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A Guide for Law Library Resources: Digital Resources
Academic Search Complete (1975-present)Covers topics in most areas of academic study. Full-text provided for over 10,000 publications, with over 7,850 peer-reviewed. Abstracts and indexing available for over 13,780 journals in the collection.
Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.
Hein OnlineFull text. Journal index. More than 900 searchable full-text law journals and many legal resources, including the Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code, and U.S. Statutes at Large. Campus-wide access is due to subscription by the WU Law Library.
Factiva (6 users)Combines more than 35,000 sources for access to premium content from 200 countries in 26 languages. Worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, web and social media, tweets, digital video and audio clips, analyst reports, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data. Limited to 6 simultaneous users; logoff when finished. Learn more about this database
Law360Law360 is a current awareness service covering federal Appellate, Bankruptcy, Class Action, Competition, Contract, Corporate Finance, Employment, Energy, Environmental, Financial Services, Government Contracts, Health, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Product Liability, Securities, Southeast, Technology, Top News and White Collar litigation. State litigation was also recently added under the following headings: California, Midwest, New York, and Texas.
Access Limited to Members of the WU Law School Community
New York Times (current - Law School)Law faculty and students can activate a Pass for unlimited access to NYTimes.com. After setup, you can access NYT from anywhere. Free NYT apps are also available at nytimes.com/mobile. Does not include e-reader editions, Times Insider content or digital versions of The New York Times Crossword.
Access Limited to Members of the WU Law School Community
Foreign & International
PKULAW (Chinese Site)Chinese primary and secondary legal sources in Chinese & English (cases, laws, regulations, articles). Access restricted to WU Law School.
China Law Info (English Site)Chinese primary and secondary legal sources in Chinese & English (cases, laws, regulations, articles); Database does not work will with Firefox. Access restricted to WU Law School.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975 - 1996)An index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Include translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world.
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources 1600-1970A digital collection of superseded foreign statutes and commentaries and analysis from a number of European, Latin American, United Kingdom & other countries. Analogous Canon and Roman law materials are also included. The materials are in English, Dutch, French, German, Irish, and Italian. This archive features some of the most important historical sources of world civil law and jurisprudence, as well as basic materials from a number of common-law jurisdictions.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International LawWritten by over 650 scholars and practitioners from around the world and edited by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Includes over 700 new topics not covered in the previous print edition, and will be updated quarterly. Includes Oxford Law Citator linking to related content available in all new Oxford online legal services.
Access Limited to Members of the WU Law School Community
Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL)ORIL integrates important decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Our subscription includes the International Investment Claims, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, and the International Law in Domestic Courts modules. Case reports with headnotes, summary of case facts and judicial holdings, analytical commentary from scholarly experts, translations of non-English judgments, and a list of cases and instruments cited are included with the opinions. There are also links to related Oxford online content via the Oxford Law Citator.
Access Limited to Members of the WU Law School Community
Historical
Hein OnlineFull text. Journal index. More than 900 searchable full-text law journals and many legal resources, including the Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code, and U.S. Statutes at Large. Campus-wide access is due to subscription by the WU Law Library.
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, Parts I and IIA fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York, the product offers online access to these important collections.
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources 1600-1970A digital collection of superseded foreign statutes and commentaries and analysis from a number of European, Latin American, United Kingdom & other countries. Analogous Canon and Roman law materials are also included. The materials are in English, Dutch, French, German, Irish, and Italian. This archive features some of the most important historical sources of world civil law and jurisprudence, as well as basic materials from a number of common-law jurisdictions.
Actes Royaux Francais, 1256 - 1794 (Archives Unbound)Approximately 16,000 pamphlets covering the financial, political, and social history of France from the late 13th century to the end of the monarchy are available in this collection.
Adams Papers Digital Edition (Rotunda)Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, and state papers centering on American statesman and president John Adams. Contents are fully annotated, cross-referenced, and searchable.
ArchiveGrid (WorldCat.org)Nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.
ArtemisIntegrated research environment that allows users search across Gale primary source collections. Artemis Primary Sources allows users analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools, supported by intuitive subject-indexing.
Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)Covers such subjects as post-Civil War reconstruction, the passage of the 14th Amendment, the purging of “Rebels” from the legislature, the giving—then denying—of the right to vote to former slaves, and the passing of economic policies that changed the South and the United States forever. Learn more about this database
Immigrations, Migrations, and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941 - 1996News and analysis from reports gathered every day between the early 1940s and 1996 by a U.S. government organization that became part of the CIA. These include translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals and government documents. Additionally, the archive contains one-of-a-kind analysis of the reports.
LLMC DigitalAn extensive collection of over 7000 digitized titles covering approximately 400 jurisdictions worldwide. The content is overwhelmingly in the public domain, with other sources made available with permission. Includes federal and state materials from the U.S. and provincial materials from Canada. Europe, Africa, and South America are also widely represented.
LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the twin goals of, preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally through its on-line service LLMC-Digital. LLMC provides libraries with a reliable and budget-friendly source of digital replacement when their older, physically deteriorating books became too burdensome to store given diminished use. While aiding libraries in their preservation and space recovery programs, it also provides an economical way to complete retrospective collections.
Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineA multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. Collections for this program are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Includes 9,500 English, French and German literature titles of the Romantic era.
Statutes, Regulations, & Legislative History
ProQuest CongressionalComprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes: CIS Legislative Histories (public laws back to 1969), Congressional publications (1817 - ), testimony from Congressional hearings (1824-), Congressional Record and Federal Register, U.S. Serial Set, 1789-1969, Serial Set Maps, 1789-1969, and more. Learn more about this database
Legislative Insight (1929 - )Contains over 18,000 federal legislative histories with digital full text publications covering laws from 1929 to present. For federal laws between 1969 and current, coverage will be similar to ProQuest Congressional. This database provides legislative histories for 10,000 laws passed between 1929 and 1968 that are not in ProQuest Congressional.
Regulatory InsightRegulatory Insight continues the research process into administrative rule-making. Many statutory laws are implemented via the promulgation of administrative rules and Regulatory Insight provides administrative law histories organized by public law and including Federal Register entries with direct legal basis in the Public Law, controlled vocabulary subject indexing harmonized with Legislative Insight and multiple display and limiting options.
Congress.govCongress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.
Congress.gov is usually updated the morning after a session adjourns.
U. S. CodeA consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws [public laws] of the United States.
Legal Databases - Law School Only
Bloomberg LawAvailable by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.
WestlawAvailable by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.
Lexis PlusAvailable by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.
