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This is a list of subscription services and databases that are available for access by current NYLS students, faculty and staff at computers both inside and outside the NYLS building complex. When logging in from a remote location, you will be prompted for your name and your Library barcode number, located on the back of your NYLS ID.

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AALL Library (from HeinOnline)
A collection of journals and newsletters published by the American Association of Law Libraries.

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (BNA)
A source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct and legal ethics. The Manual is organized into four main sections: the Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions. Contains the full text of every ABA ethics opinion issued from 1986 onward, digests of state and local ethics opinions from 1986 to the present, and links to state Web sites for the full text of state ethics rules and opinions.

American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Readex)
See Archive of Americana (Readex)

Archive of Americana (Readex)
This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. Use the links below to search or browse a single collection, or do full-text searches across multiple collections: American State Papers, 1789-1838; U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 and Serial Set Maps, 1817-1980.

Attorney General Opinions (from Hein Online)
See U.S. Attorney General Opinions

Bureau of National Affairs (BNA)
BNA is a leading publisher of print and electronic news and information, reporting on developments in health care, business, labor relations, law, economics, taxation, environmental protection, safety, and other public policy and regulatory issues. Sign up for e-mail summaries or change your e-mail preferences for any BNA news service or BNA reference library.

CCH IntelliConnect (formerly CCH Tax Research Services and CCH Business Research Services)
Contains primary and secondary tax and business sources found in a variety of CCH publications such as the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, the Federal Securities Law Reporter and many others. The materials duplicate the coverage of print looseleaf services, while surpassing the looseleafs with electronic search features. Subjects include federal tax, state tax, securities, commodities futures and derivatives regulation, corporate governance, investment management, mergers and acquisitions, international business, federal banking law, antitrust and trade regulation, insurance litigation, products liability and safety, government contracts, federal energy law, transportation law, intellectual property, computer and internet law.

Note: Users are now required to create their own login and password to gain access to CCH content. CCH recommends using Internet Explorer.

Checkpoint (see RIA Checkpoint)

ClimateWire
See Environment and Energy Publishing

Code of Federal Regulations (from HeinOnline)

Columbia International Affairs Online
Source for theory and research in international affairs. CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Columbia Journal of European Law
This journal covers contemporary topics in European law. To access the login and password click here.

Congressional Universe
See LexisNexis Congressional

E Journals by Title (Serials Solutions)
A database to help you find out if the library has full text access to a particular electronic journal. Search either by title or ISSN number.

Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Gale)

English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867) (from HeinOnline)

Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E)
A source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. E&E's daily on-line publications are valuable to people who track and influence energy, environmental and climate policy. E&E’s individual titles include Energy and Environment Daily, Greenwire, and ClimateWire.

Environment and Energy Daily
See Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E)

Environmental Law Reporter
This publication tracks and summarizes all major environmental, toxic tort, natural resource and land use law developments, including legislative and administrative action, judicial decisions, and news. To access the login and password, click here.

Environment Reporter (BNA)
Weekly updated analysis, guidance and primary source material to keep you up to date on rapidly changing developments in courts, Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures, industry, and environmental organizations.

European Center for Minority Issues (from HeinOnline)
A collection of reports, journals and working papers produced by the Center.

ExpressO
see Berkeley Electronic Press

Federal Register (from HeinOnline)

Foreign & International Law Resources Database (from HeinOnline)
A collection of yearbooks, journals and proceedings and reports from around the world.

Foreign Law Guide (Reynolds and Flores) A good starting point for information on the legal systems of foreign countries.

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)(from HeinOnline)

Fulltext Sources Online
A directory of publications (periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and TV or radio transcripts) that are accessible online in full text, in the areas of science, technology, medicine, law, finance, business, industry, the popular press, etc. To access the login and password, click here.

