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Databases

General

HeinOnline provides exact page images of legal journals, and access to the CFR, Federal Register, Session Laws, Statutes at Large, Federal Legislative History Library, Supreme Court Library, Attorney General Opinions, Legal Classics Library, and more. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet.
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BNA ALL ~ 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. Licensed for all KU Law students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through Wheat Law Library.
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CCH Legal Professional Network ~ CCH Legal Professional School Internet Library provides searchable, full-text coverage of numerous topics including Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Construction Law, Transportation Law, Federal Energy Guidelines, Products Liability, Securities, and other business law topics. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
Index to Legal Periodicals subscription service is open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet.
VersusLaw is an online library providing access to federal, state, tribal and foreign decisions; federal and state statutes; and administrative codes and regulations. KU Law faculty, staff, and students will need to create individual accounts. Under 'Special Groups' is an option for Law School. Select that option, fill out the form, and receive a password via email.

Historic

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides full-text searching and digital images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 offers a historic account of courtroom dramas from around the world. This collection includes official trial documents, briefs and arguments, legal transcripts, unofficial published accounts, and books written about trials. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: 1832-1978 contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
HeinOnline provides exact page images of legal journals, and access to the CFR, Federal Register, Session Laws, Statutes at Large, Federal Legislative History Library, Supreme Court Library, Attorney General Opinions, Legal Classics Library, and more. Open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet.
LLMC Digital is a non-profit consortium that has filmed over 7,500 titles, some 90,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) comprises over 150,000 printed volumes. It includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas produced in the 18th century. It has full-text search capabilities across all 26 million pages.
United States Congressional Serial Set Database of texts from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Texts constitute a rich source of primary source material, including maps, on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial set will consist of over 12 million pages. Database searchable by subject, publication category, standing committee author, and other parameters.

Topical

[new] BNA ALL ~ 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. Licensed for all KU Law students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through Wheat Law Library.
Foreign Law Guide (click on Subscriber Login - no password required) replaces the print title: Foreign law: current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
CCH Business Compliance Health & Human Resources School Library provides searchable access to current state and federal statutes, regulations, and cases in the areas of Health Care, Human Resources, and Labor and Employment law. Also includes practice guides, forms, journals, and newsletters. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
Environmental and Energy Publishing offers comprehensive, daily coverage of domestic and foreign environmental and energy politics and policy with electronic newsletters, journals, and webcasts. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
Environmental Law Reporter® Online -- an environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, energy, health/safety, and land use law research tool -- can be accessed from a desktop icon at any of the computer lab or reference area computers.
RIA Checkpoint for tax and accounting materials. Custom ids allow users to save preferences and research. To get your own custom id, access Checkpoint registration http://ria.thomson.com/cploginids from any computer on campus. Student ids will be purged every January and June.
[new] CCH Tax Library ~ CCH Tax Research Network provides searchable, full-text coverage of numerous federal and state tax publications. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.
BNA’s Daily Labor Report® covers legal developments, labor and employment legislation, regulations affecting the workplace, human resource trends, and labor-management relations -- from Congress, the courts, unions, businesses, the NLRB, EEOC, and Labor Department. Licensed for all KU Law students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through Wheat Law Library.
BNA’s International Trade Reporter™ provides comprehensive, up-to-the-minute information on developments affecting the trade and international business policies of the U.S. and major U.S. trading partners. Licensed for all KU Law students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through Wheat Law Library.
[new] CCH Legal Professional Network ~ CCH Legal Professional School Internet Library provides searchable, full-text coverage of numerous topics including Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Construction Law, Transportation Law, Federal Energy Guidelines, Products Liability, Securities, and other business law topics. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet through arrangement with Wheat Law Library.

Legal Scholarship

KU Law School Faculty publications on KU ScholarWorks
KU Law School Faculty publications on SSRN Legal Scholarship Network

NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides free access to working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools.

Instructional

CALI (Computer–Assisted Legal Instruction) subscription service for KU Law students and faculty. Please contact the Wheat Law Library reference desk for the password.
SMU Dedman Law School's First Day of Law School Tutorial.

Curriculum Survey.

Additional databases from KU Libraries.

Tools