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19th Century Masterfile is comprised of over 60 subject indexes to periodicals, newspapers, books, U.S. Congressional Record, U.S. patents and U.S. and U.K. government documents published before 1930. Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature and Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature.less

Detailed analyses of laws and rules that govern the practice of law, including state-by-state rulings.

Guidance on emerging, evolving, and complex issues relating to accounting rules and principles, financial statements and disclosures, management control and analysis, auditing principles and standards, and accounting practice and responsibility.less

A clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.

Searchable text of documents and data tabulations relating to the American presidency, including some resources going back to 1789-.

Federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law.

Provides regular, in-depth coverage of developments in state and federal bankruptcy law.

Wide collection of publications and alert services that includes both primary legal sources, analytical materials, business and government information and analysis. Specialty areas include corporate law & business; employee benefits; employment & labor law; environment, health & safety; health care; human resources; intellectual property; litigation; and tax & accounting.less

Via IntelliConnect. Provides access to U.S. Federal, state, and international tax information including laws, regulations, cases, treatises, and current awareness and practice tools. Click on "Practice Areas" at the top, right hand side of the screen.  Unclick all boxes except "Tax and Accounting" and then click "OK."  Click on browse function on the left hand side of the page.  Browsing will be limited to titles related to tax and accounting.less

Soon to be archive-only, this is the former GPO site for CFR. The new version is delivered by GPO's new FDsys portal.

Via FDsys, the portal of the United States Government Printing Office's Federal Digital System. Search from 1996 forward.

Provides free public access to federal legislative information.  Launched September 19, 2012 by the Library of Congress and currently in beta, it is the successor to the Thomas database. Legislation from the 107th Congress (2001) to the present as well as member profiles 1973 to the present are currently available.  Over the next 2 years Congress.gov will be incorporating all the information now on Thomas.less

A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain.less

Provides an historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest group ratings, public policy legislation, current committees, background information and definitions, and chronology related to US Congress.less

The CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin research on current topics. This weekly publication covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria. Coverage includes 1991-present.less

Combines historical analysis with updates and commentary of US Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history and the US Constitution. Also includes background and commentary on constitutions from over 100 countries.less

Offers documents and data, authoritative analyses, background information and definitions, chronology, and historical material related to specific elections (Congressional, presidential, and gubernatorial) and the electoral process in America. A data set of voting/election statistics is available for exporting/downloading.less

Source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. less

Reports on developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law.

Database with over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War. Allows for single source access to key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, and journalism.less

Natural disasters and other catastrophic events lay bare the weaknesses in the legal system's ability to respond to events of this scale. Our society must put into practice innovative policies to recover effectively and equitably from past disasters and to prepare for future catastrophes. This Disasters & the Law database maintained by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Library has been designed to assist this effort, by facilitating an exchange of information and ideas from fields as diverse as urban planning, bankruptcy law, and wetlands banking. The database contains links to information gathered from a variety of sources. Most are freely available on the web, although a small number require subscription access.less

Content previously contained in Communications Regulation from Pike & Fischer has been incorporated in this revised database along with additional analysis, news, case law, pleadings, statutes and regulations.less

Comprehensive coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity, the Report spans all areas of EEO policy and practice.less

The Guide describes the major statutes and regulations administered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that affect businesses and workers and is designed mainly for those needing "hands-on" information to develop wage, benefit, safety and health, and nondiscrimination policies for businesses.less

Coverage of legislative, regulatory, legal, and policy news concerning the environment. Includes proposed, new, and amended federal and state laws, rules, standards, and other significant documents.less

Provides analysis and reporting on every aspect of environmental law. Includes current news, articles, cases, administrative documents, environmental statutes, international treaties and federal and state regulations. If the page does not load within 20 seconds, click the reload button (on Firefox) or select View > Refresh (on Internet Explorer); on the second try, the ELR page should load immediately.less

The Environmental Protection Agency's Rulemaking Gateway "complements Regulations.gov, the federal government’s main portal for tracking rules from all federal agencies, by providing brief overviews of specific EPA rules and additional ways to search rules based on the phases they are in (e.g., pre-proposal, proposal), the topics they relate to (e.g., air, water), and the impacts they might have (e.g., impacts on small businesses or environmental justice)."—EPA News Release, February 18, 2010.less

Weekly newsletter covering important new federal and state cases, legislation, and trends on a variety of topics related to Family Law.

FDsys is a service of the Government Printing Office and provides free, online access to “America's Authentic Government Information”.  Updated daily, it provides electronic access to thousands of official federal government publications produced by all three branches of the U.S. government including the Federal Register, the Congressional Record and the United States Code.  FDsys is the successor to GPO Access which it replaced as of November 5, 2011.less

List of sources of federal agency decisions, actions, and FOIA reading rooms. Organized by topic. Compiled by the University of Virginia Library.less

The research and education agency of the federal judicial system. Basic history of the federal courts and judges on the federal bench since 1789. Includes Federal Judges Biographical Database, Courts of the Federal Judiciary, Landmark Judicial Legislation and Topics in Federal Judicial History.less

Via HeinOnline. Search or browse issues from volume 1 (1936) to present. View or download PDFs. Federal Register indexes, accessible from the same HOL library, can be separately searched.less

Via FDsys, the portal for the United States Government Printing Office's Federal Digital System. Search issues from 1994 forward.

