Research databases by subject
Alphabetical list
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 UT-Austin General Libraries are available for law school use as well. UT-Austin General Libraries maintains a complete list of their databases.
Listed below are electronic resources available exclusively for law school use, as well as resources available through the UT General Libraries that we have identified as being potentially useful to the law school community.
- 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.
Law
- 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.
- Avalon Project
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School has electronic copies of significant
legal, economic, and historical documents from 1699 through the present.
- 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).
- CALI
- CALI provides more than 100 interactive lessons and tutorials to help
students learn the law. Please contact Jane O'Connell (471-8761, joconnell@law.utexas.edu)
for password and other information.
- Congressional
Universe
- 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. Additional sources are available if you are
using a computer located within the Law School or the Library.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Global
Jurist and Journal
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 Jeanne Price, (471-7148, jprice@mail.law.utexas.edu)
for other information.
- HeinOnLine
- A collection of legal periodicals, reproducing the original image of
each article. The collection includes over 100 legal periodicals and begins
with the first issue of each journal.
- 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 1918
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.
- Jurist-The Law Professors' Network
- Jurist is a university-based academic gateway to authoritative legal
instruction, information, and scholarship online.
- Law News Network
- Law News Network, published by American Lawyer Media, is a source for
information about current litigation, technology for lawyers, and legal
practice.
- 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 Jeanne Price
(471-7148, jprice@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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Making
of Modern Law
User's guide
- The Making of Modern Law 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 and will quickly become an invaluable research
tools for any students conducting historical legal research.
- ShareLaw
- ShareLaw aggregates and provides access to the online catalogs of six
of the United States' leading academic law libraries, including those of
Yale Law School, UC Berkeley, and the University
of Washington. UT-Law affiliated patrons may request materials not owned
by UT-Austin libraries through ShareLaw.
- Texas Bar CLE
- Continuing legal education courses and course materials from the State
Bar of Texas. Instructions for accessing
CLE materials.
- 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
User's guide
- 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.
- WESTLAW
- 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.
- CCH
Business and Finance Network
- Full text of primary authority and CCH current awareness materials in
the following areas: securities, global securities, banking, capital changes,
trade regulation, government contracts, telecommunications, information
technology, federal energy guidelines, transportation law, and products
liability and safety.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This resource is available from any computer within the University.
For remote access, an University UT EID is required.
- Tax Analysts
- Tax news coverage, analysis, and commentary covering the IRS, tax policy,
tax reform, personal and corporate taxes, tax practitioner ethics, budget
policy, and economic policy. A login and password is required. Please
contact Jeanne Price (471-7148,
jprice@mail.law.utexas.edu)
for more information.
Arts & humanities
- Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
- Includes important treatises and other materials from the 18th century,
including American and British law-related materials.
- JSTOR
- Collection of online journals on diverse topics such as economics, sociology,
and history.
-
Literature Online
- A database of full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English,
together with definitive online criticism and a reference library.
Business & economics
- Business
and Company Resource Center
- Topical business information and company and industry intelligence on
thousands of global companies.
- Business
Source Complete User's guide
- Provides access to academic and trade journals, books and monographs,
country and industry profiles, and market reports.
- CCH
Business and Finance Network
- Full text of primary authority and CCH current awareness materials in
the following areas: securities, global securities, banking, capital changes,
trade regulation, government contracts, telecommunications, information
technology, federal energy guidelines, transportation law, and products
liability and safety.
- EconLit
- Provides subject indexing and abstracts to journals, books, dissertations
and working papers in economics.
- 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.
- A personal ID is required.
- LexisNexis
- A personal ID is 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.
-
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.
- ERIC
- Over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles,
technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular
materials in the field of education.
Government
- Congressional
Universe
- 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. Additional sources are available if you are
using a computer located within the Law School or the Library.
- LLMC
Digital
- The LLMC Digital resource makes available page images of legal and historical
materials generated by the federal government beginning in 1789. Additional
materials from a 7500 title and 90,000 volume microform backfile are being
digitized at the rate of 10,000 volumes per year.
- STAT-USA Internet
- U.S. Government business, trade and economic data, including the National
Trade Data Bank.
- 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.
- 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.
Health & medicine
- 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.
- 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.
- PsychInfo
- Provides abstracts and some full texts of international articles in
the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
- Science
Direct (Elsevier)
- Full-text and bibliographic information for topics in science, technology,
and medicine.
History
- America:
History and Life
- A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- 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.
International affairs
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Media & communication
- CIOS-ComAbstracts
- The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles and books published
in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field as
well as bibliographic records and audio materials.
- Communication
& 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.
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Multi-disciplinary sources
- EBSCOhost
Web
- 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.
- 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.
- Google
Books
User's guide
- 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.
- 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.
- OCLC
WorldCat
- OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
- 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.
News & current events
- 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.
- 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.
- LexisNexis
- A personal ID is required.
-
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 (1851-2001)
- 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.
- Television
News Archive (Vanderbilt)
- The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news from
major U.S. national broadcast networks.
- 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.
- PAISInternational
- Database chronicling global public policy and social issues.
- 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.
Public affairs
- Congressional
Universe
- 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. Additional sources are available if you are
using a computer located within the Law School or the Library.
- Index
to Current Urban Documents
- Provides access to local government publications for 500 select cities
in the United States and Canada.
- PolicyFile
- Indexes research and publication abstracts addressing the complete range
of public policy research. Draws its content from public policy think
tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.
Reference resources
- Gale's
Ready Reference Shelf
- Popular directories (for associations, publishers, etc.) and the Literature
Resource Center.
- 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.
- PCL Map Collection
- Online maps of general interest.
- Social Science Research
Guides
- A collection of guides to conducting research in the Social Sciences.
Written by PCL staff members.
Religion & philosophy
- PastMasters-
Philosophy Full-text Database
- A collection of primary-source, full-text humanities databases whose
titles comprise the complete works of individual authors.
- Philosopher's
Index
- Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy
and related fields.
- 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.
- 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.
- IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (IEE) articles, publications, and standards.
- 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
- 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.
- Gender
Studies Database
- Provides citations, abstracts, and some full text of academic and non-academic
articles in gender studies.
- JSTOR
- Collection of online journals on diverse topics such as economics, sociology,
and history.
- Sociological
Abstracts
- Provides citations and abstracts to articles, books, and conferences
covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.
- 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.
- Child
Abuse, Childe Welfare & Adoption Database
- Bibliographic resource on the mistreatment of children.
- Social
Services Abstracts
- This premier database provides abstracts and indexing of the international
literature of social work.
