Legal Databases/Indexes
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| WestLaw's Campus Research provides federal and state case law, including cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Code Annotated, the Code of Federal Regulations, American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, some law materials from the European Union, and content from over 800 law reviews and journals. How to Search This Database | |
| Lexis-Nexis is an index to a wide variety of local, state, national, and international newspapers. Lexis-Nexis also contains business and industry newspapers, company information, SEC filings and reports, and accounting literature. The legal research section of Lexis-Nexis contains federal and state court decisions, federal and state codes, and articles from law reviews.. How to Search This Database | |
| Legal POWERSEARCH | Searches the following databases simultaneously: Academic
Search Complete , Essay & General
Literature Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Legal Collection . How to Search This Database |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | ISI Web of Knowledge (formerly- ISI Web of Science) provides seamless access to three citation indexes: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. These can be searched together or separately. Approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious research journals are indexed with abstracts within the Web of Science. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching. Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index with searchable author abstracts, covering journals in the social sciences (anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology and sociology) from 1956 to the present. The Cited Reference Search option in Social Sciences Citation Index allows users to find other works which reference a specific work or author. How to Search This Database |
| This database provides a selection of widely-used downloadable Texas and federal legal forms, including real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy forms, divorce petitions, landlord/tenant agreements and many others. Also included is a directory of state attorneys and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in everyday English. | |
Case Law | |
| WestLaw's Campus Research provides federal and state case law, including cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Code Annotated, the Code of Federal Regulations, American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, some law materials from the European Union, and content from over 800 law reviews and journals. How to Search This Database | |
| Lexis-Nexis is an index to a wide variety of local, state, national, and international newspapers. Lexis-Nexis also contains business and industry newspapers, company information, SEC filings and reports, and accounting literature. The legal research section of Lexis-Nexis contains federal and state court decisions, federal and state codes, and articles from law reviews. How to Search This Database | |
Legislative Information | |
| LexisNexis Congressional | Provides access to the publications of the United States Congress from 1970 to the present including Congressional committee hearings and reports, the Congressional Record, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, bill texts, and legislative histories for Public Laws. Online full-text availability for these documents covers 1989 to the present. For publications running from 1970 to 1988, LexisNexis Congressional provides indexing with abstracts. This indexing provides access to McDermott Library’s U.S. Serial Set collection on microfilm. For access to publications produced by the U.S. Congress before 1970, consult the printed CIS Index on reference index aisle 1A on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library. How to Search This Database |
| CQ Electronic Library | Created by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library is an excellent resource for research in American government, politics, public policy, and current affairs and searches the online versions of CQ's periodicals and reference publications. Coverage spans 1983 to the present. How to Search This Database |
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