A comprehensive collection of full-text PDF (or text) images of major law journal articles, including back issues.
An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s. U.S. and international sources are available for most content areas. Includes Company Dossier content.
Legal research tool for United State law at the federal and state level. Search by jurisdiction or practice area. Focus is on primary legal sources, with treatise and news content for additional context.
** Access limited to current main campus faculty, staff and students, as well as guests of Bender Library.
Not available to the law school or office of the general counsel. **
An index of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history, excluding the United States and Canada. Equivalent to the printed version of Historical Abstracts.
Boolean operators:
AND - use to narrow a search and get fewer and more relevant results.
elections AND voters
OR - use to broaden a search and get more results. Good for synonyms and words with variant spellings. Add parentheses when using OR.
("latin america" OR argentina OR colombia)
(organization OR organisation)
NOT - use to narrow a search to get more relevant results
mexico NOT "new mexico"
Truncation:
Use to find words with different word endings. Most databases use an asterisk (*)
e.g. immigrant* yields immigrant, immigrants
e.g. immigra* yields immigrant, immigrants, immigrate, immigration, immigrating, etc.
Proximity search:
Use to find words that are close to each other in a document.
Each family of databases has its own command words.
| Database Provider | Replace "AND" with... | Exampe |
|---|---|---|
| ProQuest | n/number | "mental health" n/15 (treatment OR rehabilitation) |
| EBSCO | Nnumber | Guns N10 school |
|
Westlaw Campus Research NexisUni |
w/number w/s (within sentence) w/p (within paragraph) |
"mass incarceration" w/p drugs |
|
HeinOnline JSTOR |
"search terms"~number | "juvenile justice social work"~20 |
| Scopus | w/number | "first amendment" w/10 "high school" |
