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ALA's Guide to Reference

ALA's Guide to Reference is "a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline." Use as an indexing tool for identifying sources outside the legal field, then use the online USC library catalog to confirm the title in the holdings of the USC Libraries.

Berkeley Electronic Press Legal Journals of Legal Scholarship

The Journals of Legal Scholarship publish the full-text of two faculty edited law journals:

• Theoretical Inquiries in Law specializes in the application of insights developed in other disciplines, such as moral and political theory, social sciences, and cognitive psychology to legal problems. (2000-present)
  
  
• Issues in Legal Scholarship provides a forum for discussion of articles and important issues in legal scholarship. The journal consists of a series of symposia that often begin by republishing a noteworthy article in the field. (2001-present)

BNA - ALL

This resource contains most of BNA's online publications from Anti-trust to Trade and Commerce. There are 20 categories of databases with multiple publications in them available for research. Labor law, Environmental law, and Health law are strongly represented categories with 10 -15 publications in each available. Materials also include newsletters and journals for current changes or proposed changes in the various areas. Links are provided for full text articles.

• Intellectual Property Law Resource Center - The Resource Center provides a comprehensive resource for case law, news, research, and analysis on Internet and e-commerce law all in one place. The Law Resource Center provides cyberlaw practitioners access to exclusive case digests of court actions and full text decisions by state and federal courts, the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Copyright Office, foreign courts, and other bodies regulating the Internet.
  

CCH IntelliConnect

IntelliConnect is the Commerce Clearing House platform which provides a single point of access to 48 databases in the following practice groups: Health Care & Benefits; Tax & Accounting; Business Compliance; Financial Services; and Legal Professionals.

Checkpoint (RIA)

Research Institute of America (RIA) provides practice materials, and compliance tools for tax, accounting, and corporate finance information. It includes Tax Code & Regulations, cases, Rulings/IRBs, synopsis and full text of current and pending legislation, ERISA, Regulations and Rulings, United States Tax Reporter, and other Misc. IRS Publications. It offers key word searching and Citator 2nd for citation searches of federal rulings and other federal publications.

Chronicle of Higher Education

This weekly publication is the preeminent source of news, information, advice, and jobs for university faculty and administrators. The website contains the complete contents of the current week's publication as well as daily updates of breaking news, with a searchable archive from September 1989. Also included are the annual Almanac of Higher Education, which has educational data and state-by-state profiles, and the Chronicle Review, a magazine of arts and ideas.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution

This resource "draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions." The database is searchable by date, title, author, recipient, or state affiliation

Environmental Law Reporter

ELR contains information in many separate areas of environmental law including Federal and state materials with statutes and regulations, judicial decisions, litigation updates, links to Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, State administrative agencies (searchable by state), International (searchable by continent, country and topic), Health and Safety, and other environmental informational sites. The site has a very good index and also has research tools for site searching across databases.

FASB Accounting Standards Codification

The FASB Accounting Standards Codification is an advanced application that allows users to access the authoritative content, perform research, and submit feedback. System features provide utilities to view content in many different ways such as browsing by Topic, joining related content, and searching. Comprehensive coverage of recent FASB, AcSEC, IASB and EITF pronouncements is provided.

Foreign Law Guide

Provides bibliographic citation information to official sources of codified law and basic legislative documents thoughout the world, as well as selected secondary sources. Includes citations to sources of English translations (where available) and attempts to verify the currentness of information listed. Does not include journal literature. Features a "Scope" function that allows keyword searching in individual countries, a list of resource materials for reprints of treaty and convention materials, and a list of links to frequently cited Websites.

