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Current law students, faculty and staff may access these databases on or off-campus. To access these databases from off-campus, visit this webpage. Other patrons may use these databases within the Law Center.
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  • ABI Inform              Off-Campus Access

    • 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 Publications               Off-Campus Access (NOTE: Off-Campus users will need to accept the SSL certificate when prompted by their web browser)

    • 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. 
  • CCH Research Network (business & finance)              Off-Campus Access

    • 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              Off-Campus Access
  • Congressional Search              Off-Campus Access

    • 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 CongressDaily.
  • Current Index to Legal Periodicals              Off-Campus Access

    • Current awareness tool; covers current month and previous three months only.
  • Disclosure              Off-Campus Access

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

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

    • A searchable full-text database of all indexed legal periodicals, from their inception to the most current volumes. 
  • IndexMaster        Off-Campus Access

    • Searchable tables of contents of legal treatises.
  • Ingenta (formerly CARL UnCover)       Off-Campus Access

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

    • A full-text database of scholarly journals in arts & sciences, ecology, botany, and general science.
  • Legal Trac              Off-Campus Access

    • 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 Search              Off-Campus Access

    • 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. 
  • MAGNOLIA              Off-Campus Access

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

    • "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              Off-Campus Access

    • 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.
  • netLibrary              Off-Campus Access

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

    • OCLC catalog; Helpful in finding out which library owns a book or journal you may want. Includes WorldCat, Article First, Contents1st, NetFirst, and UnionLists.
  • Social Science Research Network (legal scholarship only)              Off-Campus Access

    • Includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts on 31,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection.

    Wilson Web

  • Wilson Web: Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-1981)

  • Off-Campus Access

  • Wilson Web: Index to Legal Periodicals (1981 to present)

  • Off-Campus Access

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

  • Off-Campus Access

    • 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 662-915-6912.
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).
  • BNA Tax Management Portfolios Plus 

    • Call the Reference Desk at 915-6912 for the password.
  • Lexis.com
  • LoisLaw

    • An inexpensive alternative to Westlaw and Lexis with no usage restrictions. Law students may get a password by obtaining the University of Mississippi's access code from a reference librarian.
  • Westlaw

TOPICAL LISTING

    Legal Materials
  • BNA Publications               Off-Campus Access (NOTE: Off-Campus users will need to accept the SSL certificate when prompted by their web browser)

    • 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. 
  • Congressional Search             Off-Campus Access

    • 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 CongressDaily. For coverage pre-1970, consult the CIS print indexes on the library's second floor. 
  • IndexMaster        Off-Campus Access

    • Searchable tables of contents of legal treatises.
  • Lexis.com
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Search             Off-Campus Access

    • 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. 

  • LoisLaw
    • An inexpensive alternative to Westlaw and Lexis with no usage restrictions. Law students may get a password by obtaining the University of Mississippi's access code from a reference librarian.

  • The Making of Modern Law              Off-Campus Access
    "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              Off-Campus Access

    • 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.
  • Westlaw

    • Non-Legal Materials

  • EBSCOhost             Off-Campus Access

    • Non-legal materials, mainly periodicals. Some items are full text.
  • MAGNOLIA             Off-Campus Access

    • Mississippi's Cooperative Library Resoures, including MS code and non-legal databases.
  • netLibrary             Off-Campus Access

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

    Periodical Indexes

  • Current Index to Legal Periodicals             Off-Campus Access

    • Current awareness tool; covers current month and previous three months only.
  • HeinOnline              Off-Campus Access

    • A searchable full-text database of all indexed legal periodicals, from their inception to the most current volumes. 
  • Legal Trac             Off-Campus Access

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

    Wilson Web

  • Wilson Web: Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-1981)

  • Off-Campus Access

  • Wilson Web: Index to Legal Periodicals (1981 to present)

  • Off-Campus Access

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

  • Off-Campus Access

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

    Scholarly Tools
    Bibliographic citations and publisher information for in-print, forthcoming, and out-of-print books (for the past ten years) published in the United States. Also provides audio and video listings with order information and more than 300,000 full-text book reviews. 

  • Ingenta (formerly CARL UnCover)       Off-Campus Access

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

    • A full-text database of scholarly journals in arts & sciences, ecology, botany, and general science.
  • OCLC FirstSearch             Off-Campus Access

    • OCLC catalog; Helpful in finding out which library owns a book or journal you may want. Includes WorldCat, Article First, Contents1st, NetFirst, and UnionLists.
  • Social Science Research Network (Legal Scholarship Only)             Off-Campus Access

    • Includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts on 31,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection.

  • 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 662-915-6912.

    Tax & Finance

  • ABI Inform             Off-Campus Access

    • 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 Tax Management Portfolios Plus 

    • Call the Reference Desk at 915-6812 for the password.
  • CCH Research Network (business & finance)             Off-Campus Access

    • 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             Off-Campus Access

    • Includes the Standard Federal Tax Reporter.
  • Disclosure       Off-Campus Access

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