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African-American Biographical Database (AABD)

African-American Biographical Database (AABD) contains biographical sketches of thousands of African Americans (including photographs and illustrations) assembled from biographical dictionaries (1790-1950) and many other reference sources. Use AABD's Full Text Search to search its biographical sources by word or phrase, including personal name. Use its Profile Search to locate individual biographies by name, place of birth, date of birth, date of death, occupation, religion, gender, or source of information.

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.

CCH Internet Research NetWork

This network contains two separate categories of databases; Business and Finance network and Health and Human resources network. Each database provides reports, explains and analyzes the related areas. The two networks contain the bulk of CCH publications available online. Each site has a search based query system to search, as wells as a search history feature which saves your most recent searches.

CCH Business and Finance Network

The specialty databases included through this link are securities, corporation law, banking, Intellectual Property, transportation law, and many others in the related areas of business law and regulation. It contains the latest news reports, newsletters, and CCH reporters on the areas covered in the database. There is also a training and support site to learn to use the databases.

CCH Health and Human Resources Research Network

This database is similar to CCH Business and Finance Network only it covers the area of Health and Human resources. It also contains latest news reports and newsletters and reporters on the areas covered in the database. The databases include EEOC decisions, OSHA materials, forms, labor and employment law, health care compliance, benefits, pensions, and many other databases. It also contains a training and support site to help in learning to use the databases.

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.

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.

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. The collections are comprehensive from the date of inception of the materials involved. They are indexed fully searchable, and downloadable in PDF format. When accessing from outside the law school building, use the Electronic Indexes at delphi.tcl.sc.edu/indexdb/er.php.

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.

International Law in Domestic Courts

This resource presents selected cases on public international law issues being adjudicated in domestic courts around the world, along with commentary and analysis by legal scholars. Non-English language decisions are offered in translated and original language formats. Cases are updated every two weeks. The publisher is adding older cases gradually with the intention of building an archive going back to 2000. The database is searchable by country, keyword or full-text search.

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 delphi.tcl.sc.edu/indexdb/er.php.

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.

Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-1981)

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 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 between1908 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.

LexisNexis Congressional

LexisNexis 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.

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.

ProQuest

This set of databases includes the New York Times in full-text back to the first issue (1851-2002) via its Historical Newspapers database; and the Proquest Dissertations and Theses-Full-Text database, which includes bibliographic citations for dissertations from 1861, abstracts for doctoral and master's theses beginning in the 1980's and the full-text of both beginning in 1997.

RIA Academic Advantage Library Checkpoint

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.

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.

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.