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Below is an A-Z listing of databases recommended for UC Davis Law School students and faculty. Some databases are licensed only to UC Davis law students and faculty. Additional databases are licensed by the California Digital Library ("CDL databases") for all University of California affiliated students, faculty and staff. CDL databases
cover a full-range of topics including history, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, technology and many other disciplines that often intersect with the study of law and policy.
How to access databases from home or remotely:
UC Davis Law School students and faculty need to sign into Virtual Private Network
("VPN") at: http://vpn.law.ucdavis.edu (for databases requiring IP authentication).
Need help selecting a database? Contact lawlibref@ucdavis.edu or 752-0210.
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The multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, including over 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for an additional 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Coverage: 1887-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

Provides full-text of a large number of California' and U.S. newspapers including Washington Post (1977-), Los Angeles Times (1985-), S.F. Chronicle (1985-), Sacramento Bee (1984-), and the Davis Enterprise (1997-). (The New York Times is available on Proquest and Lexis Nexis Academic). In addition, Access World News from NewsBank covers over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources; including a selection of Spanish language newspapers from the United States and other countries.
Coverage: Varies with individual newspaper.UCD IP Addresses Only

Use this database to locate articles on American and Canadian history, including ethnic history and relations, from prehistory to the present; more than 2000 journals published worldwide.
Coverage: 1964-presetUCD IP Addresses Only

Peer-reviewed electronic journals on legal and other topics edited by academics and available in full-text. Topics include Global issues, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Legal Scholarship and others.
Coverage: 2000-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

A select group of Bloomberg BNA titles is accessible online including: ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct; Accounting Policy & Practice Report; Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report; Bankruptcy Law Reporter; Compensation Planning Journal; Criminal Law Reporter; Daily Tax Report, Electronic Commerce & Law Report; Employment Discrimination Report, Environment Reporter, Estate, Gifts and Trusts Journal, Family Law Reporter, Financial Planning Journal, Health Law Reporter, Intellectual Property Library, International Trade Reporter, Labor and Employment Law Library, Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal, Pension & Benefits Reporter, Securities Regulation & Law Report, Tax Management Memorandum, Tax Management Weekly Report, Transfer Pricing Report, Tax Management Portfolios, U.S. Law Week, U.S. Patents Quarterly, White Collar Crime Report, World Securities Law Report.
Coverage: Varies with each titleUCD Law IP Addresses Only

"Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 25,000 most-cited authors in the database." Business Source Complete is an upgrade from Business Source Premier
Coverage: coverage varies by title with some going as far back as 1886.UCD IP Addresses Only

Computer-based exercises provided for use in conjunction with law school courses. Tutorials are available in 28 legal subject areas.
Coverage: 1982-presentPassword Required

CCH IntelliConnect provides access to a number of databases on Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Computer and Internet, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Securities, and other business law topics.
Coverage: Varies with each title.UCD Law IP Addresses Only

The California Digital Library licenses more than 8,000 journals and 200 databases on behalf of the University of California. These databases provide access to a wide range of interdisciplinary topics.

Electronic access provided to the most popular CEB practice titles, reporters and Action Guides. Regular updating included, fully searchable, with links to cases, statutes.
Coverage: Current with case links back to 1934.UCD Law IP Addresses Only

Full-text database includes articles, news, reports, and statistical data on higher education.
Coverage: 1989-presentPassword Required

Provides a weekly index to legal periodicals arranged by broad topics and a list of the tables of contents of indexed periodicals.
Password Required

Full-text included of CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, and CQ Index. Provides research summaries, weekly reports on Congressional activities and political developments. Full-text searching available.
Coverage: Weekly, 1983-present; Researcher, 1991-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

Provides online access to legal newspapers, the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Francisco Daily Jornal.
Coverage: 1998-PresentPassword Required

A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes. Topics include economic theory and history, monetary theory and financial institutions; labor economics; international, regional, urban economics; and other related subjects.
Coverage: 1969-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

The leading journal for coverage and analysis of legal issues on election law. Topics covered include: Campaign finance reform, redistricting and reapportionment, voting rights, equal protection and election reform, term limits, the Internet and political campaigns, voting technologies and uniform voting, ballot design and ballot access, legal issues in media of election coverage, monitoring overseas elections and initiatives and other ballot propositions.
Coverage: v.1 (2002) - currentUCD Law IP Addresses Only