Hein Online

An excellent source for a wide range of important legal materials. There are complete collections of law reviews and journals (over 650), a complete compilation of the Federal Register and FR Indexes (1936 - to present), U.S. Supreme Court cases, U.S. Attorney General opinions, and the U.S. Statutes at Large, as well as harder-to-find materials such as compiled federal legislative histories, international treaties and agreements, and legal history classics. Our database collection also includes:

• Harvard Research in International Law
• Intellectual Property Law Collection
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - Archive Publications (NCCUSL)
• Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
• United Nations Law Collection
• U.S. Department of the Interior

The collections are comprehensive and they are indexed, fully searchable, and downloadable in PDF format. When accessing from outside the lawschool building, use the Electronic Indexes at sc.edu/library/er/.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

IFLP is a subject index to selected international and comparative law periodicals and collections of essays. Produced by the American Association of Law Libraries, the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in 470 legal journals published worldwide. It provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. IFLP also analyzes the contents of approximately eighty individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Mélanges, and congress reports each year.

Index to Legal Periodicals

Index to Legal Periodicals (1982-present) indexes over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Included in the database are over 325 select periodicals in full text. The database also includes nearly 300 law reviews, 18 American Bar Association journals in full text, and International coverage including periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The database allows searching by keyword, subject heading, court case, statute jurisdiction, personal name, date, title words, type of article, publisher, country of publication, or any combination thereof.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective

Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-1981) is a bibliographic database that provides citations to articles from over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand between 1908 and 1981. The WilsonLink icon next to each search result launches a search for the full text article in other electronic databases, e.g., Hein Online, within the USC library system.

Indexmaster

A compiled list of over 10,000 secondary legal titles from more than 90 publishers. The list is searchable with search results providing publication information such as author, title, publisher, ISBN number, and year. Also included, if available, are PDF versions of the books' Indexes and Table of Contents.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to maintain an archival database for scholarly journal articles, and to provide access to these articles. The database offers full-text .pdf articles spanning many fields of study. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there will be a 1 - 5 year gap between recent issues and material available on JSTOR. When accessing from outside the law school building, use the Electronic Indexes at sc.edu/library/er/.

Law Library Microform Consortium Digital

LLMC is nonprofit cooperative of law libraries dedicated to preserving historical legal titles and government documents on microform, with a good portion of their nearly 8,000 titles now available digitally on their website. Materials are generally organized by jurisdiction with some organized by specific subjects. Collections can be either searched individually or all together; citations can also be used to pull up specific documents.

LexisNexis for Law Schools

LexisNexis for Law Schools is a legal research database designed for law school students and faculty. It includes cases, statutes, and regulations from federal and state jurisdictions, selected legal materials from foreign jurisdictions, extensive secondary materials such as treatises and law journal articles, as well as comprehensive news and business information and the electronic version of Shepard's Citations Service. Its Law School Home page provides links to tutorials and tours on basic legal research skills, area of law research, and legal drafting skills along with area of law outlines for students and a Law Professor Blog Network for faculty. Due to license restrictions, the law library can only provide access to current law school students, faculty, and staff.

Loislaw

A great source for primary legal research. Loislaw provides cases, statutes, administrative regulations, and court rules, for both the federal level and all fifty states. The search engine allows for field searches and the use of expanders and wildcards, as well as multiple database searching within the same material type (e.g., state cases). "Secondary Law", "Public Records", and "Legal News and Business Information" are not available on the library's subscription.

• Loislaw Treatise Libraries
This database is a secondary source component of Loislaw. The Treatise Libraries provide tools essential to the practice of law. The materials include analysis, interpretation, and practical legal information in specific legal content areas including Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Construction Law, DUI Law, Elder Law, Employment Law, Estate Law, Evidence Law, Family Law, Internet and E-Commerce Law, Limited Liability Company Law, Personal Injury Law, Product Liability Law and Real Estate Law.

The Making of Modern Law Digital Archive

The Making of Modern Law Digital Repository is a compilation of historical documents that showcase the documents and thoughts that form the basis of the American judicial system. Coleman Karesh Law Library also provides access to the the following specifc databases:

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• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 This database provides digital page images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law. MOML-Legal Treatises is considered an essential reference collection for historical and contemporary legal studies.


