Research Databases

The following are research databases provided through Mercer Law Library subscription. Access on and off campus is freely available to the Mercer Law School community. You may be prompted to enter your Mercer student ID to access a database off- campus [Example: your name goes in the first box, and the second box is the 14 digit number starting with 252010 X X X X X X X X. The X's should be your 8 digit student ID number on the front of your BearCard].



ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual of Professional Conduct

Bankruptcy Law Reporter (BNA)

CALI Lessons
Includes over 675 tutorials in 33 areas of law. To access CALI for the first time, you must register using Mercer's authorization code (please contact a reference librarian) and create your own password. To do this, go to www.cali.org. Click on "Not a registered user yet? Click here" on the right hand side of screen. During the registration process, you will create your own password. Once registered, enter your email and your password and click on "Login."






CCH Internet Tax Research Network

CCH Internet Tax Research Network includes both federal and state tax resources, including tax news and analysis. Restricted to Mercer law faculty, students, and staff.


CIS Lexis Congressional

Congressional Universe includes Congressional publications, legislative history, and legislative tracking materials.


 

CQ Researcher Online

CQ Researcher Online provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of today's most important and controversial topics, including social, economic, political and environmental issues.


Criminal Law Reporter (BNA)


Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)

The CILP database provides topical access to the most recent issues of over 500 current legal publications. The tables of contents are included.



Daily Labor Report (BNA)



Galileo

Galileo provides access to hundreds of academically-oriented databases. (Members of the law school community, only, may obtain a password for off-campus access to the licensed databases on Galileo. See a reference librarian for assistance.)


eBrary - Collection of over 30,000 electronic books. On campus use only.

Electronic Commerce & Law Report (BNA)

Employment Discrimination Report (BNA)

Environment Law Reporter


BNA's Environment Law Reporter provides court opinions, news, analysis, policies, decisions, pleadings, environmental statutes and treaties.


Health Law Reporter (BNA)

HeinOnline

HeinOnline provides digitized images of full text law reviews and legal journals (over 800 thus far), with an emphasis on pre-1980 materials not available elsewhere online. Coverage also includes digitized images of the Federal Register 1936-October 2006, Code of Federal Regulations 1938-1983, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 1965-2006, U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1754 (more than 30,000 decisions), U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Treaties and Agreements (over 20,000 in-force treaties to which the U.S. is a party); U.S. Statutes at Large 1789-2002, the Philip C. Jessup Library, the U.S. Presidential Library, the European Center for Minority Issues, and Legal Classics (contains over 1,000 seminal treatises), English Reports, Full Reprint 1220 - 1865, World Trials, and State Session laws. HeinOnline continues to expand. If a Mercer student is accessing HeinOnline remotely, the student must enter his/her last name, first name, and 252010 followed by the student ID number on the Bearcard. To print, choose the Download PDF; it may take several minutes before it begins printing. The larger the file, the longer the wait.


IndexMaster

IndexMaster searches the Table of Contents and indexes of current legal treatises.


Intellectual Property Library (BNA)

BNA's Intellectual Property Library includes United States Patent Quarterly (1st series from 1929 and 2d series) as well as patent and trademark laws, regulations and manuals.


International Trade Reporter (BNA)

JSTOR

JSTOR is an archival, full text source for scholarly journals in 15 disciplines. Please note: JSTOR does not provide current issues but extensive, if not complete, back files of the journal contents. The specific coverage is listed for each title. The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 117 titles. The Arts & Sciences II Collection is home to 125 titles. Collection III will have 120 titles by 2007, and Collection IV will include 100 titles by 2008.


Labor and Employment Law Library

Labor and Employment Law Library is the electronic version of BNA's Labor Relations Reporter.


LLMC Digital

LLMC Digital is a collection of digitized images of full-text historical and current materials from the U.S. federal legislative, executive and judicial branches as well as Canadian materials. It consists primarily of legal material, and includes publications such as the U.S. Statutes at Large, Civil Rights Commission Reports, and U.S. Supreme Court Reports. Also includes an extensive collection of military law materials.


Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal (BNA)

RIA CheckPoint


Full-text tax and accounting materials. Includes the complete federal tax code, regulations, committee reports, and rulings. Also contains the Federal Tax Coordinator, U.S. Tax Reporter, Federal Tax Handbook, a news/current awareness section, as well as state tax cases, rulings, and legislation.

Shepard's

Shepard's, a legal research citator service, is a password restricted database for use by the general public in Room 218. See a reference librarian for assistance.



Tarver Library's A-Z eJournal Locator


The "A-Z eJournal Locator" on Mercer University Tarver Library's home page is a single source online locator which finds all the inter-disciplinary journals available through the University Library's various databases.


U.S. Law Week (BNA)


Full-text articles, cases, and other supporting legal documents covering significant cases and key legislative/regulatory and pre-decisional developments. Covers all areas of United States law. This database also contains a link to Surpeme Court Today, which provides daily updates, allowing users to view the status of and search summaries of certiorari petitions filed since the 1995 October Term. The database also contains the full text of Supreme Court opinions, oral argument schedules, selected oral argument summaries, annual reviews of the Court's decisions, and more.


Web of Science

An index of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts, and humanities journals, with complete bibliographic data, abstracts, and cited references. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 1991 - present.





Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals

Indexes articles from over 1,000 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic are also covered. Full text coverage for over 200 selected periodicals back to 1994 is included. Check the "Journal Directory" for extent of coverage of a particular title. Researchers can search the ILP Retrospective 1908-1981 and the ILP Full-Text 1982 - present at the same time or separately.


White Collar Crime Report (BNA)

WorldCat

WorldCat is a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat is part of the database offerings in GALILEO, Georgia's Virtual Libraries.

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