Databases in Law
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Database details Congressional Universe

Coverage: 1789 to present
Scope: Includes full-text of many congressional publications (hearings, committee prints) as well as public laws. Provides a bill tracking service for recent legislation.
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Database details Google Scholar

Scope: You can check the availability of article full text from within Google Scholar - see how!.
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Database details Index to Legal Periodicals

Coverage: 1981 to present
Scope: International legal information covering all areas of jurisprudence; covers legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details JSTOR

Coverage: 1665 to present
Scope: Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately one year ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. Especially good for historic or classic articles in most fields.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Legal Information Institute

Scope: Access to US laws and court decisions including all US Supreme Court opinions since 1992, over 600 historic Court decisions, other state and federal court decisions, the US Code, congressional bills, topical libraries, directories, and other public legal information.
Notes: Scholarly
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Database details LegalTrac

Scope: Provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals; also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Scope: NEWS: full text access to newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, news wires, and transcripts. News sources are never scholarly, but they can give you up-to-date information on current events. BUSINESS: access to financial and business information for specific companies. It's most accurate when you limit your search by sources, such as Hoover's Company Reports, S&P Corporate Descriptions, American Markeplace, and Tax Analysts Publications. LEGAL: you can search for legal information such as court decisions, legal codes, legal news, and law journals. The coverage includes information both at the state level and at the federal level.
Notes: Some scholarly.
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Database details Web of Science

Coverage: 1980 to present
Scope: Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). These citation indexes contain references which have been cited by other articles. You can use these citations to undertake cited reference searching, that is, locating articles which cite an earlier publication.
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