• U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 – This database focuses on the historical decisions of the Supreme Court. The collection includes many landmark decisions whose study is an essential part of American law, politics, and history with pivotal participants and rulings becoming part of the U.S. vocabulary. The database contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system. All documents are searchable and are presented in PDF format.

19th Century Masterfile (Series I)

19th Century Masterfile gives researchers a resource for exploring pre-1930 literature, and linking to full text, where available. This database contains approximately 60 indexes covering articles published before 1925. American and British periodicals, newspapers, books, government documents, and U.S. Patents. The indexes include:

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
• Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900, Royal Society, Great Britain)
• The Psychological Index (1894-1905)
• Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922, Jones and Chipman)
• Index to Periodicals (1890-1906, Stead)
• An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion (1890-1899, Richardson)
• Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899)

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library that offers easy access to numerous databases. The law database provides full text search access of publications ranging from the foundations of legal history and philosophy to analytic and comparative work on legal doctrine and empirical research on law in modern society covering the full gamut of topics including commercial law, family law, employment law, intellectual property and many other legal topics. Additionally, the law database includes titles from Oxford Studies in European Law, Oxford Monographs in International Law, Oxford Monographs in Criminal Law and Justice, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford Monographs in Labour Law, Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History, Oxford Studies in International Economic Law, and the International Courts and Tribunals series, alongside many other works.

Oxford Scholarship Online also offers abstracts and key word searching for Oxford books in Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Social Work.

ProQuest® Congressional

ProQuest® Congressional provides online access to full-text congressional information through one combined search interface. Committee prints, Hearings, House and Senate documents and reports as well as legislative histories from 1970 forward may be retrieved through a single key word search or by individual document numbers. The full-text of the Congressional Record, from 1985 forward, and the current Rules of Congress are accessible through keyword and document searches along with information on congressional committees (memberships, schedules, etc.) and members of congress (voting records, finance reports, etc.). Its Political News/Hot Topics feature connects researchers to the text of bills making news nationwide and articles within congressional news publications on hot topics debated by Congress.

• Serial Set (1789-1969)
  The U.S. Serial Set is a collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. Its earliest documents date from 1789 and additions are made continually. The U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection includes: indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for all Serial Set publications from 1789-1969.

ProQuest® Legislative Insight

ProQuest® Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. ProQuest® legislative histories are comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of the Public Law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law. ProQuest® Legislative Insight makes available more than 18,000 histories covering laws from 1929 to the present.

Social Science Research Network

The goal of SSRN is to encourage rapid dissemination of social science research by publishing submitted articles and solicited working papers from research institutions. The website uses a searchable database containing abstracts of over 108,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers; almost 81,000 of the abstracts link to downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, generally free. The Legal Scholarship Network section focuses specifically on research in law.

Special Ed Connection

Special Ed Connection® is the complete web resource for answers to your special education questions. Special Ed Connection® provides online access to news, the latest cases and information on areas of special education including Section 504, school behavior & discipline issues, administrative rulings, statutes, regulations, sample forms, and policy information on all areas related to special education.

UN Treaties Collection

Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations mandates that "Every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Secretariat and published by it". This collection contains the treaties of the United Nations Treaty Series and much treaty-related data.

Westlaw for Law Schools

This resource is one of two of the largest and most comprehensive database systems available; Lexis-Nexis is the other. Westlaw requires a password to use. However, your student Westlaw passwords will allow you entry. It offers the full panoply of services including search saves, open searching, and multiple databases in all areas of the law. The system also has multiple tutorials for use in navigating the system. There are links for all state and federal cases. Key search indexing is also available. Westlaw also offers the Federal Court of Appeals and Supreme Court briefs in full text. There are links to Federal Register, federal regulations, and administrative codes. There are also multiple secondary source materials including law review articles, legal encyclopedias and treatises.

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