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Library Databases

 

Databases are freely accessible to Phoenix School of Law students, faculty, and staff.

 

  • Westlaw, LexisNexis, CALI, AudioCaseFiles, and SSRN will always require a password. The password will either be issued to you individually by the law library or through your own registration. Please see descriptions below for more information.

Where are you?

  • For on-campus access simply click on the database name.
  • For off-campus access click on the database name and you will be prompted to enter your first and last name, as well as your library barcode number (located on the back of your ID badge).

Questions?

  • Please call the Law Library reference desk at (602) 682-6898.

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ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct

Provided by BNA, this database includes full text of ABA and state ethics opinions as well as rules, current developments, practice guides, table of cases, general index, and current reports. Major topics covered include: advertising, colleagues, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, fees, lawyer-client relationship, malpractice, misrepresentation, and professional responsibility.

Take a BNA virtual tour of this database.

AudioCaseFiles/CVN *

Provided by CourtRoom Connect Inc., AudioCaseFiles is a service that provides legal multimedia. When registering with your school email address, you receive unlimited access to audio files of judicial opinions and real streaming trial video. Search audio by course and then download MP3 files.

*Be sure to use your law school email address for access to this website. Please call the law library reference desk, (602)682-6898, for more information.

BNA Intellectual Property Library

Links to full text of U.S. Intellectual Property laws and regulations.  Also includes U.S. Patent Quarterly cases.  IP-related news stories are added daily.  Topical indexes provide access to all content in the entire database. 

Take a BNA virtual tour.

BNA Labor & Employment Law Resource Center

This database provides access to a variety of BNA materials on labor and employment law, including:

  • Fair Employment (anti-discrimination cases from July, 1965; analysis; federal and state laws, regulations, and agency documents; headnotes classified by subject).
  • Disabilities (monthly newsletter; ADA cases from August, 1993; analysis; federal and state laws, regulations, and agency documents; topical index; headnotes classified by subject).
  • Individual Employment Rights (cases reflecting common law and statutory employment rights and responsibilities, including employment at will, privacy, whistleblowing, and restrictive covenants, from September, 1986; analysis; federal and state laws, regulations, and agency documents; headnotes classified by subject).
  • Wages, Hours and Leave (cases reflecting laws on rates of pay, work hours, leave, child labor, and labor provisions under public contracts, from January, 1959; analysis; federal and state laws, regulations, and agency documents; federal Department of Labor Opinion Letters interpreting the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act; headnotes classified by subject).
  • Arbitration Decisions (labor arbitration decisions from September, 1979; headnotes classified by subject; links to sample clauses in the Collective Bargaining Manual collection; words and phrases linked to interpreting decisions; directory of arbitrators from September, 1988).
  • Labor Cases (from September, 1984).
  • NLRB Decisions (from September, 1984).
  • Affirmative Action Compliance Manual for Federal Contractors (text of the DoL's Federal Contract Compliance Manual, related policy decisions, analysis of decisions of federal courts, and other compliance-related materials).
  • Labor Relations Expediter (an encyclopedia of labor and employment law topics; current U.S. Supreme Court docket of labor and employment cases; monthly Consumer Price Index).
  • Labor Relations (federal and state laws, regulations, and agency documents; Labor Cases and NLRB Decisions headnotes classified by subject).
  • Collective Bargaining and Contract Clauses (negotiating and administering labor-management contracts; sample policies; texts of contract clauses classified by subject; summaries of state laws affecting bargaining rights; federal and state laws, regulations, directories of labor agencies, economic data on employment, hours, and earnings; indexes of clauses by subject and union).
  • Collective Bargaining Newsletter (New contract settlements, arbitration awards, court and National Labor Relations Board decisions; every two weeks).
  • Wage Settlements (Negotiated wage increases and summaries of contract settlements; every two weeks).
  • BNA Insights (“thought leadership from the nation’s most prominent practitioners”).
  • Analysis/News and Background (Developments in labor and employment law; weekly).
  • General Index.

Take a BNA virtual tour.

BNA Reports

These links take you to the latest editions of these BNA reports and provide access to their archives:

Take a BNA virtual tour of these reports.

BNA Tax and Accounting Center

This portal provides access to a variety of BNA materials on taxation and accounting, including:

  • Tax Practice Series - the famous and incredibly useful BNA Tax Portfolios, on most every tax subject imaginable including Portfolio 100-1st: U.S. Federal Tax Research; explanations of complex tax issues; practice aids including client letters typical of assignments that summer or new associates may encounter in a tax practice.
  • News & Commentary 
  • Source Documents (including the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, proposed regulations, tax legislation, state tax statutes and regulations, Treasury decision preambles, IRS publications, CIPs/ISP papers, MSSP Audit Guidelines, federal tax cases, Tax Court Rules, Court of Federal Claims Rules, state supreme court cases).
  • Tax forms (including line-by-line guides and the federal tax calendar).
  • Practice tools (tables, charts and lists; client development letters, client explanatory letters, election statements, tax practice aids by subject).
  • Indexes & finding aids 
  • Direct links to the IRS Home Page, IRS Tax Professionals page, IRS Electronic Reading Room, and IRS Forms and Publications site; the home pages for the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Tax Court, ABA Section of Taxation, AICPA Tax Section, and the Tax Professor Blog.

