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Off-campus access to databases

BNA - Bureau of National Affairs
The most current information in a range of legal, legislative, regulatory and economic areas. Each weekly reporter contains both primary sources (including cases, laws, regulations and agency documents and secondary sources (including news, politics and current trends). Titles include:

• ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
• Accounting Policy & Practice Report
• Accounting Policy & Practice Series
• Antitrust and Trade Regulation Reporter
• Bankruptcy Law Reporter
• Criminal Law Reporter
• Electronic Commerce & Law Report
• Employment Discrimination Report
• Environment Reporter
• Family Law Reporter
• Health Law Reporter
• Intellectual Property Library
• International Environment Reporter
• International Trade Reporter
• Labor and Employment Law Library
• Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal
• Securities Regulation and Law Report
• Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal
• Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal
• Tax Management International Journal
• Tax Management Memorandum
• Tax Management Portfolios -US Income; Estates Gifts and Trusts; and Foreign Income
• Tax Management Real Estate Journal
• U.S. Law Week
• United States Patents Quarterly
• White Collar Crime Report

CALI
Internet based legal instruction.

Communications Mosaic
Provides comprehensive access to federal law and regulation, FCC rulemaking and procedure, and national communications news via a powerful search engine.

Congressional Universe
Congressional publications, historical documents, statutes and legislative research.

Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories
Searchable, with English translations and commentary on the constitutions of 40 countries and their 170 dependencies and territories.

Constitutions of the Countries of the World
Access to 188 country constitutions with extensive expert commentary from leading scholars worldwide. Accurate, original English translations.

Constitutions of the United States (National and State)
Complete and up-to-date American constitutions: the United States Constitution, each of the 50 state constitutions; plus constitutions of fifteen U.S. territories.

Criminal Justice Periodical Index
CJPI Indexes over 240 journals with subjects related to criminal justice. Links to full text articles when available.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals
Current awareness service; reviews and organizes by subject, articles published by leading legal journals. Published monthly.

HeinOnline
Provides online access to tens of millions of pages of image-based research material. Image-based meaning that you can see the PDF version of the original hard copy (including all charts, graphs, and photographs) and is fully-searchable. The 23 collections to which we subscribe includes:

• Federal Register Library - includes Code of Federal Regulations
• Law Journal Library
• Legal Classics Library - more than 1,200 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, focusing on constitutional law, political science and other classic topics
• Treaties and Agreements Library
• U.S. Supreme Court Library - includes the only complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports from 1754 to 2003

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
A multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide.

Index to Legal Periodicals
ILP is a leading indexer of legal periodical literature. Links to full text journal articles are provided.

IndexMaster
IndexMaster searches indexes and table of contents of thousands of secondary legal title.

LegalTrac
Index of law review articles.

LexisNexis**

LLMC-Digital
The electronic equivalent of legal literature and government documents in the extensive LLMC microform collection.

PACER - Public Access to Court Electronic Records - case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts. See a librarian for access.

RIA Checkpoint
Tax and accounting information.

Securities Mosaic
Provides comprehensive disclosure and regulatory information.

Statistical Universe
More than 30,000 individually indexed statistical tables issued by the federal government. Also includes:

• American Statistics Index (ASI) of federal statistical publications beginning in 1973, including diverse topics such as crime, demography, economics, education, energy, environment, international trade and labor.
• Statistical Reference Index (SRI) of significant statistical publications of state and private sector sources in the U.S. beginning in 1980, including business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research agencies, professional and trade associations and state government.
• Index to International Statistics (IIS) from international intergovernmental organizations beginning in 1983, including the European Union, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations and World Bank.

State Capital Universe
A comprehensive resource for 50 states, it includes bills, constitutions, laws, legislature membership, proposed and enacted regulations, and newspapers of record (under "Issues").

Treaties and International Agreements
More than 15,000 treaties and international agreements, including international tax treaties.

Westlaw**

World Trade Law
Includes full text search engine for GATT and WTO cases and documents, and dispute settlement commentaries for all WTO panel and appellate body reports.

Arnold Bernhard Library Databases
The university undergraduate library pays subscription fees so that members of the Quinnipiac community may use these various databases either on or off campus. See Arnold Bernhard Library resources.

** These databases are available only to QU law school faculty, staff and students.