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American State Papers, 1789-1838 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838.
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_______________________ Asian Law Bibliographic Database The database is a collection of English language materials on Asian laws available throughout the world and includes books, chapters in books, journal articles and theses.
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_______________________ ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law Maintained by the American Society of International Law, the guide sets out basic strategies to find international legal materials and examine what resources are available on international environmental, economic and criminal law, private international law, human rights, treaties, international organizations, and the United Nations.
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_______________________ Audiovisual Library of International Law Contains documents, tapes - both audio and video - and other materials on subjects of international law.
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_______________________ Australasian Legal Information Institute Databases AustLII contains primary legal and legislative materials for Australia and New Zealand.
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_______________________ Avalon Project Digital primary source documents selected by the Yale Law School relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
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_______________________ British and Irish Legal Information Institute Databases BAILII contains primary legal and legislative materials for England and Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United Kingdom, and the European Union.
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_______________________ Canadian Legal Information Institute Databases CanLII contains primary legal and legislative materials for Canada.
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_______________________ CCH Business and Finance ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Full-text searchable database of primary and secondary legal sources, including the online equivalent of government contracts and other business-related CCH products.
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_______________________ CCH Human Resources ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Full-text searchable database of primary and secondary legal sources, including the online equivalent of pension and health-related CCH products.
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_______________________ CCH Tax Research ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Full-text searchable database of primary and secondary legal sources, including the online equivalent of the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Tax Treaties, and state tax reporters.
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_______________________ Congressional Record Database Contains the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress from Volume 140 (1994) to the present.
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_______________________ Constitutions of the Countries of the World (Use "Connect via IP Access") ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries, including English translations and introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical, economic, and political information.
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_______________________ COS Funding Opportunities ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Community of Science Funding Opportunities database lists available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding.
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_______________________ CQ Online Editions: Historic Documents Series ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Search or browse by year or topic the Congressional Quarterly Historic Document Series containing more than 2,500 primary sources covering events around the world.
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_______________________ CQ.com ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Congressional Quarterly, including Congressional Weekly, provides in-depth legislative news and analysis of the United States Congress.
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_______________________ Credo Reference : Law ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Includes the full text of a dozen domestic and international reference legal sources, including encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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_______________________ CSPV Violence Literature Database VioLit contains citations and abstracts of juvenile violence related research and literature primarily from journal articles, books, and reports.
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_______________________ CyberRegs ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) CyberRegs provides the full text of the US Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, State Registers, State Statues and forms, and State Environmental, Safety, Health and Transportation Regulations.
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_______________________ Death Penalty Information Center Database of Executions Search executions in the United States since 1976 by Year, Age at Execution, Race of Person Executed, Race of Victim, Gender of Person Executed, State, Region, and Method of Execution.
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_______________________ E-Journals in Law, Politics & Government ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Law, Military & Naval Science, Political Science, and Public Administration.
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_______________________ Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Shaw-Shoemaker Early American Imprints provides the full-text to 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides covering all aspects of American life in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
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_______________________ ECO: Electronic Collections Online ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Indexing and abstracts for articles from over 5,400 scholarly journals covering agriculture, library science, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, social sciences, and technology.
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_______________________ Emerging Markets ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Collection of news and financial information for over 65 selected countries in Africa & the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia (Caucasus) and Asia, and Latin America.
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_______________________ Encyclopedia of Law & Economics Full text reference work that attempts to survey the whole law and economics literature in nearly 5,000 pages.
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_______________________ Environment Complete ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Environment Complete covers the scientific, technical & popular literature on energy resources, global warming, wastes, recycling, pollution, health hazards, conservation, wildlife management, and social / ethical issues & policy from more than 1,500 domestic and international sources.
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_______________________ Environmental Impact Statements Full-Text (2003- ) & Digests (1985- ) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) EIS Digests extract the key issues from government-released environmental impact statements, provides a brief description and abstract of the project, includes sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and details legal mandates.
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_______________________ Federal Election System Provides links to: Campaign Finance Reports and Elections and Voting data; including information about the electoral college, the administrative structure of US elections and voter registration and turnout statistics.
