Introduction
The Law Library is pleased to offer a variety of online resources to assist faculty and students with their research. The resources listed include recommended web sites, online databases and CD-ROM products. Due to licensing restrictions, some resources are limited to the UCLA Law School community and may be available only to users on the Law School Network (noted as: "Law School Only" and some of these require special passwords as indicated). Some resources require you to access the material from computers within the Law Library (these resources are indicated by the note: "Law Library Only"). All other resources are licensed for use by the UCLA community.
Visit the Database Access Guide for detailed access instructions to the resources listed below, including information about home access.
"A" Resources
- ABA Market Research Department--Statistical Resources Statistical research and reports on lawyers and the legal profession.
- Academic Search Complete Provides full text access to thousands of journal articles in the social sciences and humanities dating back to 1856.
- American Periodicals Series Online
- Audiocasefiles(Law School Only) Provides audio opinions of cases in popular casebooks as well as video clips of actual trials.
"B" Resources
- bepress Legal Repository Working papers published by the Berkeley Electronic Press.
- Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) (Law School Only)
The Law Library subscribes to the BNA Law School Program Core package. Click info button for list of Core Package titles. - Business Source Complete Comprehensive business articles database containing over 5,000 scholarly journals and trade publications.
"C" Resources
- California Ballot Propositions Links to UC Hastings' California Ballot Measures Database, California Propositions Database, and California Initiatives Database.
- California Forms of Pleading and Practice (Law School Only ) Web access to the Matthew Bender publication.
- CCH IntelliConnect Includes popular CCH works in Securities, Banking, Trade Regulation, Government Contracts, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Transportation and Products Liability. Also includes the Food Drug and Cosmetic Law Reporter, Medicare/Medicaid Guide, Labor Relations Reporter and EEOC Compliance Manual.
- Congressional Record via Heinonline Provides access to full text pdf images of the Congressional Record, the Congressional Globe, and the Annals of Congress.
- Congressional Universe See "LexisNexis Congressional"
- CQ Supreme Court Collection Provides historical analysis of Supreme Ct. decisions, bios of justices, institutional history & the U.S. Constitution. Offers quantitative analysis of the Justices’ voting patterns. Provides full text & analysis of constitutions from over 100 countries
- CQ Weekly Provides coverage of all aspects of Congress, including the status of bills, voting, amendments, and in-depth analysis of floor and committee activities. Fully searchable back to 1983.
- Criminal Justice Service Provides access to both Criminal Justice Abstracts and Criminology: A SAGE Full Text Collection. Together these databases provide access to the major journals in criminology and related disciplines.
"E" Resources
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online Online collection of eighteenth century materials from the UK and elsewhere.
- English Reports (v. 1-178) through HeinOnline Full text of English Reports from 1220-1865. Searchable by citation, case name and nominative citation.
- English Reports v. 1-90 (Law Library Only*) English Reports, searchable in full text. Covers approximately 1220-1710. Click the info button for access details.
- English Reports v. 91-178 (Law Library Only*) English Reports, searchable in full text. Covers approximately 1710-1865. Click the info button for access details.
- ERIC via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Index to journal articles from 1969 to the present and ERIC documents since 1966 on educational research and practice. Allows access to the full-text of most ERIC documents from 1996-present.
- EUR-Lex Provides direct free access to European law, including the Official Journal of the European Union.
"F" Resources
- Factiva Factiva, a "mega" news & business information service, covers nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Factiva also provides stock performance data, company-to-industry comparative reports, market index reports & business press releases.
- Foreign Law Guide (Law School Only ) Online counterpart to Reynolds and Flores' Current Sources of Codes and Legislation.
"G" Resources
- Global Books in Print Provides publication information for forthcoming, in-print and out of print publications around the world.
- Global Financial Data Contains long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for more than 200 countries. Click the info button for more details.
"H" Resources
- HeinOnline Provides access to the full text of hundreds of legal journals and federal primary materials, including the Congressional Record.
- Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present Provides access to census data dating back to colonial times.
- The History Cooperative The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship.
"I" Resources
- IndexMaster (Law School Only ) Contains searchable Tables of Contents and Indexes for over 6000 legal treatises. Search by key word, key phrase, chapter author, etc. to identify books having information relating to your subject.
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Law School Only) Multilingual index to articles & book reviews published worldwide. Covers international (public & private), comparative & municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., Canada & Australia. Coverage from 1985-present, updated quarterly.
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (Law School Only ) Index to articles in legal periodicals and to legal books.
- Ingenta Comprehensive collections of 17 million multidisciplinary academic and professional research articles. Content is from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online.
- Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter (Law School Only ) The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter is a 12-page monthly selection of the most important, updated stories and features, plus the People and News Briefs columns available only for monthly subscribers. Click the info button for more details.