Take a BNA virtual tour and view the BNA Tax and Accounting Center training materials.

CALI *

Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer-mediated legal instruction. CALI offers over 600 interactive computer tutorials in 32 different legal subject areas.

Download a list of CALI lessons with printable handouts.

*For first-time access to CALI, please contact the Law Library reference desk at (602) 682-6898 to obtain the law school's code.

CCH

The IntelliConnect Platform gives access to extensive resources which include current awareness, primary materials, filings, treatises and other analytical material, and finding aids.

CCH Business & Finance Research Network
Extensive business and finance resource, providing information on securities, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, international business, banking, antitrust, products liability, government contracts, transportation law, and intellectual property/computer/internet law.

CCH Health & Human Resources Library
Extensive human resources database, providing information on HR management, payroll, benefits, pensions, labor & employment law, safety, health care compliance, and food/drugs/devices. Interactive forms are also available.

Take a virtual tour.

Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

The Chronicle online is published every weekday. The Chronicle's website features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; a searchable archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases; commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review; facts and figures from the annual Almanac; free e-mail newsletters, including Academe Today; and much more.

The Law Library also subscribes to the print edition, which can be found in the Newspapers area next to the Academic Success Collection and across from the Circulation Desk. Find on the Law Library map.

Courtroom View Network (CVN)/ AudioCaseFiles*

Provided by CourtRoom Connect Inc., AudioCaseFiles is a service that provides legal multimedia. When registering with your school email address, you receive unlimited access to audio files of judicial opinions and real streaming trial video. Search audio by course and then download MP3 files.

*Be sure to use your law school email address for access to this website. Please call the law library reference desk, (602)682-6898, for more information.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)

The University of Washington's CILP provides access on a weekly basis to articles from more than 400 law reviews and other legal periodicals. Weekly web pages, by subject or table of contents, begin with November 5, 2004. Each page provides links to the articles in HeinOnline, LexisNexis and Westlaw (you need to be already logged-in to HeinOnline, LexisNexis, and Westlaw for the links to work).

View listing of journals indexed.

For access, the link above takes you to Juristec. Log-in with your PhoenixLaw username and password. 

eLibrary

Provided by ProQuest, this electronic collection includes more than 2,000 full-text newspaper and magazine articles, books, maps, pictures, audio/video files, transcripts, and more. Browse the titles in each publication type or search by keyword across all publications. Topics include business, education, health, sciences, current events, arts and literature, social sciences, government and law, and technology.

ExpressO*

From the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), ExpressO "makes law review submissions fast and easy. Have your manuscript delivered to your choice of 550+ law school reviews, including all of the top 100, simply by uploading the electronic file to our site. We deliver, and you avoid the hassles and expenses of photocopying, assembling, and mailing."

Phoenix School of Law has an institutional subscription to ExpressO for faculty only at this time.

View frequently asked questions about ExpressO.

*Be sure to use your law school email address for access to this website. Please call the law library reference desk, (602)682-6898, for more information.

FastCase

“Fastcase puts the whole national case law library on your desktop with online access to more than 5.5 million documents. Most collections date back to 1950 and are updated within 24-48 hours of the courts' decisions.”

U.S. Supreme Court 1754 - Current
All Federal Circuit Courts 1 F.2d - Current
Federal District Courts 1912 - Current
Federal Bankruptcy Courts 1979 - Current
Board of Immigration Appeals 1996 - Current
U.S. Court of Claims 1929 - 1971
U.S. Customs Court 1938 - 1980
Tax Court 1924 - Current
Special Court, Reg. Rail Reorg. Act 1974 - 2001
U.S. Court of Int'l Trade 1980 - 2001
Court of Customs & Patent Appeals 1929 - 1971
All 50 States 1950 (or older) - Current

As this is free to all members of the Arizona Bar, it's a good idea to know how to use it. Note that you have a variety of help options: FAQs, a User Guide, tutorials, live chat, email help, and other resources including their blog and RSS feeds.

For access, the link above takes you to Juristec. Log-in with your PhoenixLaw username and password. From the Law Library Juristec homepage select the link for FastCase in the right-hand column under Links. If you are off campus, you will then be prompted for your name and library barcode.

