Restricted Access Databases |
These databases can only be accessed within the School of Law or through the use of a password or proxy server. |
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An index to United Nations documents including official records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN sales publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations |
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An online source for current news on all forms of alternative dispute resolution. |
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Receive notification of significant competition and deceptive trade practice law enforcement developments on the federal, state, and international levels.
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Computer-assisted legal instruction & exercises |
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Locate Congressional information, records, publications, and legislative histories etc. |
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A state and federal resource on the enforcement and interpretation of criminal law |
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A family law information service providing a guide to current federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues |
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Comprehensive, searchable, image-based (.pdf) collections of legal materials including most American law journals |
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An index of over 750 legal periodicals published between 1918-1981 in the United States and other countries. For coverage from 1981 to the present, use LegalTrac. |
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Indiana's virtual library on the internet |
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Search for non-legal journal titles available through the Christopher Center |
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A resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of labor and employment law |
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Electronic legal periodicals index for periodical articles published since 1980. |
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Faculty/Student password required |
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The world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform and online |
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Tax news and research |
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Awareness service covering federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting
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Online access to over 50,000 treaties and international agreements. |
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A notification service offering updates on significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, at both federal and state levels, across all areas of the law |
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Faculty/Student password required |
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A cooperative database of bibliographic records contributed by over 50,000 libraries |
Online Resources |
These sites are freely accessible via the web. |
General Legal |
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A directory that compiles numerous legal and governmental indexes into a meta-index that is searchable by topic and region |
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A long-standing comprehensive legal directory |
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A well-established, commercial legal directory |
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The LLOC's Guide to Law Online: a portal of internet sources of interest to legal researchers |
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A valuable directory providing access to websites offering legal and world news, legal research sources, office tools, and diversions |
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A legal directory sponsored by Cornell Law School offering topical and geographical access to law-related sites as well as access to the U.S. Code, and the U.S. Supreme Court information |
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A web journal providing legal & information professionals with current information on internet research and technology-related issues and resources |
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Links to over 40 research guides and pathfinders by topical/practice area |
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An exhaustive legal portal maintained by the Washburn School of Law |
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An online encyclopedia for legal researchers |
Federal Legal |
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Official site of the ABA |
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Provided via GPO Access |
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Search for federal web sites by subject or agency name; provided by the Villanova University School of Law |
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The U.S. government's official portal to a wide range of government resources |
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Contains Congressional bills, hearings, and reports as well as weekly compilations of Presidential documents, the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and the United States Code |
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The official site of the United States Supreme Court |
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The Library of Congress's online source for federal legislative information dating back to the 101st Congress |
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Search / retrieve the U.S. Code |
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Access to the Constitution by article / amendment |
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Official site of the federal judiciary with links to the home pages of all federal courts |
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Official site |
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Official site |
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Official site |
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Access all 7th Circuit courts via U.S. Courts.gov |
Indiana Legal |
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Indiana's official website |
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ISBA and state legal news / events |
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Bar exam information |
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Indiana executive / regulatory authority |
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Search for Indiana Supreme, Appellate and Tax Court cases by docket number, party, or attorney name |
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Search the code by keyword or enter citation - also downloadable via Zip file in .pdf format |
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A comprehensive catalog of official forms used throughout Indiana government |
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Searchable / downloadable in .pdf format |
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Search for information on new or proposed legislation, legislators, and more |
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The Governor's official webpage |
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Basic information on Indiana law on a variety of legal topics |
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View local rules for more than 50 Indiana counties |
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From Volume 27 |
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All sets of Indiana court rules (trial, jury, applellate, evidence etc.) available in .html, Word, and .pdf formats |
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The Court's official webpage |
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.pdf versions of court decisions since approximately 1999 - browsable / searchable |
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View webcasts of live and archived oral aruments online (requires RealOne Player) |
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Court forms and information provided by the Indiana Supreme Court for people representing themselves in court |
Other States |
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A portal site to national, state, local, foreign, specialty, and other legal organizations. |
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A national forum/resource for state courts -good source for statistical and other information |
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NCSL provides research & guidance on state issues for state legislatures and policymakers |
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Directory of official resources for all 50 states |
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Link to the official home pages and major agencies of all 50 states. |
International Legal |
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Numerous primary materials and research guides for international legal research |
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LC's alphabetical (by country) directory of legal materials available via the web |
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Another quality directory to international legal materials that includes helpful annotations |
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Cornell's searchable / browsable directory of international legal materials |
Legal News |
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Current information on Indiana courts, politics, business, education, and more. |
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Real-time legal news on substantive legal issues from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law |
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Current political and legal news |
General Information |
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A gateway to statistics for over 100 U.S. Federal agencies |
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"A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature" |
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A library for the internet community provided by the Unversity of Michigan School of Information |
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Look up addresses, get maps and directions |
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A compilation of internet reference sources maintained by Purdue University |
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A substantial directory of online reference sources |
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Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau |
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Indiana statistical information provided by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business |
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Maintained by your very own VUSL librarians |
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Current and historical weather data |
Search Engines |
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A good all purpose search engine |
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Allows search queries in plain English |
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A meta search engine, using Google, Yahoo, and MSN among others, and retrieving the best combined results. |
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Considered by some the best search engine on the web |
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A high quality search engine, allowing a number of filtering preferences |
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A meta search engine, with capabilities to search in 18 different languages, including Chinese |
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Designed specifically to search various law sites, it is the primary search engine from Findlaw |
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The best known search directory on the web |
Evaluating Information Online |
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This site walks you through a checklist of what to look for to make sure the information you find on the web is valid |
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A good article from llrx.com on evaluating web site information |
