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Useful Databases

HeinOnline
Access to online research on legal history. Visit HeinOnline LibGuides for tips on searching this database.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni defaults to searching "News" where you can find up-to-date information about current Supreme Court Case. You can switch your search to "Cases" or "Law Reviews" to find additional information.
CQ Researcher
Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.
JSTOR
Archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering the Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Los Angeles Sentinel (ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers)
Includes full-text of the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper from 1934 to 2005. Useful for an additional perspective on civil rights

Supreme Court of the United States
Government site with intormation about the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Information Institute
Legal reference collections in the world, with links to almost every legal topic, constitutions and codes, court opinions, law by source or jurisdiction.

Oyez
Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 (H.W. Wilson)
Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes and reviews of the work in a given field or topic.

American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920's that is dedicated to defending and preserving people's rights provided by the Constitution.

Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court by Maureen Harrison
Call Number: KF4549 .L37 (some volumes in Reference)
ISBN: 9780962801402
Publication Date: 1995-01-01-
An important reference that provides the historical context and constitutional perspective of the most important Supreme Court cases. Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court offers an unparalleled history of the Supreme Court and its impact on American democracy and society.

Rand Corp. Publications This link opens in a new window
Research reports on Children and Families, Education and the Arts, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Infrastructure and Transportation, International Affairs, Law and Business, National Security, Public Safety, Science and Technology.