Library Databases (Public)

AILALink (American Association of Immigration Lawyers)
Restricted access Law school only Provides access to AILA publications (including Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook); immigration-related statutes, regulations, and select case law; agency correspondence and manuals; AILA/government liaison minutes; and immigration forms. Access limited to no more than three simultaneous users.
Foreign Law Guide
Restricted access Law school only Online guide to current codes and legislation in 178 foreign jurisdictions. For each country there is a brief introduction to the legal system and legal history, a list of codifications and other legal documents, followed by a subject listing of sources of law. The guide identifies available English translations and is updated frequently.
HeinOnline
Restricted access Law school only A constantly growing collection of legal periodicals that currently includes over 2000 full-text journals. Also includes, among others, the following collections: American Indian Law, ALI Library, CFR, Early American Case Law, English Reports, Federal Register, Foreign & International Law Resources, Index to Foreign Periodicals, Intellectual Property Law Collection, Legal Classics (more than 2,500 legal treatises), National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, National Moot Court Competition, Pentagon Papers, Philip C. Jessup Library, State Attorney General Reports and Opinions, State Session Laws, United Nations Law Collection, U.S. Attorney General & Department of Justice Collection, U.S. Code, U.S. Congressional Documents, U.S. Federal Agency Documents and Decisions, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Treaties and Agreements, Virginia Supreme Court Briefs, World Constitutions Illustrated, World Treaty Library, and World Trials Library.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Restricted access Law school only 1985-present. Provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law. The types of documents covered include journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews. Produced at the Berkeley Law Library, University of California Berkeley for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
Index to Legal Periodical & Books Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Restricted access Law school only 1981-present. Provides full text for more than 480 periodicals from 1981 to the present, along with indexing of over 1,100 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications and university publications.Includes periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Restricted access Law school only 1908-1981. This archival database indexes 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.
JSTOR
Restricted access Coverage varies. The complete text (full back runs) of core scholarly journals in Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Sociology.
Lexis Study Aids
Restricted access Law school only The LexisNexis Digital Library (Lexis Study Aids) offers on-demand access to the Understanding series, the Question & Answer series, many ABA titles, and more titles in an easy-to-read, book-like format.
Nexis Uni
Restricted access Provides access to a wide range of news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information), legal (news, case law) and reference information. Formerly LexisNexis Academic.
Oxford Scholarship Online (Law)
Restricted access Law school only The Oxford Scholarship Online-Law Collection is a large portion of Oxford’s legal treatise collection, including new titles from the series: Oxford Studies in European Law, Oxford Monographs in International Law, Oxford Monographs in Criminal Law and Justice, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford Monographs in Labour Law, Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History, Oxford Studies in International Economic Law, and the International Courts and Tribunals series, alongside many others.
PLI Plus
Restricted access Law school only This fully searchable database contains all PLI published materials, including treatises, course handbooks, and answer books. In addition, there are searchable and downloadable legal forms, as well as program transcripts from their continuing legal education seminars.
ProQuest Congressional
Restricted access Law school only Provides the full text of Congressional and Executive publications in searchable PDF format including Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations (1789-present); Executive Branch Documents (1789-1939); Committee Prints (1817-present); Congressional Record (1789-2005 Permanent, 1985-present daily); House and Senate Published Hearings (1824-present); Unpublished Hearings (House 1973-1982, Senate 1985-1992); House and Senate Documents and Reports (1817-present); Bills (1789-2015); Statutes at Large (1789-present); Legislative Histories (1969-present); CRS Reports (1916-present); Vote Reports (1987-present); and the Serial Set (1789-present, including Serial Set Maps).
ProQuest Legislative Insight
Restricted access Law school only Provides compiled federal legislative histories for more than 27,000 laws from 1789-2015 (coverage includes major laws and additional select laws). The service includes bills (all versions), reports, documents, CRS reports, committee prints, speeches in the Congressional Record and presidential signing statements. Patrons should use the Proquest Congressional database for comprehensive coverage of congressional documents, including those not included as part of a compiled legislative history.
ProQuest Regulatory Insight
Restricted access Law school only Regulatory Insight provides regulatory histories for individual federal statutes and Executive Orders by compiling pertinent Federal Register articles into a research-friendly workspace similar to Legislative Insight. The database aims to cover 1936 to the present. For current coverage, see ProQuest LibGuides Help.
ProQuest Supreme Court Insight
Restricted access Law school only Supreme Court Insight, 1975 to 2017, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. The collection also includes Supreme Court cases from 1975 through 2017/2018 terms, in which the petition for writ of certiorari is denied.
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint (Formerly RIA Checkpoint)
Restricted access Law school only Contains a substantial collection of primary tax materials, including tax legislation and IRS materials.  In addition, Thomson Reuters Checkpoint provides full-text access to several journals from WG&L and Thomson Reuters, as well as current news about tax legislation and caselaw.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs (Gale)
Restricted access Law school only 1832-1978. Features a fully searchable database of approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases from the generation before the American Civil War to the decade of the Vietnam War and Watergate. Document types include Appellant’s Brief, Appellee’s Brief, Oral Transcript, Petition, Petition for Rehearing, Petition for Writ of Certiorari, among other sources. Part of the Making of Modern Law series.
Virginia Legal Forms Library (Gale)
Restricted access Law school only Virginia Legal Forms Library contains a comprehensive collection of several thousand legal forms, including business, personal, litigation and federal forms. Forms are officially approved forms actually used by law firms. Completed sample forms are also included.
West Online Study Aids
Restricted access Law school only An online subscription-based service that provides electronic access to over 350 study aids from West, Foundation Press and Gilberts, including Nutshells, Concise Hornbooks, Sum and Substance, and Gilbert Law Summaries.