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Bloomberg Law is a CALR platform that integrates cases, statutes, regulations, sample transactional documents, and a citator service with Bloombergs corporate news and analysis of financial markets. Known for U.S. Law Week. Also includes selected Wiley treatises and other selected publishers' treatises. Selected Federal filings from PACER are available. Users can set-up personal e-mail alerts. Getting Started resources appear on the main screen
The HeinOnline platform provides numerous online collections of legal source material, and provides both page-image (as pdf files) copies for retrieval and display of cited works and full-text page images. Use the Comprehensive User's guide to learn about special features such as Scholar Check or retrieving case law from Fastcase by clicking on inline hyperlinks throughout HeinOnline documents. A premiere online database containing more than 200,000 titles, including law reviews and journals, government documents, classic legal treatises, and more.
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H.W. Wilson
This is the premier index of legal periodicals, books, and sympoisa, with a primary focus on English language resources. Many articles are available in full-text. Some articles may be available via HeinOnline. (1981-Present)
Law School faculty and students are provided individual accounts to Lexis and we are contractually unable to provide broader access. Non-law affiliates should use Nexis Uni, which does provide an interface to many of the Lexis products and tools of most value to academic researchers. Lexis provides extensive primary legal materials, secondary resources, selected general news resources and selected legal news services.
This resource is technically the online edition of a large multi-volume encyclopedia. However, the scope and quality of this resource are sufficiently unique to set it apart as an extremely valuable online starting point for any research in public international law topics and Oxford University Press treats it as a database. This is published in partnership with Germanys Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Laws and International Law.
Westlaw is a comprehensive legal research service providing legal and law-related documents. It provides primary and secondary legal resources. Westlaw passwords are distributed at orientation, & afterwards at the Reference Desk. Law School faculty, students, and staff receive individual accounts to Westlaw.
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The National Defense University Press Publications collection in HeinOnline features hundreds of titles focusing on defense, national security, and American foreign policy. National Defense University Press is the military and academic imprint of National Defense University, which was established in 1976 with funding by the U.S. Department of Defense to train professionals in the national security sector. The collection features a variety of publications from NDU Press, such as Books, Case Studies, Occasional Papers, Policy Briefs, Strategic Monographs, and Serials, including the entire run of NDU Press' flagship peer-reviewed journal, Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ).
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Indexes thousands of journals from multiple disciplines and also includes full text (pdf) of a substantial subset of those. On the EBSCOhost platform.
Article database for accounting, taxation, financial management, policies, standards, legislation, compensation & pension plans, AICPA, FASB, and IASB. Includes accounting & consulting firm profiles. Comprehensive coverage of key industry publications, newspapers, and scholarly & trade literature. Advanced search options & help features available.
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American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990; The Making of Modern Law
Faculty and students who research twentieth-century American social history, politics, and law will find this archive of special interest because of its focus on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the Supreme Court.
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Oxford African American Studies Center
Provides more than 20,000 scholarly articles, over 2,500 images, and more than 700 primary sources with specially written comments. Also includes close to 200 maps. Includes primary legal resources, and law-related articles. Users can limit searches to Subjects, Occupations, and Eras.
Citation database of US and international articles from alternative, radical, and left periodicals that cover the period 1969-1990.
Index of articles, from thousands of journals, on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present (from 1964 to present). Useful for U.S. & Canadian history. Includes selected full-text.
Full-text content of a large collection of U.S. newspapers, representing every state and containing historical and current newspaper articles.
Publications from the American Enterprise Institute think tank. Focuses on data-driven research and evidence. Attempts to be nonpartisan. Provides empirical policy analysis. Covers issues such as U.S. foreign and defense policy, international security, world economy, domestic policy, China, Asia Middle East, health care, higher education, poverty, technology policy and more.
This collection contains an annotated, full-text searchable set of the personal papers and manuscripts of the founders of the American Republic and early Presidents. Includes the papers of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Dolley Madison, James Madison, John Marshall, Andrew Jackson, Eliza L. Pinckney and Harriott P. Horry, diaries of Gouverneur Morris, the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, and the People of the Founding Era collection.
The industry-leading legal encyclopedia offering unparalleled breadth of coverage of all fields of American law.
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History Vault: American Politics and Society from JFK to Watergate, 1960 -1975
Includes documents from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies as well as records from federal agencies. Issues of the times chronicled span womens rights, environmental issues, urban renewal, rural development, tax reform, civil rights, space exploration, international trade, War on Poverty, and the Watergate trials.
American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions. Development of the collection began in July 2020 and will continue through 2021, with new content added regularly.
Provides annotated commentary and the full-text of selected decisions from the International Criminal Court (ICC) and others, including the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the International Criminal Court for Timor-Leste.
The Annual Review of Law and Social Science, in publication since 2005, strives to enhance the understanding of the complex connections between law, culture, social structure, and society by focusing on social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors.
Provides authoritative critical reviews evaluating the most significant research developments in resource economics, focusing on agricultural economics, environmental economics, renewable resources, and exhaustible resources.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the university level. Covers a broad variety of subject areas. Law-related examples are FBI Surveillance of Enemy Aliens, Fight for Racial Justice & Civil Rights, American Indian Movement & Native Radicalism.
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OCLC ArticleFirst
Index of articles, news stories, letters, and other items in the tables of contents of journals from a variety of subject areas, including law.
This resource guide, often called the ERG, has been published online by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) since 1997. It is constantly updated and continuously expanded. It guides researchers, practitioners, and students to relevant, quality, in-depth assistance on researching international law issues. A corresponding ASIL website is EISIL which is also an excellent research tool for basic resources in international law.
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Formerly Wolters Kluwer Study Aids, WK Study Aids
Online study aids published by WK, including Glannon Guide and Examples & Explanations (E&E) series.
