Online Databases


Legal Databases

Other Useful Databases for Legal Research

Also consult our E-Journal Titles

Legal Databases

Access Database Description
Law School Access Only BNA Web includes U.S.Law Week, I.P. library, Labor library, and other reporters
Rutgers Only HeinOnline Coverage of many older law journals not contained in Lexis or Westlaw; Federal Register; Legal Classics; U.S. Treaties; Federal Legislative
Histories.  Law School's subscription also includes Foreign & International Law Resources.
Law School Access Only IBFD International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation
Password required Lexis-Nexis Broad coverage of primary and secondary legal sources and news databases
Rutgers Only LLMC Digital LLMC-Digital offers a wide range of archival material from federal legislative, judicial and executive branch agencies.
Law School Access Only Making of Modern Law Legal treatises 1800-1926 (Supported by Rutgers Law School Alumni Association)
Law School Access Only RIA Checkpoint A tax database
Newark Campus Total Kleinrock Office A tax database. If you already have a password,
please log in . To get a password,
send e-mail (from Andromeda, Kinoy, or Pegasus) to
request Customer Number. After obtaining Customer Number, go to here
to create your password.

Free access username: treaties password: 12345

United Nations Treaty Collection Includes full-text of all UN Treaties
Password required Westlaw Broad coverage of primary and secondary legal sources and news databases

Other Useful Databases for Legal Research

Access Database Description
Rutgers Only Access UN United Nations publications
Rutgers Only Books in Print Full bibliographic information and links to reviews
Rutgers Only Business & Industry Database Coverage: 1994 - present
Rutgers Only Business Source Premier Business Information, has some coverage from 1926 onwards, and more than 200 journals with complete coverage from 1965
Rutgers Only CCH Tax Research Network Information on latest changes to tax laws and regulations
Rutgers Only CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Papers & conference proceedings from universities, NGOs and foundations, 1991 - present
Rutgers Only Country Watch Current news & information on 191 countries
Rutgers Only CQ Researcher In-depth analysis of contemporary issues, 1991 to present
Rutgers Only Criminal Justice Abstracts Coverage: 1969 to present.
Rutgers Only Digital Dissertations Lists 1.5 million titles from 1861 to present
Rutgers Only EconLit Covers 550 journals, 1969 - present
Rutgers Only EEBO - Early English Books Online Contains some early English legal materials
Rutgers Only Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Includes many law books published in the 1700's
Rutgers Only Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management index Coverage: 1984 to present
Rutgers Only ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center Database of education related literature, 1966 to present
Rutgers Only Factiva Access to Factiva publications and company information
Rutgers Only JSTOR Full-text database of older scholarly periodicals
Rutgers Only New York Times (Proquest) Full text images from the newspaper are available through this database.
Rutgers Only Oxford English Dictionary Based on the second edition but with drafts and revisions from the not yet released third edition
Rutgers Only Polling the Nations Opinion surveys from over 700 polling organizations covering 80 countries, 1986 - present
Rutgers Only (PAIS) Public Affairs Information Service Covers journals, books, conference proceedings and government documents, 1972 - present
Rutgers Only SourceOECD SourceOECD is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.Full text of OECD periodicals and documents are available at this site.
Rutgers Only Statistical Universe Permits searching across many government statistical databases
Rutgers Only Ulrich's Periodical Directory Ulrich's provides information on approximately 250,000 periodicals. Includes some reviews. Coverage varies.
Rutgers Only United Nations Statistics Division Common Database - UNStats UNSTATS provides selected series from 30 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.
Rutgers Only U.S. Congressional Serial Set Congressional reports and documents, 1817-1980
Rutgers Only World News Connection English and translated news stories from the Foreign News Service of the U.S. Government
Rutgers Only Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Coverage: 1975 to present

Additional Rutgers Online Databases