REE 4433 Resources
Real Estate Law

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 - 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 - 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) - provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources, including 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.  
  Content Information < http://www.cispubs.com/market/universe/ >

  • 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) - 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.

• Statistical Universe (CIS) - 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). 

• 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+

• 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+

Other UCF Electronic Resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/resources.htm

• CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork - provides federal and state tax resources, including case reporters and citators.
  http://tax.cch.com/ipnetwork/

• 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:

• StateLaw (Washburn Law School) - provides links to many documents that relate to state and local government and legislative information, including state statutes & court cases.
  http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/washlaw/uslaw/statelaw.html

• Useful Law Sites (Orange County Library System)
  http://ww2.ocls.lib.fl.us/UsefulSites/law.html

• Property Assessments Online (Univ of Virginia) - All of the assessment offices linked here allow you to search by owner name or address and give you in return the most recent assessed value of the property.
  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dev-pros/Realestate.html

• REE 4433 Syllabus (UCF)
  http://www.bus.ucf.edu/greene/RELaw/sylspr99.htm

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Last modified: August 17, 1999
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