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Alphabetical List of All Electronic Databases
The Law Library subscribes to several online databases to supplement its collection and to facilitate faculty and student research. These databases expedite access to legal information. Remote access through a proxy server is available for some databases via the Law Library web page. For a few databases, a password is required. Assistance on these databases or requests for training should be directed to Swee Berkey at 956-5581 or email berkey@hawaii.edu.
Note: All databases on the Hamilton Library web page are also available to the Law Library.
Browse by Database: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Database |
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| American State Papers
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"The American State Papers, comprising a total of thirty-eight physical volumes, contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes documents that cover the critical historical gap from 1789 to the printing of the first volume of the U.S. Serial Set in 1817." |
| AudioCaseFiles & CourtroomLive |
AudioCaseFiles provides downloadable MP3 files of court opinions, searchable by subject or casebook. You can put them on a CD or MP3 player and listen to audio case law. You may also watch streaming courtroom videos of real cases. After you log in, click on "Trial Video" at the top, then click next to "Registered Users". On the next page, click on the link for the ACF Trial Video Archive to see a list of all archived cases (over 200). After selecting the case, click on "View or Purchase Video". (Avoid the ones that say "Purchase Video" only.) Register at audiocasefiles.com and input your student information and law school. NOTE: You must use your Law School provided email address. |
| Bloomberg Law Reports | "Bloomberg Law is a legal, regulatory, and compliance research platform, offering a suite of news, data and analytics to the legal and compliance community." |
| BNA Daily Environment Report |
IP access at the Law Library and Law School. For remote access, contact berkey@hawaii.edu |
| BNA International Environment Daily | IP access at the Law Library and Law School. For remote access, contact berkey@hawaii.edu |
| BNA U.S. Law Week | IP access at the Law Library and Law School. For remote access, contact berkey@hawaii.edu |
| BNA World Climate Change Report | IP access at the Law Library and Law School. For remote access, contact berkey@hawaii.edu |
| The Berkeley Electronic Press | The Berkeley Electronic Press publishes high quality peer-reviewed journals, as well as working papers, institutional repository materials, and a wealth of other scholarly information. Titles include the following: Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Global Jurist, Issues in Legal Scholarship, Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Remote access with name and UH ID#/barcode. |
| The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) | The CALI Library of Lessons is a collection of over 700 interactive tutorials covering 33 legal education subject areas. The lessons are designed to augment traditional law school instruction and can be used as supplemental study material. The lessons are written by law faculty and librarians and are regularly reviewed and revised. The format of the individual lessons varies according to the educational objectives of the author. Some authors use the setting of a simulated trial to provide students with an opportunity to test their understanding of an area of law. Other lessons drill students through a series of questions requiring them to identify relevant issues and apply recently learned concepts. Law faculty and students only. Requires registration of username & password. Get the institution's authorization code to register online by contacting berkey@hawaii.edu |
| CasemakerX | Provides all Casemaker products and services at no charge. 475,000 attorneys are connected through the Casemaker Bar consortium. Casemaker has state and federal legal research materials and a Hawai`i library designed by the Hawai`i State Bar Association. Free for law students and faculty. Sign up as a student for the first time. Once you have created a profile, you can update your status to faculty. You will click on Profile (edit) and then click on the Member type drop down box and choose faculty/staff. |
| CCH IntelliConnect | "Wolters Kluwer's CCH IntelliConnect is a tax-oriented online research service that combines the previously separate services, Tax Research NetWork and Internet Research NetWork." |
| Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) & SmartCILP email delivery | The electronic version of CILP is sent by email to all interested faculty members. SmartCILP is a personalized email delivery of selected topics, subject headings and journals. Where available, links are provided to full text articles that can be found on Westlaw or LexisNexis. A sample of a SmartCILP page may be seen at http://lib.law.washington.edu/cilp/sample.html Contact berkey@hawaii.edu or call 956-5581 for help in setting up SmartCILP. Alternatively, you may create a SmartCILP profile yourself by going to http://depts.washington.edu/scilp/scilp3.cgi. To obtain the authorization code or have any problems setting up the profile please contact Swee. |
| Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) | Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Access at law library only. |
| Cornell University Law Library | "With a collection of over 700,000 volumes, the Law Library houses one of the country's finest collections of printed legal materials, and provides access to numerous online services and free internet sources. It is the third largest library collection of the twenty Cornell University libraries and serves the legal research needs of the Law School, University, and transnational communities." |
| Ebrary(via Hamilton Library) | ebrary provides online access to more than 22,000 books in business & economics; career & general education; computers, engineering & applied sciences; humanities; science, medicine, & allied health; and social & behavioral sciences. It has almost 1,000 titles related to law. You will need to download the free ebrary reader to access electronic books on ebrary. Remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode. |
| "Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E) is the leading source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. E&E's four daily on-line publications are considered "must-reads" by people who track and influence energy, environmental and climate policy."
