Databases Access Guide
Remote Access: To use a subscription resource remotely, click on the title for basic proxy server instructions. You should not need to consult the optional proxy server instructions. Note that an Electronic Journal List also is available, and our patrons may use many of the non-legal electronic resources provided through Bush Library.
| Law Access | Open to Hamline University Law School staff/students, either from a networked computer or by proxy server from a remote computer |
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Open to Hamline University staff/students affiliated with any department, either from a networked computer or by proxy server from a remote computer |
| Walk-In Access | Open to anyone using designated law library computers |
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ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct Law Access, Walk-In Access
This resource offers guidance, analysis, news, and primary source material on attorney conduct and legal ethics. The Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct contains topical practice guides, each of which includes an overview, background information and analysis of the law, and descriptions of how courts and ethics committees have applied the law to particular facts. Content also includes ABA standards and ethics opinions in full text, materials on state ethics rules, and synopses of opinions by state and local bar associations. Current awareness material includes reports on recent court decisions, ethics opinions, disciplinary actions, and other news.
Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
This current awareness service provides news, recent developments, and significant proposals in the areas of competition law and deceptive trade practices. Coverage includes important judicial, legislative, administrative, and enforcement actions from the federal government and states. The selective international updates encompass European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and other U.S. trading partners.
Arbitration Law Online Law Access Onsite - Ask Reference Office for password
The database includes a host of rules, case law, and other materials from numerous international bodies and jurisdictions around the globe. Resources include, for example, World Arbitration & Mediation Report (complete full-text coverage), World Arbitration Reporter, Securities Arbitration Practice and Forms, Latin American Arbitration Law and Practice, and American Review of International Arbitration.
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Benefits Practice Center (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
Benefits Practice Center combines Employee Benefits Library, ERISA Compliance & Enforcement Library, and Executive Compensation Library. Some of the included materials are full text judicial opinions, rulings and memoranda; current reports on news and developments; analysis and guidance; and BNA Portfolios (in-depth analysis of a particular issue or transaction). Analyses often are tax-driven.
BNA's ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct Law Access, Walk-In Access
This resource offers guidance, analysis, news, and primary source material on attorney conduct and legal ethics. The Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct contains topical practice guides, each of which includes an overview, background information and analysis of the law, and descriptions of how courts and ethics committees have applied the law to particular facts. Content also includes ABA standards and ethics opinions in full text, materials on state ethics rules, and synopses of opinions by state and local bar associations. Current awareness material includes reports on recent court decisions, ethics opinions, disciplinary actions, and other news.
BNA's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report Law Access, Walk-In Access
This current awareness service provides news, recent developments, and significant proposals in the areas of competition law and deceptive trade practices. Coverage includes important judicial, legislative, administrative, and enforcement actions from the federal government and states. The selective international updates encompass European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and other U.S. trading partners.
BNA's Benefits Practice Center Law Access, Walk-In Access
Benefits Practice Center combines Employee Benefits Library, ERISA Compliance & Enforcement Library, and Executive Compensation Library. Some of the included materials are full text judicial opinions, rulings and memoranda; current reports on news and developments; analysis and guidance; and BNA Portfolios (in-depth analysis of a particular issue or transaction). Analyses often are tax-driven.
BNA's Criminal Law Reporter Law Access, Walk-In Access
This current awareness resource discusses news and recent developments in the area of criminal law. Criminal Law Reporter presents selected criminal-related cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, federal district courts, principal courts of the states, and the Court of Military Appeals. The reporter also covers federal legislative activities and administrative developments; actions and proposals by the Justice Department, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and other federal agencies; and appointments to federal offices.
BNA's Family Law Reporter Law Access, Walk-In Access
This resource on family law across the United States includes analysis, guidance, primary source material, and current coverage of news and developments in federal and state cases, legislation, regulation, trends, and issues. Contents encompass the full text of selected federal statutes and regulations, the text of uniform acts adopted in the states, and summaries of state divorce laws. There also is a divorce-related Tax Guide, featuring tax statutes and regulations, analysis, and forms.