Digital primary source documents selected by the Yale Law School relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Covers the time period 4000 bce through 21st Century (2000- ).
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A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life from the sixteenth century onward. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Contains citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
Presents primary source writings of African American abolitionists from 1830-1865. Contains articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works from across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records
The focus of the Federal Government Records module is on the political side of the freedom movement, the role of civil rights organizations in pushing for civil rights legislation, and the interaction between African Americans and the federal government in the 20th century.
Bloomberg Law is a CALR platform that integrates cases, statutes, regulations, sample transactional documents, and a citator service with Bloombergs corporate news and analysis of financial markets. Known for U.S. Law Week. Also includes selected Wiley treatises and other selected publishers' treatises. Selected Federal filings from PACER are available. Users can set-up personal e-mail alerts. Getting Started resources appear on the main screen
Predict the outcome of cases and capture unique insights, complete factor-based searches, and create tax entity and relationship diagrams. Links from issue- or topic-based whitepapers (Folios) to relevant cases, Internal Revenue Code (Title 26) sections, and diagrams. Staff & faculty click here to register.
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Foreign Law Guide
The Foreign Law Guide is perhaps the single most important resource for beginning inquiries into foreign law and foreign legal jurisdictions. Covers over 190 jurisdictions. Provides audio YouTube tutorial. Important for foreign and comparative law.
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BAILII
British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
Designed for the business research needs of post-college professionals, Business Source Alumni Edition provides current information from essential business magazines and journals.
Indexing and abstracts for scholarly, peer-reviewed business and business law-related articles back to 1886. Many full-text articles. Searchable, cited references for more than 1,200 journals.
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critical thinking, doctrinal tutorials, legal analysis, legal research
CALI is known for its collection of over 800 computer-based interactive tutorials that supplement traditional law school instruction. They are written by law professors or law librarians. Each lesson covers a narrow topic of law. The CALI lessons are sometimes assigned as homework. Law students should go to the Law Library Reference Desk to pick up the CALI authorization code.
Access a collection of e-books published since 2015 by Cambridge University Press. Choose subject Law after clicking the Browse by Subject Link. It includes full-text of law journals published by Cambridge. Choose Explore Law books link to view Ebooks on legal topics that are available.
The Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies journal contains abstracts and papers from Case Western Reserve University School of Laws faculty members. Offers an email service which, as a registered user, provides the latest research delivered in an email abstracting journal. In addition, you will have free access to the full text of Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies through the SSRN eLibrary.
Currently available via Westlaw Edge.
Westlaw only available to law students, law faculty, and law staff.
Westlaw only available to law students, law faculty, and law staff.
Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, This resource provides archival access to American legal materials from 1774-1875, including page-images of text from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Conventions, Congressional Journals and Debates from the first century of Constitutional government, and statutes and legislative documents from the covered time period.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age: full-text of both the 16th and 15th editions.
China Academic Journals is a full-text database covering over 7000 journals published in China. The content includes law and social sciences among many other topics. Covers from 1915 onward.
Chinalawinfo.com (CLI) (also known as PKUlaw.cn) is the Chinese-language version of the Chinese legal information system launched by Peking University in 1985. It provides complete access to China's primary and secondary legal materials. (Coverage is more extensive than lawinfochina.com (LIC), the English-language version).
China Legal Knowledge Database (CLKD) is part of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), launched in late 2010. Its content is officially sanctioned by the People's Republic of China. Content includes: Laws/regulations from 1949 to date (500,000 records); Cases from 1979 to date (230,000 records); and Secondary Sources: (1.5 million records). The database is updated daily and newly enacted laws are provided within 48 hours. Both primary and secondary resources cover over 400 legal topics. Includes an English-Chinese dictionary. (English search interface)
A daily source of news, information, and employment postings for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
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civil rights, social justice
HeinOnlines Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans. Containing links to more than 500 scholarly articles*, hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, this database allows users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time, as well as how these legal protections can go further still.
Columbia University Press resource for international affairs theory and research. Includes full-text of journals, working papers, policy briefs, and scholarly case studies.
Newspaper for the capital city of Ohio, which allows registered users to access five article per month.
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Congress, federal legislation, House of Representatives, Senate, congressional documents, Library of Congress
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information, providing accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. The Library of Congress (LOC) maintains it, using data from the House (Clerk), Senate (Secretary), the GPO, the CBO, and the CRS.
The public can now freely access records of more than 1,300 Congressional Hearings back to 1958. These include the transcripts from meetings or sessions of Senate, House, joint, or special committees of Congress. Highlights include portions of the historic Watergate Hearings.
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The Constitution Annotated
A website launched by the Library of Congress and the American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service providing an online version of the Annotated Constitution of the United States providing analysis and interpretations. Both browse capability and advanced boolean search capabilities are available. Links to case law are provided.
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International Agreements, Treaties
The text of all Council of Europe treaties, their explanatory reports, the status of signatures and ratifications, the declarations and reservations made by States, as well as the notifications issued by the Treaty Office since 2000. Texts of the declarations and reservations and electronic notifications are available in the Council of Europe's official languages only.
Coursera is the global online learning platform that offers anyone, anywhere access to online courses and degrees from world-class universities and companies.
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A freely available database of millions of PACER documents and dockets.
A freely available database of millions of PACER documents and dockets.
CQ Press offers resources on U.S. government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. The collection includes the CQ Almanac, Supreme Court Compendium, Vital Statistics on American Politic, as well as access to CQ Researcher Online and CQ Weekly (covers activities in Congress).
A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
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CQ Magazine
A weekly news magazine featuring in-depth reporting on public policy, politics, congressional legislation, and elections extending back to 1983, including: a complete wrap-up of news on Congress, the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and all roll-call votes.
