Databases by Title (Annotated)
These databases are subscription based
services. Due to licensing restrictions, some databases are only
available to IU students and faculty. If you wish to access free legal
web pages, go to the Internet
Research page.
(Note: descriptions of
databases are provided by the vendors)
BNA
BNA's Law School Professional Information
Center offers valuable resources for law school librarians, faculty,
and students seeking to maximize their investment in BNA publications.
BNA produces over 200 print and electronic information services on a
full range of legal, regulatory, economic, and international subjects.
Our authoritative publications are recognized for their excellence and
are widely used in law schools.
ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional ConductThe Manual is organized into four main sections: the Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions. All these collections plus their associated indexes and other quick reference tools and finding aids combined make up the content of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct.
BNA Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report
BNA Corporate Practice Library
The Corporate Practice Library features in-depth analysis and practical guidance from expert legal practitioners in the Series portfolios, plus the latest news in the Weekly.
BNA Criminal Law Reporter
BNA Family Law Reporter®
BNA International Environment Reporter
BNA Labor and Employment Law Library
Within this collection, you can search for any word or phrase in the text of opinions and/or in the editorial materials prepared by BNA. You also can combine words and phrases with any “field” searches, for example, with date, jurisdiction, judge, or case name. Cases included in your search results are arranged in tribunal order, highest to lowest, and in reverse chronological order (latest cases first) within each tribunal.
BNA Securities Regulation & Law Report
BNA U.S. Law Week®
BNA
Tax Management portfolios The BNA Tax
Management Web Library is an integrated library that provides leading
authorities’ insights and expert analysis in the Federal Portfolios,Tax
Practice Series, and the State Portfolios. It allows you to start your
research in the analysis and link to related primary source material
Books
in Print, produced by R.R. Bowker Company, is
the most comprehensive source of information on books published in the
U.S. This database contains bibliographic records from over 44,000
publishers. These records cover books currently in print and titles
about-to-be-published as far as six months in advance, as well as
information on titles declared out-of-print or out-of-stock
indefinitely since 1979.
CARL
UnCover (ingenta) is a database of current
article information now available through the Web at ingenta.
This service offers free searching and browsing of more than 25,000
publications. Article delivery is also available, for a fee. You can
arrange to have articles faxed, delivered, or sent electronically (html
or pdf format) directly to you. If you choose this service, you will
have to provide a personal credit card number and the articles will be
charged to that account.
CCH
Business Internet Library
CCH
Health & Human Resources Research Network
provides access to all of the latest authoritative information
concerning topics on Employment Law, Benefits, Human Resource
Management, Payroll and Health Law.
CCH
Tax Research Network provides immediate access
to CCH's comprehensive library of federal tax publications. Choose from
CCH expert analyses and explanations, as well as official source
documents . This service features the Standard Federal Tax Reporter
with the Federal Estate and Gift Tax Reporter. Also includes IRS
revenue rulings and procedures, IRS Publications and other libraries
and tools.
Community
of Science (COS) Web tools to locate external
funding, and workbench for cv and vita management
Constitution
Finder This database offers constitutions,
charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world
are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the
Internet.
CRS
Reports-Thurgood Marshall Law Library The
Congressional Research Service, an arm of the Library of Congress,
serves the legislative process by providing Congress with non-partisan
and in-depth legislative research and analysis on a variety of topics.
CRS produces or updates more than 3,000 studies and other publications
each year, none of which are distributed to the public. Because CRS
reports are created using public money and are not readily accessible
to the research community, the Thurgood Marshall Law Library has
created an online collection in the subject areas of Homeland
Security/Terrorism and Health Law and Policy.
Current
Index to Legal Periodicals Current-awareness
indexes to law school law reviews and selected other legal periodicals.
Electronic
Information System for International Law (EISIL)
is a free Web resource. More than 1,500 selected sources are organized
into 13 subject groups in a fully searchable database that provides
access to primary materials, authoritative Web sites and research
guides. Background information – citations and references, dates when
laws or treaties were concluded and links to related resources – is
included for each resource.
Environmental
Law Reporter is an environmental, natural
resources, toxic tort, energy, health/safety, and land use law research
tool containing original source documents, editorial summaries, and
expert analysis on state, federal, and international issues. ELR
consists of twelve components: News & Analysis; ELR UPDATE;
Litigation; Federal Laws and Regulations; Administrative Materials;
Indexes; State Materials; International Materials; Health and Safety
Materials; Guidance & Policy Collection; Briefs &
Pleadings; and Online Seminars.