- InterAm (Ask at the reference desk for the password) Latin American law database developed by the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade.
- International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) (Law School Only) "ILDC brings you a regularly updated repository of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions." Click info button for more details.
- IsinoLaw (Law School Only ) Provides English translations of Chinese statutes, judicial interpretations, cases, arbitration awards and other legal matters as well as up-to-date legal news and developments in China. Purchased in memory of Xia Chen.
"J" Resources
- JSTOR Full-text back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, and other fields. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and ends about two to five years before the most recently published volume.
"L" Resources
- Los Angeles Times through ProQuest: Historical (1881-1986)
- Los Angeles Times through ProQuest: Recent (1986 - )
- Legaltrac (Law School Only ) Index to law journal articles (mostly citations, with a few full text articles) 1980 - present.
- LexisNexis Academic Full-text legal, news, reference, and business sources. Legal Research section contains United States federal and state case law and codes, as well as law reviews and legal news.
- LexisNexis Congressional Provides access to federal legislative history information from 1789, including committee prints, documents, reports, hearings, and CRS Reports. Dates of coverage for each type of document varies.
- LexisNexis Statistical Index to and selected full-text U.S. statistical data. Includes contents of the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).
- LLMC Digital Provides access to full text United States federal material and Canadian materials with an emphasis on archived older documents. Also provides access to some military law materials.
"M" Resources
- Making of Modern Law (MOML) (Use this link for access from the UCLA campus or for remote access via BOL Proxy Server or Campus VPN) Full text searching of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Search results provide digital images of the original text.
- Making of Modern Law (MOML) (Use this link for access from within the law school or for remote access via the Law School VPN) Full text searching of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Search results provide digital images of the original text.
- Making of Modern Law Trials: 1600 - 1926 (MMLT) Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City ofNew York, the product offers online access to these important collections.
- Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature Provides full text pdfs of economic literature and data (including company information and tax records) from 1460-1850.
- Martindale Hubbell International Law Digest (Law Library Only) Provides summaries of laws from over 150 countries around the world. Single user license.
- Mergent Horizon Provides detailed financial information for over 6,000 publicly traded companies, including stock performance, earnings, hierachies and major competitors.
- Mergent Online Provides current and historical balance sheet information for thousands of U.S. and international public companies.
"N" Resources
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database The NCJRS is an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Click info button for more details.
- New York Times through ProQuest: Historical (1851 - 2005)
- New York Times through ProQuest: Recent (2005- )
- Newsbank Provides coverage of 1500 newspapers world wide. Over 130 California papers are included, some of which are not available via Lexis or Factiva.
"O" Resources
- OnLaw (CEB) (Law School Only ) OnLaw is a web-based research tool containing the full text of over 80 CEB publications. The link directs you to our OnLaw Instructions & Titles page.
- Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Law School Only) The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History provides both historical & contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems. An international & interdisciplinary reference work, the Encyclopedia covers legal history from ancient to modern times.
"R" Resources
- Rand California An online source for California and United States statistics.
- RIA Checkpoint Collection of full-text primary and secondary tax research materials. Contains tax documents and secondary analysis for the areas of federal, state and local, estate planning, pensions and benefits, international and payroll taxation.
"S" Resources
- Serial Set See "United States Congressional Serial Set"
- Social Science Research Network - SSRN Provides abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming publications. Full text is available to the law school community; registration with a law school email is required.
- Sociological Abstracts Contains citations for articles from over 2,000 journals, books, papers and dissertations in the social scienes.
- Springer Electronic Book Package Provides the full text of Springer books published between 2005 and 2009 in law and social science.
"U" Resources
- U.S. Law Week (Law School Only) Provides summaries of US federal and Supreme Court cases by topic.
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Provides bibliographic and publisher information for over 300,000 serial titles.
- United Nations Master Treaty Index (Law Library Only*) Index to United Nations treaties. Click the info button for access details.
- United Nations Treaty Collection Contains the texts of over 40,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties.
- United States Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1976 Contains the full text of Congressional primary source materials, including House and Senate reports, documents and treaties.
- United States Master Treaty Index (Law Library Only*) Index to United States Treaties. Click the info button for access details.
- United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 Full text and searchable index of U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs.
- University of California eScholarship Repository Sponosored by the California Digital Library, the eScholarship repository hosts scholarly articles and working papers authored by scholars worldwide.
"W" Resources
- Wall Street Journal through ProQuest Historical (1889 - 1991)
- Wall Street Journal through ProQuest Recent (1991 - )
- Web of Science A multidisciplinary databases covering sciences, social sciences and humanities. Allows for cited reference and other citation searching.
- World Newspaper Archive Provides access to historical newspapers from around the world.
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