Presents a broad history of crime in the long 19th century derived from French, German, Spanish, Australian, British and U.S. sources. The collection includes trial transcripts, court proceedings, police and forensic documents, photographs, true crime literature and detective novels, and newspaper accounts.
Includes full text and bibliographic records of leading journals in the criminal justice field. Covering a wide range of topics, it is an essential collection for students and scholars researching criminal justice and criminology. Includes resources that discuss evidence, scientific evidence, court decisions, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sex offender statutes, and law-enforcement issues.
CultureGrams provides country reports that deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. The reports are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available. Users link to the reports via an engaging, map-based interface.
The CWRU eJournal Portal is a research tool that allows you to conveniently access the vast array of journals, periodicals, and magazines the CWRU libraries have licensed. Browse by title or discipline.
Find books, e-books, research resources, periodicals, AV materials, instructional materials and more via the CWRU libraries. Provides bibliographic records for all the libraries of Case Western Reserve University, including affiliated libraries. Provides links to e-resources and links to all the resources of the OhioLINK information system.
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DataPlanet provides powerful capabilities to dynamically compare and manipulate tens of millions of statistical data series available in the DataPlanet repository. It is is an interactive database that allows users to create tables, maps, and figures from a variety data sources covering banking, criminal justice, government, health, commerce, labor and employment and other law-related topics. Data holdings for the United States are significant with some data available at state, county, or local geographies. International data, available at the country level, include population, food and agriculture, labor, trade, and more. Datasets are organized by subject and source.
Derwent Innovations Index (DII) provides access to more than 14,800,000 patents with links to cited and citing patents, cited articles, and full-text patent data sources. Sections include Chemical, Electrical and Electronic, Engineering and Science and Technology.
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DOAB
Directory of open access books across hundreds of publishers that meet academic standards for inclusion.
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DOAJ
Free, full text, open access, quality-controlled scholarly journals. Covers all subjects and languages.
The "world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day." Indexing and abstracts provided for all items.
DOE Patents, developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), is a search tool for discovering patent information resulting from DOE-funded research and development (R&D) from 1940 on.
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E&E News is a news organization focusing on energy and the environment. E&E News five publicationsE&E Daily, Climatewire, Energywire, Greenwire and E&E News PMprovide daily updates and reporting on environmental and energy policy topics.
Series I: Evans, 1639-1800: A collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other imprints compiled by Evans.
Full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
Works in English from 1474-1700. EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere. Titles range from the first book printed in English by William Caxton through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare to the tumult of the English Civil War. Includes resources on trials, statutes, law of equity, common law, civil law, and canon law.
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ProQuest EBook Central
Ebook Central is a collection of ebooks in a range of subjects. The resource is formatted for users to quickly and easily find relevant books and chapters; read online; search within the ebook; and highlight, take notes and bookmark pages in your online copy, stored on your bookshelf for you. You can also share your research with others, download ebooks and chapters to your laptop or mobile device, and more.
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Formerly: NetLibrary
This is an e-book library on many academic subjects. The collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. EBSCO operates on the library check-out model, where readers check out e-books for a specified amount of time. Many titles published before 2005.
Includes literature, citations, abstracts, book reviews from major journals, proceedings, books, dissertations, and working papers from major publications & the American Economic Association. Covers 1969 to current. Includes econometrics, markets, forecasting, regulations, labor, monetary theory, accounting, law and economics,
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Digital collection of over 180,000 books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue. Works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere.
A rich collection of over 7,000 full-text, mutidisciplinary electronic journals purchased or leased through OhioLINK. Coverage varies by specific journal title. Current and recent articles are available. Scholars may set-up e-mail notifications to tell them about new relevant articles according to subject, author, or journal title.
E-book collection from Edward Elgar Publishing. This collection focuses on the law titles, including research monographs and handbooks providing access to 295 selected electronic book titles on various international law topics.
Full text database of articles and monographs in the areas of environmental studies and related subjects (e.b., agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy and environmental law, and affiliated areas of study.
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Formerly: BNA Environment Reporter Issues and Articles
Bloomberg Law (B-Law) provides user names and passwords to The Case School of Law students, faculty and staff only.
The Environmental Law Reporter, a publication of the Environmental Law Institute, provides the most-often cited analysis of environmental, sustainability, natural resources, energy, toxic tort, and land use law and policy. It includes several newsletters; a News and Analysis journal; and new and selected full-text state, federal, and international legal documents.
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Education Resource Information Center
The Education Resource Information Center provides access to education literature and research. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
EUR-Lex provides free, public access to the legal portion of the European Union's Europa web portal. Selected legal documents, such as the L and C series of the Official Journal since 1998 and selected court opinions, treaties, and Commission documents are available.
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Aggregates news content from newspapers, journals, magazines, television and radio transcripts and provides organizations with search, alerting, dissemination, and other information management capabilities. Major newspapers include the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. Please LOG-OFF Factiva when finished. Select a specific newspaper by clicking the NEWS PAGES tab on the left top menu bar. Or, use the search box at the top of any page. This searches all 17,000 Pro sources for the past 12 months. Try also searching within an industry or topic using the drop down menu within the search form. This will modify the sources searched to focus on those that may be most relevant to your selection.
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DocketAlarm, vLex, v|Lex
Fastcase is a research platform providing comprehensive federal and state primary materials, law review articles via HeinOnline, and provides selected treatises.
Fastcase is available for free to members of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.
Fastcase is available for free to members of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.
The FBI runs the National Stolen Art File (NASF), which is a database of lost or stolen art. This site also includes news and notices about art thefts.
A collection of translations of (very) selected French, German, Austrian, and Israeli legal materials, produced by Basil Merkesinis of the University of Texas at Austin Law School.
