Legal research databases
The Law Library makes available to the Law School community a number of legal research databases. Additionally, all of the electronic resources available through the University Libraries are available for law school use as well. The University Libraries maintain a complete list of their databases.
Access individual resources through the subject headings below or through the alphabetical list of resources that follows.
Subject headings
Alphabetical list
A-F, G-L, M-R, S-Z
- Resources only available to UT-Austin Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resources available to all members of the UT-Austin community, including Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resources available to the general public.
Some databases otherwise restricted to the Law School or the UT-Austin community may be available to patrons who use on-site computers within the Library.
- ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct

- A comprehensive source for news and guidance on attorney conduct and legal
ethics, including topical practice guides and current reports related to
professional conduct.
- Accounting Policy & Practice Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- The biweekly Accounting Policy & Practice Report provides financial accounting policymakers and their advisors with experts' insights and guidance on emerging, evolving, and complex issues. It is combined with regularly issued Special Reports that provide expanded coverage on important issues.
- Accounting Policy & Practice Series
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- This series helps accounting policymakers and practitioners in companies, public accounting firms, and other professional environments keep abreast of ongoing and emerging issues and assists them in analyzing pronouncements and other actions by major accounting and auditing standard setters.
- Accounting Research Manager (ARM)

- Comprehensive knowledgebase of expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental, internal controls, and SEC information, as well as primary source data. Available modules include Accounting Standards, SEC Practice, Auditing, and Internal Controls.
- Alt-Press Watch

- A full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals from alternative
and independent presses. This interdisciplinary resource provides a valuable
source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge mainstream
media coverage.
- America: History and Life

- A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- Anthropology
Plus

- Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries,
edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical,
biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore,
material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
- Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Provides timely accounts of significant judicial, legislative, administrative, and enforcement actions from Washington, DC, the states, and around the world.
- Avalon Project

- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School has electronic copies of significant
legal, economic, and historical documents from 1699 through the present.
- Bankruptcy Law Reporter
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Bankruptcy Law Reporter provides regular, in-depth coverage of developments in state and federal bankruptcy law.
- Berkeley Electronic (BE) Press - Legal
Repository, ResearchNow,
and e-journals

- A network and database of law, business, and interdisciplinary scholarship.
BEPress provides a repository of scholarly articles (Legal
Repository), publishes a series of electronic journals on economics and business, political science and public affairs,
health and medicine, and science and technology, and provides a portal that
enables users to search the repository and e-journals and to receive email
notifications of new scholarship (ResearchNow).
- Business and Company Resource Center

- Topical business information and company and industry intelligence on
thousands of global companies.
- Business Source Complete

- Provides access to academic and trade journals, books and monographs,
country and industry profiles, and market reports.
- CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction)

- CALI provides more than 100 interactive lessons and tutorials to help
students learn the law. Please contact Brian Quigley (471-6228, bquigley@law.utexas.edu)
for password and other information.
- CCH
Tax Research Network

- Includes complete coverage of federal and state primary authority, as
well as current awareness materials, covering federal and state income and
estate tax.
- CIAO- Columbia International Affairs Online

- A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes
working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series
from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences,
books, journals and policy briefs.
- Communication &;amp Mass Media Complete

- Provides indexing and some full text of articles, reviews, encyclopedias,
and handbooks in the area of communication and mass media. This service
also provides indices for National Communication Association journals.
- Computer Source

- The latest information and current trends in high technology. This database
offers full text for more than 300 publications and indexing and abstracts
for nearly 450 publications.
- Contemporary Women's Issues

- Bibliographic information and the full-text for approximately 10,000 items
drawn from journals, book and media reviews, the alternative press, fact
sheets and guides, newsletters, government reports and data, personal narratives,
instructional pamphlets, legislative actions, and proceedings.
- Criminal Law Reporter
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Contains timely, objective reporting on significant developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law today.
- Dispute Settlement Commentaries (DSCs)

- Provides a comprehensive research tool for World Trade Organization (WTO)
dispute settlement, with legal analysis of selected trade law issues, summary
and critical analysis of arbitrations, keyword indexing, and a database
of dispute settlement tables and statistics. WTO panel and appellate body
reports are available from one to three weeks after their circulation to
WTO members.
- EBSCOhost Legal Collection

- Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 law journals.
The majority of titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
- EBSCOhost Research Databases

- EBSCOhost offers a number of subject-specific research databases. The
above link takes you to a listing of those databases, and allows you to
select one or more databases within which to conduct a search.
- EconLit

- Provides subject indexing and abstracts to journals, books, dissertations
and working papers in economics.
- Editor & Publisher

- The authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper
industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing,
technology, online and syndicates.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online