Foreign Law Guide

"This work endeavors to provide the lawyer or legal researcher with relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, indications of currentness of the legal materials listed, and, finally, selected references to secondary sources in English. Thus, this is primarily a guide to official sources and official versions with references, when appropriate, to full texts of legislation and English translations of codes, laws, and relevant material published separately. These translations may be official or unofficial, published as a monograph or in major comparative treatments or in a series or even in journals. The editors have sought to concentrate on current books and materials available in the trade or in normal avenues of document distribution."

GreenFile

Provided freely from EBSCO, this database "indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well."

You need not set up a "My EBSCOhost" account unless you are interested in saving items related to searching (for example, search results, search terms).

HeinOnline

An image-based but fully searchable collection of legal publications. Recent materials (such as law reviews) generally appear several months to two years after publication. Includes several collections:

View HeinOnline "How-To" Videos and HeinOnline Training & Support Wiki.

LegalTrac

Provided by Gale/Cengage, this database has abstracts of articles from many legal periodicals, with some full-text access. Significant, but not total, overlap with HeinOnline. Also includes law-related articles from more than 1,000 business and general interest periodicals. Coverage begins in 1980.

LexisNexis *

Comprehensive database of legal, business, and news sources. Faculty, staff, and students also have access to many of the scholarly treatises that Lexis publishes, as well as to teaching and learning tools and a career center.

*Assigned password required for access. Contact Koviena Nelson for password information.

LexisNexis Congressional

Full text of U.S. bills, hearings, reports, committee prints, legislative histories, and the Statutes at Large series. Also includes the U.S. Serial Set is a collection of U.S. Congressional and selected other publications on an extremely wide range of subjects compiled under Congressional direction. Documents published before 1817 are in a collection called the American State Papers. This link provides access (indexing, bibliographic information, full-text search) to all Serial Set and American State Papers documents from 1789 through 1979 and 2004 to present. Serial Set documents from 1987 to 2004 are available through GPO Access. Documents from 1979 to 1987 are not yet available online.

For help with LexisNexis Congressional, click here

View the LexisNexis Congressional Wiki

Making of Modern Law

Provided by Gale/Cengage, this database contains searchable full text (PDF images) nineteenth and early twentieth century British, Commonwealth, and American legal treatises. It has approximately 10 million pages in more than 21,000 works, 14,900 titles from the nineteenth century and 7,100 titles from the years 1900 to 1926. For a complete title list, click here.

You can search full-text, keywords or phrases, author, case name, court term, filing date, and citation including internal page numbers. Most of the materials are from the Harvard Law School Library, with other materials from Yale, York University (Toronto), and 20 other institutions.

For helpful training materials, click here. 

Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History

Covers legal history from ancient to modern times.  Over 1,000 articles on ancient Greek and Roman law, medieval Roman law, Chinese law, Islamic law, English and U.S. law, and the laws of Africa, Asia, and other regions. 

Oxford Scholarship Online

Abstracts of over 2,500 Oxford University Press titles in numerous disciplines, including economics, finance, history, business management, literature, music, neuroscience, and more.  Full-text access to certain law-related titles.  Browse by title, author, or subject.  Advanced search features also available.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

"Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world."

ProQuest Research Library

 "From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,870 titles-over 2,600 in full text-from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers."

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

This database is devoted to the "rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences." Some that might be of interest are:

SSRN includes an "Abstract Database, containing abstracts on over 273,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 224,300 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format."

U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs Digital Archive

Provided by Gale/Cengage, this database contains searchable U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs for the period of 1832-1978. It is derived from two sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States.

The database includes approximately 11 million pages in more than 350,000 separate documents. It covers approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases. Note that a majority of these cases did not result in full opinions, but were decided with per curiam decisions, for example, granting or denying writs of certiorari. Many of the materials in this database are not available on Lexis or Westlaw. You can search full-text, keywords or phrases, author, case name, court term, filing date, and citation including internal page numbers.

For more information click here.

West Indian Reports

This database, provided by LexisNexis UK, includes reports of cases decided in the High Courts and Courts of Appeal of the West Indian states, as well as Privy Council appeals. West Indian Reports includes decisions from the following jurisdictions: The Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; the Cayman Islands; the Eastern Caribbean States; Guyana; Jamaica; and Trinidad and Tobago.

Westlaw *

An wide-ranging database of legal, business, and news sources. Includes access to many of the scholarly treatises that Thomson West publishes, as well as to TWEN, course management software.

*Assigned password required for access. Contact Koviena Nelson for password information.

World News Connection

Provided by Dialog, the information covered in this database is compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources obtained from full text and summaries of hard copy and electronic newspaper articles and periodicals, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, OSC analyses, blogs, and non-classified technical reports.

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You do not have to enter a subaccount. Just click the "Logon" button and you will be automatically redirected to the database.