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Oxford Reference Library Collection
Newly updated to incorporate recent additions to the English language, this popular dictionary provides a fascinating exploration of the origins and development of words in the English language. Drawing on Oxford’s unrivalled dictionary research programme and language monitoring it brings to light the intriguing and often unusual stories of some of our most used words and phrases.
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Hassle-free eBook experience—anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Gale’s eBook platform partners with college and university librarians to collect, preserve, and organize rare content as part of our extensive collection of primary source archives and educational databases.
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The Databases A-Z list reflects the online databases to which the Law Library subscribes so that our faculty and students have access to the most up-to-date resources possible. For assistance in using any of the options on the Databases A-Z list, contact us at librarian@avemarialaw.edu or (239) 687-5504.
Appellate Practice Section of the Florida BarArticles are published regularly online and address substantive appellate topics and other issues of interest to appellate practitionersFlorida Courts Publications BarPublications from the Florida State Courts cover a wide variety of court related topics. Publications accessible from this page include committee and other official reports, operational manuals, newsletters, and statistical publications published by the court.
| 18th Century Collections Online | Digital images of books published during the 18th century, covering the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science, and more. |
| 19th Century U.S. Newspapers | Digital images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement, and illustration. |
| A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies | A comprehensive listing of U.S. Government departments and agencies. |
| ABA Forum on Air and Space Law | “The Forum’s conferences and other activities serve as the one-stop shop for attorneys interested in all aspects of domestic and international air and space law, including airlines, airports, labor, finance, litigation, environment and antitrust, as well as regulatory issues arising from governmental entities such as FAA, DOT, NASA and EASA.” |
| ABA Section on Dispute Resolution | The Section’s objectives include maintaining the ABA’s national leadership role in the dispute resolution field; providing information and technical assistance to members, legislators, government departments and the general public on all aspects of dispute resolution; studying existing methods for the prompt and effective resolution of disputes; adapting current legal procedures to accommodate court-annexed and court-directed dispute resolution processes; activating state and local bar involvement in dispute resolution, conducting public and professional education programs such as the Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Courthouse Centers Project and conducting a program of research and development including programmatic and legislative models. |
| ABI / Inform Complete | Includes full-text journals from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports. Provides access to hundreds of business titles from publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Dow Jones and Company, Emerald Group Publishing, Dun and Bradstreet, Palgrave MacMillan, the Financial Times Group, and the Economist Intelligence Unit. |
| Academic Search Complete | Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887. |
| Admiralty Law Overview from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute | An overview of Admiralty Law and links to further resources. |
| ADR & Mediation Resources | This mediation and dispute resolution resources site contains substantial on-line materials for alternative dispute resolution and mediation. |
| Alternative Dispute Resolution from Hieros Gamos | ADR typically refers to processes and techniques of resolving disputes that fall outside of the judicial process (formal litigation – court). |
| American Agricultural Law Association | Provides excellent information, advice, and counsel on all issues of agricultural law and law affecting rural communities that are readily accessible to those who will benefit therefrom, including farmers, agribusinesses, businesses associated with and serving agriculture, members of the legal profession, educators, policy-makers, and interested members of the public. |
| American Antitrust Institute | The American Antitrust Institute is an independent non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. with a mission to increase the role of competition, assure that competition works in the interests of consumers, and challenge abuses of concentrated economic power in the American and world economy. |
| American Arbitration Association | The American Arbitration Association is a not-for-profit organization with offices throughout the United States. AAA has a long history and experience in the field of alternative dispute resolution, providing services to individuals and organizations who wish to resolve conflicts out of court. |
| American Immigration Lawyers Association | Are you faced with a dilemma? You need to search the INA, CFR, and Kurzban’s while sitting in court waiting for your case to be called. You need to finish that all-important brief while sitting on a plane. You simply need to determine when to file for judicial review under REAL ID. AILLink can help! Ask your librarian for access information. |
| Antitrust Law Overview from Cornells Legal Information Institute | Provides an overview of Antitrust Law and links to further resources. |
