Database and Research Links

Comprehensive Legal Research

HeinOnline (On-Campus/Remote Access)
Browsable and searchable PDF collections of numerous primary and secondary legal sources including Session Laws, US Federal Legislative History, Law Reviews, and much more.

LexisNexis (Password Restricted)
Detailed, searchable collection of databases containing primary and secondary legal material as well as a wealth of news and business informtaion.

LoisLaw (Password Restricted)
Collection of Primary Legal material such as case law and statutes. Also includes some secondary legal resources such as legal treatises and bar journals.

Westlaw (Password Restricted)
Detailed, searchable collection of databases containing primary and secondary legal materials as well as a wealth of news and business information.

Law Library Microform Consortium (On-Campus/Remote Access)
Mostly useful for archival and research purposes, LLMC provides acccess to a wide ranage of historical legal material from the United States as well as other jurisdictions around the world.

Law Reviews and Journals

HeinOnline (On-campus/ Remote Access)
Indexed and searchable PDFs of law reviews and journals dating back to the 1800's.

Index to Legal Periodicals (On-Campus/ Remote Access)
Provides access to articles, books, book reviews, symposia and more.
Coverage dates: Indexing 1981+, Abstracting 1990+, "select" Full Text 1995+.

Federal Resources

GPO Access (Open Access)
Site for finding all official government publications including the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register.

Thomas (Open Access)
A division of the Library of Congress, Thomas is a great resource for finding legislative history, Bill status and much more concerning federal legislative actions.

Lexis Congressional Universe (On-Campus/Remote Access)
Comprehensive collection of congressional materials such as committee information and legislative histories. Also contains a number of other congressional publications.

Texas Resources

Texas Courts Online (Open Access)
Links to opinions of all Texas state court cases as well as a wealth of information about the Texas Court System including pet. and writ tables.

Texas Legislature Online (Open Access)
Links to Texas law, legislative history, session activity, etc.

Texas Secretary of State (Open Access)
Texas administrative regulations are here, as well as searchable filings of Texas corporations and other business entities.

International and Foreign Law

Access UN (Password Restricted)
Provides access (like the name says) to current and past UN documents and publications. Useful for researching political, economic or social issues on an international scale.

Foreign Law Guide (Password Restricted)
If you want access to secondary law sources from around the globe then visit this site.

InterAM (On-Campus/Remote Access)
Provides secondary legal resources primarily from Latin and South American nations.

LawInfoChina (On-Campus/Remote Access)
English versions of Chinese legal and law related documents, including the Constitution, statutes, regulations and case law as well as gazette and law journal articles. Site also contains information on the structure of the Chinese legal system and provides a comprehensive legal research guide to the laws of China.

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Law Students and Faculty Only)
A comprehensive work covering the central and essential topic in international law reflecting international law from a global perspective.

United Nations Treaty Collection (Open Access)
Every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Memober of the United Nations plus a wealth of other UN related information.

Business and Tax Law

Checkpoint (On-Campus/ Remote Access)
Resources for primary business and tax documents as well as analysis of such documents.

Classroom Resources

AudioCaseFiles (free registration to law students)
If you'd like to listen to oral arguments or hear professional readings of classic court cases then this site is for you.

CALI (free registration to law students)
Lots of educational material here, podcasts of lectures, lessons on specific legal issues, etc.

Non-Legal Resources

WorldCat (Open Access)
Use this site to find pretty much any book or journal catalogued by libraries around the world. Once your item is located it even tells you which nearby libraries carry it and how far away they are from your current IP address.

E-Journal Locator (Open Access)
This service allows users to review the coverage of pretty much any journal or periodical that we index in both the Blume and Law Libraries. Great for locating a particular issue of or article in a journal.

Google Books (Open Access)
Google's attempt to digitize and make available everybook known to humankind (at least in English). Something for everyone.

Google Scholar (Open Access)
Google's search engine applied specifically to publications of a scholarly and academic nature.