Online Databases
Legal Databases
Other Useful Databases for Legal Research
Also consult our Selected Electronic Resources
Legal Databases
| Access | Database | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Law School Access Only | BNA Web | Includes U.S.Law Week, I.P. library, Labor library, and other reporters |
Law School Access Only, Password Required (click here for access information). |
Bloomberg Law | Includes U.S. primary law sources; dockets & federal case documents; P.L.I. treatises; news & business information. |
| Law School Access Only | Fastcase | Online access to cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and bar publications |
| Law School Access Only | Gann Online | New Jersey statutes, court rules and caselaw, and Gann Law Books treatises on New Jersey law. |
| Rutgers Only (Core Subscription); Law School Access Only (additional components) | HeinOnline | Core subscription includes many older law journals not contained in
Lexis or Westlaw; 'Legal Classics' (monographic works); U.S. Statutes at
Large; federal legislative histories; U.S. treaties & international
agreements; U.S. Attorney General opinions; Presidential documents;
world constitutions (current & historical) and the English Reports Full
Reprint (English court decisions up to 1865). Additional components accessible only to the Law School include Foreign & International Law Resources, United Nations law collection, World Trials, History of Taxation & Economic Reform in America, and Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. |
| Rutgers Only | Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-books  |
Books published in 2009,2010, and 2011 |
| Law School Access Only | IBFD | International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation |
| Rutgers Only | IntelliConnect | Primary sources, explanations,
and news in many topical areas including antitrust, banking,
commodities, energy, environmental compliance, food and drugs, government contracts, labor and employment, medical devices, pensions, securities, and taxation. |
| Rutgers Only | International Law E-books |
Books published in 2009,2010, and 2011 |
| Rutgers Only | Law Library Microform Consortium Digital | LLMC-Digital offers a wide range of archival material from federal legislative, judicial and executive branch agencies. |
| Law School Access Only | Leadership Federal Government | Directory information & organization charts of U.S. federal government's executive branch & independent agencies; includes Presidential candidates' campaign organizations. Caution: single-user license; please click "Logout" when done. |
| Law School Access Only | LegiStorm Pro | Biographical & financial information about members & staff of U.S. Congress; full-text of reports from Congressional Research Service and General Accounting Office. |
| Law School Access Only, Password Required | Lexis-Nexis | Broad coverage of primary and secondary legal sources and news databases |
| Law School Access Only | Loislaw Connect | Full-text Treatise Libraries and New York Bar CLE Publications. |
| Rutgers Only | Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises | Legal treatises 1800-1926 (Supported by Rutgers Law School Alumni Association) |
| Rutgers Only | Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1970 | Colonial and state codes, municipal codes, constitutional convention documents, colonial records, Federal Statutes Annotated. |
| Rutgers Only | Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs | U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832-1978 |
| Law School Access Only | New Jersey Law Journal | Searchable database of articles, 2000 to date (Supported by Rutgers Law School Alumni Association) |
| Rutgers Only | Oxford Scholarship Online: Law module |
Books published mainly 2000 to 2011 |
| Law School Access Only | RIA Checkpoint | A tax database |
| Law School Access Only | vLex | Primary and secondary legal materials of many countries |
| Password required | Westlaw | Broad coverage of primary and secondary legal sources and news databases |
Other Useful Databases for Legal Research
| Access | Database | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rutgers Only | Access UN | United Nations publications |
| Rutgers Only | Booksinprint.com (Books in Print with Reviews) | Full bibliographic information and links to reviews |
| Rutgers Only | Business & Industry Database | Coverage: 1994 - present |
| Rutgers Only | Business Source Premier | Business Information, has some coverage from 1926 onwards, and more than 200 journals with complete coverage from 1965 |
| Rutgers Only | CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online | Papers & conference proceedings from universities, NGOs and foundations, 1991 - present |
| Rutgers Only | Congressional Universe | Congressional publications, legislative histories, bills and laws. |
| Rutgers Only | Country Watch | Current news & information on 191 countries |
| Rutgers Only | CQ Researcher | In-depth analysis of contemporary issues, 1991 to present |
| Rutgers Only | Criminal Justice Abstracts | Coverage: 1969 to present. |
| Rutgers Only | Dissertations and Theses | Lists 1.5 million titles from 1861 to present |
| Rutgers Only | EconLit | Covers 550 journals, 1969 - present |
| Rutgers Only | EEBO - Early English Books Online | Contains some early English legal materials |
| Rutgers Only | Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) | Includes many law books published in the 1700's |
| Rutgers Only | Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management index | Coverage: 1984 to present |
| Rutgers Only | ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center | Database of education related literature, 1966 to present |
| Rutgers Only | Factiva | Access to Factiva publications and company information |
| Rutgers Only | JSTOR | Full-text database of older scholarly periodicals |
| Rutgers Only | LexisNexis Statistical Insight | Permits searching across many government statistical databases |
| Rutgers Only | New York Times (Proquest) | Full text images from the newspaper are available through this database. |
| Rutgers Only | OECD iLibrary | OECD iLibrary is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.Full text of OECD periodicals and documents are available at this site. |
| Rutgers Only | Oxford English Dictionary | Based on the second edition but with drafts and revisions from the not yet released third edition |
| Rutgers Only | Polling the Nations | Opinion surveys from over 700 polling organizations covering 80 countries, 1986 - present |
| Rutgers Only | PAIS International and Archive | Covers journals, books, conference proceedings and government documents, 1972 - present |
| Rutgers Only | ProQuest Congressional (1789 to Present Day) |
ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress. |
| Rutgers Only | Ulrich's Periodical Directory | Ulrich's provides information on approximately 250,000 periodicals. Includes some reviews. Coverage varies. |
| Rutgers Only | United Nations Statistics Division Common Database - UNdata | UNdata provides selected series from 30 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas. |
| Rutgers Only | U.S. Congressional Serial Set | Congressional reports and documents, 1817-1980 |
| Rutgers Only | World News Connection | English and translated news stories from the Foreign News Service of the U.S. Government |
| Rutgers Only | Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Coverage: 1975 to present |