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    Legal Studies     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books on Law: 340-349

    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Full text of Legal News; Law Reviews; Case Law; Codes and Regulations; Career Information; and more.
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • FindLaw
      Web portal focused on law and government. Good place to start searching.

    Full-text Articles on Law

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for 1360 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Full text of Legal News; Law Reviews; Case Law; Codes and Regulations; Career Information; and more.
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Academic Law Reviews and Journals (FindLaw)
      • Full text search of law journals on the Internet. Journals are also arranged by topics with some journals being full text.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Library)
      • Links to full-text law journals, magazines, etc. Cannot search for articles.
    • Social Science Online Periodicals (UNESCO)
      • Links to over 190 scientific periodicals with full text in the social sciences. Cannot search for articles.

    Legal Indexes with Citations

    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • Index to Legal Periodicals and Books. (Sept. 1976 to present)
      • (Call number: Index 340 I38)
    • Social Sciences Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes 521 journals in anthropology, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, minority studies, public policy areas, psychiatry, psychology, social work, sociology, and urban studies.
      • 2/1983 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.

    Legal Dictionaries

    General Resources

    • American Jurisprudence. 2nd ed. 93 vols. plus supplements. Lawyers Cooperative Publishing/West Group, 1994-)
      • (Call number: R 340.0973 A512)
      • Discusses over 400 topics covering most fields of law--federal and state, procedural and substantive, civil and criminal--with references to pertinent decisions and interpretations.
    • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases (New York University School of Law)
      • Good site. Searchable.
    • Hieros Gamos: The Comprehensive Law and Government Portal
      • Also in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Searchable.
    • Internet Law Library (formerly the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library)
      • U.S. Federal laws, U.S. state and territorial laws, laws of other nations, treaties and international law, laws of all jurisdictions, law schools and law libraries, attorney and legal profession directories, law book reviews and publishers. Searchable. Great site.
    • Legal Engine
      • Meta-site of legal resources on the Internet. Good site.
    • Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
      • Searchable. Excellent site.
    • Virtual Law Library
      • Links organized by legal topic and organizational type. Searchable. Another good place to start.
    • WashLaw WEB (Washburn Law School)
      • Links organized by topics. Searchable.
    • West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 12 vols. Minneapolis/Saint Paul: West Publishing, 1998.
      • (Call number: R 348.7303 W538)
    • How Our Laws Are Made (Charles W. Johnson, THOMAS)
      • Describes the legislative process by the Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives.

    Pre-Law

    Law Schools

    Maryland Law Libraries