Greenwire
See Environment and Energy Publishing

HeinOnline
A PDF-based collection of law review articles and a wide variety of other legal materials. The service is best known for its Law Journal Library which contains back runs of more than 1,100 journal titles, in most cases beginning with the first issue of each journal. HeinOnline's coverage has expanded to include archival libraries of federal and state primary law, federal legislative histories, U.S. treaties, foreign and international law sources, and classic American law treatises. Coverage continues to expand. Each library is full-text searchable, and search results are PDF files that can be printed and downloaded.

The History of Bankruptcy: Taxation and Economic Reform in America, Part III (from Hein Online)
Focuses on bankruptcy in America and includes legislative histories, treatises, documents, classic works and scholarly articles.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. IFLP also analyzes the contents of approximately eighty individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Mélanges, and congress reports each year.

Index to Legal Periodicals (Wilson)
The Index to Legal Periodicals consists of two databases:

a. Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text (1982 - ) provides citations to legal periodicals to more than 850 legal periodicals including legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. ILP Full Text also has full text of articles from more than 200 select periodicals, as far back as 1994, and links to full-text articles available elsewhere.
b. Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective provides citations from print editions of the Index to Legal Periodicals published between 1908-1981.

Intellectual Property Library (BNA)
Provides the full text of all decisions reported in United States Patents Quarterly from 1929 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process. Includes federal statutes and regulations on patent, copyright, and related matters. Incorporates the full text of the treatise, Patents & the Federal Circuit as well as the weekly Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal.

IntelliConnect
See CCH IntelliConnect

International Antitrust Law & Policy 2004 & 2005
Comprehensive annual analysis of international antitrust law and policy of the United States, the European Union and the world. To access the login and password, click here.

JSTOR (The Scholarly Journal Archive)
Full-text articles from nearly 800 journals (in excess of 25 million pages) in the arts and sciences, political science, statistics, economics, business, and philosophy, excluding the issues from the last few years. Included articles are searchable in full text, and retrievable in PDF format.

Justis
Justis is the full-text database with UK, Irish and EU case law and legislation dating back to 1163.

Labor Relations Reporter/Labor & Employment Law Library (BNA)
Collection of services covering federal and state labor relations law, collective bargaining, fair employment practices, the Americans with Disabilities Act, individual employment rights, labor arbitration, and wage and hours laws.

Law Journal Library (from HeinOnline)

LawTRIO
A fully-searchable database indexing and containing bibliographic information about over 7,500 legal looseleafs, newsletters and CD-ROM products.

Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (BNA)
See ABA/BNA Lawers’ Manual on Professional Conduct

Legal Classics Library (from HeinOnline)
A collection of treatises in law and related subjects, full-text searchable in PDF format. Most of the treatises date from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries.

Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN)
See Social Science Research Network

LegalTrac (Legal Resource Index)
Offers indexing for all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general interest publications. Also includes the full text of selected journal articles in PDF format.

Legislative History
See U.S. Federal Legislative History

LexisNexis

LexisNexis Congressional
Comprehensive access to information by and about the United States Congress, as well as United States legislative history. Includes legislation and public policy, statistical information including projections and analyses, federal regulations, voting and financial records for individual members as well as members of various congressional committees.

LexisNexis State Capital
Indexes legislative information from the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Coverage begins, generally, in 1991 and is current to the present legislative session.

LexisNexis Statistical
Allows users to search summaries of statistical publications from government and private sources, then link to the full-text of selected publications.

LLMC Digital
A digital archive of government documents and other out-of-copyright literature of interest to researchers in law and history, derived from the Law Library Microform Consortium's backfile of more than 90,000 volumes. The archive is currently divided into federal executive, judicial and legislative collections, each separately searchable in various ways, including full text. As volumes are transformed from microfiche into digital images, the archive will ultimately grow to encompass LLMC's entire backfile.

Loislaw publishes case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Loislaw also offers an electronic clip service, a citator (GlobalCite), and a variety of productivity features and services. If you need the access code, click here.

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (Gale)
Provides access to over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. This service gives researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible. It offers various retrieval and browsing options, including full-text searching on more than 10 million pages. Digital images of every page of every work can be viewed, printed and downloaded.

