Research Databases, Journals & Periodicals

General Legal | Foreign/International | Interdisciplinary | Newspapers | E-Journal Finders | Journal Indexes | Library Catalogs

General Legal Databases

• Bloomberg Law [password required] Comprehensive legal and business resources.
• Bloomberg BNA [off-campus] Access to over 100 publications providing news and analysis on a wide range of legal topics
• CALI - Student lessons on various legal topics [first time users must create an account - see secure page for password information]
• CCH IntelliConnect [off-campus] Access to state and federal tax laws, reporters, news, and other related materials. Also covers additional commerce-related topics such as labor and employment, banking, and intellectual property law.
• Checkpoint [off-campus] Database containing tax law resources, including federal, state and local, and international libraries.
• Courtroom View Network [sign up with OSU email address] Access to audio case files of court opinions on major legal topics. Also includes courtroom video library of real court cases.
• CQ Electronic Library [off-campus] Access to six CQ databases including CQ Weekly covering activity in the U.S. Congress
• ebrary [off-campus] eBooks on a variety of law-related subjects
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online [off-campus] Law subject group includes online versions of 18th century legal treatises, digests, law dictionaries, case summaries
• FDsys Website of the U.S. Government Printing Office offering pdf access to numerous federal government documents including Congressional reports and hearings from more recent years.
• Gongwer Ohio News Service [Drinko Hall only] Ohio state government news and information
• Hein Online [off-campus] This searchable archive contains law journals, the Federal Register, U.S. Treaties, classic legal treatises, U.S. Reports , and U.S. Attorney General Opinions
• Homeland Security Digital Library [free on the Web]- Selected U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as resources from universities, organizations and local and state agencies relating to homeland security
• Leadership Library on the Internet [Drinko Hall only] Searchable directories of judges, law firms, corporations and many more types of governmental and other organizations. (Also known as Yellow Books).
• Legal Scholarship Network (part of SSRN) Open access archive of law-related scholarly research papers
• Legal Trac [Drinko Hall only] Index of articles in legal periodicals since 1980 including law reviews, legal newspapers, and bar association journals. Includes some full-text.
• LexisNexis [password required] Comprehensive resource for legal research in primary and secondary sources
• LexisNexis Academic [off-campus] U.S. Legal section provides access to federal and state cases, statutes, and regulations. Also includes law review articles.
• LLMC Digital Online [off-campus] A digital collection of primary & secondary legal materials. Includes decisions from some federal agencies and many official case reporters. A growing collection of common law abroad materials includes materials from British Canada and India.
• Loislaw [off-campus] Access to federal and state cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and secondary sources
• Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises 1800-1926 [off-campus] Archive of treatises on U.S. and British law
• Making of Modern Law, Primary Sources [off-campus] Collection of U.S. historical material dating from 1620-1970 including colonial records, early state, territorial, and municpal codes, city charters, and constitutional convention records
• Making of Modern Law, Trials, 1620-1926 [off-campus] Archive of trial documents and unofficially published accounts of important trials in British, French, and U.S. history
• Ohio Capitol Connection [off-campus] Database containing Ohio legislative information and related news articles from Hannah News Service
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey Free archive containing reports and summaries of trials at London's Old Bailey criminal court, 1674-1913
• ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional) [off-campus] Resource for federal legislative history research, including access to U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980.
• Thomas.loc.gov Library of Congress website for federal legislative information including recent Congressional bills and bill status. See also Congress.gov, the beta site of Thomas' successor.
• U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 [off-campus] Digital archive of select Supreme Court materials.
• Westlaw [password required] Comprehensive resource for legal research in primary and secondary sources

Foreign and International Law Databases

• Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online [off-campus] English translations of the constitutions of over 190 countries
• Foreign Law Guide [Columbus campus access only] Aid to locating legislation from foreign jurisdictions
• Justis [off-campus] Full text and PDF formats of all Acts of Parliament, both In Force and Repealed, for England, Wales and Scotland, from 1235 to present. It also provides links to amendments
• JustCite [off-campus] Find citing references, reporter locations, and parallel citation for any UK citation.
• Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative & International Law, 1600-1926 [off-campus] Historical collection of treatises and monographs covering international, comparative, and foreign law including Roman, Islamic, and Jewish law texts.
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [off-campus] - Collection of articles by international law scholars.
• ODS-The Official Document Systems of the United Nations Full text access to official UN documents including General Assembly resolutions
• Oxford Reports on International Law [off-campus] Decisions on public international law from international and domestic courts.
• Treaties and International Agreements Online (TIARA) [off-campus] U.S. treaties, a U.S. treaties index, international agreements, and international tax treaties
• UN Treaties - United Nations Treaty Series, texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties, and the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General.
• Westlaw China [off-campus] Full-text access to PRC laws and regulations. Chinese and English versions available.
• More databases at OSU Libraries organized by subject and alphabetically by database name.

