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George R. White Law Library

 


Law School Exclusive Databases:

  • AILALink
    A comprehensive web-based library of primary and secondary immigration law materials, AILALink is created by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. It includes the full text of Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook and many other books, as well as links to cases, statutes, regulations, forms and the newsletter Immigration Law Today.
    Our subscription allows up to 8 users to access the database simultaneously both on and off campus.

  • Bloomberg Law
    Available by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.
    Premium legal research service which includes state and federal case law, statutes, regulations, and analysis; features expansive access to federal and state court dockets. All BNA looseleaf publications, including the Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct and United States Law Week, are now available through Bloomberg Law. The old BNA platform had been discontinued. 

  • CALI
    Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction is a consortium of law schools that offers online tutorials for more than 900 legal topics. Registration code can be obtained at the Circulation Desk. 

  • CasemakerX
    Free educational version of Casemaker's low-cost legal research service, which is provided as a free membership benefit in the bar associations of more than 20 states. Concordia Law students and faculty may register with their Law School email address.

  • Fastcase 
    Research service offering primary law from the federal system and all 50 states, including case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions, as well as treatises from Wolters Kluwer. 

  • Gale LegalForms
    Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

  • Gale Primary Sources
    Simultaneously search all modules of Gale Making of Modern Law and U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs.

  • GlobaLex
    An electronic legal publication dedicated to international, foreign, and comparative law research, collecting articles published by scholars around the world who are well known in their respective fields. This compilation is hosted by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU.

  • govinfo
    govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), providing free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

  • HeinOnline 
    Database with full text and page images of thousands of law review articles, treatises and primary sources of law, focusing on retrospective historical coverage unavailable in other digital databases.

  • LegalTrac 
    Contains article abstracts or references from more than 800 legal publications; law journals, law reviews, bar association journals, and legal newspapers.

  • Lexis Advance 
    A comprehensive, full text research system for legal materials, including cases, statutes, regulations and especially strong for news resources. Available by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.

  • LibGuides
    Start your research with librarian created research guides.

  • Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises: 1800-1926  
    A searchable full-text collection of American and British legal treatises from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1800-1926).

  • Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 
    A searchable full-text collection of early American and British primary sources including: early state codes, state constitutional conventions, city charters, law dictionaries, case digests, records of the American colonies. 

  • Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources II, 1763-1970
    A searchable full-text collection of legal and social history, from the eighteenth century to the era following World War II. Consisting of US state and territorial codes, municipal codes, and constitutional conventions and compilations.

  • Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 
    Trial transcripts, popular printed accounts, briefs, and arguments for Anglo-American trials from 1600 to 1926.

  • PACER
    Public Access to Court Electronic Records, an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information online from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts, and the PACER Case Locator. Contact librarians for PACER service.

  • Practising Law Institute PLI Plus
    This new database offers access to ALL Practicing Law Institute's Treatises, Course Handbooks, Legal Forms, Program Transcripts and Answer Books. Topic areas covered include accounting, antitrust, banking, children's law, corporate and securities, energy, environmental, estate and trust, ethics/professional responsibility, health care law, intellectual property, international law, litigation, pro bono, professional skills, real estate, and tax. Register for an individual account to start your bookshelf and make edits.

  • ProQuest Congressional
    Formerly LexisNexis Congressional; indexes key federal legislative history materials, including the U.S. Serial Set and the CIS Index. Selected full text includes committee reports from 1817-1969/1995-present, and committee hearings from 1824-present.

  • Thomson Reuters Checkpoint (formerly RIA Checkpoint)
    Web-based research database that includes important RIA tax products, including the US Tax Reporter, the Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, a citator service, tax journals and a tax news e-mail alerting service.Click here if you prefer to have a personal account. Need to be on campus to validate your registration.

  • Trial Advocacy Recording: Basic Concepts in the Law of Evidence by Irving Younger
    Passcode is available at Circulation Desk

  • U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
    Provides the full text (in PDF) of records and briefs from approximately 150,000 historical U.S. Supreme Court cases

  • Westlaw Edge
    A comprehensive legal research system including cases, statutes, regulations, news, treatises and articles, and access to Practical Law Company transactional materials. Available by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.

  • West Academic Study Aids Collection
    The subscription includes popular West series like Hornbooks,Nutshells,Gilbert Law Summaries,Sum and Substance Audio and more! Account is not needed to access contents but is required for note-taking, highlighting, or saving favorites.

  • Wolters Kluwer Study Aids Collection
    The Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aids Collection includes over 200 study aids including the following series: Academic Success, Casenote Legal Briefs, Emanuel CrunchTime, Emanuel Law Outlines, Examples & Explanations, Friedman’s Practice Series, Glannon Guides, Inside Series, Jumpstart Series.

Selected Databases Available Through CU Portland Libraries

  • Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (ProQuest)
    This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.

  • Academic Video Online: Premium (AVON)
    A multidisciplinary collection of videos + transcripts. Over 55,000 titles and growing at about 400 new titles per month. Content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world (examples include BBC, PBS, NBC, Envision, Bloomberg, The Open University, and more). 

  • Business Collection (Gale)
    Provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Includes business and trade publications, complemented by a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.

  • Business Economics & Theory (Gale)
    Access to academic journals and magazines for researchers who are: starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.

  • Business Insights: Global (Gale)
    Research and analyze companies based on industry rankings, profiles, market share data, and company histories.

  • Business Market Research Collection (ProQuest)
    Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance from a network of 1,000 faculty members at Oxford, other leading universities, and think-tanks; Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.

  • Cambridge Histories Online
    A collection of scholarly reference resources on history. Contains 270 volumes and covers 15 academic subjects, from American History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, to Warfare.

  • Chronicle of Higher Education 
    Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. 

  • Criminal Justice Collection (Gale)
    Provides access to over 4 million articles in law & law enforcement, Homeland Security, forensic science, sociology and social policy and public administration.

  • Criminal Justice (ProQuest)
    ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.

  • Environmental Studies & Policy Collection (Gale)
    Journal articles and reference content for environmentalists, policy makers, corporate researchers, educators, students, geologists, engineers.

  • JSTOR

  • Full text archive of over 1100 scholarly journals of major importance in many fields. Most titles are available from their first issue up to 2-5 years ago.

  • Military Database (ProQuest)
    This database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering and more.

  • Newsstand (Gale)
    Provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers and leading international newspapers.

  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale) 
    Provides comprehensive coverage of hundreds of subjects ranging from ongoing controversies to today's hot-button issues.

  • Oxford English Dictionary
    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

  • Oxford English Dictionary Quotations 
    Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

  • ProQuest Central
    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

  • Religion Database (ProQuest)
    This database provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.

  • Small Business Resource Center (Gale)
    Covers areas for starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, and tax information. Also includes sample business plans, and FAQs answered.

  • Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
    The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as national and global general news. Click "View Titles" to see papers by date. Covers 1984 to present.

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