| Artemis Primary Sources | “An integrated research experience, Artemis Primary Sources unifies extensive digital archives and enables researchers to make never-before-possible research connections. No other publisher offers this unmatched combination of uniquely rich full-text content, dependable metadata, and intuitive subject indexing – all enriched by work-flow and analytical technology that breathes new life into the study of the humanities. The Artemis Primary Sources program will first combine major archives of eighteenth and nineteenth century monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and early photographs. During 2014 Gale will begin to make available additional Archives products through Artemis, and if your library has access to these collections, they will be automatically added to the Artemis experience upon release.” |
| Biblioteca Digital – Argentina | La Biblioteca Digital adhiere a la filosofía del acceso abierto a la literatura científica, permitiendo descargar, distribuir, copiar e imprimir su material sin restricciones, asegurando así el cumplimiento de dos objetivos fundamentales. |
| Business Source Complete | Scholarly business database. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals. |
| CALI Lessons | A consortium of over 170 law schools which offers over 800 computer-based legal tutorials for use by law students at member institutions. |
| Casetext | A research tool that offers some innovative features not available on other systems. Search cases, statutes, Regulations, Rules, Admin. Materials, Briefs, Analyses, Black letter and more. Students and faculty can register for a free account using their Ave Maria School of Law email accounts. |
| Catholic Dimensions of Legal Study | Catholic Dimensions of Legal Study is an attempt by the librarians of the Judge Kathryn J. DuFour Library of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law to respond to the bishop’s call for action. It seeks to identify and describe Catholic resources useful for law teachers, law students and practicing attorneys who are seeking to integrate their faith commitment into a life in the law. |
| Catholic Newspapers Online | This list is being compiled by the Catholic Research Resources Alliance with the help of all in support of the goal to provide access to all extant Catholic newspapers in North America. Thank you in advance for your participation. |
| Catholic Research Resources Alliance | The Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) is a nonprofit membership alliance of institutions collaborating to deliver projects and services in support of its mission to provide enduring global access to Catholic research resources in the Americas. Our immediate focus is creating access to those rare, unique and uncommon research materials which are held by libraries and archives in North America. |
| Coast Guard Boating Safety Site | The U.S. Coast Guard’s Boating Safety Division (CG-5422) is dedicated to reducing loss of life, injuries, and property damage that occur on U.S. waterways by improving the knowledge, skills, and abilities of recreational boaters. |
| Cornell Legal Information Institute | “We are a not-for-profit group that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost. We carry out this vision by: Publishing law online for free; Creating materials that help people understand law; Exploring new technologies that make it easier for people to find the law.” |
| CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution | The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) is the leading independent resource helping global business and their lawyers resolve complex commercial disputes more cost effectively and efficiently. |
| CuttingEdgeLaw | A multimedia web-based documentary of a movement that is about that movement which is a transformation of the law. |
| Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division | The mission of the Antitrust Division is to promote economic competition through enforcing and providing guidance on antitrust laws and principles. |
| Digital Commons Network | The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | “The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be THE one stop shop for users of open access journals.” |
| eBook Collection (EBSCOHost) | Provides access to digital versions of books and journals. |
| Electronic Code of Federal Regulations | The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) is a currently updated version of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). It is not an official legal edition of the CFR. The e-CFR is an editorial compilation of CFR material and Federal Register amendments produced by the National Archives and Records Administration’s Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the Government Printing Office. The OFR updates the material in the e-CFR on a daily basis. |
| Electronic Information System for International Law | Use this database to search across various international resources. |
| Elgaronline | Welcome to Elgaronline: The new content platform for Edward Elgar Publishing’s journals, reference works and books, including scholarly monographs, Research Handbooks, companions and more. |
| Encyclopedia of Law and Economics | This second edition of the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Law and Economics presents a state-of-the-art overview of the literature in the area of law and economics. The series comprises twelve self-contained volumes, each providing a balanced and comprehensive summary of the following domains: criminal law, regulation, methodology of law, property law, intellectual property law, contract law, tort law, labor and employment law, antitrust law, corporate law, procedural law, and the production of legal rules. |
| European Centre for Space Law | The main objective of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) is to build up and spread, within Europe and elsewhere, an understanding of the legal framework relevant to space activities. ECSL does this by fostering the exchange of information among interested stakeholders and by helping to improve and promote the teaching of space law. Its aim is to provide updated information on Europe’s contribution to space activities beyond Europe, and therefore to enhance the European position in the field of space law practice, teaching and publications. |