Hein
Online is a comprehensive, image-based
collection of hundreds of legal periodicals and other legal collections
(Federal Register, U.S. Reports, and other legal classics coming soon).
This is a fully-searchable online database.
http://vweb.hwwilsonweb.com/cgi-bin/referer/indiana/indiana.cgi?INDIANAPOLIS"
Index
to Legal Periodicals (WilsonWeb) is a
bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and
indexes law books published in 1981 and later. Periodical coverage
includes law reviews, bar association journals, university
publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Index
to Legal Periodicals & Books covers all areas of jurisprudence,
including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original
scholarship.
Indiana
Attorney General Opinions This collection will
include volumes of the Indiana Attorney General Opinions beginning in
1976. It will eventually include a complete collection back to 1921.
INSPIRE
is Indiana's Virtual Library on the Internet. Inspire is a collection
of commercial databases and other information resources that can be
accessed by Indiana residents using any PC equipped with an Indiana
Internet connection and a Web Browser such as Netscape or MS Internet
Explorer.
IUPUI
University Library Databases Access to
databases through the University Library web page.
LLMC-Digital
(Law Library Microform Consortium) LLMC is a
non-profit cooperative serving member libraries' needs for
preservation, space recovery, and collection development on film and
on-line. In its first 27 years of operation, it filmed over 7,500
titles, some 90,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and
history. Its backfile comprises the world's largest collection of legal
literature and government documents in microform. That backfile, and
future filming of some 10,000 volumes per year, are being made
available for on-line access on this web site.
Legal
Periodicals Retro 1918-1981 (WilsonWeb) is a
retrospective bibliographic database and a companion to Index to Legal
Periodicals that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law
books published between 1918 and 1981.
LegalTrac
(Remote
Access Instruction) offers indexing for all major
law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar
association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general
interest publications published since 1980. LegalTrac also includes
selective full text.
Lexis
is the world's largest provider of credible in-depth information. From
legal and government to business and high-tech, this product provides
direct access to an enormous information universe.
LexisNexis
Congressional Congress is the single most
important information-producing institution in the United States.
Behind every major bill debated, behind every issue discussed lie
months of intensive investigation and analysis. The "working papers"
that result from these efforts often represent the best information
available anywhere on a given subject. That's because Congress has some
of the nation's top experts on its staff, and the authority to call
witnesses from throughout the world to testify on virtually any issue
of concern.
Making
of Modern Law (Remote
Access Instruction)
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001 under the general editorship of Rudolf Bernhardt.
Medline
using OVID covers the international literature
on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological
and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they
relate to medicine and health care. MEDLINE covers 1966 to the present.
MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History is the first encyclopedia of law to provide both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems.
Oxford Reports on International LawOxford reports on international law in domestic courts, Oxford reports on international courts of general jurisdiction, Oxford reports on international criminal law, Oxford reports on international human rights law.
Oxford Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,763 Oxford books.
RIA
Checkpoint or RIA Checkpoint (no login
required) provides resources for tax and
accounting research including primary source materials and analysis,
treatises and other editorial materials, and news and current awareness
sources.”
United
Nations Research provides links to free UN web
pages and two subscription services: Access UN The premier index to
United Nations documents 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; and United Nations Official Document
Service (ODS) is the electronic repository for official documents
published by the United Nations. The full text of documents is
accessible in PDF format in all official languages of the United
Nations--Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
Documents are stored in two databases: United Nations documentation,
with comprehensive coverage beginning in 1993 and selected earlier
coverage, and United Nations resolutions, which includes the official
records version of resolutions of the General Assembly, Security
Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
Westlaw
is the premier legal and business research tool on the Internet.
Through Westlaw, subscribers have immediate, 24-hour access to over
13,000 databases used to find case law and statutory material, legal
texts, information from news sources, public records.
WilsonWeb
Index to Legal Periodicals is a bibliographic
database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law
books published in 1981 and later. Periodical coverage includes law
reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks,
institutes, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals
& Books covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent
court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship.
World
Cat Comprehensive coverage of the world's
great library collections--containing more than 44 million books,
videos, sound recordings, maps, scores, manuscripts, archives, and
more--representing 400 languages.