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_______________________ Federal Register Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides search and browse options to PDF copies from volumes 1 of the Federal Register.
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_______________________ Federal Register Online The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
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_______________________ Federal Register Public Inspection Documents Desk Provides full text access to the recent rules, proposed rules, notices of Federal agencies and organizations, and other official documents of the United States government.
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_______________________ Foreign Law Guide (Available in the Law Reading Room Only) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World provides an overview to foreign legal systems.
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_______________________ Foreign Relations of the United States This series presents the official documentary historical record of major United States foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
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_______________________ Foundation Directory ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Foundation Directory Professional provides program details for leading grantmaking organizations.
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_______________________ GalleryWatch ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Tracks real-time legislative, regulatory, and governmental information and news.
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_______________________ Global Legal Information Network GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources covering international law.
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_______________________ Global Legal Monitor Covers legal news and developments worldwide, drawing on information from the Global Legal Information Network, official national legal publications, and reliable press sources.
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_______________________ Globalization and Labor Standards Bibliographic Database The GALS database contains abstracts of recent English language law journal articles exploring international labor standards and rights in the global economy.
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_______________________ GreenFILE GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles that draw on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
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_______________________ Guide to Law Online Prepared by the US Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, this site is an annotated guide to public sources of information on government and law available online.
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_______________________ Guide to U.S. House and Senate Members Search for and retrieve current individual Members by name, district, hometown, or groups of Members by state, party affiliation, or number of terms.
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_______________________ Hein Online ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The "Modern Link to Legal History" offers full-text searchable databases including the Federal Register Library, Law Journal Library, Treaties and Agreements, and the Supreme Court Library.
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_______________________ Hinds' Precedents Hinds' Precedents is a 5-volume series containing selected rulings made by the chair of the House of Representatives.
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_______________________ Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights Contains digital publications from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement.
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_______________________ History Reference Online ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) ABC-CLIO History Reference contains the full text of over 600 books focusing on United States and world history, current issues, politics, and geography.
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_______________________ Homeland Security Digital Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides quick access to important United States policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
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_______________________ House of Commons Parliamentary Papers ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) HCPP contains the full text of all sessional papers issued by the House of Commons, including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers.
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_______________________ Human Rights Library The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than fourteen thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.
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_______________________ IBFD Portal to Cross-Border Tax Information ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) portal to comparative tax research, international tax information and business practices.
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_______________________ ILOLEX - Database of International Labour Standards Full-text database of ILO conventions and recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, discussions of the Conference Committee, representations, complaints, General Surveys, and numerous related documents.
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_______________________ Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) A multilingual subject index to legal articles and book reviews published in over 550 sources worldwide.
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_______________________ Indian Affairs : Laws and Treaties Full text of documents dealing with the legal status and laws, government relations, and treaties of North American Indians.
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_______________________ Informaworld ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
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_______________________ Institute for Transnational Law Foreign Law Translations English translations of French, German, Italian, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law.
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_______________________ Islamic Finance Information Service ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) IFIS contains detailed information on Islamic finance markets and securities providing top news, company information, financial markets data, research reports, legal and current affairs, deal details and league tables and Sharia rulings.
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_______________________ JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II III, IV, Life Sciences, Biological Sciences, Complement and Health & General Science ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) JSTOR is a collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back to the late 17th century.
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_______________________ Law Journal Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides search and browse options for approximately 530 titles.
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_______________________ Law n B — Korean Law Database (Available in Law Reading Room Only) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The Korean legal information service provides access to cases, statutes and other legal references for Korea.
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_______________________ Legacy Tobacco Documents Library LTDL allows users to search, view, and download over 7 million documents related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products.
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_______________________ Legal Periodicals Full Text ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Wislon Legal Periodicals Index covers over 1,000 legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
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_______________________ Legal Periodicals Retrospective ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Index to over 750 legal periodicals, including law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications.
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_______________________ Legal Threats Database A catalog of lawsuits, cease and desist letters, and other legal challenges faced by those engaging in online speech.
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_______________________ LegalTrac ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Indexes articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law.