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Making of Modern Law (MOML)
FCIL provides extensive online access to foreign and international legal literature including pre-1926 treatises and monographs in the following areas: International Law, Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Roman Law, Islamic Law, Jewish Law and Ancient Law.
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Fformerly: Artemis Primary Sources
Search several resources at one time, including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, The Making of Modern Law: Trials: 1600-1926, U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978, The Making of the Modern World, The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Resources, The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926, Sabin Americana Digital Archive, The Making of the Modern World, and more.
Index and abstracts for publications covering gender-engaged scholarship, including selected full-text articles. Combines Womens Studies International and Mens Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Includes links to evaluated and important Websites.
Focuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, and public affairs.
Online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide.
GlobaLex is a portal for research guides and tools in international, foreign, and comparative law topics. The guides and articles are of high quality, and represent solid starting points for researching foreign jurisdictions.
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U.S. Government Documents, Government Publishing Office (GPO), federal government information portal, federal government documents
govinfo, a service of the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), provides everyone free information from all three branches of the U.S. government. It replaced the FDsys website in 2018. It also includes a content management system and a standards-compliant preservation repository.
Covers U.S. government documents including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments.
Index and full text articles of information on the effects of individuals, corporations and governments on the environment, and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. Covers topics such as anthropogenic climate change / global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Providing more than 500 titles dealing with this timely and difficult topic. Includes: compiled federal legislative histories; relevant congressional hearings; CRS Reports; periodicals; and an extensive bibliography. A finding tool links directly into WorldCat when the full-text of books are not included in the database. This aids the user in identifying whether a source is available on campus or through other libraries via interlibrary loan. Available campus wide. May be used by public guests.
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HCCH
The Hague Conference on Private International Law is an intergovernmental organisation, the purpose of which is "to work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law" (Article 1 of the Statute of the Hague Conference).
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Hathi Trust
HathiTrust is a repository for major libraries to archive and share their digitized collections of works in the public domain. CWRU is currently a member.
Includes Health Law and Business News, Practical Guidance Suites, Health Care Fraud Analytics, relevant BNA portfolios, manuals, books and treatises.
The HeinOnline platform provides numerous online collections of legal source material, and provides both page-image (as pdf files) copies for retrieval and display of cited works and full-text page images. Use the Comprehensive User's guide to learn about special features such as Scholar Check or retrieving case law from Fastcase by clicking on inline hyperlinks throughout HeinOnline documents. A premiere online database containing more than 200,000 titles, including law reviews and journals, government documents, classic legal treatises, and more.
With HeinOnline LibGuides, users of all backgrounds have easy access to database knowledge and interface functionality. Libraries can even feature HeinOnlines LibGuides on their websites as a student resource.
Index to abstracts of articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada, which are covered by the companion index America History and Life). Selected full-text included. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Sponsored by the U.S. Dept.of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security, the HSDL contains documents related to homeland security issues.
Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. The collection is growing to include 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video that give voice to the countless victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Includes in-depth industry analysis for over 700 U.S. industries, with 9 tabs of data & text analysis. Includes supply chain, Industry At-A-Glance (forecasts, data, sectors, market share, drivers), Performance, Outlook, Products & Markets, Competition, Key Companies, Operating Conditions, and Key Statistics with Industry Ratios. Includes U.S. Business Environment Profiles, brief data synopses on consumer behavior, commodities/goods, economy, finance, government, and many other related data indicators. Provides icons for Clean Print, Search Within a Report, and Tutorials.
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International Foundation for Art Research; Art Law and Cultural Property
Produced by the International Foundation for Art Research. Includes the Art Law and Cultural Property database. It consists of several components: International Cultural Property Ownership & Export Legislation (ICPOEL), Case Law & Statutes (CLS, United States). Links connect foreign legislation to relevant U.S. case law. It also provides "Country Contacts" which provides government officials for countries to query in re legality of acquiring works. Note: Does not include the full-text of the IFAR Journal.
This collection includes the complete runs of newspapers, magazines, and journals drawn from the special collections of source libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBTs, anarchists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines. When completed, the Collection will represent the largest digital collection of alternative press titles, with complete runs of over 1,000 titles and 1,000,000 pages. Registered users may save links to images and save searches. The link to sign up for an account may be found at the top of the Independent Voices starting page.
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H.W. Wilson
This is the premier index of legal periodicals, books, and sympoisa, with a primary focus on English language resources. Many articles are available in full-text. Some articles may be available via HeinOnline. (1981-Present)
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Formerly: American Indian Law Collection
HeinOnline's Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law is a consolidation of the wealth of material available on indigenous American life and law. With more than 3,700 titles and 1.5 million total pages, this library includes an expansive archive of historical materials, including: indigenous treaties, treaty-related publications, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, jurisprudence, scholarly articles, Title 25 of the U.S. Code, Title 25 of the CFR, books and pamphlets, as well as a bibliography and external resources.
The HeinOnline Intellectual Property Law Collection combines more than 100 compiled legislative histories, more than 400 books, the text of CFR Title 37 and U.S.C. Titles 17 and 35, and additional material related to intellectual property.
Federal and State Tax: news, journals & newsletters, Tools & Smart Charts, plus primary sources, federal tax editorial content, IRS FAQs, and more.
The IAEA is the depositary of key international conventions and legal agreements. Additionally, the Agency is entrusted with responsibilities under treaties and agreements that States have adopted.
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ICRC
Collection of conventions and commentaries, treaties and customary law especially as relates to the humanitarian law and policy with respect to war.
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UNIDROIT
The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) is an independent intergovernmental Organization with its seat in Villa Aldobrandini in Rome. Its purpose is to study needs and methods for modernizing, harmonizing and coordinating private and commercial law between States and groups of States and to formulate uniform law instruments, principles and rules to achieve these objectives.This site provides its Statute, instruments, conventions, studies and other works.
