Indexes & Databases: By Category
The databases listed below are available from law school locations and from computers with law school IP addresses.
• Alphabetical List
• Bobst Library's Databases Page.
• Connecting from off-campus
Finding Books
BobCat (Main Library Catalog)
Books in Print
Early American Imprints Series, I. Evans
Early English Books Online (ProQuest)
Ebrary
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
IndexMaster
(search tables of contents & indices of over 10,000 legal titles)
Julius Online Catalog
Library Catalogs
Making of Modern Law - Legal Treatises 1800-1926
Worldcat (OCLC)
Oxford Scholarship Online
Source OECD
Finding Articles
American Periodicals Series Online 1740 - 1890 (Proquest)
America's Historical Newspapers 1690 - 1922 (Readex)
British Periodicals 1680 - 1930's (Proquest)
Business Source Premier
CILP (weekly listing of tables of contents of more than 500 legal journals)
Doctrinal (Index to French Legal Literature) - not Doctrinal Plus
Ebsco Online (Full-text journals)
Ejournals Listed by Title (full-text)
Fulltext Sources Online (FSO)
• Password Required
Hein Online
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Index to Legal Periodicals 1918 +
• 1981 + (Legal Periodicals Fulltext)
• 1918 - 1981 (ILP Retrospective)
• 1786-1922 (select Jones & Chipman Index to Legal Periodical Literature in drop-down menu)
IngentaConnect
ISI Web of Science
JSTOR
Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)
Legal Journals by Hein Online
Legaltrac (LegalTrac™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals)
Nellco Legal Scholarship Repository
Oxford Journals Online
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
Proquest Direct
Reveal Research Alerts via Ingenta
Science Direct (select "group-wide login")
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
• Information & Instructions
Source OECD (ignore registration and login)
Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1906)
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (click on Subscribers)
Universal Database of Russian Newspapers - select IP-Address Access
Wilson OmniFile : Full Text Mega Edition A multi-disciplinary database providing complete indexing, abstracts and full text from 6 of Wilson's full-text databases. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting and full text.
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Biography Reference Bank
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Book Review Digest Plus
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Education Full Text
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Essay & General Literature
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Humanities & Social Science Retrospective
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Legal Periodicals Full Text
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Legal Periodicals Retrospective
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Library Literature & Information Science
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Note: Full text articles on a selected basis are available through the Index To Legal Periodicals
Finding Legal & Governmental Resources
Arbitration Law Online
• Password Required
Banking Research (CCH)
BNA Online Services (including email alerts)
CALI Website
• Password Required
CCH Business and Finance Research Network
• Banking
• Capital Changes
• Federal Energy Guidelines
• Global Securities
• Government Contracts
• Information Technology
• Products Liability & Safety
• Securities
• Trade Regulation
• Transportation Law
CCH Tax Research Network
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) - All Databases
• CQ Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government
• CQ Insider
• CQ Public Affairs Collection
• CQ Researcher
• CQ Supreme Court Collection
• CQ Weekly
Constitutions of the Countries of the World (Oceana)
Disclosure Global Access
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Intelligence
• Country Commerce
• Country Profile
• Country Report
• Country Research Report
• Country Risk Service
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Encyclopedia of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity
Environmental Law Reporter (ELI)
To request email alerts, send an email from an NYU email address to lawlibrary@nyu.edu with "Request ELR alert" in the subject line
Europa World Yearbook
Factiva
Federal Energy Guidelines Research
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Foreign Law Guide
: Current Sources of Codes & Basic Legislation In Jurisdictions of the World
Global Newsbank
Government Contracts Research (CCH)
Government Information on the Internet (Bernan)
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1688+ (Proquest)
IBFD Online Publications (International Taxation)
Index to Current Urban Documents
Information Technology Research (CCH)
International Who's Who
Inside USA Trade
• Password Required
International Law in Domestic Courts
ISI Emerging Markets
Kluwerarbitration.com (Click on the International Business tab, scroll down and click on KluwerArbitration.com subscribers)
Leadership Directories (Yellow Books) - click "Log In Here!"
