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Major Databases -- Legal Studies

Index to Legal Periodicals indexes over 570 journals, yearbooks, law reviews, and bar association publications. Covers all areas of jurisprudence, including court decisions, legislation, and original scholarship.

LexisNexis Academic provides access to legal, news, business, health, and reference information. It contains full text federal, state & international legal materials: Federal code, U.S. Constitution & court rules, Federal regulations, agency opinions & US Attorney General Opinions, federal and state case law and legal articles and U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters & journals.  Please see Education Law Wiki for tips on how to use LexisNexis Academic.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional gives researchers access to information published by and about Congress and provides the tools for: searching the Congressional Record, tracking proposed legislation by keyword and sponsor, searching the Federal Register, searching congressional committee schedules, finding members of Congress, and searching the National Journal. Congressional Universe has full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward.

Westlaw Campus a web-based legal research tool. This resource includes access to the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals.

Brigham Young University education and law journal (1930-5273)

• University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Guides
  
• Legal Information Institute. Cornell University
  A free-access site serving as a gateway to US and state laws (linking to the US. Code, The Code of Federal Regulations), court opinions and current awareness on legal issues. Search feature and links to Key and all US Supreme Court opinions, federal courts opinions, etc. Highlights recent law events and opinions.
• FindLaw for legal professionals
  Produced by a division of WestLaw, the site currently has free access to US Federal and sate laws, municipal codes; Supreme Court cases: the US Constitution, US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register, etc. Links to US courts of appeals, US trial courts, and others. Many links to legal news, legal reference sources, and resources on law topics.