BNA's Intellectual Property Library Law Access, Walk-In Access
This resource on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law includes searchable full text of cases (with BNA headnotes), rulings, memoranda, statutes (with index), regulations (with index), analytical materials, and more. Robert L. Harmon's treatise, Patents and the Federal Circuit, is included. Weekly updates highlight recent decisions.
BNA's Labor and Employment Law Library Law Access, Walk-In Access
This database includes primary materials, reference manuals, and commentary, such as Americans with Disabilities Cases (AD Cases), Fair Employment Practices Cases (FEP Cases), Individual Employment Rights Cases (IER Cases), Labor Arbitration Decisions (LA), Labor Relations - Court Decisions (LRRM), Labor Relations - NLRB Decisions (LRRM), and Wages and Hours Cases (WH Cases / WH Cases2d).
BNA's Media Law Reporter Law Access, Walk-In Access
This weekly current-awareness publication reports on important federal and state court opinions that impact the news media. Case coverage includes commentary and full text of selected cases, organized by topic, headnote classification, and jurisdiction. The service also reports non-judicial developments such as pending egislation, state activities, and significant meetings.
This current awareness resource analyzes federal and state developments in the regulation of securities, futures trading, and accounting. Coverage includes Congress, the courts, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and industry. There are summaries of selected No-Action and Interpretive Letters, full text of selected documents, interviews with key officials, and coverage of state developments.
BNA's U.S. Law Week Law Access, Walk-In Access
USLW is a well-established current awareness service for keeping up with important new cases, statutes, regulations and pending legal matters across the United States in many areas of the law.
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CCH Health and Human Resource Research Network Law Access, Walk-In Access
The CCH Health and Human Resource Research Network is part of CCH's platform called Intelliconnect. Intelliconnect provides access to laws, regulations and other primary source material in addition to explanations, treatises, and practice tools. Practice areas covered are Labor & Employment, Securities, Health Care, Corporate Governance, Tax and Accounting. You must create an account the first time you access the database. A Flash tutorial is available (Flash is required to use this site).
CCH Tax Research Network Law Access, Walk-In Access
The CCH Tax Research Network is part of CCH's platform called Intelliconnect. Intelliconnect provides access to laws, regulations and other primary source material in addition to explanations, treatises, and practice tools. Practice areas covered are Labor & Employment, Securities, Health Care, Corporate Governance, Tax and Accounting. You must create an account the first time you access the database. A Flash tutorial is available (Flash is required to use this site).
Congressional Universe (LexisNexis) Law Access
Congressional Universe is a very helpful tool for legislative history research. Among other things, it provides access to the CIS Index, the full-text of bills, congressional reports and transcripts as well as the Congressional Record. Congressional Universe also contains bill tracking information, the full-text of public laws, the United States Code Service, the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Library Law Access - Call Reference Office
This library offers Continuing Legal Education guidebooks, forms, and practice materials from the Minnesota State Bar Association. To access the materials, first obtain the access Code from a librarian (who will require proof that you are a student or faculty member at Hamline Law). Then go through the fast and free registration process to obtain your own login information. After you log in, choose the Library section, and go to the material you wish to view. Choose the Unlimited Downloads subscription option, and enter the Code in the special discount box.
Criminal Justice Abstracts Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
Criminal Justice Abstracts contains indexes and summaries of journal articles, treatises and governmental and non-governmental reports related to criminology.
Criminal Law Reporter (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
This current awareness resource discusses news and recent developments in the area of criminal law. Criminal Law Reporter presents selected criminal-related cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, federal district courts, principal courts of the states, and the Court of Military Appeals. The reporter also covers federal legislative activities and administrative developments; actions and proposals by the Justice Department, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and other federal agencies; and appointments to federal offices.