- Includes important treatises and other materials from the 18th century,
including American and British law-related materials.
- Electronic Commerce & Law Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Provides national and global perspectives on the digital economy with objective, vital news of trends and developments, insights and legal expertise.
- Employment Discrimination Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Featuring uniquely comprehensive and objective coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity, the Report spans all areas of EEO policy and practice.
- Environment Reporter - Current Reports
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- This environmental resource keeps you fully up to date on rapidly changing developments in courts, Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures, industry, and environmental organizations.
- Environmental
Law Reporter Online

- Produced by the Environmental Law Institute, this resource contains many
features devoted to environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, health/safety,
and land use law and policy. Provides federal, state, and international
updates and analyses, case summaries, and the full text of statutory and
regulatory materials related to environmental law and policy.
- ERIC

- Over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles,
technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular
materials in the field of education.
- Ethnic NewsWatch

- Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish)
and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals
of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other
side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered
by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
- Factiva

- A global information resource, providing full-text access to top national
and international newspapers, newswires, business journals, market research
reports, analysts reports and web sites.
- Family Law Reporter - Current Reports
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- As the only nationally oriented family law information service available, the Reporter is your most reliable guide to important new federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues.
- Foreign Law Guide

- A guide to legislation and English translations of codes, laws and other relevant material from jurisdictions around the world. Provides information on sources of foreign law, including citations to legislation and the existence of English translations, both official and unoffical. Also provides selected references to secondary sources in English.
- Gale Legal Forms: Texas

- Contains over 1,000 legal forms specific to Texas in MS Word and PDF formats.
Most forms can be completed on-line before being printed. Also contains
brief descriptive summaries on the uses of most forms, as well as a glossary
of legal terms and concepts written specifically for the layperson.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library

- A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources. Fully searchable across all files.
- Gender Studies Database

- Provides citations, abstracts, and some full text of academic and non-academic
articles in gender studies.
- Global Jurist and Journals of Legal Scholarship

- Berkeley Electronic Press publishes two groups of electronic journals.
The Global Jurist (Global Jurist Frontiers, Global Jurist Advances, and Global Jurist Topics) series focuses on foreign legal systems and comparative
law, while the Journals of Legal Scholarship, consisting of Theoretical Inquiries in Law and Issues in Legal Scholarship, cover a broad range of legal issues. An electronic
alert service is available for newly published articles. Please contact Jane O'Connell, (471-8761, joconnell@mail.law.utexas.edu)
for other information.
- Google Books

- Searches full-text books digitized by the Google Books Partnership Project
and the Google Books Library Project.
- Google Scholar

- Searches scholarly articles from a variety of academic publishers, professional
societies, and university presses.
- Health Affairs

- Committed to the exploration of policy issues in the domestic and international
health arenas. Contains papers from industry, labor, government and academe.
Also contains book reviews.
- Health Law Reporter
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Provides up to date coverage with the latest legal developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends.
- HeinOnLine

- A collection of legal periodicals, government documents, historical monographs, and other collections related to law. The collection includes over 1,200 legal periodicals and begins with
the first issue of each journal.
- Historical Abstracts

- Contains citations and abstracts of literature from countries other than
the United States and Canada on political, diplomatic, economic, social,
cultural and intellectual history.
- IEEE/IEE Electronic Library

- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (IEE) articles, publications, and standards.
- Index to Current Urban Documents

- Provides access to local government publications for 500 select cities
in the United States and Canada.
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson & Co.)

- Provides abstracts and citations and, in some cases, full text, of articles
from 891 legal periodicals (Aug. 1981-present) and English-language books
published in 1993 or later. The Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
file covers over 500 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada,
Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand between 1908 and 1981.
Click on
to access the full text of articles. See also LegalTrac.
- Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law

- Provides coverage of law-related articles published in English-language periodicals not indexed by other legal journal indexes. Coverage begins with 1958.
- Intellectual Property Library / United States Patent Quarterly
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- A comprehensive collection of resources available on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law — cases, statutes, regulations, analytical materials, and more — all easily searchable.
- International Trade Reporter
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- This weekly service provides rapid, reliable notification of the most significant developments affecting U.S. trade and international business policy and the policies of major U.S. trading partners in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia.
- JSTOR

- Collection of online journals on diverse topics such as economics, sociology,
and history.
- Labor Relations Reporter / Labor & Employment Law Library
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- A complete resource for cases and guidance in all major areas of the field: fair employment, individual employment rights, disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration.
- Legal Scholarship Network

- A series of electronic journals of abstracts -- of working papers as well
as articles accepted for publication -- in various areas of law. Searchable,
free online archives available. If you would like to subscribe to any of
the journals (delivered via e-mail), please contact Jane O'Connell (471-8761,
joconnell@mail.law.utexas.edu).
- LegalTrac

