Law and Legal Issues Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines. Also includes the full-text of the artices from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.
  
  

Most Comprehensive:

• Lexis-Nexis: Academic Search
  Full-text of news and legal sources, including laws, regulations, court cases, and law review articles.
  
  

Other Useful Databases:

• GPO Access
  Full-text of U.S. bills (1993 - present), laws (1995-present), regulations (1995-present), and supreme court decisions (1992-present).
  
  
• Social Sciences Full Text
  Searches the abstracts (descriptions) of 700,000 articles published in 600 leading social science journals from 1984 to the present.
  
  
• Thomas
  Legislative information from the U.S. Congress including the status, summary and text of bills, public laws, and the Congressional Record.
  
  

See Also:

• Accessing the Full-Text of Laws
  
  
• Criminal Justice databases
  
  
• Government Information databases
  
  
• Politics databases
  
  
• Government Information Resources
  
  
• Types of Law