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Westlaw Campus Full text access to federal and state law, law reviews, and the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence. Also contains American Law Reports and the European Union Library. NOTE: you must accept the agreement by clicking at the bottom of the screen to enter the database.

Lexis-Nexis/Academic Universe Full text access to federal and state law, some international legal materials, and law reviews.


Congressional Universe
Index and full text to U.S. legislative information and members of congress. Produced by the Congressional Information Service; via Congressional Universe

Academic Search Premier
Fulltext articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences. Also includes about 1,000 titles that are indexed but not fulltext . Dates of journals vary, some go back to 1965, others are current issues only.

Expanded Academic ASAP (1980–present)
Partially full text. Database covers information on: Political Science, Law, and current events

GPO Monthly Catalog (1976–present)
U.S. government publications. Records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government. Produced by U.S. Government Printing Office.

Hein Online
Fulltext database of over 200 law reviews going back to the first volume of each title. Searchable by keyword, author, citation, etc.

IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) (1951- present)
Includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and books. Over 2,700 journals are indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is increasing. Particularly strong in political science, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, law and economics.

CSA Political Science Abstracts (1975–present)
This index builds on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields. As of January 2002, over 1100 titles are being monitored.

United States Government Documents
Increasingly the Government Printing Office is making information available electronically in a variety of formats. GPO provides access to many government documents including the Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, General Accounting Office Reports, and the U.S. Code.

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