Contains environmental, natural resources energy, health/safety, and land use law research source documents. Includes summaries, expert analysis on state, federal and international issues. Searchable by index or keyword.
Coverage: Source documents back to 1971Password Required

Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Provides company information including market data and competitors. Includes full-text of the Wall Street Journal. Coverage in more than 20 languages.
Coverage: Varies by source.UCD IP Addresses Only

This online library is organized in two parts. One part is derived from the looseleaf publication entitled Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories: A Bibliography of Government Documents, Periodical Articles, and Books by Nancy P. Johnson. The sources for these compilations include congressional documents, legal periodicals, treatises and looseleaf services. The second part of this library is the U.S. Federal Legislative History Title Collection, which is a collection of full-text legislative histories on some of the most important and historically significant legislation of our time. A legislative history is the collection of documents that are produced in Congress during the enactment of a law.
Coverage: Varies by source.UCD IP Addresses Only

Provides electronic access to the latest developments in CALCRIM and CALJIC jury instructions. It contains thousands of pages of argument, authority, and alternate instructions for both CALCRIM and CALJIC. Recent revisions to CALCRIM are also documented with commentary.
Password Required

This online library comprising over 1,600 volumes is organized in four parts: Part I: International Yearbooks and Periodicals; Part II: U.S. Law Digests; Part II: International Tribunals/Judicial Decisions; and Part IV: Other Significant Works Related to Foreign and International Law. The collection includes publications by the American Society of International Law and the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series.
Coverage: Varies by source.UCD IP Addresses Only

Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World A guide to official sources and official full texts of legislation and English translations of codes, laws and relevant material published separately for the legal systems of over 180 nations or jurisdictions, including internet sources for individual jurisdictions.
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

This resource provides access to select historical papers from Mexico, Brazil, and Central America-mostly in the original language.
There is also access to select materials from the FBI File on the American Churchwomen Killed in El Salvador, December 1980. Please click on this link
for a brief summary of the incident. This collection from the FBI file includes "State Department, FBI, and El Salvadoran government memoranda, correspondence, specimen analyses, photographs of weapons, field reports, newspaper clippings, witness statements, and polygraph examination reports. In addition, there are requests for information by the victims' families to both the U.S. and El Salvadoran governments."
UCD IP Addresses Only

Provides electronic access to historical and current law reviews, statutes, regulations, legislative histories, moot court competition briefs, legal texts and documents including: U.S. law reviews and journals, criminal justice journals, international & non-U.S. law journals, Code of Federal Regulations (1938-present), Federal Register (1936-present), U.S. Statutes at Large Vols. 1-120 (1789-2006), U.S. federal legislative histories, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Reports Vols. 1-546 (1754-2005), Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (1949-present), session laws for all 50 states including Puerto Rico and District of Columbia, U.S. treaties and agreements, Foreign & International Law Resources, English Reports (1220-1865) and an extensive collection of Legal Classics with over 1,000 titles - some authored by Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo and Edwardo Coke.
Coverage: Varies by source.UCD IP Addresses Only

The database, available through HeinOnline, provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law, including all languages. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law. American publications concerning foreign law are included. Included are journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews. For materials available through Hein Online there will be direct links to the full text; otherwise, full citation information is provided to help you locate the text through other resources.
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

This retrospective database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It includes annual surveys, yearbooks, institutes, and reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic for the period 1908-1981. For articles published after 1981, use Legaltrac.
Coverage: 1908-1981UCD Law IP Addresses Only

Database provided of legislation and secondary materials of Latin American countries. Access includes Diario Oficial, English translations of Mexican legislation, Inter-American Trade Report, and Treaties and Agreements.
Coverage: 1995-presentUCD Law IP Addresses Only

Electronic access to 21 Kluwer Law International Journals including: Air and Space Law; Arbitration International; World Trade and Arbitration Materials, International Journal of Comparative Labour & Industrial Relations; European Public Law; European Review of Private Law; and Legal Issues of Economic Integration. For a complete list of journals consult HeinOnline under the Kluwer Library.
Coverage: Varies with each titleUCD Law IP Addresses Only

