Databases for Legal Studies
Terms of use | Offcampus access | Report a problem
= includes full text
NEW RESEARCH TOOL:
For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
To search across multiple databases at one time, use the QuickSearch function of Brandeis Scholar.
Key Databases
- LexisNexis Academic
- (Help guide)
- Provides full-text news, business, industry and legal information
- HeinOnline
- Full text law journals (including older issues), the Federal Register, U.S. Treaties, and official Supreme Court opinions. Can view all pages as they originally appeared
- Westlaw Campus
- (Quick guide)
- Access federal and state case law, the United States Code Annotated (USCA), the Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs), the Federal Register (July, 1980-present), state administrative codes and statutes, American Jurisprudence 2d (law encyclopedia), American Law Reports (ALR) & index covering 2nd-5th and federal series, and 900+ current law journals and reviews
Additional Databases
- Eurocat
- Available at Goldfarb Reserve Desk - Use in Goldfarb Cluster Only
- Indexes every sector of European Community legislation and most European Community publications, 1993-2000
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes over 1400 journals, books, and government documents on public policy aspects of business, economics, government and other social science topics, 1972 to present
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
- Indexes 5,000 scholarly journals across the social sciences, including 50 Disciplines. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1956 to Present
- LexisNexis State Capital
- Accesses U.S. state government information, including state bills and laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, newspapers of record, articles about state legislatures, and legislative membership
Multidisciplinary Databases
- ArticleFirst
- Indexes table of contents pages of more than 12,000 journals in all fields, 1990 to present
- Dissertation Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions (selectively covers Canadian, British and European dissertations, and masters theses), 1861 to present
See also Current Research @ Brandeis University for current Brandeis theses, 1960-present, with downloadable full text for 1996-present
- Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
- Indexes over 1300 scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas and disciplines. Contains a limited number of full-text titles, 1995 to present
- InfoTrac Web
- Indexes and provides full text to thousands of journals and magazines in all fields, including academic disciplines, business, and health, 1980 to present
- JSTOR
- Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Indexes and abstracts more than 200 popular magazines published in the U.S., 1890 through 1982
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
