In addition to on-campus use, Southwestern students, faculty, staff, and library members have off-campus access to the services marked "Remote access available." Use the barcode number located on the back of your Southwestern ID card as the password. If your card was printed without a barcode number, please stop by the Circulation Desk to have one added.
Legal Research
LexisNexis - Comprehensive full-text legal, news, public records and business information. Requires password. Passwords for educational use are issued to all current students and faculty.
Westlaw - Comprehensive full-text legal, news, public records and business information. Requires password. Passwords for educational use are issued to all current students and faculty.
BNA Online - Provides news and analysis of regulatory, legislative and judicial developments in selected areas. Please read license agreement. Available to on-site patrons. Remote access is available to current students, faculty and staff. A second login with a BNA password is needed for certain databases. (Use your SWLAW website password to get the BNA password)
CCH IntelliConnect Business and Finance - Provides news and analysis of legal developments in areas such as Products Liability & Safety; Intellectual Property, Computers & Internet Law; Banking; Securities; Antitrust & Trade Regulation; Corporate Governance; Mergers & Acquisitions; International Business; Energy; and Transportation. Available to students, faculty and staff on campus only. Users must register and select a password on first use.
CCH IntelliConnect Business Compliance - Provides news and analysis of legal developments in areas such as Employment, Human Resources, Healthcare Law, Pensions, COBRA, EEOC and Disability Compliance. Available to students, faculty and staff on campus only. Users must register and select a password on first use.
CEB OnLAW - Provides access to the full text of approximately 140 of CEB's California practice guides in a wide range of legal practice areas. Remote access available to current students, faculty and staff only.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 - Vast resource for legal history comprised of the full-text of more than 21,000 works on British Commonwealth and American Law. Made possible in part by the Irving D. and Florence Rosenberg Charitable Fund. Remote access available.
CGL Reporter - Provides analysis of important insurance law trends and summaries of more than 2,300 insurance cases from 1991 to present. Available to faculty, students and staff only. Users must register with their @swlaw.edu address and Southwestern's account number. (Use your SWLAW website password to get the account number.)
Special Ed Connection - Covers news, research, case law, statutes and regulations relating to special education. Intended primarily for the Children's Rights Clinic, the service is also available to students, faculty and staff for law school related work. Remote access available.
Shepard's Online - Online citator available to on-site patrons only, from three computers in the reference room.
LoisLaw - Extensive collection of U.S. and state primary legal materials. Available to faculty, students and alumni for the first six months after graduation. An authorization code is required for registration. (Use SWLAW website password to get authorization code).
American Law Institute Archive - Archive (in progress) of ALI documents and publications including documents created in drafting the Uniform Commercial Code, Restatements and Model Penal Code. Remote access available.
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - Source for more than 250 final acts and drafts of uniform laws. Remote access available.
Periodicals
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books - Use to locate citations to articles published in Anglo-American legal journals and law reviews. Select Legal Periodicals and Books for articles in approximately 1,000 journals published since 1981, and books since 1994. Select Legal Periodicals Retro for articles published in 850 journals between 1908 and 1981. Remote access available.
Legal Trac - Use to locate citations to articles published in over 1400 law reviews, law journals and bar journals and legal newspapers, with coverage beginning in 1980. Remote access is limited to home computers.
Hein Online - Full-text of hundreds of historical and selected current law review articles. Includes exact page images and keyword text searching. Remote access available.
JSTOR - Full-text back issues of over 300 scholarly journals in the social sciences: economics, history, political science, sociology, psychology and public policy. Remote access is only available to Southwestern faculty, staff and students.
Social Sciences Full Text - Full text access to approximately 200 social sciences journals with coverage back to 1995. Also includes indexing of 400 more social science journals dating back to 1983 and selected abstracts back to 1994. Remote access available.
E-Journal Portal - A to Z list of full text journals available in the library's subscription databases. Also includes selected open access journals. Use this list to find articles from a know citation.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals - Use to locate citations to articles published in approximately 520 legal journals published worldwide. Remote access available.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) - Weekly listing of citations to newly published law review articles arranged by topic. Remote access available.
SmartCILP - Current awareness resource for legal periodical literature. Available to faculty only. Required authorization code available at the reference desk.
International
United Nations Law Collection - Collection of major legal publications by the United Nations including page-by-page replicas of official documents and works related to the United Nations. Remote access available.
United Nations Treaty Collection - Searchable full-text of bilateral and multilateral treaties filed with the United Nations or League of Nations along with indexes and status tools. Free public web site.
Foreign and International Law Resources Database - HeinOnline's searchable full-text repository of prominent international law publications. Remote access available.
Foreign Law Guide - Provides information on primary and secondary sources of foreign law. Covers more than 170 jurisdictions and explains what is published, how to find it and how to use it. Remote Access Available. Click on Subscriber Login.
WorldTradeLaw.net - Access to primary source documents related to international trade law, also summary and critical analysis of all new WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports. Remote access available.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals - Use to locate citations to articles published in approximately 520 legal journals published worldwide. Remote access available.
Constitutions of the Countries of the World - Searchable full-text of the Constitutions of nearly 200 countries in English translation. License permits one user at a time. Remote access available.
World Constitutions Illustrated - This collection will contain the current constitution of every country in the world in its original language and at least one English translation. Remote access available,
International Law in Domestic Courts - Repository of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions. Includes commentary, full text of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English. Remote access available.
Government Documents
LexisNexis Congressional - Indexing and full-text of federal legislative documents (committee reports, House and Senate documents, committee prints, bills, Congressional records and more). Remote access available.
U.S. Congressional Documents - Includes American State Papers, Journals of the Continental Congress, Annals of Congress, Congressional Globe and a growing file of the Congressional Record. Remote access available.
LexisNexis Statistical - Comprehensive access to federal, state and international statistical information. Remote access available.
Marcive - Use to locate citations to U.S. government publications with coverage beginning in 1976. Remote access available.
LLMC Digital - First phase of this massive digital conversion project focuses on selected U.S. Federal Executive, Judicial, and Legislative historical documents. Eventually, over 90,000 volumes of interest to researchers in law and history will be accessible here. Remote access available.
Other Resources
CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) - Computer-based lessons for use in conjunction with law school courses. Includes over 850 computer-based lessons in 28 different legal subject areas. Students must have the authorization code to register. (Use your SWLAW website password to get the authorization code). Faculty authorization code is available at the reference desk.
Legal Scholarship Network - Primarily of interest to faculty, LSN publishes a series of email abstracting journals of working papers and articles accepted for publication. Also includes conference announcements, calls for papers, and notices of new publications. Faculty must register for email journals.
Chronicle of Higher Education - Provides news and information on all aspects of higher education.
AudioCaseFiles - Provides audio MP3 files of opinions from selected law school case books. Students and faculty must register using their swlaw email address.
