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ABA Full-text Online Law Review/Law Journal Search Engine
Free resource from the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center. Searches the full-text of over 300 online law reviews and law journals, as well as document repositories hosting academic papers and related publications such as Congressional Research Service reports.
Berkeley Electronic Press
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The Berkeley Electronic Press (BEPress) was founded as an electronic alternative to traditional paper academic journals. They publish journals and working papers in law, political science, current affairs, economics, business, marketing, science, technology, and medicine. This site also has a number of author tools, including LawKit and ExpressO, which help in the journal submission process.
Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Chronicle is a great source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. It features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; discussion forums; and career-building tools such as an online CV's, salary databases, and more.
Citizenship Studies
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Citizenship Studies publishes internationally recognised scholarly work on contemporary issues in citizenship, human rights and democratic processes from an interdisciplinary perspective covering the fields of politics, sociology, history and cultural studies. It seeks to lead an international debate on the academic analysis of citizenship, and also aims to cross the division between internal and academic and external public debate.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)
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Very current weekly listing of new academic law journal articles in PDF, Word and HTML formats. The HTML format has links to the full-text articles in LexisNexis and Westlaw. (Users must have passwords to access full text.) CILP entries are about six weeks more current than the listings in other legal periodicals indexes. To set up a customized SmartCILP email account, tailored to your subject interests and/or specific journals, see the SmartCILP instructions at the bottom of the CILP page.
Find e-Journals
This tool from the Bender Library helps you find online journals to which the University subscribes.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
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Includes access to articles about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
HeinOnline
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A comprehensive collection of searchable full-text PDF (or text) images of major law journal articles, including back issues. Check online table of contents for coverage of specific journal titles; new titles are added regularly. Also includes searchable pre-1981 issues of the Federal Register. New volumes are added regularly.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
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Covers selected journals and essay collections worldwide, many non-English language. Provides coverage from 1985. In hard copy, this index provides coverage from 1960. From the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
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This legal periodicals index covers articles in Anglo-American law reviews and selected law-related books from 1983. It excludes legal newspapers. In hard copy, the ILPB provides coverage from 1907.
JSTOR
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Excludes recent 2-to-5 years, otherwise full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and math. Provided by American University's Bender Library.
LawTrio Law Publications Database
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LawTRIO is a fully searchable bibliographic database of over 7,500 legal titles combined from three of our print directories. The titles come in three formats: looseleaf (from Legal Looseleafs in Print, newsletter (from Legal Newsletters in Print), and CD-ROM (from Directory of Law Related CD-ROMs).
LegalTrac
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The most comprehensive current legal periodicals index. Covers law reviews, bar journals, and legal newspapers. Provides coverage from 1980.
LexOpus: From Law Working Papers to Published Works
Free article publication service, similar to ExpressO. From the Washington & Lee Law Library.
Library.PressDisplay.com
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Same-day publication of over 400 English- and foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Sixty-day backrun.
Microform Finder
A finding aid for all the microforms (both microfilm and microfiche) to which the library subscribes.
Pence Law Library E-Journal and Newspaper A-Z List
List of electronic journals and newspapers accessible to Pence Law Library patrons from its online catalog, Leagle, with links to the full text. Other electronic journals and newspapers may be available to library patrons via the main campus library's Aladin system.
Project MUSE
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Currently, Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Social Science Research Network
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Abstracts of law-related scholarly working papers and articles accepted for publication, full text journals, professional announcements, calls for papers, and academic and industry job listings. Part of the Social Science Research Network. From main SSRN site, select "Legal Scholarship Network" from the left-hand menu. To create a customized subscription, select "Site Subscriptions for LSN," then "join an existing site" and complete the form.
Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition
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Runs from 1984. To browse today's articles, limit your search to today's date.
World News Connection
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Non-U.S. media, including newspapers, magazines, media broadcasts and conference proceedings.
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