Legal research databases
The Law Library makes available to the law school community a number of legal research databases. Additionally, all of the electronic resources available through the University Libraries are available for law school use as well. The University Libraries maintain a complete list of their databases.
Access individual resources through the subject headings below or through the alphabetical list of resources that follows.
Subject headings
Alphabetical list
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- Resources only available to UT-Austin Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resources available to all members of the UT-Austin community, including Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resources available to the general public.
Some databases otherwise restricted to the Law School or the UT-Austin community may be available to patrons who use on-site computers within the Library.
- ABA/BNA
Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
- A comprehensive source for news and guidance on attorney conduct and legal
ethics, including topical practice guides and current reports related to
professional conduct.
- Alt-Press
Watch
- A full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals from alternative
and independent presses. This interdisciplinary resource provides a valuable
source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge mainstream
media coverage.
- America:
History and Life
- A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- Anthropology
Plus
- Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries,
edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical,
biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore,
material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
- Avalon Project
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School has electronic copies of significant
legal, economic, and historical documents from 1699 through the present.
- Berkeley Electronic (BE) Press - Legal
Repository, ResearchNow,
and e-journals
- A network and database of law, business, and interdisciplinary scholarship.
BEPress provides a repository of scholarly articles (Legal
Repository), publishes a series of electronic
journals on economics and business, political science and public affairs,
health and medicine, and science and technology, and provides a portal that
enables users to search the repository and e-journals and to receive email
notifications of new scholarship (ResearchNow).
- Business
and Company Resource Center
- Topical business information and company and industry intelligence on
thousands of global companies.
- Business
Source Complete
User's guide
- Provides access to academic and trade journals, books and monographs,
country and industry profiles, and market reports.
- CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction)
- CALI provides more than 100 interactive lessons and tutorials to help
students learn the law. Please contact Brian Quigley (471-6228, bquigley@law.utexas.edu)
for password and other information.
- CCH
Tax Research Network
- Includes complete coverage of federal and state primary authority, as
well as current awareness materials, covering federal and state income and
estate tax.
- Child
Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database
- Bibliographic resource on the mistreatment of children.
- CIAO-
Columbia International Affairs Online
- A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes
working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series
from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences,
books, journals and policy briefs.
- Communication
& Mass Media Complete
- Provides indexing and some full text of articles, reviews, encyclopedias,
and handbooks in the area of communication and mass media. This service
also provides indices for National Communication Association journals.
- Computer
Source
- The latest information and current trends in high technology. This database
offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts
for nearly 450 publications.
- Congressional
Universe
- Includes legislation and public policy, statistical information including
projections and analyses, legislative history, federal regulations, voting
and financial records for individual members as well as members of various
congressional committees.
- Contemporary
Women's Issues
- Bibliographic information and the full-text for approximately 10,000 items
drawn from journals, book and media reviews, the alternative press, fact
sheets and guides, newsletters, government reports and data, personal narratives,
instructional pamphlets, legislative actions, and proceedings.
- Dispute
Settlement Commentaries (DSCs)
- Provides a comprehensive research tool for World Trade Organization (WTO)
dispute settlement, with legal analysis of selected trade law issues, summary
and critical analysis of arbitrations, keyword indexing, and a database
of dispute settlement tables and statistics. WTO panel and appellate body
reports are available from one to three weeks after their circulation to
WTO members.
- EBSCOhost
Legal Collection
- Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 law journals.
The majority of titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
- EBSCOhost
Research Databases
- EBSCOhost offers a number of subject-specific research databases. The
above link takes you to a listing of those databases, and allows you to
select one or more databases within which to conduct a search.
- EconLit
- Provides subject indexing and abstracts to journals, books, dissertations
and working papers in economics.
- Editor
& Publisher
- The authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper
industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing,
technology, online and syndicates.
- Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
User's guide
- Includes important treatises and other materials from the 18th century,
including American and British law-related materials.
- Environmental
Law Reporter Online
- Produced by the Environmental Law Institute, this resource contains many
features devoted to environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, health/safety,
and land use law and policy. Provides federal, state, and international
updates and analyses, case summaries, and the full text of statutory and
regulatory materials related to environmental law and policy.
- ERIC
- Over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles,
technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular
materials in the field of education.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
- Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish)
and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals
of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other
side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered
by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
- Factiva
- A global information resource, providing full-text access to top national
and international newspapers, newswires, business journals, market research
reports, analysts reports and web sites.
- Foreign Law Guide
- A guide to legislation and English translations of codes, laws and other relevant material from jurisdictions
around the world. Provides information on sources of foreign law, including citations to legislation and the existence of English
translations, both official and unoffical. Also provides selected references to secondary sources in English.
- Gale's
Ready Reference Shelf
- Popular directories (for associations, publishers, etc.) and the Literature
Resource Center.
- Gender
Studies Database
- Provides citations, abstracts, and some full text of academic and non-academic
articles in gender studies.