The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 (Gale)
This database spans over 300 years of legal primary sources, such as early U.S. state codes, city charters, constitutional conventions and compilations, and other documents, sourced chiefly from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, with additional materials provided by the Law Library of Congress.

The Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records and Briefs
See U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (from Gale)

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (1st through current editions) (from HeinOnline)

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Offers working papers in PDF format covering diverse areas such as corporate finance, health and health care, international finance, trade and investment, labor, technology as well papers devoted to the historical development of the American economy. The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The Bureau concentrates on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.

National Moot Court Competition Library (from HeinOnline)

netLibrary
A collection of ebooks -- all full text books in electronic format that can be downloaded to your desktop or laptop computer for specified "loan periods." The collection can be searched by a specific title, author, subject, or for words within the text.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
This definitive scholarly reference work in the field of economics features articles written by over 1500 contributors and contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition.

New York City Charter & Administrative Code
Contains the text of the laws enacted by the New York State legislature, City Council and New York City electors and notes of decisions, practice commentaries,historical and statutory notes & other research references. To access the login and password, click here.

New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs (2001 - current) (from HeinOnline)

New York Law Journal - Digest Annotator
The principal legal newspaper for the New York City legal community and the paper of record for New York's First and Second Departments. It is the only place to find many lower court decisions and new court rules. To access the login and password, click here.

New York Red Book
Basic information about the New York State's executive, legislative and judicial information branches. To access the login and password, click here.

Oxford English Dictionary
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Oxford Islamic Studies Online includes 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, and primary sources. Users can search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region. There are biographical entries, timelines, lists of suggested reading, primary sources, terms in the Qur'an and Concordance, and more.

Philip C. Jessup Library (from HeinOnline)
The collection includes the annual compendia of the Jessup International Law Moot Court competition, beginning in 1960, as well as journals published by the International Law Student Association.

Private Land Use
Covers the interrelated areas of easements, covenant, and servitudes in real estate law. To access the login and password, click here.

RIA Checkpoint (RIA)
An electronic tax research service which provides access to primary tax law sources as well as editorial content and explanations of tax law. It includes access to the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, Court cases, IRS rulings, and proposed legislation. It also includes a citator which provides information about subsequent citations of authority.

Rules of the City of New York/New York City Rules & Regulations
The official compilation of all of the rules and regulations enacted by New York City agencies and departments. To access the login and password, click here.

Session Laws Library (from HeinOnline)
The collection includes the U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789 through current, as well as session laws from all U.S. states, Australia , and Canada from 2000 through current.

Serial Set
See U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 (Readex)
See also LexisNexis Congressional for post -1980 material

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in law and the social sciences. SSRN's Legal Scholarship Network consists of an abstracts database and an electronic paper collection containing thousands of downloadable full text documents in PDF format.

State Capital Universe
See LexisNexis State Capital Universe

State Tax Today (from Tax Analysts)
The State Tax Today (STT) database provides practitioners with daily tax news and related documents from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Coverage includes news from state governments, revenue departments, courts, and legislative bodies, as well as activities by multistate organizations and tax conferences and any federal or international news and documents that affect state tax policy. STT also includes a state Commentary & Analysis feature. News coverage and supporting documents date back to 1993.

Statistical Universe
See LexisNexis Statistical

Statutes at Large (from Hein Online)
See U.S. Statutes at Large

Subject Compilations of State Laws (from HeinOnline)
The Subject Compilations of State Laws is a comprehensive source for identifying thousands of articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions and Internet sites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.

Supreme Court (from Hein Online)
See U.S. Supreme Court Library

Supreme Court Encyclopedia
See Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Gale)

Supreme Court Records and Briefs
See U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (from Gale)

Tax Analysts is a nonprofit publisher that offers the latest and most in-depth tax information worldwide. They produce several titles providing news, analysis, commentary, and access to key documents in tax policy and administration.

