LMU Law Library: Research Databases

Search for eBooks and eJournals in any of the databases the law library subscribes to; alphabetically arranged.

AquaBrowser Library provides a unified search solution. A one-stop information portal helps users find information in less time by connecting users to the library catalog, local databases and archives, websites and documents, and subscription databases. One federated search in Aquabrowser produces results from all of the law library’s resources in all formats.

Artemis is a search engine that allows users to search all seven databases available to LMU patrons through Gale Publishing. These databases include: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of Modern Law, The Making of the Modern World,
Nineteenth Century Collections Online and U.S. Declassified Documents Online.

Follow the BNA Core Plus Collection link (above) and select the publication of interest.

CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) provides online interactive tutorials in legal subjects, created by faculty members from a consortium of law schools. Password required for access.

Cambridge Core offers access to eBooks from its world-renowned publishing program. LMU subscribes to more than 900 titles in the law collection, with access to more than 10,000 additional titles in other disciplines across science, technology, medicine, humanities, and social sciences. Purchased titles are identified with a green “P” icon.

The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's website features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

LexisNexis Courtroom Cast Law School provides students and faculty with a next-generation legal learning platform by integrating text, audio, video, and rich media into an easily searchable database. Download MP3 files of edited judicial opinions, the full text of edited opinions, a brief fact summary, and the rule of law through Courtroom Cast. Browse by subject or casebook or search by keyword. Register to create an account through LMU Duncan School of Law.

The CQ Press Political Reference Suite contains the following publications from CQ Press: CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, Political Handbook of the World, Politics of the World, and the Supreme Court Yearbook. SAGE resources include: Congress A-Z, Elections A-Z, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, Historic Document Series, The Supreme Court Compendium, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, Voter Turnout in the United States 1788-2009, The Presidency A-Z, The Supreme Court A-Z, and The U.S. Constitution A-Z.

CQ Researcher provides in-depth, single-themed, 12,000-word reports on health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each report contains an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. CQ Researcher contains archives of all CQ Researcher reports from 1991, to present and all Editorial Research Reports from 1923 to 1991.

With 2.1 million pages of trial transcripts, police and forensic reports, detective novels, newspaper accounts, true crime literature, and related ephemera, Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, presents the broadest and deepest collection of materials supporting the study of 19th-century history, law, literature, and criminal justice. This quintessential resource enhances understanding of the intersection of law and society during a pivotal era of social change. For off-campus access to this database, the password is marytodd.

Contains records selected from the most important journals and magazines related to criminal justice and criminology.

Provides access to 150 professional and academic journals in the areas of law enforcement, legal and paralegal studies, and issues related to Homeland Security, and more.

Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

EBL offers content across all subject areas, offering more than 100,000 titles from hundreds of academic publishers. Patrons can browse all books and utilize full-text search within the browser. Titles can be accessed either online, through EBL’s PDF-based reader, or by downloading Adobe Acrobat ebooks to a PC, laptop, or PDA for offline use. EBL’s pay-per-use model provides a “just-in-time” solution for libraries and patrons and a possible alternative to interlibrary loan.

ABC-CLIO’s eBook Reader provides access to more than 6,200 law-related digital books.

The eBrary Academic Complete collection provides access to thousands of books in a digital format. With eBrary you create a custom bookshelf, open documents without downloading, and navigate to every occurrence of your search term or through the contents linked from the table of contents.

Consisting of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, Eighteenth Century Collections Online was the most ambitious single scholarly digitization project ever undertaken. Bearing witness to what many scholars consider the three most significant events in world history — The American Revolution, The French Revolution and The Industrial Revolution.

Elgar Advanced Introductions titles are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in Law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the issues associated with discrete subject areas.

Fastcase is a legal research system that offers comprehensive access to federal and state caselaw, statutes, regulations, court rules, and legal forms.

Gale Digital Collections makes rare, previously impossible-to-access printed matter viewable in a digital format. From the 1100s to the 2000s; from the Wild West to the Far East; from culture and business, to politics and war, to religion and government; this remarkable, ever-expanding resource supports the needs of today's scholars, faculty and students and enhances the value and reputation of any library that offers it.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Google Scholar provides a way to broadly search across many scholarly disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publications, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.

U.S. Government Publications.

The Guide to State Judicial Clerkships is a comprehensive guide to the procedures for applying for state court judicial clerkships at all levels in all 50 states and some U.S. territories. Requires a password for access.

HeinOnline provides online access to more than 40 million pages of historical legal periodical content and other library collections. The content is in the original page-image (PDF) format, ensuring the authenticity of the original hardcopy document in an online environment. As of November 2017, HeinOnline is also able to offer comprehensive coverage of selected Elgar Journals online, including the Cambridge International Law Journal and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.

The ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals includes 44+ titles that available as full color PDFs, fully searchable and updated weekly.

This collection is a compilation of the most important historical documents and legislation related to immigration in the United States, as well as current hearings, debates and recent developments in immigration law.

Hoover’s Academic includes up-to-date company and industry coverage, well researched biographical information about company executives, documents, press releases, investment research, and stock information, plus more.

This database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic will also be covered.

This archival database indexes many legal periodicals published between 1908 and 1981 in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, as well as annual surveys of jurisdictional laws and federal courts, annual institutes, and annual reviews of work on specific topics.

The JSTOR (Journal Storage) archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Issues of journals are never “out;” they are always accessible, and in excellent condition. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research.

News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, and more.

Lexis Advance is a legal research and analysis database that provides full-text access to caselaw, statutes, regulations, rules, court documents, and secondary sources. Lexis Advance ID required for access.

Lexis OverDrive provides students and faculty with E-Book access to Tennessee Primary Authorities. as well as hundreds of popular study aids. Log-in with your LMU username.

“The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926″ provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.

The term “primary sources” is used not in the historian’s sense of a manuscript, letter, or diary, but rather in the legal sense of a case, statute, or regulation. Designed to complement The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, this archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history.

Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York, the product offers online access to these important collections.

The Making of the Modern World provides digital images of primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Full-text coverage includes millions of pages of works from the period 1450-1850 (and 1851-1914 in Part II) and includes content relevant to subjects such as history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more.

Launched in April 2017, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law provides a high level of analytic coverage of constitutional law topics in a comparative context. The encyclopedia articles—modeled on those in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law—address a focused range of topics that seek to provide the best coverage of the essence, character, development, and history of constitutional law from a global perspective.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. Written and edited by an incomparable team of over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and updated throughout the year, this major reference work is essential for anyone researching or teaching international law.

The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools. Powered by Berkeley Electronic Press technology, the aim of the NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository is to improve dissemination and visibility of a variety of scholarly materials throughout the academic and legal research communities

Includes 1) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; 2) British Politics and Society; 3) British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and 4) the Corvey Collection of European Literature: 1790-1840.

EBSCOHost provides access to around 50 legal Do-It-Yourself titles. Examples include topics such as divorce, simple wills, LLCs, and taxes.

OSO provides access to nearly 1,000 legal monographs.

Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information online from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts, and the PACER Case Locator. PACER is provided by the Federal Judiciary in keeping with its commitment to providing public access to court information via a centralized service. Contact one of the DSOL librarians for access, or view PACER dockets using your Bloomberg Law subscription.

ProQuest® Congressional is the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. With the U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection, the Congressional Research Digital Collection, the Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, or the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection, the full text of publications dating back in some cases as far as the late eighteenth century in searchable PDF format. The basic subscription includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. For more information, follow this link to the ProQuest Congressional & Executive Branch Documents LibGuide.

The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.

For more information, follow this link to the Quick Start Legislative Insight LibGuide.

Rise of American Law is an expansive database available to students through Westlaw. It's resources include dictionaries, encyclopedias, practice guides and casebooks.

Access the fulltext of more than 231,257 ejournals and ebooks within the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law collection.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. For more information, follow this link to the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. LibGuide.

Use this resource to quickly find any attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Tennessee. The link also provides access to the Tennessee Government Officials Directory. If you need to use either resource, ask a law librarian for the username and password.

Tennessee Attorneys Memo is a comprehensive information system that brings you fast-read weekly summaries of all opinions rendered by the Tennessee Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals and Workers' Compensation Appeals Panels. TAM is free for law students.

The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual library that you can access from your home pc, your school library computer lab, or your iPhone – anywhere with an internet connection. TEL provides access to over 400,000 electronic resources, including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test preparation materials, federal census records, Tennessee primary source materials, and more!

US Constitutional Law (USC) provides a comprehensive research resource on the law, politics, and history of constitutionalism in the United States at the federal and state levels. Combining extensive primary materials with expert commentary, the service provides researchers with unparalleled access to the historical development of federal and state constitutionalism.

Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.

Westlaw is a legal research and analysis database that provides full-text access to caselaw, statutes, regulations, rules, court documents, and secondary sources that include West Headnotes and the West Key Numbering system. Westlaw ID required for access.

DSOL's Wolters Kluwer subscription includes the popular Examples & Explanations Series, Emanuel series, Friedman's series, and Glannon series.