Online Research Resources
Access information and Citation Linker
BNA
Full-text, searchable access to on-line versions of numerous BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) publications, including Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Corporate Law Daily, Daily Labor Report, Labor Relations Reporter, Environment Reporter, ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct, Health Law Reporter, Tax Management Portfolios, U.S. Law Week, and Securities Law Daily.
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CCH
CCH(Commerce Clearing House) Tax Research Network. Makes available
federal and state tax information. At the bottom of the "desktop
favorites" page (the first page after you click on enter) are
tutorials and search hints.
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& Off-Campus with NetID
CQ Historic Documents
CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition coverage begins in 1972 with annual updates. Contains primary source documents and commentary relating to each years key events including presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, and US Government reports.
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CQ Supreme Court Collection
An encyclopedic view of Supreme Court opinions and justices. Provides Supreme Court case opinions organized by topic with background commentary, biographies of Supreme Court justices with links to important cases in which they participated, and statistical tools to analyze trends in Supreme Court jurisprudence.
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Current Index to
Legal Periodicals
CILP provides early indexing under 100 subject headings to law school
reviews and other selected legal journals.
CILP also includes full tables of contents of covered journals
.
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Foreign Law Guide
The Foreign Law Guide is organized by country and provides detailed information (and links where available) on how and where to find codes, legislation, and, to a lesser extent, court decisions and administrative materials from jurisdictions around the world. Each country’s entry includes a brief description of its form of government and its legal history, together with detailed narrative on locating that country’s law, both by type of law (statutes, case opinions) and by subject (tax, environmental law). The Foreign Law Guide also includes an alphabetical listing of major international treaties and conventions with helpful links and information on finding treaties in print.
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Hein - On-
Line
After following link to Hein Online, click on “Subscribers, Please Enter Here” link to get started. Hein Online provides .pdf images of full runs of law journals. Also includes the Federal Register, archival editions of the Code of Federal Regulations, treaties and agreements, state and federal session laws, the English Reports (full reprint), United States Supreme Court decisions, opinions of the United States Attorney General, American Law Institute materials, an archive of foreign and international legal resources, and much more.
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Index
to Legal Periodicals
Index to Legal Periodicals provides access to databases of full text legal articles and indexed citations to legal articles and texts. Indexed materials include law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Many of the indexed citations to articles and texts also have links to locate the full text of the materials in UT ’s print and electronic collections.
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IndexMaster
IndexMaster is a collection of indices and tables of contents from
thousands of legal treatises, representing a coalition of large
and small publishers. Select search IndexMaster (IP) to get started.
University of Tennessee at Knoxville campus
only
International Law in Domestic Courts
Selected opinions involving international law issues from domestic courts around the world. Full text opinions are in language of originating country but are accompanied by expert English language summaries and translations of key parts of holdings. Database is searchable or may be browsed by issue or country.
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LegalTrac
LegalTrac provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including
law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international
legal journals. Coverage also includes law-related articles from
additional business and general interest titles. Less comprehensive,
but comparable to the print title Current Law Index. Many of the indexed citations to articles and texts also have links to locate the full text of the materials in UT ’s print and electronic collections.
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LexisNexis
Academic
LexisNexis Academic collection is divided into broad subject categories:
News, Business, Legal Research, Medical, and Reference. It provides
full text access to nearly 5,000 English language sources, including
newspapers, magazines, trade journals, wire services, broadcast
transcripts, business directories, SEC documents, corporate profiles,
and legal information. Statistical, Environmental,
and the Government
Periodicals Index databases are also available via this interface.
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LexisNexis
Congressional
Congressional includes an index of congressional publications from
1970 to the present; Choose advanced search to select: CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going
back to 1970; Congressional Research Service reports; testimony from congressional hearings; information
about members and committees. Track bills as they move through the
House and Senate. The database also includes: profiles, voting records,
campaign finance, and financial disclosure data for members of Congress,
the U.S. Code, and commentary from the Washington Post. Search the Congressional Record, Federal Register and the National
Journal.
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LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC)
2004-present Full text legislative policy reports from the Congressional Research Service. To search CRDC, select “Advanced Search,” then the checkbox for CRS Reports.
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LexisNexis
for Law Schools
Click on research button to access search services. Also provides career services, and links to web
lectures.
UT College of Law only (password required)
LLMC-Digital
A growing full-text database of older primary federal and state materials containing court opinions, statutes and administrative regulations and decisions. See the web site for detailed information on collection holdings. It is a service of the Law Library Microform Consortium.
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Loislaw
A subscription based web site that provides case law, statutory
law and administrative law for both state and federal jurisdictions.
UT College of Law faculty, staff and students who want to register
for this service should contact Sibyl Marshall at smarshal@utk.edu.
UT College of Law only (password required)
Making of Modern Law
"The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible."
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Pro & Con Online
Excerpts from Congressional testimony, government documents, and Supreme Court oral arguments on matters of current interest in law and politics.
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Reader's
Guide to Periodical Literature
A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular
general-interest periodicals published in the United States and
Canada. Many of the indexed citations to articles and texts also have links to locate the full text of the materials in UT ’s print and electronic collections.
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RIA Checkpoint
RIA's online tax and accounting databases. Includes access to Federal Tax Coordinator, Federal Tax Handbook, United States Tax Reporter, RIA Tax Watch, Internal Revenue Code, tax regulations, federal tax cases, Estate Planning Library and more.
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Selected
Databases via UT Libraries
Information resources selected for the needs of the legal researcher.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), is a division of SSRN. SSRN allows authors to upload papers without charge, and any paper an author uploads to SSRN is downloadable for free, worldwide. SSRN also provides free subscriptions to all of our abstracting journals to users in developing countries on request. The vast majority of downloads of papers from the SSRN eLibrary are free.
Available to all Web users.
Supreme Court Records and Briefs
Searchable full text collection of records and briefs from United States Supreme Court cases from 1832-1978. Records and briefs from later cases are also available on microfiche – see a reference librarian for assistance in using the microfiche collection.
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Tennessee Government Officials Directory
This resource contains indexed and searchable contact information for over 10,000 Tennessee government officials, including state legislative, judicial, administrative, and executive employees; federal officials based in Tennessee, and county and municipal officials.
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Treaties and International Agreements Online
Contains the full text of over 15,000 United States bi-lateral and multi-lateral treaties and international agreements. Also contains over 1500 bilateral tax treaties to which the United States is not a party. Updated monthly.
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U.S. Serial Set 1789-1969
Also a part of LexisNexis Congressional. Select "Historical Full Text." Search by document number, legislative number or any combination of full text, subject descriptor or bibliographic information. Includes over 50,000 historical maps.
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UT Libraries Databases listed by topic, alphabetically and searchable by title.
Ejournals available from UT Libraries listed alphabetically and searchable by title.
lawschool.westlaw.com
Web based access to Westlaw search services. Also provides Attorney Jobs Online, study guides
and news headlines.
UT College of Law only (password required)
Public Access Westlaw ("WestPac")
WestPac includes: case law, statutes, and regulations from all fifty states; federal case law, federal statutes (United States Code Annotated), and federal regulations (Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register), major secondary sources such as Black's Law Dictionary, American Jurisprudence and American Law Reports; Tennessee practice materials, Tennessee and general legal forms, and Tennessee legal journals and law reviews. Also includes access to KeyCite, a citation service that allows researchers to determine whether their case or statute is still "good law."
Available on College of Law Library public access computers.