A-Z Databases

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42 Databases found

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  • GU Law only
Legal research platform including primary legal sources, Bloomberg news, and financial and market information.

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  • GU Law only
Interactive tutorials designed to augment traditional law school instruction. Check with the reference librarians for an authorization code.
  • GU Law only
Basic legal research tool to federal and state primary legal materials, made available through the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA).
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Comprehensive resource of Congressional documents. CIS Index, legislative histories, U.S. Serial Set, and more. New content added: Executive Orders & Presidential Proclamations, 1789 - present.

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With Enviro.BLR.com®, you can keep up with changing EPA and state regulations and get state-by-state analysis; prepare required emergency response plans with ease; get instant answers to state-specific EHS and compliance questions; and access safety data sheets 24/7.
Comprehensive coverage of most environmental areas including environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impact, and urban planning. Full-text access to the Environmental Law Reporter: News & Analysis.
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Executive Orders are the formal means through which the President of the United States executes a wide range of actions related to the Federal Government’s internal operations and organization, as well as foreign and domestic policies. Presidential proclamations and executive orders have the force of law, and have played a role in many historic events, including Indian removal, internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and desegregation of the military.

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Essential information on primary and secondary sources of foreign law. Links to useful internet resources.

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Artemis Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across several Gale primary source collections.
Collections include: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, The Times (London) Digital Archives 1785-2008, and Indigenous Peoples: North America.

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Full-image access to most law reviews, bar journals, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, U.S. Statutes at Large, and much more.

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Provides primary source materials including manuscripts, monographs, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, images of artwork, and more related to Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.
Also searchable in Artemis Primary Sources.

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Full-text core scholarly journals beginning with v. 1 of each title, in the fields of arts & humanities, social science, and the life sciences.

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Find citations to law review and legal journal articles, many with links to full text.
Find articles in major law reviews, legal journals & newspapers. Available in Lexis & Westlaw as Legal Resource Index.
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Federal legislative history service with full-text documents relevant to laws passed from 1920 to present. Includes full text of public laws, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints.
  • GU Law only
Comprehensive legal research database.
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Lexis Digital Library includes easy-to-use legal eBooks, covering over 51 practice areas, that are accessible on mobile or desktop devices.
Digital images of historical federal, judicial, and legislative materials.

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Alternate Name(s) NCLC
Access to 20 law treatises with sample pleadings, practice aides, and primary sources from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC).
To access list of publications, from the main screen click on "My NCLC"

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  • GU Law only
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Practical Law is legal know-how that goes beyond primary law and traditional legal research to give lawyers a better starting point. We provide standard documents, checklists, legal updates, how-to guides, and more - created and continuously maintained by our 230+ expert attorney-editors. These tools can help both students and faculty alie in getting the know-how of how these areas of law are used in the practicing world.
Comprehensive resource of Congressional documents. CIS Index, legislative histories, U.S. Serial Set, and more. Including the Serial Set going back to 1789.
Executive Orders are the formal means through which the President of the United States executes a wide range of actions related to the Federal Government’s internal operations and organization, as well as foreign and domestic policies. Presidential proclamations and executive orders have the force of law, and have played a role in many historic events, including Indian removal, internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and desegregation of the military.
Federal legislative history service with full-text documents relevant to laws passed from 1920 to present. Includes full text of public laws, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints.
Administrative law histories organized by public law, 1936 - 2023.
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Supreme Court Insight, 1975-2016, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document-by-document basis. This collection covers content through the 2016/2017 term.
The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, including the American State Papers, is a series of reports and documents published by Congress. It's called the Serial Set because it was published in serial fashion... meaning that there are more than 15,000 volumes in this series.
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Thomson Reuters ProView is the only professional eReader built with the attorney workflow in mind. Accessible on your smartphone or laptop when and where you need them, law eBooks provide integration with Westlaw, time-saving features, and a book-like reading experience.

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Administrative law histories organized by public law, 1936 - 2023.

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Documents on the transatlantic slave trade; the global movement for the abolition of slavery; the legal, personal, and economic aspects of slavery, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. and other regions.
Case law, statutes, regulations, and news on special education issues. Covers what's going on in Congress and federal agencies.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is an excellent source for any statistics primarily related to the United States, published by GPO since 1878. Provides data from government sources related to population, health, education, income, labor, science, transportation, commerce and more.
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Supreme Court Insight, 1975-2016, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document-by-document basis. This collection covers content through the 2016/2017 term.

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The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, including the American State Papers, is a series of reports and documents published by Congress. It's called the Serial Set because it was published in serial fashion... meaning that there are more than 15,000 volumes in this series.
Includes full-text briefs, oral transcripts, and other documents filed with the Court.
Complete collection of multi-lateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General. Translations into English or French.
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Primary documents for all current and historical state constitutions, and expert commentary. Includes the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions (COTUS), a state-by-state analysis on every state constitution.

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VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) contains primary and secondary resources on taxation, accounting and audit, consumer financial services, financial and estate planning, and state and federal labor law.

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  • GU Law only
Comprehensive reference set to the most frequently used areas of law. To access, sign-in to Westlaw, and then use TWEN to view. Print copy is shelved in the library's Kelley Reading Room.
  • GU Law only
Federal and state case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, law reviews, treatises, news, TWEN, and more.
Records for materials held by libraries worldwide. Locate bibliographic information for your interlibrary loan needs.

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
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Lexis Digital Library includes easy-to-use legal eBooks, covering over 51 practice areas, that are accessible on mobile or desktop devices.
  • GU Law only
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Practical Law is legal know-how that goes beyond primary law and traditional legal research to give lawyers a better starting point. We provide standard documents, checklists, legal updates, how-to guides, and more - created and continuously maintained by our 230+ expert attorney-editors. These tools can help both students and faculty alie in getting the know-how of how these areas of law are used in the practicing world.
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Thomson Reuters ProView is the only professional eReader built with the attorney workflow in mind. Accessible on your smartphone or laptop when and where you need them, law eBooks provide integration with Westlaw, time-saving features, and a book-like reading experience.
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Primary documents for all current and historical state constitutions, and expert commentary. Includes the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions (COTUS), a state-by-state analysis on every state constitution.
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VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) contains primary and secondary resources on taxation, accounting and audit, consumer financial services, financial and estate planning, and state and federal labor law.
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