic version of the print source Constitutions of the Countries of the World.
Provides an historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest group ratings, public policy legislation, current committees, background information and definitions, and chronology related to US Congress.
A reference source for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. The suite includes the online version of --CQ Weekly --CQ Researcher --CQ Congress Collection, --CQ Voting and Elections Collection --CQ Historic Documents Online.
CQ Historic Documents Series Online
Historic Documents Series Online Edition collects more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to the present. Each source document is preceded by an introductory essay giving context to the source. Users can search by keyword, or browse by topic or date.
This weekly publication covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria. Coverage includes 1991-present.
CQ Supreme Court Collection contains summaries and analysis of more than four thousand major decisions, historical and contemporary, including all cases in which the Burger and Rehnquist Courts (October 1969 to the present) issued a written opinion. Includes links to the full text of the cases. The collection can be searched by topic, justice, and case name. Includes tools to research justices' voting records and opinion alignments.
CQ Voting and Elections Collection
Offers documents and data, authoritative analyses, background information and definitions, chronology, and historical material related to specific elections (Congressional, presidential, and gubernatorial) and the electoral process in America.
Each issue of CQ Weekly contains an unbiased, objective and comprehensive roundup of virtually all Capitol Hill activity from the previous week.
Provides in-depth news and analysis of criminal law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals
Current-awareness index to law school law reviews and selected other legal periodicals.
Dickinson School of Law Library Catalog
A list of electronic journal titles available at Penn State. This A-Z list includes law titles.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard's and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Coverage includes the first book printed in English by William Caxton and features works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. Novels, prayer books, pamphlets, almanacs, calendars, and many other types of primary sources are included.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Contains over 150,000 items published in Great Britain and its colonies, including those in North America, during the 18th Century. This database complements the materials found in Early English Books Online (EEBO), which covers 1475-1700. The resource is thus a rich source of information about the American and French Revolution, scientific and medical advances, literature, law, religion, industry, and all aspects of life in the 18th century.
EISIL (Electronic Information System for International Law)
EISIL is a database created by the American Society of International Law. It provides access to primary documents, web sites, and research guides on many international topics. EISIL provides value added information, such as legal citations, summaries of documents, and more.
Electronic Commerce & Law Report (BNA)
Comprehensive yet selective coverage of the major legal issues surrounding digital communications content, transactions, and infrastructure, on federal, state, and international levels
Employment Discrimination Report (BNA)
Comprehensive coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity, the Report spans all areas of EEO policy and practice.
English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867)
This collection represents reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc. Search or browse over 100,000 decisions along with the "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart" and view the results in PDF.
The BNA Environment Library provides analysis and reporting on every aspect of environmental law. Includes current news, articles, cases, administrative documents, environmental statutes, international treaties and federal and state regulations.
Coverage of legislative, regulatory, legal, and policy news concerning the environment. Includes proposed, new, and amended federal and state laws, rules, standards, and other significant documents.
The EUR-Lex web site provides comprehensive and authoritative information on EU law. It offers multilingual full-text coverage of a wide range of legal materials and provides access to the founding treaties, as well as to legislation and case law of the European Court of Justice.
A guide to important new federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues.
FBIS Index (Foreign Broadcast Information Service)
An index to the microfiche collection FBIS Daily Reports from 1975-1996, which includes translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world.
FBIS Full Text (Foreign Broadcast Information Service)
Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information from 1974-1996. Full text is currently available for selected areas only. For access to all FBIS reports use the electronic FBIS Index.
Search or browse the Federal Register from volume 1, 1936, and view results in PDF format.
Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World
Provides brief introductory information on the legal systems of 160 nations or jurisdictions, combined with a list of all codes and basic laws, where they can be found in their most current format in the official language and any English translations, if available.
Gallery Watch (Federal Budget and Bill Tracking)
Provides comprehensive bill histories for legislation since the 105th Congress. Also includes Line item budget information for FY 1978-Current.
GLIN – Global Legal Information Network
GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources from selected countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The database contains the full texts of the documents in the official language of the country of origin as well as summaries or abstracts in English. The database can be searched for free and provides access to the summaries/abstracts. Access to full-text documents is restricted.
The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
Latest legal developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends.
Provides the full text of over 200 legal journals from their inception; includes databases for U.S. agency, Congressional, Presidential, Supreme Court and foreign relations documents, reports and texts. The collections may be browsed or searched and results can be viewed in PDF.
Hein Online: Foreign & International Law Resources Database
Contains the full-text of many international law yearbooks and journals. It also contains U.S. international law practice digests, publications from international courts and tribunals, and other materials related to international and foreign law. The collection may be browsed or searched.