The Knowledge Mosaic research platform provides access to regulatory information in the areas of Securities, Communications and Energy. The "Keep Current" section includes: Daily Securities News, Daily Litigation News, Daily Communications News, Daily Energy News, Weekly Securities Regulatory Report and Securities Mosaic Blog Watch. The "Agency Materials" section provides access to documents from: CBO, CFTC, EPA, FCC, FDIC, FERC, FinCEN, FINRA, FRB, GAO, NCUA, NRC, NYSE, OCC, OFAC, PCAOB, SEC and Treasury. The "Federal Fundamentals" section provides access to the U.S. Code, CFR, Federal Register (vols 63 - current), Public Laws (104th Congress - current) and bills/legislation for the current Congress. The "Disclosure" section provides access to SEC filings with a detailed search form to filter search results. Knowledge Mosaic also includes law firm memos in about 50 topic areas and an "Analytics" section to access FINRA adjudication and SEC Enforcement actions.
Coverage: Varies with each databaseUCD Law IP Addresses Only

Collection of law reviews and journals going back to the first volume for most titles, organized in the following categories: American Bar Association Journals, Core U.S. Journals, Criminal Justice Journals, International & Non-U.S. Law Journals, Intellectual Property Law Journal Library and Most-Cited Law Journals. Downloaded documents are PDF images of the actual journal or law review, these PDF’s can be forwarded to e-mail as an attachment. To receive e-mail alerts for a specific journal, select a specific journal, and click “create e-mail alert” -- you will be prompted to create a MyHein account.
Coverage: Varies by title, most journals go back to vol. 1UCD IP Addresses Only

Provides abstracts to scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and full-text of many articles. Also includes conference announcements, calls for papers and notes on books and journals of interest.
UCD IP Addresses Only

Provides access to citations from major legal publications and many full text articles in PDF format. LegalTrac is updated daily with coverage starting from 1980. For articles published before 1980, use Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective which covers the period 1908-1981.
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

Database of primary and secondary legal resources online. Available to law school affiliates. Must have password to access.
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

Provides access to current news, business and legal information, a broad range of interdisciplinary materials, and a wide range of U.S. and foreign newspapers. Legal resources include state and federal laws and regulations, a full range of case law, and law review articles.
UCD IP Addresses Only

Provides full-text access to a growing collection of law and law-related materials including U.S. Federal documents, statutes, treatises, case law, administrative decisions, and reports of government agencies, boards and departments, Native American law, and state court records and briefs.
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

This covers materials from the 17th century through 1920. The materials are an “archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.”
Coverage: 1620-1926UCD Law IP Addresses Only

This covers materials from 18th century through the 1960's. The materials available come from constitutional convention and compilations, and include, U. S. state and territorial codes and municipal codes.
Coverage: 1763-1970UCD Law IP Addresses Only

A comprehensive collection peer-reviewed articles on public international law, topics include: relationship between international and domestic law, settlement of disputes, human rights, immunities, international courts and tribunals, criminal law, economic law and relations, environmental law, procedural law in international organizations, law of the sea, law of treaties and the use of force, war, peace and neutrality. Searching is possible by document type in the following categories: overview articles, specific armed conflicts, specific cases and decisions, specific geographic issues and specific treaties and instruments. This is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001 (print edition at Mabie Law Library: KZ1160 .E53).
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

Federal, State, and local government criminal and juvenile justice reports, research findings, statistics, congressional hearing transcripts, unpublished reports and indexes. Subject areas covered include corrections, courts, drugs, law enforcement, crime statistics, victims of crime, etc.
Coverage: 1971-present
Weekly news stories on politics and government, daily Congress updates, hotline news and book reviews.
Coverage: CurrentUCD IP Addresses Only

Full-text provided of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publications. Includes statistical data, books, and periodical. Specific databses include: OECD Factbook, Country Statistical Profiles, and the OECD Stat cross-database query.
Coverage: 1998-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

A select group of Oxford Journals are available online: British Year Book of International Law; Current Legal Problems; International Data Privacy Law; Journal of European Competition Law & Practice; Journal of International Dispute Settlement; Yearbook of European Law; Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Capital Markets Law Journal; Chinese Journal of International Law; International Journal of Constitutional Law; Journal of Human Rights Practice; Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice; Journal of International Criminal Justice; Journal of World Energy Law & Business; Law, Probability and Risk; Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice and Trusts and Trustees. Access individual titles by performing a title search in the Law Library’s catalog, MORT
.
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) provides docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts for a fee.
Password Required

