Research Tools

General Legal Resources

American Legal Publishing (municipal codes and local ordinances)
Database contains local ordinances and municipal codes for several localities, including Indiana.

Chicago Scholarship Online
This database contains the full text of academic monographs from nine leading university presses in the area of law.  Note: the law library only subscribes to the law module of this set.

FindLaw
Legal portal providing links to cases, statutes and other legal content, including some forms.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson)
Index to law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and some government publications, from August, 1981 to date.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Historical index to law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and some government publications, from 1908 - 1981.

Law360
A news database with coverage of nearly all major practice areas, including environmental, intellectual property, and all federal appellate cases.

LexisOne.com
Provides access to U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1790 to the present, and federal Court of Appeals and state cases from the last five years. It also includes forms and links to other valuable legal websites.

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Briefs (1832 - 1978)
Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.

Martindale Hubbell
Directory of lawyers with access by specific geographical area or by practice area.

Municode
Database contains municipal codes from a variety of jurisdictions nationwide.