Research Tools

Online Resources

The resources listed on this page are the top 20 most frequently used by law students and faculty. However, there are many more resources available by clicking on the links to the right. For a comprehensive list of all resources, select ‘Just the Links’ and view the resources either alphabetically or by category. For descriptions of the resources, view the ‘Resource by Description’ links. As not all resources are available to all users, please look at the Access Key to determine what access restrictions there are (if any) for a particular resource.

Frequently Used

Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary database containing full text from nearly 3,200 scholarly publications. Coverage includes the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Provides access to CCH’s federal and state tax libraries, and to recent tax news, analysis, cases, regulations and other primary source materials.

HeinOnline
Provides full-text access to a large collection of legal periodicals and The Federal Register.

IUCAT
Online catalog for Indiana University Libraries.

JSTOR
Contains full text of many scholarly journals, largely in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science, and population studies.

LegalTrac
Index and abstract service for over 800 legal periodicals since 1980, some available in full-text.

Lexis
Mega-database containing cases, statutes, regulations, constitutions, forms, treatises, law reviews, leading newspapers and magazines, reference items, and international content.

LexisNexis Academic (for general use)
This resource has much of the same content as regular LexisNexis, but is available to all IUB students and those that come to the Law Library.  It is a mega-database that contains cases, statutes, regulations, constitutions, law reviews, and leading newspapers and magazines.

LexisNexis Congressional
Indexes and abstracts Congressional information, and contains the full text of recent committee reports, hearings, and prints.

ProQuest
Index and abstract service with some full text, for criminal justice publications as well as business and general news publications.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Pre-print service and institutional archives of academic journal articles.

Thomas
Library of Congress website about the United States Congress containing the full-text of Congressional publications (bills, hearings, reports, debates, and statutes). It also contains committee information and information on the legislative process.

Westlaw
Mega-database containing cases, statutes, regulations, constitutions, forms, treatises, law reviews, leading newspapers and magazines, reference items, and international content.

WilsonWeb
Law Library subscription provides access to the Index to Legal Periodicals and the Social Science Index.

WorldCat
Catalog of more than 100 million records from libraries around the world.