| FastCase | Fastcase’s libraries include primary law from all 50 states, as well as deep federal coverage going back to 1 U.S. 1, 1 F.2d 1, 1 F.Supp. 1, and 1 B.R. 1. The Fastcase collection includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. Fastcase also provides access to a newspaper archive, legal forms, a one-stop PACER search of federal filings, people finders, and business intelligence tools through our business partners. |
| Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) | The FASAB serves the public interest by improving federal financial reporting through issuing federal financial accounting standards and providing guidance after considering the needs of external and internal users of federal financial information. |
| Federal Agencies Directory | The directory lists current/active/existing U. S. Federal Government agencies as represented in the United States Government Manual. Indentations will inform the reader of the institution’s place in the hierarchy. |
| Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) | Our mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. Learn more about how our mission is accomplished, the history of the FAA, and opportunities for the public to do business with the FAA. |
| Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | Since 1947, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation service has provided mediation and arbitration services to industry, our communities and government agencies worldwide. Our mission is to improve labor-management relations, to promote collective bargaining and to enhance organizational effectiveness. Explore this site to learn who we are, what we do, and how we can assist you. |
| Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys | The Shriver Center’s Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys covers all stages of federal litigation, from drafting and filing the complaint to trial practice and limitations on relief. This popular resource, available free of charge online, includes relevant recent caselaw and legal developments. |
| Federal Register | The Office of the Federal Register posts this unofficial, HTML (XML-based) edition of the Federal Register on FederalRegister.gov to overcome the technical limitations of the official PDF edition and to demonstrate how an alternate version can effectively convey regulatory information to the public. This HTML version is presented in a unique web journal format known as “Federal Register 2.0,” or “FR2.” |
| Federal Sentencing Reporter | Produced in collaboration with the Vera Institute of Justice, this is the only academic journal in the United States that focuses on sentencing law, policy, and reform. |
| Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) | The mission of the FASB is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting that foster financial reporting by nongovernmental entities that provides decision-useful information to investors and other users of financial reports. That mission is accomplished through a comprehensive and independent process that encourages broad participation, objectively considers all stakeholder views, and is subject to oversight by the Financial Accounting Foundation’s Board of Trustees. |
| Florida Courts | The Florida Courts’ website contains comprehensive and current information for state and federal appellate practitioners, including direct links to each of Florida’s district courts of appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| Florida Constitution | View the full-text of Florida’s Constitution. |
| Florida Electronic Library | The Florida Electronic Library is brought to you by the Public Libraries of Florida. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, which provide information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. |
| Florida Laws | Digests of General Florida laws from 2003-2010. |
| Florida Public Documents | The collection includes public documents distributed by the State Library of Florida since 1967 under the Florida Public Documents Depository Program. FAU began systematically collecting Florida documents early in 1966 and has since been able to acquire a substantial number of state documents published prior to that date. |
| Florida Statutes | Provides hyperlinks to full-text Florida statutes. |
| Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions | This database contains opinions issued in Florida Supreme Court cases decided since November 1984 and the briefs filed in those cases. |
| Florida Supreme Court-Clerks Office Forms | Supreme Court forms are provided in Adobe Acrobat. For other forms, please see rule 9.900 of the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure. |
| FTC Anti-Trust and Competition | The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition champions the rights of American consumers by promoting and protecting free and vigorous competition. The Bureau reviews mergers and acquisitions, and challenges those that would likely lead to higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation; seeks out and challenges anti-competitive conduct in the marketplace, including monopolization and agreements between competitors; promotes competition in industries where consumer impact is high, such as health care, real estate, oil & gas, technology, and consumer goods; and provides information, and holds conferences and workshops, for consumers, businesses, and policy makers on competition issues and market analysis. |
| Gale Power Search | Search engine that offers resources for education and academic research. It classifies the results on Whether peer-reviewed articles; full-text magazines, newspapers, and eBooks; primary source documents; and videos or podcasts. |
| Gale eBooks | Gale eBooks |
| Georgetown’s Maritime Law Research Guide | This guide is intended as a starting point for research in maritime law at Georgetown Law Library. It includes both primary and secondary materials, in both print and electronic formats. |
| Government Printing Office (GPO) | The official website of the GPO, providing publishing & dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public. |
| Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) | The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is the independent organization that establishes and improves standards of accounting and financial reporting for U.S. state and local governments. |