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| E-Portal | Instead of searching individual databases, E-Portal allows you to search a range of digital resources for specific publications (including e-journals, e-books.) It provides access to full-text articles available in periodicals found in databases that the law library subscribes to. You may browse alphabetically the titles of publications and online databases where these publications may be found. You may search by title and subject. After you find the title of the journal you want, you will see a list of databases that index that particular journal. Clicking on one of the links will take you to the database where the article may be found. It will not search for periodical content. Remote access with name and UH ID#/barcode. |
| BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report | A weekly newsletter covering legal developments and trends in the major legal issues surrounding digital communications – contents, transactions, and infrastructure, on federal, state, and international levels. This database contains all issues published since April 12, 1996. Major topics covered include consumer protection laws, copyright and trademark issues, database protection, electronic signatures, information licensing, Internet governance, network security, online contracting, online marketing, trade regulation, defamation, cryptography, domain name disputes. Limited to one user at a time. Contact berkey@hawaii.edu. |
| Environmental Law Reporter | This is an environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, energy, health/safety, and land use law research tool containing original source documents, editorial summaries, and expert analysis on state, federal, and international issues. It has United States, state and international laws, regulations, cases, policies and news, guidance and policy documents, treaties, latest Congressional and Agency developments. Remote access with name and UH ID#/barcode. |
| FindLaw | "FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, is the world's leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw's roots go back to 1995, when two attorneys compiled a list of Internet resources for a group of law librarians in northern California." |
| FreeCourtDockets.com | FreeCourtDockets.com provides free court dockets from all U.S. district civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts, the Court of Claims, the Court of International Trade and the U.S. Supreme Court. It has the same content as Pacer and dockets are provided in real-time. To gain access, request an invitation code. |
| Google Scholar | Full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts. |
| GPO Access | This database has the following: legislative histories beginning with the 98th Congress (1983-84), text of all published bill versions beginning with the 103rd Congress (1993-94), limited no. of Congressional hearings, beginning with the 105th congress (1997-1998). Searchable databases include House and Senate Reports, beginning with the 104th Congress (1995-1996), Senate, House and Treaty documents beginning with the 104th Congress (1995-1996), limited number of Committee Prints, beginning with the 105th Congress and full text of the Congressional Record beginning with 1994. Also available are the weekly compilation of Presidential Documents, (statements, messages and other presidential materials) 1993 – present, public papers of the President, from 1992, and a searchable full text of the Congressional Record Index beginning with 1983. |
| HRhero.com | See the Hawai‘i Employment Law Letter. "HRhero.com was created by M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC to help human resource professionals find quick answers to their employment law and management questions." |
| Harvard Law School Interactive Video Library CD-ROM Collection |
This CD-ROM collection teaches a wide range of skills such as negotiation techniques and styles, trial tactics, cross-examination, client interviewing techniques, client consultation, deposition, and post trial motions. These are taught in the context of torts, civil procedure, jurisdiction, evidence, contracts, criminal law and other topics. It requires special software to run the program. Only five PCs in the Computer Lab may be used to play the CDs. You may charge out these CDs and headphones at the Circulation Desk. Law student & faculty may only use this collection in the computer lab. |
| Hawai‘i Labor & Industrial Relations Appeals Board Index | The Appeals Board Index is a cumulative alphabetical and topical index of decisions issued by the State of Hawaii, Labor & Industrial Relations Appeals Board. It includes the following and all lists link to a summary of the case and to the actual decision in cases decided after 1/1/2002. Decisions are sorted in various ways eg. by date, governing statute, type of injury, employer, claimant, expert’s name, etc.
Access by username & password only. Contact berkey@hawaii.edu. |
| HeinOnline | This is a web-based subscription service that allows you to browse or search libraries containing older law reviews and other legal materials in image-based format. It has over 1000 law reviews, Statutes at Large, federal legislative history library, Federal Register, official Supreme Court reports and slip opinions, executive orders and proclamations, attorney general opinions, treaties and agreements, legal classics, and Jessup International Moot Court papers. Remote access with name and UH ID#/barcode. |
| IndexMaster | IndexMaster is a compilation of the indices and/or tables of content of over 8,000 legal titles from over 65 legal publishers. Searchable by keyword, topic, title, author or publisher, the index and table of contents will provide the researcher with the content necessary for locating on-point titles on specific topics. Remote access with name and UH ID#/barcode. |
| IntelliConnect (CCH) |
IntelliConnect provides primary materials and legal analysis for several subject areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, China Laws for Foreign Business, Health Care law, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Products Liability, Securities, and Tax Law and other topics. You may search by keyword and then filter by Document Type, Library or Jurisdiction. When you click on the Browse button, you can select specific content to search or browse through the hierarchy of content. Use Tracker News to receive via email any of over 60 report letters, alerts, newsletters, or trackers from CCH products. To use Tracker News and to customize your page, you will need to log in with a password. Contact berkey@hawaii.edu for information on how to get a password.