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_______________________ LexisNexis Access to Primary Sources in US History ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) A database of essential sources in African American Studies.
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_______________________ LexisNexis Congressional ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides comprehensive access to United States legislative information, including: hearings; reports; prints; documents; bills; laws; regulations; and CIS Legislative Histories.
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_______________________ LexisNexis Environmental ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Covers the world's environmental related literature, including sources indexed in Environment abstracts.
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_______________________ LexisNexis Statistical ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides statistical data from United States government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.
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_______________________ LLMC Digital ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Law Library Microform Consortium provides searchable databases of earlier full text primary United States Government documents and legal literature on microform, most of which is not available through other online resources.
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_______________________ London Gazette Archive An official newspaper of record in the United Kingdom for publishing legal notices, including insolvency (bankruptcy) notices.
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_______________________ Making of Modern Law : Legal Treatises 1800 - 1926 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Searchable full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises containing more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.
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_______________________ Making of Modern Law : Trials 1600 - 1926 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains precedent-setting transcripts of cases covering constitutional and historical issues.
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_______________________ Making of the Modern World 1450 - 1850 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides the full text of more than 61,000 books and scores of serials covering economic and business literature published from 1450 through 1850.
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_______________________ Multinational Collections Database Lists items which reprint the laws and regulations of other jurisdictions on a particular legal topic, comparative in nature.
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_______________________ NATLEX NATLEX contains over 55,000 records covering over 170 countries and territories on national labour, social security and related human rights legislation.
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_______________________ NCJRS Abstracts Database National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.
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_______________________ NCSL State Legislatures Internet Links Searchable database providing links to Web sites of State Legislatures, Legislators and political developments.
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_______________________ NewspaperDirect PressDisplay ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Library PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.
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_______________________ Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences ![Find It at LC](images/sfx_pwr.gif) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
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_______________________ OYEZ A multimedia database about the United States Supreme Court.
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_______________________ PARLIT A database of bibliographic references on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments, and on electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science.
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_______________________ Public Documents Masterfile ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Public Documents Masterfile is a comprehensive index of federal, state, local, and some international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication.
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_______________________ RDB Rechtsdatenbank (Available in Law Reading Room Only) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides access to a large number of Austrian legal journals, collections of cases and other resources related to the laws of Austria.
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_______________________ Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects Contains links to projects that include digitized copies of publications originating from the United States Government.
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_______________________ Roman Law Library Collection of Roman laws (Latin texts), with some accompanying commentary and background information.
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_______________________ Sabin Americana 1500-1926 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Sabin Americana contains books, pamphlets and other documents about society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions for North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies.
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_______________________ Social Science Research Network The SSRN abstract database contains information on over 100,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.
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_______________________ Supreme Court Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Includes complete coverage of published cases in official sources from 1754 to the last full calendar year for the United States Supreme Court.
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_______________________ THOMAS : Legislative Information A full-text database which includes major legislation (by bill number, subject, and title), bills (full text, summaries, and status), public laws, the Annals of Congress, the Congressional Record and the Congressional Record Index, roll call votes, Congressional committee reports, historical documents, and information about the legislative process.
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_______________________ Treaties and Agreements Library ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Includes both official and unofficial primary treaty resources in addition to helpful guides.
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_______________________ Treaties and International Agreements (Select: Connect via IP Access) ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) TIARA contains accurate versions of over 11,500 treaties and international agreements.
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_______________________ United States Congressional Bibliographies Enumerates and describes meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted.
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_______________________ United States Congressional Serial Set ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) The United States Congressional Serial Set contains all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress to the 87th Congress, 2nd session, 1817 - 1962 (Serial Set Volumes 1 - 12427).
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_______________________ United States Federal Regulations Search for Federal Regulations and Federal Actions Open for Comment.
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_______________________ United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832 - 1978 ![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) A collection of over 350,000 full-text Supreme Court documents covering more than 150,000 distinct cases.
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_______________________ World Legal Information Institute Databases The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) provides access to worldwide law from countries in six continents.
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_______________________ Zimmerman's Research Guide An online encyclopedia containing brief descriptions and links for legal and business terms.
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