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Environmental Law Reporter Walk-In Access
The Environmental Law Reporter is a full-featured gateway for research in environmental law. It offers federal & state court decisions, statutes and administrative rules in this area. Its News & Analysis newsletter is a helpful secondary resource that covers developments in environmental law. Some coverage of foreign & international environmental law is available in the International Developments newsletter.
European Union Law Library Walk-In Access at Computer Station 8
This database contains the EU Law Reporter, European Community Cases, EU Focus Magazine and EU Case List.
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Family Law Reporter (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
This resource on family law across the United States includes analysis, guidance, primary source material, and current coverage of news and developments in federal and state cases, legislation, regulation, trends, and issues. Contents encompass the full text of selected federal statutes and regulations, the text of uniform acts adopted in the states, and summaries of state divorce laws. There also is a divorce-related Tax Guide, featuring tax statutes and regulations, analysis, and forms.
Foreign Law Guide (Reynolds & Flores) Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
Subtitled “Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World,” this trustworthy reference summarizes the legal systems and primary law sources for each of dozens of non-U.S. jurisdictions. This classic guide also points to additional English-language introductory materials and to English-language translations or digests of specific foreign laws.
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Health and Human Resource Research Network (CCH) Law Access, Walk-In Access
The CCH Health and Human Resource Research Network is part of CCH's platform called Intelliconnect. Intelliconnect provides access to laws, regulations and other primary source material in addition to explanations, treatises, and practice tools. Practice areas covered are Labor & Employment, Securities, Health Care, Corporate Governance, Tax and Accounting. You must create an account the first time you access the database. A Flash tutorial is available (Flash is required to use this site).
HeinOnline Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
HeinOnline is very useful for searching and accessing early issues of law reviews. HeinOnline's coverage is not as broad as some other databases, but it is increasing and is generally the only place to find the full-text of pre-1980 articles in electronic format. This database allows basic keyword searching and allows articles to be displayed in PDF (as an image of the print version) or HTML format.
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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Walk-In Access
IFLP is available in print in the Reference section of the law library at call number K33.I38. Future editions of IFLP will be available only in an online database. With coverage from 1985, updated quarterly, IFLP is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in approximately 520 legal journals published worldwide. Scope includes public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. IFLP also analyzes the contents of approximately eighty individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Mélanges, and congress reports each year.
Index to Legal Periodicals (Retrospective coverage back to 1908) Law Access, Walk-In Access
The Index to Legal Periodicals indexes over 800 law reviews from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia. The original web-based version began in 1981 but now features ILP Retrospective with coverage back to 1908. In both advanced and basic search, you have the option to choose to search in original ILP and/or ILP Retro. If you don't see this option, click on "Open Database Selection Area." Selecting both ILP and ILP Retro will result in a search from 1908 until the present.
IndexMaster Walk-In Access
IndexMaster is a searchable collection of indexes and tables of contents scanned from legal treatises. Because this information is more detailed than the usual library catalog, a keyword search on IndexMaster will often give broader, yet more precise results. The indexes and tables of contents can also be viewed and printed.
Intellectual Property Library (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
This resource on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law includes searchable full text of cases (with BNA headnotes), rulings, memoranda, statutes (with index), regulations (with index), analytical materials, and more. Robert L. Harmon's treatise, Patents and the Federal Circuit, is included. Weekly updates highlight recent decisions.
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JSTOR Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
JSTOR is a searchable collection journal back issues in the fields of general science, business, the arts and humanities. It does contain issues that are more recent than three or five years, but its coverage usually extends far back - even to nineteenth century issues. JSTOR displays digitized images of print versions of the journals.
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KeyCite Public Access Walk-In Access in Law Library Computer Lab
KeyCite legal citation service is available through Public Access Westlaw (WestPAC) at one computer workstation in the law library computer lab.
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Labor and Employment Law Library (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
This database includes primary materials, reference manuals, and commentary, such as Americans with Disabilities Cases (AD Cases), Fair Employment Practices Cases (FEP Cases), Individual Employment Rights Cases (IER Cases), Labor Arbitration Decisions (LA), Labor Relations - Court Decisions (LRRM), Labor Relations - NLRB Decisions (LRRM), and Wages and Hours Cases (WH Cases / WH Cases2d).
ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct Law Access, Walk-In Access
This resource offers guidance, analysis, news, and primary source material on attorney conduct and legal ethics. The Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct contains topical practice guides, each of which includes an overview, background information and analysis of the law, and descriptions of how courts and ethics committees have applied the law to particular facts. Content also includes ABA standards and ethics opinions in full text, materials on state ethics rules, and synopses of opinions by state and local bar associations. Current awareness material includes reports on recent court decisions, ethics opinions, disciplinary actions, and other news.
Legal Scholarship Network Law Access by Registration - Open Access to Limited Features
This is a very helpful resource for finding the most up-to-date legal scholarship - including pdf versions of articles which have not yet been published. It is possible to register and subscribe to particular publications
LegalTrac (Legal Resources Index/Current Law Index) Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
LegalTrac has some full text and indexes over 800 law journals and newspapers. It also indexes law-related articles from 1,000 other business and general interest titles.
LexisNexis Academic and Shepard's Citations Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
This database offers a range of full-text information, including 1) U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, international legal information, and Shepard’s® Citations, 2) business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news, 3) national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources, 4) some medical/health news and articles, and 5) reference materials containing fast facts, statistics, and biographies. Law students and law faculty also have access to more in-depth legal information through LexisNexis for Law Schools (see below).
LexisNexis Congressional Universe Law Access
Congressional Universe is a very helpful tool for legislative history research. Among other things, it provides access to the CIS Index, the full-text of bills, congressional reports and transcripts as well as the Congressional Record. Congressional Universe also contains bill tracking information, the full-text of public laws, the United States Code Service, the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations.
LexisNexis for Law Schools Law Access
This database is one of the two most comprehensive online legal libraries for the United States and offers many search enhancements. Hamline law students and law faculty with password questions should contact Megan Jens in the library.
LLMC Digital Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
This database has scanned over 7,500 titles, some 100,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history. Its backfile is accessible on LLMC Digital and comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform.
Loislaw Law Access - Call Reference Office for Registration Code, Walk-In Access
Loislaw offers a wide range of legal content and supporting materials, including up-to-date cases, statutes, rules and regulations, and other primary law for all 50 states and federal jurisdictions; treatises focused on practice areas, including Wigmore on evidence, Ginsberg and Martin on bankruptcy, and Price on estate planning; and public records. Note that some of the case law databases do not include unreported opinions.
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Making of Modern Law Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
The database contains the searchable full text and facsimile page images of approximately 21,000 legal treatises and other works on United States and British law published during the historically significant period of 1800 through 1926. Invaluable to researchers of Anglo-American legal history, this resource breaks new ground in assembling previously inaccessible analytical, theoretical and practical materials, including scholarly treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, materials for lay readers, pamphlets, letters and even speeches. Some covered subject areas are bankruptcy; business associations; business law; commercial law; constitutional law; criminal law; economic policy, public finance, and taxation; family law; general studies; “intellectual law;” labor and social welfare; legal education; procedural law; real property; and succession, estates and trusts. In addition to searching full text, users efficiently may target searches to title, author, date, subject, and/or other document units. Alternatively, users simply may browse by author or title.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
Part of The Making of Modern Law series, U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs offers the most complete, digital edition of Supreme Court cases for 1832-1978. The collection contains 75,000 cases and 200,000 primary source documents. It presents the background and context of the cases presented to the U.S. high court and contains essential primary source material on the major topics in American history.
Media Law Reporter Law Access, Walk-In Access
This weekly current-awareness publication reports on important federal and state court opinions that impact the news media. Case coverage includes commentary and full text of selected cases, organized by topic, headnote classification, and jurisdiction. The service also reports non-judicial developments such as pending egislation, state activities, and significant meetings.