- Use this database to find citations to articles published in all major
law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and
legal newspapers. Click on 'Find it UT' to access the full text of articles.
See also the Index to Legal Periodicals.
- LexisNexis

- A reliable resource for State and Federal cases, codes, administrative
materials, business resources and a wealth of analytic content such as Matther
Bender titles. This paasword accessible resource also provides extensive
news coverage, public records, and live on-line research assistance.
- LexisNexis Congressional

- Includes legislation and public policy, statistical information including
projections and analyses, legislative history, federal regulations, voting
and financial records for individual members as well as members of various
congressional committees. Searchable full text of House and Senate documents (1817-present), reports (1819-present), and hearings (1824-present) is available.
- LLMC Digital

- The LLMC Digital resource makes available page images of legal and historical
documents and scholarly works. Extensive collections of U.S. federal and
state documents, Anglo-American case reporters, legal encyclopedias, and
reference materials, and legal materials from several civil law jurisdictions
are currently available. Additional materials from a 7500 title and 90,000
volume microform backfile are being digitized at the rate of 10,000 volumes
per year.
- Loislaw

- LoisLaw provides access to case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative
law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and D.C. 18 topical
"law libraries" include the Aspen/CCH Bankruptcy Law Library,
CCH State-Specific Employment Law Library, and the Internet and E-Commerce
Law Library. Special features allow user to search across juridictions,
cite-check case law and statutes, or copy and paste directly into a word
processor. A login and password are required. Please contact Jane O'Connell
(471-8761, joconnell@law.utexas.edu)
for more information.
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises

- The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises is a digital online archive of 22,000 legal treatises published in the United States and Great Britain between 1800 and 1926.
The fully searchable database provides access to over 10 million individual
page images from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay
readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.
- Making of Modern Law: Trials
- The Making of Modern Law: Trials is a digital collection of more than 10,000 titles describing courtroom dramas published between 1600 and 1926. The two million pages of searchable content is derived from primary source documents located in the law libraries of Yale University, Harvard University, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. Included in the collection are unofficially published trial accounts, official trial documents, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
- Martindale-Hubbell

- Martindale-Hubbell online is the oldest and most established directory
of lawyers practicing in the US. It also includes listings for lawyers practicing
in several foreign nations.
- Matthew Bender Online

- This resource is available from any computer located within the Law School.
For remote access, a login and password are required.
- National Bureau of Economic Research

- NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization,
and NBER researchers are the leading scholars in their fields. This searchable
esource provides access to NBER Working Papers, articles from issues of
the NBER Digest, and a catalog of available and forthcoming books. Specific
NBER topical programs and working groups address topics such as as Law and
Economics, Economics of National Security, and Market Microstructures.
- netLibrary

- Full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books)
from leading university, academic and professional publishers. Ebooks may
be viewed online or "checked out." To check out a title you must create
an account.
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Newspaper Source

- Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and
international newspapers. The database also contains full text television
& radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional
(U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
- New York Times (1851-2004)
- The New York Times archive includes all articles published since the
paper's first issue in 1851. The database has full-text and -image articles
with digital reproductions of every page, every article, and every issue
in PDF format. In addition to news stories, it also includes editorials,
letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos,
and advertisements.
- NLM Gateway (Medline)

- The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at
the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches
MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LocatorPlus, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov,
DIRLINE, Genetics Home Reference, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, and
HSDB.
- OCLC
FirstSearch

- Online catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
- PAISInternational

- Database chronicling global public policy and social issues.
- PastMasters- Philosophy Full-text Database

- A collection of primary-source, full-text humanities databases whose titles
comprise the complete works of individual authors.
- Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Comprehensive news of the most important intellectual property cases, statutes, trends, and other key developments in all areas of the law.
- PCL Map Collection

- Online maps of general interest.
- Philosopher's Index

- Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy
and related fields.
- Political Database
of the Americas

- A non-governmental Internet-based project that provides reference materials,
primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries
in the Western Hemisphere.
- PsychInfo

- Provides abstracts and some full texts of international articles in the
professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
- Religion and Philosophy Collection

- This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions,
major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology,
political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history
of philosophy.
- RIA Checkpoint

- Tax and financial research source for authoritative analysis on tax, financial
accounting law. Provides access to publications from the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants , Financial Accounting Standards Board,
as well as large number of treatises and news titles from other publishers.
- Science
Direct (Elsevier)

- Full-text and bibliographic information for topics in science, technology,
and medicine.
- Science Online

- The electronic version of Science, with additional online-only
features.
- Scientific American (1851-2001)

- The Scientific American archive includes all articles published since
that periodical's first issue in 1851. The database has full-text and -image
articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article, and every
issue in PDF format. In addition to technical information on historic inventions
and patents, it also includes editorials, letters to the editor, photos,
and advertisements relating to innovations in science and industry.
- Social
Sciences Citation Index

