LibGuides: Criminal Justice & Criminology: Doing Legal Research

Legal Resources

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Find cases, statutes, regulations, and law reviews by entering a citation in the big search box. Alternatively, enter keywords and use the facets in the left column to limit to legal resources. See the Legal Resources guide for additional details.
Description: Nexis Uni provides access to newspaper articles, magazine articles, and transcripts. It is also a key database for business and legal research, containing company reports, law journals, and statutes and cases from all 50 states. Also contains legal resources for Canada and the EU.
Time Period: 18th century to present
Sources: Searches more than 15,000 sources.
Subject Headings: Business, General, Law, News, Social Sciences
Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Citations, Journal Articles, Legal Materials, Magazine Articles, News, Reference Resources, Report, Transcripts
Information Included: Abstracts, Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: Lexis Nexis
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Find bills, current and past. Do legislative histories. Access the Congressional Record and find congressional testimony and hearings. Research public policy issues studied in reports done by the Congressional Research Service.
Description: Key database for information by and about the United States Congress. Includes full text of bills, laws, regulations, the Federal Register, the U.S. Code, and many other congressional publications. Other features include extensive information about members of congress, the bills they sponsored, how they voted, and financial disclosures.
Time Period: 1789 to present
Primary Materials: Citations, Legal Materials, Maps, Report
Subject Headings: Law, Social Sciences
Scholarly or Popular: Scholarly
Sources:
Information Included: Full Text, Citations
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: ProQuest
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
Congressional Research Service Reports (University of North Texas) This link opens in a new window
Find Congressional Research Reports not published in ProQuest Congressional.
Description: The Congressional Research Service Reports database is one of the collections of the University of North Texas Digital Library. It contains taxpayer funded reports by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which is the public policy research arm of Congress. The reports were intended to inform Congress on a variety of topics and are in the public domain, yet have not been made available to the public by the CRS.
Note: This site is not affiliated with Congressional Research Service. The information is compiled and made available as a public service by the Government Documents Department at the UNT Libraries.
Time Period: Current
Sources: Contains more than 15,000 Congressional Research Service Reports.
Subject Headings: Law, Social Sciences (Congressional Research Service Reports)
Scholarly or Popular: Semi-scholarly
Primary Materials: Report
Information Included: Full Text
FindIt@BALL STATE: No
Print Equivalent: None
Publisher: University of North Texas
Updates: Daily
Number of Simultaneous Users: Unlimited

Legal Resources in Print at Bracken Library

These guides list many of the print resources in our collections. The lists include the call numbers.

Resources in Law
AKA the blue handout. A list of legal resources in our collection arranged by the type of source (e.g. Reporters, Codes, etc.).
Law Source List
AKA the pink handout. A more complete alphabetical list of resources in our collection.

Criminal Justice & Criminology

Subject Guide

Related Guides

Legal Resources

Legal Resources in Print at Bracken Library