Interdisciplinary Resources

• Academic Search Complete [off-campus] Broad, multi-disciplinary article database with selected full-text
• African American Studies Center [off-campus] Primary source documents, biographies, images, maps, tables, timelines and more on the African American experience
• America: History and Life [off-campus] Article abstracts on history and culture of U.S. and Canada
• Criminal Justice Abstracts [off-campus] Article abstracts in criminology and related fields
• EconLIT [off-campus] Abstracts and selected full-text articles on economics
• ERIC [off-campus] Abstracts of documents and articles on education research and practice
• Google Scholar Abstracts, articles, theses, and books across numerous academic disciplines
• Historical Abstracts [off-campus] Article abstracts on world history excluding U.S. and Canada
• International Political Science Abstracts [off-campus] Article abstracts from world's leading political science journals
• ISI Citation Databases [off-campus] Includes science, social sciences, and arts & humanities citation databases
• JSTOR [off-campus] Multi-disciplinary journal article collection covering the humanities, sciences, and social sciences
• LGBT Life [off-campus] Abstracts and selected full-text articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues
• The New York Review of Books [off-campus] Influential magazine covering literature, politics, and culture. Includes archive of issues since 1963.
• PsycINFO [off-campus] Abstracts and cited references for articles in psychology and related fields
• Scopus [off-campus] Broad abstract and citation database with material from sciences, social sciences, and humanities
• Social Sciences Abstracts [off-campus] Article abstracts from social sciences journals
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Open-access archive of scholarly papers in social sciences
• More databases at OSU Libraries organized by subject and alphabetically by database name.

Newspaper Resources

• All newspaper databases provided by OSU Libraries
• List of U.S. Newspapers available in microform at OSU Libraries
• Factiva [off-campus] Access to articles from numerous newspapers, magazines, wire services, and trade publications in html form.
• Press Display [off-campus] Original images of current newspapers from the U.S. and around the world.
• Proquest Historical Newspapers [off-campus] Access to Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post from mid-nineteenth century to more recent decades in scanned-image form.
• New York Times
  • Factiva [off-campus], LexisNexis, and Westlaw (06/01/80-present); ProQuest Historical [off-campus] (1851-2008); Thompson Library (microform, 1851-recent months); Moritz Reserve Room (current week in print)
• Wall Street Journal
  • Factiva [off-campus] and LexisNexis (06/13/79-present with selective coverage 06/13/79-01/01/85); ProQuest [off-campus] (1984-current) Thompson Library (microform, 1960-recent months); OSU Depository (microform, 1920-1960); Moritz Reserve Room (current week in print)
• Washington Post
  • Factiva [off-campus] (1984-present); LexisNexis (1977-present); Westlaw (1990-present); ProQuest Historical [off-campus] (1877-1994); OSU Depository (microform, 1891-2002); Thompson Library (microform, 2003-recent months)

Electronic Journal Finders

• Moritz eJournal Finder - Browse or search a list of legal journals that are available in full-text online. (Includes journals in Hein Online, Legal Trac, LexisNexis Academic, LexisNexis Congressional, and the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center.)
• A-Z eJournals List (Ohio State University Libraries) Browse or search the list of full-text electronic journals available to The Ohio State University community.

Indexes to Periodicals and Books

• Criminal Justice Abstracts [off-campus] This index covers books, journals, reports (both governmental and non-governmental) on criminology and related fields.
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books [off-campus] Index covering over 600 English-language legal periodicals published in the U.S. and elsewhere, and 2,500 books each year on law-related topics. Coverage begins as early as 1980 for some journals with full-text available for more recent years.
• Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective [off-campus] (1908-1981) Index covering over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
  
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals [off-campus] This index covers legal periodicals from countries other than the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia beginning in 1985. Also includes browsable digitizations of print index editions from 1960-1984.
  
• Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922) [off-campus] This is the online version of Jones & Chipman's index of legal literature from 1786-1922. It is part of the 19th Century Masterfile database.
• Legal Trac [Drinko Hall only] Index of articles in legal periodicals since 1980 including law reviews, legal newspapers, and bar association journals. Includes some full-text.

Library Catalogs

• OSU Libraries Catalog Search collections of all libraries in OSU system including Moritz Law Library
• OhioLINK Catalog Search collections of all OhioLINK member libraries
• WorldCat@OSU Search OSU Libraries, OhioLINK, and academic libraries worldwide
• WorldCat First Search [off-campus] Additional worldwide search tool with more detailed options