The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts including books in digital form. researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public can archive webpages via the WayBack Machine.
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Provides electronic, full text access to the back files to hundreds of scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines in humanities, arts and sciences, social sciences, and business. Coverage begins with the first issue of the journal. The latest issue available is determined by a moving wall. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from three to five years.
Provides electronic, full text access to the backfiles of approximately 670 scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines including law, social sciences, humanities, arts and the sciences.
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This is the best starting point for international (commercial) arbitration research, providing an extensive collection of primary source materials and expert secondary sources. Includes: ICC cases & awards; commentary from the ICAA; bilateral investment treaties (BITs), conventions, legislation, rules, & models. Also provides comprehensive list of important websites for this topic.
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Labor History is the pre-eminent journal for historical scholarship on labor. It is thoroughly ecumenical in its approach and showcases the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, labor economists, political scientists, sociologists, social movement theorists, business scholars and all others who write about labor issues. Labor History is also committed to geographical and chronological breadth. It publishes work on labor in the US and all other areas of the world. It is concerned with questions of labor in every time period, from the eighteenth century to contemporary events. Labor History provides a forum for all labor scholars, thus helping to bind together a large but fragmented area of study. By embracing all disciplines, time frames and locales, Labor History is the flagship journal of the entire field. All research articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
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History Vault: Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO
ProQuest History Vault provides documentation on the growth and transformation of four major labor organizations. Covers the time period from 1862-1974.
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History Vault: Law and Society since the Civil War
ProQuest History Vault gives researchers access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
lawinfochina.com (LIC) is the English-language version of the Chinese legal information system first launched by Peking University in 1985. It provides access to English-language versions of selected Chinese legal resources.
Law360 is a subscription-based, legal news service operated by the Portfolio Media company, a subsidiary of LexisNexis. It can also be accessed from the Law School Lexis Advance subscription via the "Legal News" tab.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals
A collection of English-language publications spanning beyond the 20th century (1845-2015) covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. This collection includes 145 titles with over 150,000 digitized pages.
Legal Collection includes full text for nearly 250 of the world's scholarly law journals, including a mix of law-school based journals, peer-reviewed journals, bar journals, and other genres of legal literature. Provides index, abstracts and selected full text.
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LRI
Legal Resource Index (LRI) is a controlled-vocabulary index of legal periodical literature comparable in many respects to the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (ILP), but with a focus that includes more legal newspapers, bar journals and practice-oriented journals. Start of coverage generally: 1980. Coverage begins in 1980.
Law School faculty and students are provided individual accounts to Lexis and we are contractually unable to provide broader access. Non-law affiliates should use Nexis Uni, which does provide an interface to many of the Lexis products and tools of most value to academic researchers. Lexis provides extensive primary legal materials, secondary resources, selected general news resources and selected legal news services.
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Lexis Study Aids
The LexisNexis Digital Library provides 24/7 access to the latest e-book versions of the Lexis study aids. Series provided include: the Understanding series, Questions & Answers, A Students Guide, Skills & Values, the Mastering series, and more.
Lexology delivers the most comprehensive source of international legal updates, analysis and insights for law firms and in-house counsel.
CWRU law users must set up an individual password for themselves.
CWRU law users must set up an individual password for themselves.
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LoC
The Law Library of Congress produces reports on foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL) in response to requests from Members of Congress, Congressional staff and committees, the federal courts, executive branch agencies, and others. There are over 1,000 legal reports available online. Browse reports by topic, region, year of publication, or simply browse all the reports.
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Formerly: Lynda.com
LinkedIn Learning offers video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. If you have trouble accessing LinkedIn Learning, please contact UTech at 216.368.HELP (4357).
Provides access to full text archival materials for United States federal and state archival resources. Covers archival Canadian & United Kingdom historical legal materials; limited German legal materials; Legal materials from other countries, international law and organizations, e.g., Canon Law, International Law and Organizations, and other countries. Special Focus Collections include a Islamic Law, Military Law Collection; Native American Collection; the Yale Blackstone Collection; Canon Law; and a Comparative Law Collection. Cataloged, but also may search by browsing.
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The Primary Sources database contains cases, statutes, regulations, state and municipal codes and documents relating to constitutional conventions and other resources in American legal history.
The Making of Modern Law (MOML): Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 is a full-text searchable digital archive of 21,000 British and American legal treatises covering the watershed period of legal development during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Choose either American treatises, British treatises or both. Preselect up to as many as 10 topics to browse at a time from a list of almost 100 broad legal topics. All pages in this collection as PDF images. (Individual works included within this collection are cataloged, and can be located through regular searches of catalog.case.edu, as with other printed or e-books.)
See: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 (for description)
Foreign Primary Sources consists of historical legal codes, statutes, regulations and commentaries on codes from the UK, the Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, and other northern European countries. It was sourced from the law libraries of Yale, Harvard and George Washington University.
Primary Sources contains cases, statutes, regulations, state and municipal codes and documents relating to constitutional conventions and other resources in American legal history.
The Trials database contains digital versions of collections of trials originally located in the law libraries of Harvard, Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York.
The Making of Modern Law (MOML): U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: 1832-1978 is a fully searchable digital archive of records and briefs of 150,000 cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. It includes a majority of the records and briefs for cases in which the Court did not render a full opinion.
This resource is technically the online edition of a large multi-volume encyclopedia. However, the scope and quality of this resource are sufficiently unique to set it apart as an extremely valuable online starting point for any research in public international law topics and Oxford University Press treats it as a database. This is published in partnership with Germanys Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Laws and International Law.
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PubMed
Provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
Includes all of the content available in MEDLINE as well as cover-to-cover full text for 1,014 journals indexed as cover-to-cover in MEDLINE, including hundreds of journals not available as full text in any other EBSCO database.