Remote access with last name and UH ID#/barcode or UH email username & password.
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| Internet Guide for the Legal Researcher | Basic reference sources for lawyers, law librarians, legal researchers and information professionals. Access to the Internet resources covered within the Guide, as well as expanding on them. It will also provide a quick and easy way to notify users of new or revamped web sites and URL changes before they are more thoroughly explored within the Updates to the Third Edition. Provides links (and annotations) to legal portals, indexes, federal and state resources, international resources, reference resources, subject area research links. Access by password only. Contact berkey@hawaii.edu. |
| Isinolaw | Isinolaw.com, a comprehensive legal information website, provides legal information of the People’s Republic of China in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English and Japanese. It also provides access to fulltext national laws and regulations, local laws and regulations, taxation, insurance, banking, securities, Environmental protection law database, Laws of Hong Kong, telecommunication, judicial interpretations cases and awards, sample application forms and contracts, legal information, questions and answers, academic discussions, legal services, court judgments, intellectual property, import and export and China’s WTO accession documentation. Access in law library. Remote access with name and UH ID#/barcode. |
| JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection (via Hamilton Library) | "The Library has purchased access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI and Complement collections. These collections provide full-text journal backfiles in various disciplines. The JSTOR project's primary goal is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Selected journals in the following subject areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics."
Remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode. |
| JSTOR Ecology and Botany Collection (via Hamilton Library) |
"The Biological Sciences Collection will include at least one hundred titles when it is completed in 2007. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in our existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than seventy titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology." |
| Justlawlinks.com | "Law Research is a tool for locating legal documents on the internet. It is specifically designed as a referencing resource for researching the law on the internet. LawResearch provides the initial searching, filtering, sorting, selecting, editing, and testing of thousands of hyperlinks. The final compilation delivers an ordered and tested "library card catalogue" of links leading to millions of legal documents on the internet" |
| Law.com Quest | "Law.com connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and regional legal publications online, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times, and delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global audience of subscribers each day on The Newswire." |
| Lawinfochina |
LawInfoChina.com is a full text database of English translations of primary law and selected cases of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), with English language legal news, and certain other PRC secondary sources in English. It includes the full text of all PRC basic laws adopted from 1949-present; all PRC administrative regulations promulgated from 1949-present; selected judicial decisions of the Supreme People’s Court from 1993-present; selected PRC judicial interpretations of laws and regulations from 1950-present; selected PRC administrative rules and orders from 1950-present; selected local regulations and rules from 1950-present; selected PRC tax treaties; documents relating to the PRC’s accession to the WTO; and policy statements (“White Papers”) issued by the State Council of the PRC from 1991-present. The gazettes and law journals databases have the table of contents of official gazettes and some Chinese legal journals. |
| LawGuru | "The LawGuru.com Web Site is owned and operated by WebSiteBroker, Inc. a California Corporation. LawGuru.com was originally started in 1996 by a Los Angeles law firm and has evolved into one of the most popular legal web sites on the Internet. It is offered as a free service to the entire Internet Community. Please note that WebSiteBroker, Inc. is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice." |
| LawMemo | Once you are subscribed to this service, you get the following: 1. Employment Law Memo: 3 emails a week with summaries of court decisions from federal and state appellate courts 2. NLRB Law Memo: weekly emails with summaries of NLRB decisions and Advice Memos 3. Arbitration Law Memo: monthly emails with summaries of collective bargaining and individual contract cases 4. Caselaw Database: online access to summaries from past issues of Employment Law Memo with access to full text decisions. Law faculty & students only. Registration required. Contact berkey@hawaii.edu. |
| LegalTrac | This is the online version of Current Law Index. It indexes articles from over 1,300 legal periodicals including legal newspapers from 1980 to the present. Abstracts and some full-text articles may be retrieved and sent directly to your email. It may be accessed through any of the Law Library’s PCs in the Reference area or at the Library’s website. Remote access available with UHM username and ID#/barcode. |
| LexisNexis (for Law Students only) | "LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions to professionals in law firms, corporations, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic institutions and risk and compliance assessment." |
| LexisNexis Academic | "Full-text access to 6,000 news, business and legal publications using a variety of flexible search options." |
| LexisNexis Congressional |
"The LexisNexis Congressional service provides users with efficient, targeted access to the most comprehensive collection of historic and current congressional information available anywhere online. This collection includes the full text of congressional publications, finding aids, a bill tracking service, and the full text of public laws and other research materials to enable both novice and experienced researchers to complete many types of research projects using a single, user-friendly interface." Remote access with last name and UH ID#/barcode or UH email username & password.
