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 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 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 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.