Provides translations of the Arabic and Persian media including top newspapers and some satellite TV. Coverage of opinions, business news, political and society/cultural pieces. Each brief also contains precisely translated quotes, statistics and context. Includes a searchable database of over 50,000 archived items.
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History Vault: NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files
ProQuest History Vault gives researchers access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
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History Vault: NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department Files
ProQuest History Vault gives researchers access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
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History Vault: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns: Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
ProQuest History Vault gives researchers access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
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History Vault: NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences,
ProQuest History Vault gives researchers access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
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History Vault: NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns: Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints
ProQuest History Vault gives researchers access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
The National Defense University Press Publications collection in HeinOnline features hundreds of titles focusing on defense, national security, and American foreign policy. National Defense University Press is the military and academic imprint of National Defense University, which was established in 1976 with funding by the U.S. Department of Defense to train professionals in the national security sector. The collection features a variety of publications from NDU Press, such as Books, Case Studies, Occasional Papers, Policy Briefs, Strategic Monographs, and Serials, including the entire run of NDU Press' flagship peer-reviewed journal, Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ).
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NYT, NYTimes.com pass
With a Kelvin Smith Library-provided NYTimes.com pass, you have full access to the extensive breaking news, world news, and multimedia of The New York Times. Enjoy full access to NYTimes.com, INYT.com, and NYT mobile apps from any device. Once activated from within the CWRU network, a NYTimes.com pass can be used from any location until expiration documented upon enrollment confirmation (typically one year).
Contains full runs of 20th-century new publication titles, in full-color, page-image format, and includes sources not always archived in libraries.
Access to subscribed collections and historical archives.
Campus wide focus; Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as alerts, saved searches, and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. Registration is not required for campus and VPN access but in order to take full advantage of personalized features you must create a profile. Not the Law School Version of Lexis+.
Over 90,000 searchable, full-text legal documents released by the NLRB, including: Supreme Court Decisions, Published and Unpublished Board Decisions, Administrative Law Judge Decisions, Appellate Briefs, General Counsel and Advice Memos, and Agency Manuals.
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ILO
An information system which brings together information on International Labour Standards (such as ratification information, reporting requirements, comments of the ILO's supervisory bodies, etc., as well as national labor and social security laws.
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The Organization brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social government forum in the Western Hemisphere. Its main pillars are: democracy, human rights, security, and development. This is a collection of their treaties and agreements.
Legal help information on family law, housing law, consumer law and debt, public & health benefits, education law, and elder law written and reviewed by expert private and legal aid lawyers.
A nonpartisan agency, Legislative Service Commission (LSC), site that provides drafting, fiscal, research, training, code revision, and other information related to Ohio General Assembly services.
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Ohio General Assembly
This website gives free access to information related to current and recent Ohio legislation, such as legislative calendars, bill text variants, final bill texts, and selected bill analyses.
The Ohio Register is a publication by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission that provides public notice and information about state agency rule-making proceedings, including notices of public hearings required under the Ohio Administrative Procedure Act.
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Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, voting (Ohio), voting registration (Ohio), Ohio voting, Ohio voter registration
Search for books, periodicals, electronic resources and other materials to be found in OhioLINK member libraries. All School of Law students, faculty and staff may directly request "available" books (when not available on campus). Requested books will be delivered to the Law Library or campus library of your choice.
Thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences, law, and other social sciences.
Full text collection of over 7000 journals in a a variety of subjects. It includes titles in the following subject areas: Arts and Humanities, Business, Economics, & Management, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Computers & Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Health Sciences & Medicine, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy, and Social Sciences.
Search for books, periodicals, electronic resources and other items in OhioLINK member libraries using the alternative Encore catalog interface.
This database contains publications by the Open Society Justice Initiative, including reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.
Oxford Bibliographies Online combines the best features of a high-level encyclopedia and a traditional bibliography in a style tailored to meet the needs of today's online research. Each subject module includes a full set of entries covering a range of topics from general overviews to highly-specialized themes. Entries are written by world-class experts and carefully reviewed by scholars in the field to ensure that they provide reliable, worthy coverage. The International Law bibliography provides authoritative guidance to the complex system of rules and principles meant to govern relations between states, to international organizations like the United Nations, and to international relations and diplomacy (2012 - date).
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It covers words from across the English-speaking world.
Selective reporter of decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals, with added commentary and analysis.
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OSAIL
OSAIL contains over 180 full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, including Oppenheim , and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
A cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press. Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Subject collections are available in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. New books are added regularly.
These books are also available at the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center, where they are searchable along with books from other publishers.
A freel law project from Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law that provides a free multimedia archive of the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court's audio since October 2955. It offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain English case summaries and full-text Supreme Court opinions.
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Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) provides access to federal court cases and docket information. Registration and login required; however, quarterly fees under $30 are waived.
This database includes the complete file of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, also known as Sessional Papers or Blue Books, dating from 1715 through to 2005.
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Euromonitor
Data and analysis for global industry, country, and consumer business research. Search to create detailed custom queries. Dashboards give fast visualization of large data. Create 'My Pages' login to save research. Videos on the Help menu are essential to an efficient start using Passport. Hover over the top menu bar and see all categories; select/view a category for charts, latest research, interviews, top news, global analysis, Did You Know, global briefing documents, and ranking tools for historical and forecast.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Various collections of content from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, from 1845 present.
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Practising Law Institute
PLI-Plus includes CLE Course Handbooks, Transcripts and PLI Treatises. Scope: a wide range of civil & business law topics, including corporate, health, diversity, international, IP plus. PLI Pro Bono section covers criminal. Includes books, forms, and transcripts of PLI CLE programs. Inclusive dates: 1980-present. Links to cases seamlessly via Fastcase.
PolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool that enables users to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications, and impact analysis. It is geared toward non-GIS experts who want to analyze large amounts of data quickly and produce maps, tables, charts, and reports. It also allows you to focus on analyzing data in the classroom - not collecting it or learning how to use mapping software.
Contains surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and other countries.
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Library of Congress, Early Presidential Papers, Papers of 23 Early U.S. Presidential, U.S. Presidential Papers, United States Presidents' papers
The Library of Congress has completed a more than two decade-long initiative to digitize the papers of nearly two dozen early presidents. The Library holds the papers of 23 presidents from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge, all of which have been digitized and are now available online.
Presents essays written by scholars about selected cases pending but not yet argued before the United States Supreme Court. These essays provide expert discussion of background and analysis of cases that the Court will eventually decide. Includes coverage of cases extending back to the 1973-1974 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Primary Sources database contains cases, statutes, regulations, state and municipal codes and documents relating to constitutional conventions and other resources in American legal history.
PrivCo allows users to search for privately-held companies across a global, cross-sector platform. Users can identify key metrics like revenues, employees, funding, and deals through a single interface. Provides articles on pros & cons of being a privately-held or publicly-traded company, a knowledge bank and a research blog. See PrivCo for Academia to register and PrivCo Overview Video for more information.
Project Diana is part of The Avalon Project of Yale Law School that consists of complaints, records and briefs for significant Human Rights Cases.
Provides access to published and unpublished congressional hearings from 1824-present. It also includes abstracting and indexing records with full-text searchable PDFs attached. Hearing types include appropriations, general topical discussions, investigations, legislation consideration, nominations, and oversight. The resource contains the full transcripts of the proceedings, including all oral statements, committee questions, and discussion. Hearings also contain texts of related reports, statistical analyses, correspondence, exhibits, and articles presented by witnesses or inserted into the record by committee members and staff.
ProQuest Congressional enables access to the full-text documents of Congress and legislative history summaries (from 1970 forward), including digital versions of the U.S. Serial Set. Includes Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports from 1985 forward; Serial Set Maps 1789-1969;
This collection contains dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
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Legislative Insight
ProQuest Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service that provides compilations of digital full text Congressional publications relevant to enacted U.S. public laws. Provides compiled histories of laws enacted from 1789 to the present, including the following document types: bills, reports, documents, hearings, CRS reports, committee prints, Congressional Record sections, presidential signing statements, and statutes. Legislative Insight includes documents related to the passage of a law.
Covering 1936-2014, Regulatory Insight contains administrative law histories organized by public law, facilitating research in federal agencies and executive branch rulemaking. Provides access to all notices, proposed rules and final rules directly linked to specific Public Laws. Also provides regulatory histories associated with specific C.F.R. parts or sections, or U.S. Code citations.
This statistics aggregation service provides access to statistical data produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, and commercial resources. Full text or web links are provided for some citations.
Supreme Court Insight, 1975-2016/2017, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision: dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs.
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Environment, Public Policy Issues,
overs all aspects of national and global public policy issues including public health, the environment, housing, civil rights and international commerce. Includes indexed journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents.
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Case briefs, practice exams, flashcards, outlines, bar review, and more.
Students should have received an email with a link to set up their passwords. Access is limited to JD candidates.
Students should have received an email with a link to set up their passwords. Access is limited to JD candidates.
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federal regulations, federal rules, administrative rules (federal), administrative regulations (federal)
Regulations.gov is the official portal for federal U.S. administrative regulation and rule-making.
Risk Management Reference Center is a full-text database for risk management professionals, strategic planners and business students. It provides books, journals, reports and summaries covering all types of risk, including credit, liquidity, operational, event and market risk.
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DataPlanet
This resource provides tools to dynamically compare and manipulate tens of millions of statistical data series available in the Data-Planet repository. The interactive database allows users to create tables, maps, and figures from a variety data sources covering banking, criminal justice, education, energy, food and agriculture, government, health, housing and construction, industry and commerce, labor and employment, natural resources and environment, income, cost of living, stocks, transportation, and more. Data holdings for the United States are significant with some data available at state, county, or local geographies. International data, available at the country level, include population, food and agriculture, labor, trade, and more. Data are organized by subject and source.
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History Vault: Slavery and the Law
ProQuest History Vault gives researchers access to millions of pages of cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents including articles, correspondence, government records, and more, documenting the most widely studied topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history.
Compiles and identifies hundreds of legal materials on slavery. Includes: treatises; law review and other articles; case law; state & federal statutes; pamphlets; and bibliographies. Includes Slavery Quick Finder to direct users to library providers if it does not contain the full-text of a source. Available campus wide. May be used by public guests.
Social Explorer provides hundreds of thousands of data indicators across demography, economy, health, education, religion, crime and more. Examine this wealth of information at many geographic levels: national, state, county, ZIP, neighborhood and more. All data are curated, organized and processed for ease of use.
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SELS
The Empirical Legal Studies Blog is a collaborative effort of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), an international organization of scholars interested in empirical legal studies. The blog serves as an online forum to discuss and provide links for emerging empirical legal scholarship. The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies is the official SELS journal. The journal is available via the HeinOnline Law Journal Library. SELS also sponsors the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies.
Provides access to full-text, peer-reviewed journals in sociology as well as related areas of study, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion, and social work. The database also includes indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources, as well as searchable cited references.
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Social Science Research Network
Open access archive of scholarly papers in the social sciences, including law. Some content restricted to subscribing institutions. Includes abstracts and selected full-text. It also includes the Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies sponsored by the Case School of Law.
A collection of the constitutions of the 50 states of the United States, together with related documents and resources.
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JSTOR Primary Sources
More than 27,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images in 76 sub-collections, chronicling the liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime.
