CCH Business and Finance Library

The CCH Business and Finance Library Network is a fully searchable database of primary and secondary legal sources, including the online equivalent of government contracts and other business-related CCH products. The network provides extensive full-text legal information on securities, banking, capital changes, franchising, trade regulation or government contracting, public utilities, and information technology.

The CCH Business and Finance Library Network is available only through computers attached to the Library's network. A link to this database is located on the Library's online resource page. No user ID or password is required to access this resource.

CCH Health & Human Resources

The CCH Health and Human Resources Network is a comprehensive electronic library that includes all of CCH's medical, health, and human resources products. The Human Resources Library includes a wealth of material on employment law, social security, OSHA, and workers' compensation. The Health and Medical Library includes extensive resources on Medicare and Medicaid, healthcare compliance, HIPAA, and food, drug, and cosmetic law.

CCH Health and Human Resources Network is available only through computers attached to the Library's network. A link to this database is located on the Library's online resources page. No user ID or password is required to access this resource.

United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs

The Library subscribes to the United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs online; a resource that provides page images of briefs and records of the United States Supreme Court from 1832 through 1978. This online service complements the Library's existing sets of Court records and briefs in print and on microform. The new online version of the U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs contains 11 million pages and allows users to search the full text of documents. Briefs and records filed in cases denied certiorari by the Court are also included in the resource.

United States Serial Set and American State Papers

In a major acquisition of primary source material, The Law Library has purchased the Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set and American State Papers digital libraries. The Serial Set contains the journals, documents and reports of the U.S. Congress since 1817, along with Executive Department publications. The American State Papers are a retrospective collection of similar materials from 1789. The digital Serial Set will in time contain a complete Serial Set collection covering the years 1817 - 1980. Currently available through 1877, releases of new material are provided each month.

In addition to providing digital images of every page of every Serial Set and American State Papers publication, this digital library includes all maps and illustrations in their original color. The documents in these digital collections are also full-text searchable. Advanced searching is possible, with results provided in chronological order. Clicking on a document's title brings up the first page of the document, full citation information, and a table of contents with the pages containing results highlighted. Documents can be printed, downloaded, or emailed. The United States Serial Set and American State Papers can be accessed from the Law Library's webpage. No user ID or password is required to access this service.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals

The Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) is received on a weekly basis from the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library. It provides both subject access and a table of contents service for recently published law journals. Issues from 1998 to the present are housed on the index table on level four of Kivett.

HeinOnline

Issues of more than 650 law reviews are available full-text on HeinOnline. The journal library is comprehensive, beginning with the first issue published of hundreds of periodical titles. You may search the journal library by keyword or citation, or browse through the issues. Each law review article is available both as a scanned images, with hard-copy page numbers, and as a searchable text file.

In addition to its Law Journal Library, HeinOnline gives you unlimited access to all United States Treaties and Agreements, every published U. S. Supreme Court decision, and the full-text of the Federal Register from the date of its inception. A new addition to HeinOnline is the Legal Classics Library. This library includes many of the greatest works ever written on the law. Additional law reviews and other materials are being added all the time.

Hein Online is available only through computers attached to the Library's network. Hein Online can be accessed on the web at http://heinonline.org/.

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text

ILP Full Text indexes approximately 1,000 legal journals with the full text of nearly 200 journals from 1982 to the present. This database also indexes over 1,400 monographs per year.

You may search journals by keyword, subject heading, court case, date, title, author or any combination of fields. When you search ILP Full Text, you get links to full-text articles on any of the Law Library's other databases including HeinOnline.

ILP Retrospective (1908-1981)

This retrospective database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States and other countries. The database contains the indexing from 28 printed cumulations of the Index to Legal Periodicals and Books and provides access to over 540,000 records including book reviews and case citations.

You can search the ILP Retrospective simultaneously with the Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text; this allows you to search nearly 100 years of legal history with one search. When you search ILP Retrospective, you get links to full-text articles on any of the Law Library's other databases including HeinOnline.

LegalTrac

LegalTrac is the online version of the Current Law Index. LegalTrac provides access to citations from over 875 major law reviews, legal newspapers, International Legal Publications, Law Specialty Publications, and Bar Association Journals. In addition, LegalTrac provides access to more than 1,000 law-related articles from Business & General Interest Periodicals. Many full-text articles are available on LegalTrac in PDF format.

LegalTrac is updated daily with coverage starting from 1980. You may search by keyword, author, title, journal, or citation. LegalTrac is available only through computers attached to the Library's network.

Religion Case Law Reporter

The Religion Case Reporter is the only U.S. publication devoted to reporting and indexing federal and state judicial opinions addressing the free exercise of religion, state establishment of religion, the clergy and religious institutions. This reporter is updated monthly and indexes cases from 1998 to the present.

The Religion Case Law Reporter can be accessed from the Law Library's webpage. No user ID or password is required to access this service.

RIA Checkpoint Tax Library

RIA Checkpoint provides primary tax documents and secondary analysis for federal, state, and local taxation, estate planning, pensions and benefits, international taxation, and payroll taxation. RIA and Warren Gorham & Lamont, two of the top names in primary source and analytical research materials, anchor the database. This system is updated continually to give the user the latest tax information. The RIA CheckPoint Tax Library can be accessed from the Law Library's webpage. No user ID or password is required to access this service.

Westlaw and Lexis

Lexis and Westlaw are full-text computerized legal research systems that provide access to state and federal case law, statutory and administrative materials, and other legal publications. Both systems are available for use by students and faculty for academic purposes. Students may not use either Westlaw or Lexis to do research for attorneys. Use of either system for attorney research is an Honor Code violation.

First-year students receive Westlaw and LexisNexis training in conjunction with the Legal Writing and Research Course. Other students and faculty may schedule appointments for training. Several times during the year, Westlaw and LexisNexis representatives will conduct advanced training sessions. These sessions are open to law students, Law School faculty and staff.

All Law School computers are set up to access Westlaw and LexisNexis. Thirty computers are located in the Wiggins Computer Lab, fifteen computers are located in the Microsoft Computer Lab.