| GPO Federal Digital System (FDSys) | GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. |
| GreenFILE | Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies | The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. More information on the history of the Handbook can be found in a paper written for the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) annual meeting in 1996. |
| Hein Online | A collection of legal resources including over 40 million pages in PDF format. Titles include the Law Journal Library, English Reports, American Law Institute Library, and many others. |
| International Academy of Collaborative Professionals | IACP is the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, an international community of legal, mental health and financial professionals working in concert to create client-centered processes for resolving conflict. |
| International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) | The IFRS Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit private sector organisation working in the public interest. Its principal objectives are: to develop a single set of high quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted international financial reporting standards (IFRSs) through its standard-setting body, the IASB; to promote the use and rigorous application of those standards; to take account of the financial reporting needs of emerging economies and small and medium-sized entities (SMEs); and to promote and facilitate adoption of IFRSs, being the standards and interpretations issued by the IASB, through the convergence of national accounting standards and IFRSs. |
| International Court of Justice | Direct website to the International Court of Justice. It was established by the United Nations Charter. |
| International Space Treaties | Early information regarding original international space treaties. |
| Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce | Welcome to the Internet home of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, a scholarly publication devoted to all aspects of admiralty and maritime law, including the law of the sea. If you’re one of our many loyal readers, we think you’ll find our site a handy reference guide. If you’re not familiar with us, we invite you to spend some time at our site. In addition to information about the Journal’s history, policies, and activities, you’ll also find profiles of the Editors and Editorial Board. |
| JSTOR — Social Science Periodicals | An archive of social science and humanities journals in PDF format. |
| Law & Medicine | Issues in Law and Medicine – Subscribe and Gain Access to All Past Issues & Articles, or Purchase Individually. |
| Law 360 | Law 360 provides: (1) Nonstop coverage of high-stakes litigation across 43 practices; (2) Real-time tracking and reports on 20,000+ companies, firms and industries; (3) In-depth expert analysis from high-profile attorneys at top firms. |
| Law Review Commons | The Largest Collection of Free and Open Source Law Review Scholarship. Find well over 75,000 full-text articles in searchable, open-access law reviews. |
| LawMemo | “Since 1999, LawMemo Inc, a labor and employment law family-owned publisher, has served the legal community. LawMemo is owned by Mr. & Mrs. Esmay. A team of attorney writers and editors, and researchers provide labor and employment appellate law updates from all jurisdictions to include the DC Circuit and the US Supreme Court. LawMemo covers labor and employment topics, including immunity, procedural issues, professional licensing, ERISA and employee benefits; and other cases relevant to the labor and employment practice.” |
| Legal Fuel | LegalFuel is The Florida Bar department that provides members with resources to help run the business side of their law practices with guidance on technology, trust accounting, internal firm operations, podcasts, and free CLEs. |
| Lexis-Nexis Advance | LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. |
| Library of Congress – Databases & eResources | Databases and eResources that provide legal and legislative information for the U.S. and around the globe. |
| LoisLaw | Get comprehensive legal information when, where and how you need it, plus you are guaranteed to have: Access to the most current information; Complimentary tools; Training and technical support; Free mobile app. |
| Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises 1800-1926 | Provides digital images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. |
| Making of Modern Law, U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 | Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. |
| Maritime Law and Admiralty Page | This site is about Canadian maritime law, shipping law, marine law, fisheries law, the law of marine insurance and the law of the sea, ships and shipping. On this page you will find recent items and cases of interest. |
| Maritime Law Association of the United States | The objectives of the Association shall be to advance reforms in the Maritime Law of the United States, to facilitate justice in its administration, to promote uniformity in its enactment and interpretation, to furnish a forum for the discussion and consideration of problems affecting the Maritime Law and its administration, to participate as a constituent member of the Comité Maritime International and as an affiliated organization of the American Bar Association, and to act with other associations in efforts to bring about a greater harmony in the shipping laws, regulations and practices of different nations. |
| McGill Institute of Air and Space Law | Recognizing the critical role that legal education would play in facilitating integration of legal standards globally, in 1951, McGill University established the Institute of Air & Space Law (IASL) to provide graduate legal education for students from around the world. In the ensuing half century, IASL has educated some 800 students from 120 countries. Today, our graduates hold some of the highest positions in international organizations, governmental air transport ministries, airlines, and law firms around the world. |