Latest legal developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends.less

Via HeinOnline. Database with legislative histories, treaties, documents, books and scholarly journal articles related to bankruptcy in the United States. In addition to full-text searching, can browse legislation by Public Law number or popular name.less

Via IntelliConnect.  Detailed, current coverage of federal and state laws, regulations, cases, and compliance issues. Topics covered include management of human resources; payroll; benefits; pensions; labor and employment law; safety/OSHA; environmental compliance; health care reimbursement; health care compliance; and food, drugs and devices. Includes historical archives of laws and cases.  Click on "Practice Areas" at the top, right hand side of the screen.  Unclick "Financial Services," "Legal Professionals," and "Tax and Accounting" and then click "OK."  Click on browse function on the left hand side of the page.  Browsing will be limited to titles related to human resources. less

An exclusive online newsletter updated throughout the week regarding news involving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is one of several online newletters accessible through the InsideEPA.com website.

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InsideEPA.com provides news, updated at least daily, about regulatory and policy developments involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is comprised of the following online newsletters accessible through this InsideEPA.com website: InsideEPA (weekly and daily news reports), Inside Cal/EPA, Clean Air Report, Defense Environment Report, Environmental Policy Alert, Risk Policy Report, Superfund Report, Water Policy Report. less

Via HeinOnline. E-books, legislative histories, legislation, regulations, federal agency decisions, manuals and scholarly articles related to intellectual property law. Continuously updated, the database contains both modern and historical resources, including digital versions of treatises published as early as 1774. Also includes selected foreign and comparative resources.less

Pike & Fischer's Internet Law & Regulation has been incorporated into BNA's Internet Law Resource Center which contains an archive of full-text case law, pleadings, statutes, regulations, news and analysis.less

This service organizes federal statutory, regulatory, enforcement, and disclosure information and makes it useful through emphasis on search, guidance, current awareness, and analytics. It focuses specifically on heavily regulated industries including securities, finance, communications, technology, and energy as well as all industries affected by trade, environmental, and labor regulation. The service includes a Dodd-Frank Tracker.less

A comprehensive resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of labor and employment: fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration.less

The Law Library of Congress has digitized three collections of selectively compiled congressional hearings (Census, Freedom of Information/Privacy, and Immigration) as a pilot project. Ultimately, this resource will provide full-text access to approximately 75,000 volumes of hearings held by the Library. less

Online version of various Yellow Book Leadership Directories. The Leadership Library is a personnel contact database for government, business, media, and nonprofit organizations. It lists names, titles, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and biographical data.less

Via HeinOnline. More than 1200 works on US and English legal thought, both classics and rare titles, focusing on constitutional law, political science, legal philosophy and jurisprudence, biography, and more.less

Includes access to LexisNexis Academic for news, business and legal information. LexisNexis formerly also offered LN Congressional and LN Legislative Insight, LN Statistical Insight and LN Statistical Datasets, and LN Government Periodicals Index; these services were bought by ProQuest and are listed in this index under P.less

A U.S. law database with cases, statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, e-books and bar journals, including selected Aspen publications.less

Fully searchable digital archive containing constitutional conventions and compilations (reports, journals, proceedings, debates, manuals, rules of order, and information for the use of delegates); city charters (the texts of enacted and proposed charters and ordinances in American jurisdictions); law dictionaries; and early U.S. state codes. Primary Sources will also include colonial records from the Primary Source Microfilm collection Published Records of the American Coloniesless

A fully searchable collection of briefs and other documents related to cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. It contains over 150,000 cases and 350,000 documents. Search results are linked to the actual full-text PDF documents.less

A digital collection of more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. Focuses on economics but includes political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Combines the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library, and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale.less

This encyclopedia of law provides both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems and covers legal history from ancient to modern times.  Major categories of law include: private law (contract, tort, civil procedure), public law (statutory, criminal, etc.), and higher or constitutional law.  This set is also available in print at the Reference Desk.less

Reference sources from Oxford University Press, including legal dictionaries (Dictionary of Law, Dictionary of Law Enforcement, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law) and several encyclopedias, guides and companions to legal topics in American, international and foreign law. Search sources collectively or search within an individual titleless

The Oyez Project includes many hours of oral arguments (in real audio) as well as transcripts. Other resources includes biographical information about Supreme Court Justices. less

An electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy court. This service does require users to register and there are fees involved.less