- Global
Jurist and Journals
of Legal Scholarship
- Berkeley Electronic Press publishes two groups of electronic journals.
The Global
Jurist (Global
Jurist Frontiers, Global
Jurist Advances, and Global
Jurist Topics) series focuses on foreign legal systems and comparative
law, while the Journals of Legal Scholarship, consisting of Theoretical
Inquiries in Law and Issues
in Legal Scholarship, cover a broad range of legal issues. An electronic
alert service is available for newly published articles. Please contact
Jane O'Connell, (471-8761, joconnell@mail.law.utexas.edu)
for other information.
- Google
Books
User's guide
- Searches full-text books digitized by the Google Books Partnership Project
and the Google Books Library Project.
- Google
Scholar
- Searches scholarly articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional
societies, and university presses.
- Health
Affairs
- Committed to the exploration of policy issues in the domestic and international
health arenas. Contains papers from industry, labor, government and academe.
Also contains book reviews.
- HeinOnLine
User's guide
- A collection of legal periodicals, reproducing the original image of each
article. The collection includes over 100 legal periodicals and begins with
the first issue of each journal.
- Historical
Abstracts
- Contains citations and abstracts of literature from countries other than
the United States and Canada on political, diplomatic, economic, social,
cultural and intellectual history.
- IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (IEE) articles, publications, and standards.
- Index
to Current Urban Documents
- Provides access to local government publications for 500 select cities
in the United States and Canada.
- Index
to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson & Co.)
- Provides abstracts and citations and, in some cases, full text, of articles
from 891 legal periodicals (Aug. 1981-present) and English-language books
published in 1993 or later. The Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
file covers over 500 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada,
Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand between 1908 and 1981.
Click on
to access the full text of articles. See also LegalTrac.
-
Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law
- Provides coverage of law-related articles published in English-language periodicals not indexed by other legal journal
indexes. Coverage begins with 1958.
- JSTOR
User's guide
- Collection of online journals on diverse topics such as economics, sociology,
and history.
- Legal Scholarship Network
- A series of electronic journals of abstracts -- of working papers as well
as articles accepted for publication -- in various areas of law. Searchable,
free online archives available. If you would like to subscribe to any of
the journals (delivered via e-mail), please contact Jane O'Connell (471-8761,
joconnell@mail.law.utexas.edu).
- LegalTrac
- Use this database to find citations to articles published in all major
law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and
legal newspapers. Click on 'Find it UT' to access the full text of articles.
See also the Index
to Legal Periodicals.
- LexisNexis
- A reliable resource for State and Federal cases, codes, administrative
materials, business resources and a wealth of analytic content such as Matther
Bender titles. This paasword accessible resource also provides extensive
news coverage, public records, and live on-line research assistance.
-
Literature Online
- A database of full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together
with definitive online criticism and a reference library.
- LLMC
Digital
- The LLMC Digital resource makes available page images of legal and historical
documents and scholarly works. Extensive collections of U.S. federal and
state documents, Anglo-American case reporters, legal encyclopedias, and
reference materials, and legal materials from several civil law jurisdictions
are currently available. Additional materials from a 7500 title and 90,000
volume microform backfile are being digitized at the rate of 10,000 volumes
per year.
- Loislaw
- LoisLaw provides access to case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative
law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and D.C. 18 topical
"law libraries" include the Aspen/CCH Bankruptcy Law Library,
CCH State-Specific Employment Law Library, and the Internet and E-Commerce
Law Library. Special features allow user to search across juridictions,
cite-check case law and statutes, or copy and paste directly into a word
processor. A login and password are required. Please contact Jane O'Connell
(471-8761, joconnell@law.utexas.edu)
for more information.
- Making
of Modern Law: Legal Treatises
User's guide
- The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises is a digital online archive of 22,000 legal treatises
published in the United States and Great Britain between 1800 and 1926.
The fully searchable database provides access to over 10 million individual
page images from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay
readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.
- Making
of Modern Law: Trials
- The Making of Modern Law: Trials is a digital collection of more than 10,000 titles describing courtroom dramas published
between 1600 and 1926. The two million pages of searchable content is derived from primary source documents located in the law
libraries of Yale University, Harvard University, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. Included in the collection
are unofficially published trial accounts, official trial documents, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
- Martindale-Hubbell
- Martindale-Hubbell online is the oldest and most established directory
of lawyers practicing in the US. It also includes listings for lawyers practicing
in several foreign nations.
- Matthew
Bender Authority Online
- This resource is available from any computer located within the Law School.
For remote access, a login and password are required.
- National
Bureau of Economic Research
- NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization,
and NBER researchers are the leading scholars in their fields. This searchable
esource provides access to NBER Working Papers, articles from issues of
the NBER Digest, and a catalog of available and forthcoming books. Specific
NBER topical programs and working groups address topics such as as Law and
Economics, Economics of National Security, and Market Microstructures.
- netLibrary
- Full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books)
from leading university, academic and professional publishers. Ebooks may
be viewed online or "checked out." To check out a title you must create
an account.
