PLA 3105 Resources - Legal
Research
How to
Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus
WebLUIS
- UCF library catalog and gateway to electronic resources, such as:
http://webluis.fcla.edu/
- Business Index (WebLUIS database)
- Contains citations to articles in over 800 journal titles including business,
management, and trade journals; some 80 regional and local journals and newspapers; and
business-related articles from over 3000 other publications. Includes topics such as
business, management, industry, world affairs, case studies, technology, and industry
profiles. Provides access to ASCII full text
of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+
- Academic Index (WebLUIS database)
- Indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the
arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some
articles. Provides access to ASCII full text
of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+
- Academic Universe
(CIS/Lexis-Nexis Universe database) - provides access to company profiles and financial
reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their
files are updated with full-text documents
from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the
world.
- Legal Reviews - Search more than
200 law reviews and law journals concentrating on national and state issues of legal
significance.
- Federal Case Law - Search case law
opinions from all the major United States federal courts.
- U.S. Code, Constitution, & Court Rules
- Search federal statutory and administrative law from a variety of authoritative sources
such as: United States Code Service, United States Constitution, and Code of Federal
Regulations.
- State Legal Research - Search the
case law, constitution, statutes, and other legal materials related to a specific state.
- Congressional Universe (CIS
Universe database) - gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by
and about Congress, including full text of
almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988
forward. In addition to the indexing and abstracting of the CIS/Index to Publications of
the U.S. Congress from 1970, Congressional Universe provides the tools for:
- searching the Congressional Record,
- tracking proposed legislation by keyword and
sponsor,
- searching the Federal Register,
- searching congressional committee schedules,
- finding members of Congress, and
- searching the National Journal.
- Statistical Universe (CIS
Universe database) - provides the full text
of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full
text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference
Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).
- World Law Index (Eureka database)
- Index to Hispanic Legislation, contains
records describing the national laws, decree-laws, regulations, etc. taken from official
legal gazettes of 29 countries studied by the Hispanic Law Division of the Library of
Congress Law Library. These include the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, plus
Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and nations from the Portuguese-African
region. Dates of coverage: 1976-1997. For later coverage, see the Global Legal
Information Network.
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
(Eureka database) - Contains citations from
legal journals and other publications covering international law other than the United
States, British Isles and British Commonwealth. Dates of coverage: 1985+
- Global Legal Information Network
(Library of Congress) - provides a database of laws, regulations and other complementary
legal sources for various countries of the world.
Index to Legal Periodicals
& Books (FirstSearch database) - Articles from legal journals, yearbooks,
institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating
in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Dates of coverage: 1981+ The UCF Library has the print indexes at Index K9.N75 for 1926+.
- FactSearch (FirstSearch database)
- is a guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political,
environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and
documents such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record,
Congressional hearings, Daily Press Briefings of the White House, State Department
and Department of Defense, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates.
Web links to free full text are included frequently.
- Social Sciences Abstracts
(FirstSearch database) - Covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology,
economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and
international relations. Dates of coverage: 1983+
- WilsonSelect (FirstSearch
database) - Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database includes records
from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences
Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.
Dates of coverage: 1994+
- PAIS International (FirstSearch
database) - Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book
chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Dates of coverage: 1972+ The
UCF Library has the print indexes at Index H1.P8 for 1915+.
- ABI/INFORM (ProQuest database) -
provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and
tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of
other topics. It gives you informative indexing and substantive abstracts to articles from
more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350
English-language titles from outside the U.S. Provides access to the full text, page image of articles from over 600 journals. Dates of coverage:
1971+
Other UCF Electronic Resources,
such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/resources.htm
Dialog@CARL - offers 250+
databases in a wide selection of subjects, including article indexes, full text newspapers, directories and more. The
topic "Law & Government: Law"identifies 18 databases.
http://dialog.carl.org:3017/
STAT-USA (U.S. Dept of
Commerce) - State of the Nation
provides current and historical economic and financial releases and economic
data. GLOBUS & NTDB provide current and
historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities,
country analysis, and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
http://www.stat-usa.gov/stat-usa.html
EBSCOhost -
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social
sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full
text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes
coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
http://search.epnet.com/cpidlogin.asp?custid=ucf
Government Document Resources
http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/
Untangle the Web! - Internet
Workshop Series
http://library.ucf.edu/Internet/
UCF Interlibrary Loan
http://library.ucf.edu/ill/ |
UCF Quick Reference provides links to
useful Internet sites, telephone reference (407-823-2562), and electronic reference
service via a Web form or by
e-mail.
http://library.ucf.edu/quickref/ |
Other Useful Resources:
rgause@mail.ucf.edu
(407) 823-2563
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