Minn. Attorney's/Paralegal's/Secretary's eBook Walk-In Access (Req. password)
This is the online version of the print handbook for Minnesota legal, government, business and information professionals. This reference work lists basic information for judges, court fees, county officials, mileage tables, zip codes and other practical facts. The eBook is completely updated every January, but limited revisions occur throughout the year.
Minnesota CLE Materials (MSBA) Law Access - Call Reference Office for Registration Code
This resource offers Continuing Legal Education guidebooks, forms, and practice materials from the Minnesota State Bar Association. First of all, provide your Hamline Law identification to a librarian and obtain the CLE access code. Afterward click on Login, then Register Now, then non-attorney option. Follow the instructions to enter your information and save it. Click on Online Library, then Subscribe - Unlimited Downloads, then agreement to terms. Enter the access code (called "discount code"), click Continue, and begin searching by clicking on Search Online Library.
Minnesota Lawyer Hamline Access, Walk-In Access (Request password)
A weekly newspaper covering Minnesota's courts and legal community. Published since 1997. Both the weekly and the appellate courts editions for the last 6 months are available in print in the library.
Minnesota Paralegal Association Walk-In Access (Request password)
The site of the Minnesota Paralegals Association provides membership information, educational programs, its calendar of events, and legal resources links maintained by the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA). Request password for access to "Members Only" material.
MnLINK Open Access
This is a gateway to the library catalogs of 450 Minnesota libraries as well as databases such as InfoTrac, OCLC WorldCat, selected newspapers, academic journals and general reference magazines in full-text and MULS (Minnesota Union List of Serials).
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Pacer: Federal Dockets and Court Filings Law Access in Library (Ask Librarian)
Pacer is a convenient, government-operated docket tracking and full-text document service for most U.S. federal courts. Monitor federal litigation and retrieve documents such as complaints, answers, motions, and trial and appellate briefs.
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Securities Regulation & Law Report (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
This current awareness resource analyzes federal and state developments in the regulation of securities, futures trading, and accounting. Coverage includes Congress, the courts, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and industry. There are summaries of selected No-Action and Interpretive Letters, full text of selected documents, interviews with key officials, and coverage of state developments.
Shepard's Citations Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
Public Access Shepard's is available in the LexisNexis Academic database. (Additionally, law students and law faculty use Shepard's as part of LexisNexis for Law Schools. )
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Tax Research Network (CCH) Law Access, Walk-In Access
The CCH Tax Research Network is part of CCH's platform called Intelliconnect. Intelliconnect provides access to laws, regulations and other primary source material in addition to explanations, treatises, and practice tools. Practice areas covered are Labor & Employment, Securities, Health Care, Corporate Governance, Tax and Accounting. You must create an account the first time you access the database. A Flash tutorial is available (Flash is required to use this site).
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United Nations Treaty Collection Open Access
This database includes, among other things, access to the United Nations Treaty Series, texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties and information about the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General.
United States Law Week (BNA) Law Access, Walk-In Access
USLW is a well-established current awareness service for keeping up with important new cases, statutes, regulations and pending legal matters across the United States in many areas of the law.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 Hamline Access, Walk-In Access
Part of The Making of Modern Law series, U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs offers the most complete, digital edition of Supreme Court cases for 1832-1978. The collection contains 75,000 cases and 200,000 primary source documents. It presents the background and context of the cases presented to the U.S. high court and contains essential primary source material on the major topics in American history.
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VersusLaw Walk-In Access
This comprehensive legal research system is particularly recommended for our alumni and extracurricular research by students. It offers access to appellate decisions of the 50 states, all federal appellate decisions, many federal district court decisions, many state codes, regulations and court rules, and tribal court decisions.
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Westlaw for Law Schools Law Access
This database is one of the two most comprehensive online legal libraries for the United States and offers many search enhancements. Hamline law students and law faculty with password questions should contact Megan Jens in the library.
Westlaw/KeyCite Public Access Walk-In Access in Library Computer Lab
Public Access Westlaw ("WestPAC"), including KeyCite, is available onsite through one work station in the law library computer lab.
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