The 14 Yellow Books include: Congressional, Federal, State, Municipal, Federal Regional, Judicial, Corporate, Financial, News Media, Associations, Law Firms, Government Affairs, Foreign Representatives, Nonprofit Sector
LexisNexis Congressional
LexisNexis Historical Full-text (Serial Set)
When connected, choose Advanced Search and select Serial Set
LexisNexis State Capital
LexisNexis Statistical
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Lexis
Making of Modern Law - Legal Treatises 1800-1926
Making of Modern Law - Trials 1600-1926
Making of Modern Law - US Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978
Martindale_Hubbell Law Directory (select People, then Martindale Hubbell in the drow down menu)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Publications
National Law Journal
• Password Required
New Jersey Law Journal
• Password Required
New York Ethics Opinions Online (Oceana)
New York Law Journal
• Password Required
PBRC Manual
Product Liability and Safety Research (CCH)
RIA Checkpoint Tax Service
RIA Worldwide Tax Law
• Select the Research tab, then select International in the drop-down menu, then select this title.
Sabin Americana
Secured Transactions Research (CCH)
Securities Law Research (CCH)
Stat-USA
Source OECD
Taxation (see also
Taxation of International Business Transactions)
BNA Tax Materials
CCH Tax Research Network
• Federal, Estate & State
Foreign Tax Law (Online version of Tax Laws of the World. (select "International" in the Practice area drop-down menu)
IBFD Online Publications (International Taxation)
RIA Checkpoint Tax Service
RIA Worldwide Tax Law(Online version of Tax Laws of the World and Commercial Laws of the World )
• Select the Research tab, then select International in the drop-down menu, then select this title.
Telecom Law Research (CCH)
TRAC - a source for comprehensive, independent and nonpartisan information about federal enforcement, staffing and spending.
Trade Regulation Research (CCH)
Transportation Law Research (CCH)
United Nations Index (Readex AccessUN)
United Nations Official Documents System
United Nations Treaty Collection Database)
US Law Week
• Subscribe to email alerts
US Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 (MOML)
United States Government Publications (GPO Catalog via GPOAccess)
• July 1976-date. Click on Advanced for keyword searches, and Advanced Search>Browse for author, title, subject, and SuDoc searches.
United States Government Publications (GPO MoCat via Firstsearch)
Westlaw
World News
(Readex Access World News)
World of Learning
World Trade Online
• Password Required
WorldTradeLaw.net Dispute Settlement Commentary Service
General Reference Sources
ABI InformBooks in Print
Business Abstracts
Disclosure Global Access - see Thomson Research
Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations)
Dow Jones Interactive
Early American Newspapers Digital
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1984)
• Click on Databases Selected, Clear All Databases, scroll down to Historical Databases, place a check in the box next to the Los Angeles Times, click Continue, and run your search
Los Angeles Times (1984+)
Making of the Modern World - The (Goldsmiths' Kress Library of Economic Literature)
New York Times (1851 - 1999)
• Click on Databases Selected, Clear All Databases, scroll down to Historical Databases, place a check in the box next to the New York Times, click Continue, and run your search
New York Times (1999+)
Newspaper Abstracts
Oxford English Dictionary
Proquest Direct
Regional Business News
RIA Worldwide Tax Law
• (select "International" in the Practice area drop-down menu)
Sabin Americana
Thomson Research
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (click on Subscribers)
Ulrichs Periodicals Directory
Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1985)
• Click on Databases Selected, Clear All Databases, scroll down to Historical Databases, place a check in the box next to the Wall Street Journal, click Continue, and run your search
Wall Street Journal (1984+)
Washington Post (1877 - 1987)
• Click on Databases Selected, Clear All Databases, scroll down to Historical Databases, place a check in the box next to the Wall Street Journal, click Continue, and run your search
Washington Post (1987+)
Selected Non-Legal Databases Available through Bobst Library
Economics
Government Information
• Federal/US
• International
• New York State & City
Political Science & Law
• American Politics & Government
• Foreign & Comparative Politics
• International Relations
• Political Theory & Philosophy
Public & Nonprofit Management
Public Policy & Administration
Sociology
Urban Planning
Virtual Reference Desk
(Complete List of Bobst Databases)