Government & Law

Indicates some full text is available.
Indexes, sometimes with abstracts (no full text).

 

Almanac of American Politics

This Web edition keeps you up to date with key votes of the 107th Congress, results from special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more.

bepress Legal Repository

"The bepress Legal Repository is a network of law-related research materials. Law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and other subject-appropriate groups post materials to specific publications (e.g., the USC Working Paper Series). This high-quality content may be downloaded freely by interested readers."

CountryWatch

Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.

CQ Researcher

The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.

CQ Weekly

Coverage of the U.S. Congress: including status of bills, votes and amendments, and floor and committee activity.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements presents the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts.

Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations

It contains more than 320,000 listings for associations, research centers, publishers, publications, databases, television and radio stations, and more.

Florida Documents Index

Identifies publications housed in the Florida Documents Collection at Florida Atlantic University. Includes public documents distributed by the State Library of Florida since 1967.

Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opnions

This site contains opinions issued in Florida Supreme Court cases decided since August 1986 and the briefs filed in those cases. Briefs for cases decided without an opinion are not included.

Historical Legal Documents

Florida Historical Legal Documents is a growing collection of primary source materials surveying changes in Florida law from the time it became a territory in 1822 through 1845 when Florida became a state. The collection includes the complete Florida Territorial Laws, a time capsule of Florida history documenting the establishment of the territorial court system based on British Common Law as of July 4, 1776. Other materials in the collection offer supplementary information about the legal, political and social history of Florida before and after its Territorial period. Most materials, including Florida Territorial Laws, can be searched in full-text; others are available only as page-images.

Global Legal Information Network

The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is  a database of laws,  regulations, and other complementary legal sources.
The documents included in the database  are contributed by the governments of the members from the original, official texts
which  are deposited, by agreement of the members, in a server presently located at the Library of Congress of  the
United States of America.

GPO Monthly Catalog

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text

Subject areas include administrative law, antitrust legislation, banking, constitutional law, domestic relations, environmental protection, estate planning, food, drug and cosmetic law, international law, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, minorities, multinational corporations, negligence, non-profit corporations, occupational health and safety, politics, probate, products liability, public law, real property, securities, tax law, and trade regulation. Abstracts begin in 1981 and full text coverage begins in 1994.

JSTOR

Journal Storage (118 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines).

LegalTrac

Indexes major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.

LexisNexis Academic Legal Research

Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.

LexisNexis Academic Congressional

Provides the tools for searching the Congressional record, tracking proposed legislation by keyword and sponsor, searching the Federal register, Congressional committee schedules, finding members of Congress, and searching the National journal.

LexisNexis Statistical

Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites.

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection | 1789-1969 |

This resource is an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. [To access this database, click on "Historical Full Text" from the menu choices.]

Oxford Reference Online

A comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles covering general reference, language, science, medicine, humanities, the social sciences, business and professional.

PAIS International

Consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.

Political Risk Yearbook Online

Country Reports on 106 countries providing political and economic risk analysis.

SIRS Knowledge Source

A reference source which includes access to SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS NetSelect and SIRS Interactive Citizenship.

Social Sciences Full Text

Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Service)

TRIS Online is a collaborative effort between the Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academies, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. Department of Transportation, to provide a public-domain, web-based version of the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) bibliographic database as a component of the National Transportation Library, and to enhance transportation research, safety, and operations by sharing knowledge and information.

Web of Science

Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Westlaw Campus

A web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who need to research law-related issues. This resource includes access to the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals.

For a complete list of all available databases, visit our Electronic Collection.