Law Databases

Access Newspaper Archive
Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages from around the world, dating as far back as the 1700s.[Available for use on a law building hardwired internet connection.]

AudioCaseFiles
AudioCaseFiles offers downloadable MP3 files of court opinions as well as streaming trial video. Search by course or casebook to find audio materials from 1L classes and 2L and 3L subjects. [Users must create an account using a zips.uakron.edu email address.]

BNA Premier
BNA is a leading publisher of print and electronic news and information, reporting on developments in health law, intellectual property, labor relations, family law, international trade, environmental protection, criminal justice, and other public policy and regulatory issues. BNA Premier resources are licensed to the University of Akron School of Law for University faculty, staff, and student use. These resources may only be used for individual educational research. All other uses are prohibited. Additional information about BNA Premier is available at BNA's Law School Professional Information Center.   [University of Akron only]

CCH IntelliConnect
CCH services including the following: Securities, Exchanges and SROs, Corporate Governance, Investment Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, international Business, Banking, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Product Liability and Safety, Government Contracts, Intellectual Property, Computer and Internet Law, Federal Energy Guidelines, Tax and Accounting, and Transportation Law. [University of Akron only.]

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online covers the development of law in the British Empire between 1701 and 1800.Topics include acts, criminal and international law, appellants’ cases and more.

Ebscohost Legal Collection
The full text of over 250 law reviews in English.

Foreign Law Guide
Foreign Law Guide is source for primary and secondary sources of foreign law from nearly 200 jurisdictions. It contains information from major nations to crown colonies, semi-independent states and supra-national regional organizations. Hundreds of URLs containing reprints or translations of legislation are cited. [Available for School of Law students, faculty, and staff.]
NOTE: Requires remote logon for wireless access and access out of the School of Law.

HeinOnline
HeinOnline is an expanding collection of legal information including the following collections: Law Journal Library, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Association of American Law Schools (AALS),American Law Institute Library, Code of Federal Regulations, English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865), European Center for Minority Issues, Federal Register Library, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), Harvard Research in International Law, Kluwer Law International Journal Library, Legal Classics, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Philip C. Jessup Library, Session Laws, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Congressional Documents, U.S. Federal Agency Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Supreme Court Library, and World Trials [University of Akron only.]

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is a multilingual index to articles and books reviews published worldwide. Also analyzed are the contexts of legal essays, festschrifts, mélanges, and congress reports. The index to Foreign Legal Periodicals covers international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., and Canada, and Australia. With coverage from 1985 to the present, the Index is updated quarterly. [University of Akron only.]

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text
This index covers over 800 legal periodicals and law reviews in English several hundred are indexed in full text.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
This retrospective index covers over 500 legal periodicals and law reviews from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Journal of Forensic Sciences
Full text beginning 2006. [University of Akron only.]

LegalTrac
LegalTrac is the web-based equivalent of the print product called Current Law Index. It is an index to legal periodical literature from 1980 to date. Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law. The database is also available on LEXIS and WESTLAW as Legal Resources Index. [University of Akron only.]

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides access to Law Review Articles, Federal and State Cases, Federal and State Codes, Canadian Cases, Statutes, and Regulations. [Available through OhioLINK.]

LLMC Digital
LLMC Digital provides searchable databases of earlier full-text primary United States Government documents and legal literature. The collection consists of U.S. federal and state materials relating to the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government (court opinions, statutes, and administrative materials). [University of Akron only.]

Loislaw Treatises for Law Schools
Loislaw provides full-text access to selected current Aspen legal treatises.  The subjects covered by these treatises include business practice, construction law, elder law, employment discrimination, estate planning, evidence, family law, internet law and e-commerce, litigation, limited liability companies, personal injury, product liability, and real estate law.  [Available for School of Law students, faculty, and staff.]
NOTE: Requires remote logon for wireless access and access out of the School of Law.

Making of Modern Law: legal treatises, 1800-1926
This database provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible. [University of Akron only.]

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926
This database contains approximately 1,350 works, including colonial records, constitutional conventions and compilations, city charters, law dictionaries, and state codes.  The sources are full-text searchable or can be browsed by author or title.  Advanced search features include searching by jurisdiction, publication type, language, date, and illustration. [University of Akron only.]

Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 comprises thousands of books and pamphlets. It covers commercial law, constitutional law, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, libel, military offenses, murder, torts, treason and wills, among many other subjects. English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions such as France are included. Covering a vast range of legal history from the beginnings of the modern period to the early twentieth century, this unprecedented archive is by far the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American trials. [University of Akron only.]

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs, 1832-1978
This collection concentrates on the history of the Supreme Court from the final years of the court’s fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first ten years of the court’s 15th chief justice, Warren Earl Burger. [University of Akron only.]

Matthew Bender IP Library
Matthew Bender Intellectual Property Library contains the following resources: Baxter, World Patent Law & Practice, California Intellectual Property Handbook, Chisum On Patents, Chisum on Patents – Index, Computer Law, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: Practice & Procedure, Entertainment Industry Contracts, Entertainment Industry Contracts – Index, Intellectual Property Counseling & Litigation, Intellectual Property Primary Law Source Book, International Computer Law, International Copyright Law and Practice, Milgrim On Trade Secrets, Milgrim on Licensing, Milgrim on Trade Secrets-Index, New York Intellectual Property Handbook, Nimmer On Copyright, Nimmer on Copyright-Index, Patent Licensing Transactions, Patent Litigation: Procedure & Tactics, Patent Office Rules And Practice, Patent Office Rules and Practice – Index, Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP), Trademark Protection And Practice, Trademark Protection and Practice – Index, World Trademark Law And Practice. [Available for School of Law students and faculty.]
NOTE: Requires remote logon for wireless access and access out of the School of Law.

Ohio Capitol Connection
Legislative databases and research tools, information from current and previous general assemblies.
[Available through OhioLINK.]

Oxford Reference – Law
Dictionary of Law and Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Decisions. [Available through OhioLINK.]

PACER
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts, and from the U.S. Party/Case Index. [Available for School of Law students and faculty. Please see a reference librarian for access.]

ProQuest Congressional
Read congressional testimony by experts, administration witnesses, and affected parties; Discover a law's intent by tracing its legislative history; Use CIS Index abstracts and controlled vocabulary indexing to locate congressional publication content; Search the Congressional Record, the U.S. Code, Statutes at Large, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Rules of Congress, and political news sources. [Available through OhioLINK.]

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University Databases
Search additional University database subscriptions by title, partial title, or subject. [Some resources available to the School of Law community will not display in this listing.]

University E-Journals
Search e-journals by title, partial title, subject, or ISSN. [Some resources available to the School of Law community will not display in this listing.]

OhioLINK E-Journal Finder
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Finder is a list of journals whose full text can be found online in OhioLINK databases.[Available through OhioLINK.]

OhioLINK- Law and Legislation

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 Subscriptions restricted to law faculty
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