Law Research Guide Databases
Online databases and periodical indexes help you search for full-text articles or article citations related to law. Off-campus access is limited to UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff with an OIT account.
Suggested databases and periodical indexes. (See the Database Locator for the Library's full database list.)
LEGAL
Labor and Employment Law Library Full-text state and federal statutes, regulations and case law in the field of labor and employment law.
LegalTrac Citations to articles and a limited number of full-text articles from approximately 900 law reviews and law-related journals. 1980-present.
LexisNexis Academic Full-text articles from tens of thousands of periodicals, including approximately 500 law reviews and law-related journals; state and federal case law; and statutory law. Date ranges vary for individual publications.
Social Law Library Massachusetts statutes, regulations, and cases including those from Superior Court, Housing Court, Land Court and numerous administrative agency decisions.
Westlaw Campus Research Full text legal encyclopedias, law reviews, and legal treatises; federal and state statutes, regulations, court decisions; and newspapers, news wires, magazines and business and industry data.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
CQ Political Reference Suite Online access to a number of Congressional Quarterly titles: Congress and the Nation Series , Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook Series, Washington Information Directory , and Vital Statistics on American Politics.
CQ Researcher Well-documented full text overviews of current issues, including bibliographies, chronologies and other useful features. Produced by Congressional Quarterly.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Full-text working and position papers, books, and journals, from international affairs research institutes.
Congressional Research Service Reports Congressional Research Services, the public policy research arm of the U. S. Congress, produces brief reports on current issues and their legal and legislative status.
Declassified Documents Reference Service 78,00 government documents declassified by the 1967 Freedom of Information Act.
Environmental Issues & Policy Index Citations to articles on the environment from scientific, legal, and popular journals.
Index to Current Urban Documents A guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada.
International Political Science Abstracts Citations and abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals and yearbooks worldwide.
International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center Provides articles from scholarly journal and other periodicals, and from country reports, many of them in full text, on threats to peace.
PAIS International Covers material in the social sciences. It includes citations to journal articles, books, government documents, Internet sites, statistical compilations, directories and reports of public and private organizations, 1915 to present.
Sage Journals Online (formerly known as Political Science: Sage Fulltext Collection More than 485 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine, 1999-present.
Urban Studies & Planning: Sage Fulltext Collection Includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies.
SCHOLARLY LITERATURE- MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Academic Search Premier Citations, abstracts and full text articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to social sciences, humanities, education, physical, and biological sciences.
Expanded Academic Index ASAP Indexes hundreds of scholarly journals. The full text of some articles is available, while only the citation and abstract are available for other articles.
Social Science Citation Index Citations to articles in political science, anthropology, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, social work, law, sociology, urban studies, and psychology among others.
Social Sciences Abstracts Citations to articles in over 500 English-language scholarly journals in the fields of anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social
RELATED DISCIPLINES
Business Source Premier Covers about 8,000 magazines, trade journals and peer-reviewed periodicals, many in full text, some dating back as far as 1922, on all aspects of business. It also includes full-text country reports, industry reports, company profiles, and market research reports.
Criminal Justice Abstracts Provides indexing and abstracts of articles from ciminology journals, as well as books, and dissertations on criminology and related areas such as the justice system, the police, corrections, crime prevention, and victim's rights.
Econlit Citations and abstracts for journal articles and some books relating to the field of economics.
ERIC: UMass Amherst Subscription Citations and abstracts for education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references). Links to full text are provided for many recent Eric documents.
Health Reference Center Academic Citations, some full text journal articles and health-related pamphlets, and entries from selected reference publications relating to health and allied health.
Sociological Abstracts Citations and abstracts for articles from sociology and related (anthropology, education, medicine, social psychology) journals; includes references to U. S. and Canadian dissertations and conference papers.
Statistics
Historical Statistics of the United States Statistics gathered by the Census Bureau from colonial times to near present. This is a scholarly edition, with introductory essays by experts, and a reworking and expansion of the data presented in earlier print editions.
Statistical Abstract of the United States Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
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