Legal Databases

Aspen Learning Library consists of digital study aids with full text search, note-taking, and highlighting capabilities, audio recordings, and video format learning experiences to enhance student understanding of difficult legal concepts. which may include study aids from Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel CrunchTime, Glannon Guides, Inside Series, Friedman's Practice Series, and Casenote Legal Briefs.

Bloomberg Law integrates Bloomberg’s renowned news, company and financial data with exceptional primary and secondary legal research and business intelligence tools, delivering an advantage to legal professionals who handle the most complex legal matters. 

CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) is a consortium of law schools and law libraries that hosts and facilitates online, interactive lessons with a library of over 1200 interactive legal tutorials. Exercises are available for most law school courses. See a Reference Librarian for the access code.

Resources for tax and accounting research, including analysis, explanations, and primary sources.

AudioCaseFiles offers downloadable MP3 files of court opinions as well as streaming trial video. Search by course or casebook to find audio material from 1L classes and 2L and 3L subjects. Available to Law School faculty, staff and students.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online covers the development of law in the British Empire between 1701 and 1800. Topics include acts, criminal and international law, appellants’ cases, and more.

The Foreign Law Guide provides information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, indications of currentness of the legal materials listed, and selected references to secondary sources in English.

HeinOnline is an online database containing more than 270,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from the inception of more than 2,700 law-related periodicals. In addition, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.

A combined searchable index of Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text and Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Retrospective: 1908-1981.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text™ is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law, providing complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. Full text is available for over 400 periodicals, many of them peer-reviewed, as far back as 1994.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 is a retrospective database that indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.

The Nebraska judicial branch provides statewide searches for case information across all the trial courts in the state. Records come from the trial court case management system, known as JUSTICE.

 

LegalTrac indexes major legal periodicals and law reviews beginning in 1980.

Lexis+ for Law Students is a comprehensive database of legal materials from the United States and selected foreign countries and international organizations. A password is required for law students and faculty.

The LexisNexis Digital Library is a collection of hundreds of titles that you can access on your laptop, tablet, or e-reader (e.g. Kindle) powered by Overdrive. Law students, faculty, and staff need to use their NETID and Blue password to login.

This collection consists of the extant files of cases from the records of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts at Springfield with which Abraham Lincoln has been identified as legal counsel, and date from 1855 to 1861. The 122 case files reproduced here include civil actions brought under both statute and common law, admiralty litigation, and a few criminal cases.

LLMC-Digital contains U.S. state and federal executive, judicial, and legislative materials and foreign and international materials collections of the Law Library Microform Consortium. LLMC documents are available full-text in PDF. Available off campus to faculty, staff, and students.

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, gives any library the kind of historical resources previously found only at the largest and oldest repositories and gives even the most extensive libraries online access to foreign and international legal literature . FCIL includes treatises and similar monographs, sourced from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries, in the following areas: International Law; Comparative Law; Foreign Law; Roman Law; Islamic Law; Jewish Law; and Ancient Law.

The Making of Modern Law provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources is based primarily on holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, this product offers online access to early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history.

Supreme Court Records & Briefs contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.

The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 encompasses the most celebrated and fascinating trials and crimes of the extensive time period covered.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, as well as the newly-launched Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. The two Encyclopedias can be searched and browsed together, or separately by using appropriate filters. Off Campus access available to Faculty, Staff and Students.

This database is the electronic version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. This dictionary contains over 472,000 entries and 140,000 etymologies describing word origins.

The NCLC Digital Library is a set of 21 consumer law treatises. Titles cover a wide range of consumer law topics such as fair credit reporting, fair debt collection, consumer bankruptcy, student loans, mortgage servicing, and more.

The legal forms available on Gale LegalForms include business, personal, litigation and federal forms. General Business Forms are forms, which may be used in all 50 states with little modification. General Litigation Forms are various litigation forms covering many diverse causes of action. These forms are easily modified by Attorneys to apply in their state. State Specific Forms are forms provided by Participating Attorneys, form companies, or forms specifically adapted to a particular state. Federal Forms are business and litigation forms used in the Federal system.

NebraskAccess is a portal to information discovery, courtesy of the Nebraska Library Commission. It includes access to premium research databases, available exclusively to Nebraska residents, as well as additional sources of information about Nebraska that anyone can use.

This resource has news from sources from the U.S. and around the world, as well as company profiles, financials, and legal source documents.

Oxford Handbooks Online Law series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Oxford Handbooks Online Law is guided by a world-class Editorial Board that brings together the world’s leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a major topic. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as provide arguments for how those debates might evolve.

PLI PLUS provides the most up-to-date industry information regarding changes in regulations, rulings, and standard practices. Our acclaimed experts frequently revise, author, and release new treatises, course handbooks, and answer books, increasing subscription value as they are automatically uploaded to your library, along with new forms. With nearly 500 Continuing Legal Education programs per year, our course handbooks and transcripts reflect PLI’s mission to help you stay “ever current” in your practice areas.

Congressional reports, documents, prints, bills, and hearings, plus legislative histories, regulatory and statutory resources, and member biographies.
Congressional provides comprehensive indexing and abstracting of Congressional publications, CIS legislative histories, and bill tracking. It includes the full text of Congressional reports, documents, prints, bills, the Congressional Record, selected testimony in hearings before Congress, Public laws, Statutes at Large, the United States Code Service, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the National Journal. It also provides information about members of Congress, Congressional committees, and recent legislative activities and public policy issues in the news.

Federal legislative history service for thoroughly researched compilations of digital publications created by Congress, leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.

Regulatory Insight provides researchers with workflow solutions to facilitate research tasks associated with administrative law. As a companion to Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories for the period 1936-2014 organized by federal statute and Executive Order.

Supreme Court Insight is an online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions. Includes dockets, petitions for writ of certiorari, petitioner and respondent briefs, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Transcripts of oral arguments dating back to 1955 are also included.  Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document by document basis.  Supreme Court Insight offers links from case-specific records to Legislative Insight and Regulatory Insight for entitled customers.

ProView provides access to a selection of Thomson Reuters' practice ready e-books. Law students, faculty, and staff can use their Westlaw credentials to login.

Tax Notes is a portfolio of publications offered by Tax Analysts. It provides comprehensive and impartial coverage of tax news, while its commentary contributes important voices to the discussion and understanding of tax policy.

VitalLaw’s intuitive research platform gives you the depth you need for the actionable insights you want with solutions that enrich the entire legal process.

Comprehensive federal and state case law, real-time legislative updates and an advanced citator.

West Academic Study Aids offers easy online access to hundreds of study aids, treatises, and audio lectures to help you succeed in law school. Take notes, highlight and "mark up" your study aids. Create a list of "favorite" study aids for easy access.

Westlaw for Law Students is a comprehensive database of legal materials, both primary and secondary sources, from the United States and selected foreign countries and international organizations.