This HeinOnline library provides access to over 18,000 bibliographic records for articles, books, and other resources that compile lists of states' statutes and laws on specific legal issues.
Supreme Court Insight is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision: dockets, briefs, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Currently covers Full Opinions: 1975-2016/2017 terms;
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Taylor & Francis Journals
Taylor & Francis Online provides access to 90+ quality, peer-reviewed journals related to law.
The premier international newspaper with global focus on business, economic news, companies, markets, technology, finance, commodities, life & arts, and more. Respected opinion columnists. Customized features (fast FT, Equities tear sheets with forecasts + historical data, personal folders) and the pink ePaper for traditional reading. Mobile app & newsletters available.
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TESS
Searches the United States Patent and Trademark Office's database of registered trademarks and prior pending applications to find marks that may prevent registration due to a likelihood of confusion refusal. See Tess TIPS for more details.
The Trials database contains digital versions of collections of trials originally located in the law libraries of Harvard, Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York.
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Introductory LibGuide and index for, as well as full-text searching of, 750+ commitments entered into by various U.S. states with foreign governments to cooperate on issues ranging from economic development to environmental protection.
The UN iLibrary is a comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. It provides librarians, scholars, researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public with a single digital destination for accessing publications, journals, data, and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programs.
Includes United Nations Treaty Series documents since 1946 as well as multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General.
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U.S.C.
The United States Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives.
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Formerly: FirstGov.gov
Covers U.S. Federal government, local, and foreign nations around the world.
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VitalLaw offers access to Wolters Kluwer's extensive legal and regulatory resources in the areas of business, finance, health, intellectual property (IP), securities, taxation and trade. When the Loislaw database was sold to Fastcase, several commercial law and IP treatises moved to Cheetah. Most Loislaw treatises moved to Fastcase.
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Formerly Wolters Kluwer Textbooks
VitalSource Helps Access Instructions:
1. To get started, students should visit bookshelf.vitalsource.com and log-in or create a Bookshelf account with their institution-provided email address.
2. Here are instructions on creating a Bookshelf account for both students and instructors.
3. Once students create an account with an institution-provided email address, they should log in and click on the Explore tab in the upper left corner of the screen. This tab provides access to the freely available e-textbooks.
1. To get started, students should visit bookshelf.vitalsource.com and log-in or create a Bookshelf account with their institution-provided email address.
2. Here are instructions on creating a Bookshelf account for both students and instructors.
3. Once students create an account with an institution-provided email address, they should log in and click on the Explore tab in the upper left corner of the screen. This tab provides access to the freely available e-textbooks.
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WSJ
Winner of 38 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, the Journal includes coverage of U.S. and world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, health and more. It’s a critical resource of curated content in print, online and mobile apps, complete with breaking news streams, interactive features, video, online columns and blogs.
Students, Faculty, and Staff: if you have a personal WSJ subscription and would like to convert it to your CWRU-sponsored WSJ subscription, please call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel.
Students, Faculty, and Staff: if you have a personal WSJ subscription and would like to convert it to your CWRU-sponsored WSJ subscription, please call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel.
A collection of congressional documents, books, legislative histories on major legislation, and Supreme Court briefs on related cases, this database touches on a wide range of water issues, including irrigation, hydropower, riparian rights, water conservation, drinking water quality, and tribal water rights.
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Web of Knowledge/Science
Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 journals and books, some law-related.
West Academics Study Aids collection provides law students with 24/7 online access to hundreds study aids, including Nutshells, Concise Hornbooks, outlines, overviews, exam prep titles, and career guides. Available to authenticated users.
Each law student needs to set up a West Academic Account at https://eproducts.westacademic.com/ before they call in at 877.888.1330 (ext.4) to set up their eBooks. If the student already has an online study aid account, they can use their existing account. This offer with West Academic is only available for each student's required textbooks.
Westlaw is a comprehensive legal research service providing legal and law-related documents. It provides primary and secondary legal resources. Westlaw passwords are distributed at orientation, & afterwards at the Reference Desk. Law School faculty, students, and staff receive individual accounts to Westlaw.
Provides access to journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, reference works, protocols, and other documents across a range of disciplines in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
A global database that provides free of charge access to legal information on intellectual property (IP) including treaties administered by WIPO, other IP-related treaties, and laws and regulations of the Member States of WIPO, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. This includes some 200 countries.
Women's Issues and Identities provides the opportunity to witness history from the female perspective. The database provides fascinating historical records, including a wide range of primary sources in four languages from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, featuring a wide geographical range from Europe, North and South America, Africa, India, East Asia, and the Pacific Rim.
Free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics from the World Bank.
Historical newspapers from around the globe, including America's Historical Newspapers, Latin American Newspapers, and African Newspapers.
This is probably the most comprehensive collection of treaties (formal international agreements) that is currently available.
WorldCat searches and describes the holdings of many U.S. libraries and some foreign libraries. Items discovered on Worldcat can be ordered through the Law Librarys Interlibrary Loan service, if they are not available through CWRU libraries or OhioLINK. Each WorldCat record indicates the libraries that own that title. Users may search by subject, title or ISBN. Many material formats are covered by the system. Not searchable: individual article titles or stories in journals, newspapers, magazines or book chapters.
This online resource of the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) aggregates a range of treaty collections. These include full-text in PDF of the United Nations Treaty Series, as well as several national or regional treaty collections.
WorldTradeLaw.net offers a free library of current trade news and resources, and selected articles. as well as a subscription service (the DSC Service). We currently do not subscribe to the paid content provided by the site.
Interactive video lessons, cheat sheets, and knowledge checks on legal technology and soft skills.
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JSTOR Primary Sources
Nearly 26,000 pamphlets covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of the 19th century.