| NASA Office of the General Counsel | The Office of the General Counsel provides functional leadership regarding legal services and issues related to all aspects of NASA activities for Center Chief and Patent Counsel and, for Agency-wide issues, the Administrator. These services and issues include establishing and disseminating legal policy and interpreting new statutes and cases. The Office of the General Counsel is also responsible for developing the ethics and patent program requirements, establishing metrics, and developing quality standards. |
| National Agricultural Law Center | The National Agricultural Law Center is the only agricultural law research and information facility that is independent, national in scope, and directly connected to the national agricultural information network. The Center has expanded the scope of its coverage to include food law as it recognizes the expanding scope of agricultural law and its convergence with food law topics. |
| National Association of State Departments of Agriculture | Our mission is to represent the state departments of agriculture in the development, implementation, and communication of sound public policy and programs which support and promote the American agricultural industry, while protecting consumers and the environment. |
| National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law | Informational resources on the legal aspects of human activities using aerospace technologies. |
| Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center | This site contains information on natural disasters and extreme weather from agencies. |
| New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations of the State of New York Digital Archive | The Archive contains replaced pages or "takeouts" from the New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations of the State of New York since its inception in 1945 through 2001. The dates covered in this database represent the online debut of New York’s regulatory history material covering this time period. This free resource will allow researchers, librarians, and practitioners to more easily determine previous versions of New York’s codes, rules, and regulations, a task performed in print that is currently quite difficult and time-consuming. |
| News Vault | Is Cross-searchable database of the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, 19th Century U.K. Also, provide access to Periodicals, British Library Newspapers 1732-1950, Daily Mail Historical Archive, Economist Historical Archive, Financial Times Historical Archive, Illustrated London News Historical Archive, Independent Digital Archive, Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, Listener Historical Archive, Picture Post Historical Archive, Sunday Times Digital Archive, Times Digital Archive, and the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive. |
| Oxford Reference Library Collection | A core foundation of 180+ academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries providing carefully vetted, trusted short-entry content. (1) A monthly updating program–led by Oxford’s experienced reference staff, external academic advisors, and based on user feedback–checks and revises articles for top levels of accuracy and timeliness (2) Regular content releases add new titles and editions (3) Available by annual subscription to individuals and institutions (4) New exclusive, online-only dictionaries widen the coverage of areas of study and research |
| Perseus Digital Library | Includes primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome; Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser; Arabic language documents; materials for the study of the Germanic Peoples; sources on the history of the 19th-century United States; primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature; issues of the Richmond Times Dispatch; Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin. |
| Philosophy Documentation Center | Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable access to essential resources in the humanities and social sciences. We support scholarly work in many fields with customized publishing and membership services, digitization solutions, and secure hosting. We also provide information about on-going work in philosophy and related fields in over 100 countries. |
| PLOS | Public Library Of Science | PLOS removes barriers to advance science with an open and forward-thinking publishing approach that creates new ways for scientists to share their ideas, redefines the scientific article and enhances the discoverability and influence of scientific work. |
| Points of View Reference Center | Series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. |
| PubMed | The National Library of Medicine’s database providing journal citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. |
| Ravel Law | Ravel Law provides a completely different way to do case research, using data visualization and advanced data science tools to help you understand legal landscapes |
| RefDesk | Fact Checker for the Internet |
| Religion & the Law (Hein Online) | With more than 600,000 pages and 1,200 titles consisting of books, periodicals, and bibliographies that relate to religion and the law, this library is essential for anyone who is researching the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of world religion. |
| ScienceHUß | ScienceHUß is a global science and technology publisher and provides free access to research articles and latest research information without any barrier to scientific community. Our internationally recognized publishing program covers wide array of science and technology disciplines. |
| Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry | Since its creation, the Committee has helped establish, guide, and examine agricultural policies here and abroad. It has had a hand in fashioning the research and teaching of the 1860’s, the price and income support controls of the 1930’s, and the international trade of the 1990’s. The Committee has been active in times of prosperity and peace, as well as in times of depression and war. Present Committee members face many of the same challenges and concerns as past members: commodity price and income supports, trade, research, food safety, nutrition, and conservation. |