This historical collection of famous and important trials includes such works as John Lawson's American State Trials, Howell's State Trials, Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Reports of State Trials and Sixty Famous Cases. The database contains monographs, trial transcripts, and other court documents.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (1985-)
The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) database indexes articles as well as book reviews from more than 490 legal journals published worldwide, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
Wilson 's Index to Legal Periodicals indexes legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, and bar association publications from 1918 to the present. Coverage also includes books and full-text of selected articles from the early 1990s to the present.
Intellectual Property Library (BNA)
This Library provides analysis and reporting on every aspect of intellectual property law. Includes current news, articles, cases, administrative documents, statutes, and regulations.
InterAm Database (National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade)
Provides legal information pertaining to trade, investment, and related issues throughout the Americas. Includes primary sources (statutes, regulations, technical standards, official gazettes, constitutions, case law and treaties) and some secondary sources (commentaries, law review articles and analysis). English language translations are available for selected Mexican laws and regulations. Electronic version of the Inter-American Trade Report is also available.
International Environment Reporter (BNA)
Environment and safety news on laws, regulations, and policies in all major industrialized and developing nations, and in international governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC)
ILDC is a case reporting service covering cases on public international law issues from over 60 jurisdictions. The cases feature full texts of judgments in their original language, English translations of key passages, and detailed analysis of the core legal issues. Coverage is from 2000 to the present.
International Trade Reporter (BNA)
Latest news, trends and major activities in U.S. trade policy, including regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments. Tracks international treaty negotiations and agreements.
Internet Law and Regulation (Pike & Fischer)
Comprehensive resources for Internet law research. Includes federal, state and international cases, statutes and regulations; policy statements and guidelines; and various pleadings, motions and briefs. Password required; contact a law librarian.
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, see http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.
Labor and Employment Law Library (BNA)
A comprehensive resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of labor and employment: fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration.
Legal Scholarship Network (LSN)
LSN, a division of Social Science Research Network (SSRN), hosts and distributes scholarly information and papers related to law to legal, economics, and business scholars and practitioners.
Starting in 1981, LegalTrac indexes all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general interest publications. LegalTrac also includes selective full text.
Lexis for Law Schools ( Law School only)
Provides index and abstracts of congressional publications back to 1789, including full text of congressional hearings from 1824-present, full text Committee Prints from 1830-present, full text Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports from 1916-present, and legislative histories from 1969-present.
Provides full-text access to a vast collection of legal literature and government documents courtesy of the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC). The current online collection consists primarily of U.S. federal executive, legislative, and judicial materials.
The premier resource to the world's literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. Designed for academic, professional and public communities, this database contains indexing and abstracts for GLBT-specific core periodicals. The database includes current coverage of these sources, as well as deep backfiles for key publications - many back to the first published issue.
A fully searchable collection of 19 th and 20 th century Anglo-American legal treatises. It allows full-text searching of more than 21,000 works including casebooks, local practice materials, form books, manuals, letters, speeches, and more.
MBS Online (International Statistics)
Economic, industrial, trade, and population statistics (monthly or quarterly) from more than 200 countries. Data may be graphed, printed, or downloaded. Compiled by the United Nations.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
Contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications
Nineteenth (19 th ) Century Newspapers, British Library Collection
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. It includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule.
Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS)
This database provides access to all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. However, older UN documents are added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
PACER ( Law School only)
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. Password required; contact a law librarian.
This page describes several of the most useful databases for searching patents on the Web. Direct links are provided to sources of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, European Patent Office and Japanese Patent Office search pages.
Covers essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, Genocide, human rights, international law, refugees voluntary and nongovernmental organizations, armed conflicts, civil wars, territorial disputes, terrorism, counterterrorism, democratisation, migration, arms control, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, humanitarian aid, cultural relations, race relations, interpersonal violence, ethnic relations, race relations, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Penn State University Libraries/Research Tools
Penn State University Libraries/E-Journals and E-Newspapers
Periodicals Archive Online (PCI Full Text 1770 - 1995)
An online periodical archive that provides access to some 450 digitized journals in the humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,500 periodicals.
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 4,250 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Pike and Fischer Communications Regulation
Covers all of U.S. communications law regulations and full-text cases back to the mid-1960's. Also includes topical digests and an update service for recent developments in telecom law and significant new additions to decisions and other regulatory developments.
PolicyFile (Public Policy Research & Analysis)
PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, email addresses and full text are made available within individual abstracts.
Country Reports on 106 countries. Gives political and economic risk analysis available. Each Country Report focuses specifically on political and business information: finding developing markets, determining currency movements, preparing for capital investments, or making judgments about corporate security.
Praeger Security International Online
Interdisciplinary and diverse in political perspective, Praeger Security International Online publishes material on international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history, and terrorism.
Project Muse 250 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Topics include cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others.
