Law & Legal Studies: Getting Started

Includes American Jurisprudence, Ohio Jurisprudence, and Corpus Juris Secundum, as well as a large collection of legal and news databases, including federal and state law, statutes and cases, transcripts of news programs and local sources.

Indexing and abstracts are provided for 250 scholarly publications on legal topics. Most titles are full-text, and some titles go back as far as 1965, but most do not.

ProQuest Congressional offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress. It indexes Congressional publications from 1789 to the present and provides access to CIS Legislative Histories for public laws (1970-). Full text is available for many publications including testimony from congressional hearings (1824-); committee reports (1830-); bill texts and status (1989-); Statutes at Large/laws (1789-); Congressional Serial Set (1789-1969) and Congressional Record.

Full-text databases, finding aids, and other resources for locating federal government information. Databases cover congressional publications, laws, regulations, and key statistical and administrative publications such as the Economic Report of the President, the Budget of the U.S. Government, and the U.S. Government Manual.

One-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases (Government Printing Office’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo). It will retrieve reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected U.S. government resources and publications available online.