Taxation & Economic Reform in America: A Historical Archive, 1781-2009 (from HeinOnline)

Tax Management Library (BNA)
BNA Offers expert analysis and practice tools in U.S. income, estates gifts and trusts, and foreign income taxation

Tax Notes (from Tax Analysts)
Tax Notes is Tax Analysts' flagship publication. Tax Notes is a weekly publication offering in-depth coverage and analysis of legislative tax proposals, court decisions, regulatory pronouncements, and new trends in the administration of tax law. The online version of Tax Notes offers users all the contents of the print magazine in a searchable, easy-to-access format. You may search it by word, date, or Internal Revenue Code section. The text is available from Oct. 1998.

Tax Notes Today (from Tax Analysts)
The Tax Notes Today (TNT) database publishes the latest news and analysis about tax developments at the federal level. News stories cover Congress, the IRS, the courts, and the bar. TNT also publishes supporting documents such as texts of legislation, court opinions, regulations, IRS rulings, and press releases. In addition there is a Commentary & Analysis section which features news analysis and expert commentary from tax practitioners, government officials, academics, and experts on the Tax Analysts staff. TNT includes news and documents back to 1993.

Treaties and Agreements Library (from HeinOnline)
A comprehensive collection that includes UST, TIAS, as well as other official and unofficial U.S. treaty sources, indexes, guides, and treatises.

UK Human Rights Reports
UK Human Rights Reports provides full text case reports covering all the main areas of law affected by the Human Rights Act 1998. To access the login and password, click here.

United Nations Documents Index (Readex)
Subject index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.

United Nations Treaty Collection
Provides access to the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, the United Nations Treaty Series (full text of UN treaties), and Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties.

U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library (from HeinOnline)
The collection includes all published opinions, as well as other Department of Justice series and documents

U.S. Congressional Documents Library (from HeinOnline)
Includes all published series of debates of Congress, as well as several other series and documents related to Congress, including American State Papers.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 (Readex)
See Archive of Americana (Readex)

U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps, 1817-1980 (Readex)
See Archive of Americana (Readex)

U.S. Federal Agency Library (from HeinOnline)
A collection of published administrative decisions, opinions, and other issuances from major Federal agencies. The series are reproduced in their entirety.

U.S. Federal Legislative History Library (from HeinOnline)
A collection of full-text legislative histories on important and historically significant legislation. The library also includes the Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories database. A legislative history is the collection of documents that are generated by Congress during the enactment of a law.

U.S. Presidential Library (from HeinOnline)
A collection of documents related to the U.S. Presidents. Included are series of presidential papers and messages, as well as the complete Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.

United States Code (from HeinOnline)

U.S. Statutes at Large (from HeinOnline)

U.S. Supreme Court Library (from HeinOnline)
An archival source, this library includes a complete set of U.S. Reports as well as official Preliminary Prints and Slip Opinions. It also contains several books and journals devoted to the Court.

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (from Gale)
Over 350,000 briefs, records and appendices from over 150,000 cases are available. This collection covers the final years of the court's fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first 10 years of the court's 15th chief justice, Warren Earl Burger. For each case, a hyperlinked document list is provided. Briefs and transcripts from such famous cases as Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Roe v. Wade, U.S. v Nixon.

Westlaw

World Constitutions Illustrated (from Hein Online)
Contains the current constitution for every country (193 countries), constitutional histories for the United Kingdom, France, Brazil and Colombia, books, online resources and scholarly articles about constitutional development.

Worldwide Tax Daily (from Tax Analysts)
The Worldwide Tax Daily database provides practitioners with daily news and tax-related documents from over 180 countries and multinational organizations, including U.S. federal information concerning international tax issues. The Worldwide Tax Daily also includes an international Commentary & Analysis feature.

Worldwide Tax Treaties (from Tax Analysts)
Tax Analysts' Worldwide Tax Treaties collection includes over 3,500 tax treaties, amending protocols, and similar documents from over 181 jurisdictions. In addition to comprehensive treaties concerning taxes on income and capital, the collection also includes estate and gift tax treaties, limited agreements, model tax treaties, and more.

World Trials (from HeinOnline)
Includes accounts and transcripts of hundreds of trials from the Cornell University Law Library's research collection.

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