International index of articles, books, government reports, statistical directories, research reports in various languages. Updated monthly.
Coverage: 1972-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

Provides detailed indexing from 1789 forwards for publications of Congress: documents, reports, hearings, unpublished hearing transcripts, laws and regulations, plus legislative histories and information on members of Congress. LexisNexis Congressional includes full text only for more recent congressional documents.
Coverage: VariesUCD IP Addresses Only

Current full-text of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times (including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review), and the Wall Street Journal. For historical backfiles, see ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Coverage: Varies by source.UCD IP Addresses Only

PsycARTICLES is a database of 54 electronic journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
Coverage: 1987-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA). It provides citations to articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, dissertations and even important internet sites in psychology and related disciplines, most with abstracts and some citations. (Psychinfo is the incorrect spelling.)
Coverage: 1840-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

Full-text federal and state tax resources including cases, statutes, Internal Revenue Code, tax regulations, IRS revenue and letter rulings, Tax Court procedures, tax alerts, tax journals, recent, pending and past legislation and U.S. Tax Treaties in Force. Registration and password required: U.C. Davis Law School faculty should contact lawlibref@ucdavis.edu and request RIA Checkpoint access; U.C. Davis law school students need to follow registration steps found here
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UCD Law IP Addresses Only
Password Required

The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It is particularly suited to trace citations to authors and articles across publications. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Coverage: 1956-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Coverage: 1986-presentUCD IP Addresses Only

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. The SSRN eLibrary contains information about working and accepted papers in the fields of financial economics, accounting research, legal scholarship, economic research and management research.
Coverage: Varies.UCD IP Addresses Only

Syracuse University provides database with comprehensive information about federal staffing, spending and enforcement activities of the federal government. Compiles activity data and offers comparative analysis of data from the FBI, IRS, Drug Enforcement.
Coverage: 1996-presentUCD Law IP Addresses Only

The Readex/Newsbank U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817 - 1980) will contain all publications from the 15th through the 96th Congresses, together with American State Papers (a retrospective collection of materials originating from 1789 through 1838 but published in the second quarter of the 19th century). The U.S. Congressional Serial Set the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitutes an incomparably rich collection of primary source material of all aspects of American history.
Coverage: 1817 - 1980, with American State Papers 1789 - 1838 (Projected coverage - this is an ongoing project and not yet completed; approximate coverage to date is American State Papers and 15th Congress - 48th Congress, 1817 - 1885)UCD IP Addresses Only

Selected full-text of United Nations official records and documents are available from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat, International Court of Justice, and Trusteeship Council.
Coverage: 2000-present; cases-1946-present
Full-text of treaties and international agreements entered into by members of the United Nations includes status of treaties, indexes, monthly updates.
Coverage: 1946-presentUCD Law IP Addresses Only

a searchable database of over 350,000 digitized Supreme Court documents including Amicus Briefs, Appellant's Briefs, Appellee's Briefs, Applications for Review, Applications for Writ, Briefs in Opposition, Briefs of Real Party, Intervenor's Briefs, Jurisdictional Statements, Letter Briefs, Oppositions for Review, Oral Transcripts, Petitions, Petitions for Rehearing, Petitioner's Briefs, Petitions for Writ of Certiorari, Relator's Briefs and Supplements to Petitions. Documents are available for both argued (indicated by a gavel icon in search result) and cert denied cases and can be downloaded in PDF format.
UCD Law IP Addresses Only

Database of primary and secondary legal resources online. Available to law school affiliates. Must have password to access.
Coverage: 1946-presentUCD Law IP Addresses Only

WestlawNext is the new interface and search system from Westlaw, currently under development. As of October 19, 2010 WestlawNext is available to all law school students and faculty (using your same Westlaw password). WestlawNext is still evolving -- not all content on Westlaw is available on WestlawNext, in particular foreign and international law databases. Important note regarding printing: WestlawNext now allows printing for law school students and faculty. You can still download materials to Amazon Kindle devices.
Coverage: Varies by databaseUCD Law IP Addresses Only
Password Required

Use this database to locate articles, international in scope, on political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration policy.
Coverage: 1975-present.UCD IP Addresses Only