Indexes 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. It contains full text or PDF images to over 2,000 journals, and full text to 150+ newspapers. ProQuest (mulitple databases) includes the following databases: ABI Inform (business trade and research journals), Ethnic NewsWatch, ProQuest Research Library (general and research journals), ProQuest Newspapers, Hoover 's Company Records, OxResearch, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, and Dissertations & Theses.
The database includes more than 3,870 titles over 2,600 in full text from 1971 forward. It features a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers in all subjects.
RIA Checkpoint (Tax and Estate Planning)
RIA Checkpoint is a comprehensive tax and estate planning research service. It includes federal and state primary law documents such as legislation, regulations, and court opinions. Selected journals and treatises offer detailed analysis of complex tax and estate planning issues.
Securities Regulation & Law Report (BNA)
Track legislative and regulatory proposals and actions affecting securities laws, futures regulation, accounting issues, and related matters. Comprehensive, up-to-date information on SEC and CFTC regulations and FASB actions.
This Session Law Library offers the state session laws of all 50 U.S. states as well as the federal laws of the United States, Australia and Canada from approximately 2000 to present.
Full-text book and serial publications from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Also includes many of the data sets available from the organization.
Sports Business Research Network (SBRnet)
Sports Business Resource Network is a sporting goods and sports marketing database containing full-text market research reports, industry statistics, consumer expenditures, and full-text publications.
Tax and Accounting Center (BNA)
Provides analysis and reporting on every aspect of federal, state and international tax law. Includes Tax Management portfolios, current news, articles, cases, administrative documents, forms, statutes, and regulations.
Transnational Law Digest & Bibliography (TLDB)
TLDB contains a comprehensive digest of principles and rules of transnational commercial law. The digest provides access to precedent-authorities needed to ascertain the disputed meaning of key legal terms in transnational disputes and provides thousands of full text references (arbitral awards, court decisions, law review articles, domestic laws, conventions, model laws, international restatements etc.). The database also contains a large bibliography on transnational commercial law. Searching is available and all information is free of charge.
Treaties and Agreements Library
Contains all of the U.S. treaties, whether currently in force, expired, or not yet officially published. This library includes official and unofficial treaty publications; treaty guides and indexes; treaty texts; and related links.
Comtrade provides commodity trade data for all available countries and areas since 1962. Currently, it contains almost 700 millions records. Download functions are limited.
United Nations Treaty Collection
This collection includes five categories of treaty-related data: Status of Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, The United Nations Treaty Series (full text), Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Treaty Signature ceremonies, Titles of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN official languages. A complete description of the database is available at: http://untreaty.un.org/English/overview.asp
UNSTATS provides data on a wide range of social and economic data series from 30 specialized international intergovernmental agencies including POPIN, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, UNICEF, and WHO. Data can be displayed in HTML or downloaded in Excel or CSV format.
U.S Congressional Documents Library
Features the bound and daily versions of Congressional Record, its three predecessor titles, the American State Papers, the Journals of the Continental Congress and other important congressional material.
The U.S. Serial Set, a full-text collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, includes Congressional reports and documents, executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress, the American State Papers, and all maps, illustrations, photos, and lithographs found within the U.S. Serial Set from 1789-1969. Covering every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing.
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
Includes two databases: the Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories Database, a listing of compiled legislative history sources for major laws; and the Legislative History Title Collection, a collection of full-text legislative histories on some of the most important and historically significant legislation of our time.
Reports on the most significant cases, regulations and legislative developments across the United States.
The full text of all decisions reported in U.S. Patents Quarterly from 1946 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832 --1978
A fully searchable collection of briefs and other documents related to cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. It contains over 150,000 cases and 350,000 documents. Types of records include appellant and appellee briefs, amicus briefs, petitions, trial transcripts, and more. Search results are linked to the actual full-text PDF documents.
Vault provides full-text career and industry guides; company profiles; occupation descriptions; and career-related articles.
Westlaw for Law Schools (Law School Only)
Covers legal developments affecting the prosecution and defense of fraud and other white collar crimes.
This resource provides access to over 232,000 records drawn from ten important Women's Studies databases. Coverage: 1972 to date; citations and abstracts only. Updated semi-annually.
World Bank E-Library presents fulltext PDF-format versions of all new World Bank books and selected books beginning in 1984. More than 1,200 titles cover all areas of World Bank interests. This collection complements World Development Sources, the fulltext grey literature collection of World Bank documents and reports.
World News Connection (WNC) contains full-text translated summaries from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports for the following materials: newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports.
World Intellectual Property Report (BNA)
Monthly news and analysis of developments in the regulation and enforcement of intellectual property rights worldwide.
OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online catalog. It contains over 43 million records describing library holdings.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. The database is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI/Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The serials list of the new database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage.
Yearbook of International Organizations
This guide to global civil society networks provides extensive coverage of non-profit international organizations whether governmental or non-governmental. More than just a directory, the yearbook provides: organization descriptions; international organization participation; global action networks; a bibliography of resources; and statistics.
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