- Enables access to current and retrospective bibliographic information,
abstracts, and cited references found in more than 1,700 social sciences,
science, and technology journals in over 50 disciplines.
- Securities Regulation and Law Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Covers federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting, with objective coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, industry, courts, and Congress.
- Social
Services Abstracts

- This premier database provides abstracts and indexing of the international
literature of social work.
- Sociological
Abstracts

- Provides citations and abstracts to articles, books, and conferences covering
sociology, social work, and other social sciences.
-
SourceOECD

- The online library for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development.
- STAT-USA Internet

- U.S. Government business, trade and economic data, including the National
Trade Data Bank. User ID and password required for access; inquire at the reference desk.
- Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Monthly journal that keeps you abreast of such wide-ranging compensation planning issues as qualified plan compliance, employment taxes, health care and other employee benefits, and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, including the impact of section 409A.
- Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Bimonthly reporting and commentary on topics such as marital deduction planning, estate and trust administration, charitable gifts, and valuation.
- Tax Management International Journal
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- This monthly journal covers the full range of global tax developments. It features analysis and commentary by distinguished international tax practitioners on cases, rulings, regulations, legislation, tax treaties, and other matters; current status of U.S. treatises; and a cross-border view of Canada-U.S. tax practice.
- Tax Management Memorandum
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- The Memorandum provides a uniquely authoritative outlook, including the biweekly commentary of Tax Management's Advisory Boards on new issues, developments, trends and strategies. The Memorandum also contains news and issues in business tax planning.
- Tax Management Portfolios - Federal Collection: U.S. Income; Estates, Gifts and Trusts; and Foreign Income
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- A comprehensive federal tax resource — including research, guidance, and implementation tools, all on one platform.
- Tax Management Real Estate Journal
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- This monthly journal offers the latest insights in almost every crucial area of real estate tax planning, including passive loss rules, tax-free exchanges, workouts, REMICS and REITs. Includes analytical articles, practitioners' comments, and reviews of recent developments.
- Tax Management State Tax Portfolios
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- More than 70 Portfolios examine topics of state taxation focusing on complex income tax, sales and use tax, and property tax issues.
- Tax Management Weekly Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- TM Weekly Report is a weekly source for information on legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments from the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, the courts, and in Congress. The Report also provides articles on new and emerging areas of taxation.
- Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- This weekly report provides state-by-state analysis of state code and regulations, state administrative and judicial court decisions, and state administrative pronouncements. It covers income and franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, property taxes, miscellaneous taxes (including gross receipts taxes, excise taxes, and others), and other developments.
- Television News Archive (Vanderbilt)

- The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news from
major US national broadcast networks.
- Texas Bar CLE

- Continuing legal education courses and course materials from the State
Bar of Texas. Instructions for accessing
CLE materials.
- United
Nations Treaty Collection

- Provides access to the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited
with the Secretary-General, the United Nations Treaty Series (full text
of UN treaties), and recently deposited multilateral treaties.
- United States Law Week
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- A complete, authoritative way to keep up with the most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law.
- United States Patent Quarterly / Intellectual Property Library
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- A comprehensive collection of resources available on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law — cases, statutes, regulations, analytical materials, and more — all easily searchable.
- US Congressional Serial Set

- The serial set includes reports, documents, and journals of the US senate
and house of representatives. Upon completion the resource will provide
access to materials dated from 1817 to 1980; currently, the resource covers
1817-1841.
- US Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978

- Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs from over 150,000
cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this
resource provides full-text search capabilities to more than 350,000 documents,
including appellant's and appellee's briefs, oral transcripts, and petitions
for writ of certiorari.
- VersusLaw

- Free registration for Law School users, though registration requires an
email address ending in .edu.
- Web of Science

- Provides web access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation
Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index. Covers more than 8,400 journals.
- WESTLAW

- An online, password-accessible legal research service providing access
to statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources,
along with current news articles and business information. A very large
number of secondary legal materials are available along with KeyCite citation
checking and research assistance. A personal ID is required.
- Westlaw Public Access

- Westlaw Public Access, a comprehensive legal research database, is available
for use by UT students and members of the public. Please inquire at the
Library reference desk.
- White Collar Crime Report
available on trial subscription through Nov. 30, 2009
- Legal developments affecting the prosecution and defense of fraud and other white collar crimes are the focus of this compelling new notification service.
- WorldCat Local@Tarlton

- Provides access to the OCLC WorldCat database, including the holdings of the Tarlton Law Library and the University of Texas Libraries, through a single search box. Easy to navigate search results allow for refinements to be made based on a resource's format, language, and date of publication. Users affiliated with the Law School can request holds on materials held by the Law Library or can place interlibrary loan requests.
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