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On-Line Databases- Off-Campus Access
Current law students, faculty, and staff may access these databases from off-campus by following these links. Upon choosing a database, patrons will be asked for the last six digits of their law library patron accounts (located on the front of student ID cards-- see a sample ID) and their last names. Other law library patrons may use these databases within the Law Center. If you have trouble connecting, please call the Reference Desk at 915-6812.

  • ABI Inform

    • Indexes and abstracts to articles in 1300 business and management publications, with varying coverage, some citations dating back to the 1970s. Includes 350 titles from outside the U.S. Also contains complete articles for more than 600 of the more important sources.

  • BNA

    • Various BNA publications, including ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct, Criminal Law Reporter, Environment Reporter, Family Law Reporter, Labor and Employment Law Library, and U.S. Law Week. (NOTE: Off-Campus users will need to accept the SSL certificate when prompted by their web browser for services such as the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct, the Labor and Employment Law Library and the Intellectual Property Library)

  • CCH Research Network

    • Full text of various CCH business titles in the areas of Securities, Banking, Capital Changes, Blue Sky Law, Trade Regulation, and Government Contracts. 
  • CCH Tax Research Network
  • Congressional Universe

    • CIS Congressional publications, including hearings, reports, prints and documents and the CIS legislative histories. Also: information about current members of Congress and congressional committees; hot bills and topics; National Journal; and Congress Daily. For coverage pre-1970, consult the CIS print indexes on the library's second floor. 
  • Current Index to Legal Periodicals

    • Current awareness tool; covers current month and previous three months only.
  • Disclosure

    • Business & financial information for public companies. Includes SEC filings, company spreadsheets (must have Microsoft Excel to view), and tearsheets. 
  • EBSCOHost

    • Non-legal materials, mainly periodicals. Some items are full text.
  • HeinOnline

    • A searchable full-text database of all indexed legal periodicals, from their inception to the most current volumes. 
  • IndexMaster
    Searchable tables of contents of legal treatises.
  • Ingenta (formerly CARL UnCover)

    • Contains article summaries of over 25,000 publications and the full-text of over 4,500 publications from 150 publishers. 
  • JSTOR

    • A full-text database of scholarly journals in arts & sciences, ecology, botany, and general science.
  • LegalTrac

    • Comprehensive index of legal periodicals. Also includes citations to selected law-related articles from business and general interest periodicals. Covers 1980-present.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

    • Provides access to a wide range of news and information--general, company, industry and market, government and politics, and legal news, company financial information, country and state profiles. Also includes legal information--federal law, state law, and some law journals. 
  • LexisNexis Matthew Bender Online

    • Searchable collection of most Matthew Bender treatises. To begin searching, choose either "Browse Your Pubs" (for a complete list of the publications included) or a subject heading. 
  • MAGNOLIA

    • Mississippi's Cooperative Library Resources, including MS code and non-legal databases.
  • The Making of Modern Law

    • "The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
  • Mississippi Legal Forms

    • Forms available on Thomson Gale LegalForms include forms drafted by attorneys for a particular legal matter, forms from public records and participating companies and attorneys.
  • MSLAWYER

    • Wide variety of Mississippi-specific legal research tools.
  • NetLibrary

    • A wide collection of electronic books. Patrons may search by author, title, keyword, full text (of the book itself), and publisher.
  • OCLC FirstSearch

    • OCLC catalog; Helpful in finding out which library owns a book or journal you may want. Includes WorldCat, Article First, Contents1st, NetFirst, and UnionLists.

    Wilson Web

  • Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-1981)
  • Index to Legal Periodicals (1981 to present)
  • Merged File: Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908 to present)

    • Comprehensive index of legal periodicals. Also includes citations to selected law-related articles from business and general interest periodicals. Covers 1908 - Present.

  • UM Online Databases

    • Wide variety of nearly 100 databases; some may not be accessible from off-campus. If you have trouble accessing a database, please call the Law Library Reference Desk at 662-915-6812.
     
The following databases require passwords. If you are a currently enrolled law student and need to use any of them, please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk (915-6812).

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