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| LLMC-Digital | This database has cases, administrative decisions, index to US laws enacted between 1874 – 1931, State judicial materials, Tax Court and Board of Tax Appeals decisions, Hawai‘i legislative history materials, military law materials, Congressional Record from 1990-2002, Executive journal from 1954.-2001, Native American-related documents, British Empire documents, foreign jurisdictional materials, and some general reference publications. Some publications are available online; a substantial number are only available in microfiche format. Remote access by username/password. Contact berkey@hawaii.edu. |
| Loislaw | "Loislawschool.com is an educational program for law schools and paralegal institutions that allows students (and their instructors) free access to Loislaw’s primary law library as well as to other select Loislaw online research libraries." Law faculty & students only. Remote access available after registration of username and password. To get the access code to register online, contact berkey@hawaii.edu. |
| NALP Directory of Legal Employers | "NALP is a nonprofit educational association established in 1971 to meet the needs of the participants in the legal employment process — legal employers, law schools, and law students and graduates — for information, coordination, and standards." "The annual NALP Directory of Legal Employers, www.nalpdirectory.com, is the most widely used directory in legal recruiting." |
| Northeastern University School of Law | Legal search engines, directories, gateways, and other tools collected by the Law Library Staff at Northeastern University School of Law |
| RIA CheckPoint (tax) | This is a tax and financial research database that has full text Tax Court cases, Internal Revenue Code and regulations, tax treaties, administrative materials, tax journals, tax news, analyses of federal tax legislation, US Tax Reporter and Federal Tax Coordinator It also has a citatory for cases and rulings. Users may customize rsearch and display preferences. Remote access by UH username & password. Law faculty should contact berkey@hawaii.edu. Access is limited to 35 simultaneous users. |
| ScienceDirect (via Hamilton Library) | "Science Direct from Elsevier is an internet resource for scientific, technical and medical information. Using Science Direct you can access over 1,800 peer reviewed academic journals, search over 30 million abstracts from scientific articles and link out to articles from over 80 other publishers."
Remote access by UH username & password. |
| SmartCILP | This is a current awareness service that provides automated personalized email delivery of the Current Index to Legal Periodicals. After setting up a SmartCILP profile, you will receive an additional email message each week that focuses only on the subject headings and journals you select. Articles are linked to LexisNexis and Westlaw (if available in those databases) and after selecting one, you will enter your password and be taken directly to the article. Law faculty and students only. |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) |
"Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences." See Legal Scholarship Network. You may create a free SSRN user HQ membership. |
| Thomas | It has the following: status and legislative histories of bills for the 109th Congress, links to searchable databases for bills beginning with the 93rd Congress (1973-74), full text bills from 109th Congress, with links to pages for 101st Congress (1989-90) to the present. Searchable databases include committee reports for the 109th Congress, with links to earlier Congresses beginning with the 104th Congress, and Congressional Record from the 109th Congress with links to Congresses beginning with the 101st Congress (1989-90). |
| US Congressional Serial Set (via Hamilton Library) | "Search or browse the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes for the period 1817-1980." Remote access by UH username & password. |
| Virtual Chase | "The Virtual Chase has assisted legal professionals conducting research on the Internet since Summer 1996. Originally a hobby, the site began as a means by which to disseminate articles and teaching aids to law librarians and other instructors of Internet research. Now owned by the law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, it offers articles, guides, teaching materials, an alert service and more on Internet research strategies and resources. The site is open to anyone free of charge, but we provide materials with experienced researchers, lawyers and other legal professionals in mind." |
| Virtual Search Engines | "Virtual Sites is your Web Surfer's Guide of over 500 helpful pages representing Free Stuff, Search Engines, Web Cams, Virtual Tours, Online Shopping, Online Casinos, Online Computing, Reference Sites, Security. Government Intelligence and 1 Million Discounted Books!" |
| Web of Science (via Hamilton Library) | "A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences (Science Citation Index Expanded) as well as both the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Approximately 70% of the records have author abstracts. Online coverage from 1980 to present." Remote access by UH username & password. |
| WestLaw (for Law Students only) | "Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources." |
| WilsonWeb |
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books is a bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship. You can enter searches as single terms, phrases, or complex Boolean search strings, then display the retrieved records, and print, save, or email the results. Remote access with last name and UH ID#/barcode or UH email username & password.
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| World Cat (via Hamilton Library) | World Cat is the OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode. |