| Sign up and gain free access to CASEMAKER libraries | Casemaker Legal Research provides 12 million legal documents to more than 475,000 attorneys expanding government agencies, law firms, law schools, judges, and practitioners. |
| St Thomas Aquinas Works | The Collected Works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Electronic edition. Past Masters Preface ISBN: 978-1-57085-000-4 Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: InteLex Corporation. |
| St. Thomas Aquinas – Complete Works | The complete works of St. Thomas Aquinas translated in English, including his complete Summa Theologiae. |
| Start My Florida Law Firm | Check out this incredible, free resource published by the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division that covers all the steps you need to go over to start your own law firm! |
| Teacher Reference Center | Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. |
| The Canadian Legal Information Institute | The Canadian Legal Information Institute is a non-profit organization that has been engaged by the law societies of Canada that are members of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to establish, operate, maintain and provide to the law societies a website dedicated to providing continuous access to a virtual library of Canadian legal information. CanLII’s goal is to make Canadian law accessible on the Internet. The present website (http://canlii.org/) provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions. Our other website, CanLII Connects, hosts a database of case commentary and case summaries which is contributed to, on a daily basis, by lawyers, scholars and others with professional competency in legal analysis. |
| The Florida Law Weekly | For all currently enrolled law students, log in to The Florida Law Weekly is free of charge. Call our office at 800-351-0917 to set up a complimentary account. |
| The Open Library of Humanities | The Open Library of Humanities provides a platform for open access publishing that is sustainable, archived, non-profit, innovative, and provides reputable content that is respected through rigorous peer review. |
| THOMAS Legislative Information on the Internet | The website of the Library of Congress, providing a wide variety of legislative materials online. |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) | The USDA provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management. |
| U.S. Government Manual | The United States Government Manual is the official handbook of the Federal Government. This special edition of the Federal Register is currently updated to provide comprehensive and authoritative descriptions of the programs and activities of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. The Government Manual also includes information about quasi-official agencies, international organizations with U.S. membership, and Federal boards, commissions, and committees. |
| United Nations | United Nations direct website |
| United Nations AudioVisual Library | Welcome to the Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Historic Archives provides a unique resource for the teaching, studying and researching significant legal instrument on international law. Each entry is devoted to a particular instrument and contains an introduction to the instrument prepared by an eminent international law scholar or practitioner with special expertise on the subject, information on its procedural history and related documents, as well as the text and status of the instrument. It is accompanied by audiovisual materials, as available, relating to the negotiation and adoption of the instrument at meetings or diplomatic conferences. The Lecture Series contains a permanent collection of lectures of enduring value on virtually every subject of international law given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different regions, legal systems, cultures and sectors of the legal profession. The Research Library provides an extensive online library of international law materials, including treaties, jurisprudence, documents, legal publications, research guides and selected scholarly writings, as well as international law training materials. |
| United Nations Documents | Covers all types of official United Nations documentation, as well as providing access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. |
| United States Coast Guard Official Website | The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization within the Department of Homeland Security. Since 1790 the Coast Guard has safeguarded our Nation’s maritime interests and environment around the world. The Coast Guard is an adaptable, responsive military force of maritime professionals whose broad legal authorities, capable assets, geographic diversity and expansive partnerships provide a persistent presence along our rivers, in the ports, littoral regions and on the high seas. Coast Guard presence and impact is local, regional, national and international. These attributes make the Coast Guard a unique instrument of maritime safety, security and environmental stewardship. |
| USSC Records & Briefs Digital Archive | Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system. |
| Versus Law | VersusLaw Law School Program is a free program provided by VersusLaw tolaw students, faculty, and library staff members associated with any AmericanJ.D. degree law school. |
| WestlawNext | A comprehensive search database covering all areas and types of legal research and information. |
| WIPO – Global Brand Database | “The Global Brand Database makes it easier to search over 18,220,000 records relating to internationally protected trademarks, appellations of origin and armorial bearings, flags and other state emblems as well as the names, abbreviations and emblems of intergovernmental organizations. The Global Brand database allows free of charge, simultaneous, brand-related searches across multiple collections.” |
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