Covers new laws and rules in this emerging new practice area, with the latest privacy and security legal developments - from online marketing to employee screening to patient privacy.less

Provides index and abstracts of congressional publications back to 1789, including full text of congressional hearings from 1824-2003, full text Committee Prints from 1830-2003, full text Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports from 1916-2003, and legislative histories from 1970-present. Please note that ProQuest is currently digitizing its hearings from 1824-1979 so some hearings may not be available full text. Congressional and Statistical training videos are now available on the YouTube channel.less

A federal legislative history service comprised of fully searchable full-text PDFs of publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of public laws, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.less

Via Westlaw (personal password required). A collection of over 1,700 out-of-print treatises and other legal materials published between 1840 and 1970. Comprehensive searching is available in Rise of American Law (ROAL-All) which combines the following six databases: International (ROAL-INT); Jurisprudence and Encyclopedias (ROAL-JUR); Practice Guides (ROAL-PRACGD); Treatises, Casebooks and Instructional Materials (ROAL-TREA); Legal History, including Commentaries and Speeches (ROAL-LEGHIST); and Dictionaries and Words and Phrases (ROAL-DICT).
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Track legislative and regulatory proposals and actions affecting securities laws, futures regulation, accounting issues, and related matters. Comprehensive, up-to-date information on SEC and CFTC regulations and FASB actions.less

Documents from the United States and Europe, newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era. Database is comprised of over 1.5 million cross-searchable pages, 7,247 books, 80 serials, more than fifteen manuscript collections and court records. Also includes reference materials from Macmillan, Scribners, and Gale encyclopedias and material published through partnerships with the Amistad Research Center, Oberlin College, Oxford University, and other institutions.less

This archive contains all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990. In addition, there is a collection of 610 of the most important historical decisions of the Court. less

Resources for pursuing a study of Supreme Court history and its operations, including information about individual Justices and major decisions during the tenure of each Chief Justice.less

This Law Library of Congress website provides "Nomination Documents" for both "Confirmed" and "Not Confirmed" Supreme Court nominees. A chart includes the date of nomination, date of confirmation or other result, the available nomination "documents", who they were nominated by and who they replaced. Documentation for all justices is not yet available. Some of the nomination documents available are "Floor Debates", "Floor Vote", "Hearings", "Senate Floor Statements", and "Executive Report", The "Selected Resources" section lists recent Supreme Court nominees, some confirmed, and some not. Resources include "Articles/books by", "Congressional Documents", and even "Video" of some of the nominees are featured here.less

The Tax and Accounting Center offers a comprehensive array of analysis, news, primary sources, and practice tools covering federal, international, and state tax issues and financial accounting.less

A comprehensive array of analysis, news, primary sources, and practice tools covering federal, international, and state tax issues and financial accounting.less

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.less

Via HeinOnline.  Access to over 900 volumes of legislative history materials regarding taxation and economic reform in the United States.  Includes the Carleton Fox collection, with 48 years of historical legislation related to internal revenue laws, and 25 legislative histories about U.S. economic reform and stimulus plans.less

From 1989 onward, it traces federal legislation and contains the full text of bills, resolutions, reports, public laws, roll call votes, the Congressional Record, presidential nominations, and treaties. It will eventually be replaced by Congress.gov, as the information now on Thomas becomes available on Congress.gov, Thomas's successor site launched in beta by the Library of Congress in September 2012.less

Via HeinOnline. Official and unofficial collections of treaties and other international legal instruments to which the US is a party, including Indian treaties. Supporting materials include historical books and periodicals relating to US treaty-making.less

Primary materials from 1817- (15th Congress), including House and Senate reports, documents and journals; electronic access is through 1980 (96th Congress) at present, but content is being added. Also includes many important 19th century executive agency documents that were printed in congressional editions during the 19th century. Also includes American State Papers, materials originating from 1789 through 1838 but published in the mid 19th century.less

Reports on the most significant cases, regulations and legislative developments across the United States.

The full text of all decisions reported in U.S. Patents Quarterly from 1946 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process.less

The official publication of presidential statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary. Companion publication, Public Papers of the President of the United States, includes many items originally published in WCPD and is also available via GPO Access (1991- ), but publishes less frequently and is therefore usually four or more years behind current date. Both publications are also available from Hein Online (q.v.), in the US Presidential Library.less

Covers legal developments affecting the prosecution and defense of fraud and other white collar crimes.

Official White House website.

A continuously updated, complimentary, multi-media Web resource with news and information from around the world on climate change issues. legislative and regulatory developments, court and administrative decisions, compliance news, state and federal government policies, international developments, emissions trading, and market information.less

Via HeinOnline. Historical collection of books, trial transcripts, and other court documents from famous and important trials. Predominantly Anglo-American.less

Online version of various Yellowbook Leadership Directories. The Leadership Library is a personnel contact database for government, business, media, and nonprofit organizations. It lists names, titles, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and biographical data.less