-
Newspaper Source
- Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and
international newspapers. The database also contains full text television
& radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional
(U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
- New
York Times (1851-2004)
User's guide
- The New York Times archive includes all articles published since the
paper's first issue in 1851. The database has full-text and -image articles
with digital reproductions of every page, every article, and every issue
in PDF format. In addition to news stories, it also includes editorials,
letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos,
and advertisements.
- NLM Gateway (Medline)
- The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at
the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches
MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LocatorPlus, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov,
DIRLINE, Genetics Home Reference, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, and
HSDB.
- OCLC
WorldCat
- Online catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
- PAISInternational
- Database chronicling global public policy and social issues.
- PastMasters-
Philosophy Full-text Database
- A collection of primary-source, full-text humanities databases whose titles
comprise the complete works of individual authors.
- PCL Map Collection
- Online maps of general interest.
- Philosopher's
Index
- Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy
and related fields.
- PolicyFile
- Indexes research and publication abstracts addressing the complete range
of public policy research. Draws its content from public policy think tanks,
university research programs, research organizations and publishers.
- Political Database
of the Americas
- A non-governmental Internet-based project that provides reference materials,
primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries
in the Western Hemisphere.
- PsychInfo
- Provides abstracts and some full texts of international articles in the
professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
- Religion
and Philosophy Collection
- This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions,
major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology,
political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history
of philosophy.
- RIA
Checkpoint
- Tax and financial research source for authoritative analysis on tax, financial
accounting law. Provides access to publications from the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants , Financial Accounting Standards Board,
as well as large number of treatises and news titles from other publishers.
- Science
Direct (Elsevier)
- Full-text and bibliographic information for topics in science, technology,
and medicine.
- Science
Online
- The electronic version of Science, with additional online-only
features.
- Scientific
American (1851-2001)
- The Scientific American archive includes all articles published since
that periodical's first issue in 1851. The database has full-text and -image
articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article, and every
issue in PDF format. In addition to technical information on historic inventions
and patents, it also includes editorials, letters to the editor, photos,
and advertisements relating to innovations in science and industry.
- ShareLaw
User's guide
- ShareLaw aggregates and provides access to the online catalogs of six
of the United States' leading academic law libraries, including those of
Yale Law School, UC Berkeley, and the University of Washington. UT-Law affiliated patrons may request materials not owned
by UT-Austin libraries through ShareLaw.
- Social
Sciences Citation Index
User's guide
- Enables access to current and retrospective bibliographic information,
abstracts, and cited references found in more than 1,700 social sciences,
science, and technology journals in over 50 disciplines.
- Social
Services Abstracts
- This premier database provides abstracts and indexing of the international
literature of social work.
- Sociological
Abstracts
- Provides citations and abstracts to articles, books, and conferences covering
sociology, social work, and other social sciences.
-
SourceOECD
- The online library for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development.
- STAT-USA Internet
- U.S. Government business, trade and economic data, including the National
Trade Data Bank.
- Tax Analysts
- Tax news coverage, analysis, and commentary covering the IRS, tax policy,
tax reform, personal and corporate taxes, tax practitioner ethics, budget
policy, and economic policy. A login and password is required. Please contact
Jane O'Connell (471-8761,
joconnell@mail.law.utexas.edu)
for more information.
- Television
News Archive (Vanderbilt)
- The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news from
major US national broadcast networks.
- Texas Bar CLE
- Continuing legal education courses and course materials from the State
Bar of Texas. Instructions for accessing
CLE materials.
- Thomson
Gale LegalForms: Texas
User's guide
- Contains over 1,000 legal forms specific to Texas in MS Word and PDF formats.
Most forms can be completed on-line before being printed. Also contains
brief descriptive summaries on the uses of most forms, as well as a glossary
of legal terms and concepts written specifically for the layperson.
- US
Congressional Serial Set
User's guide
- The serial set includes reports, documents, and journals of the US senate
and house of representatives. Upon completion the resource will provide
access to materials dated from 1817 to 1980; currently, the resource covers
1817-1841.
- US
Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
User's guide
- Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs from over 150,000
cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this
resource provides full-text search capabilities to more than 350,000 documents,
including appellant's and appellee's briefs, oral transcripts, and petitions
for writ of certiorari.
- United
Nations Treaty Collection
- Provides access to the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited
with the Secretary-General, the United Nations Treaty Series (full text
of UN treaties), and recently deposited multilateral treaties.
- VersusLaw
- Free registration for Law School users, though registration requires an
email address ending in .edu.
- Web
of Science
- Provides web access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation
Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index. Covers more than 8,400 journals.
- WESTLAW
- An online, password-accessible legal research service providing access
to statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources,
along with current news articles and business information. A very large
number of secondary legal materials are available along with KeyCite citation
checking and research assistance. A personal ID is required.
- Westlaw Public Access
- Westlaw Public Access, a comprehensive legal research database, is available
for use by UT students and members of the public. Please inquire at the
Library reference desk.
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