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Legal Studies Subject Guide

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  • ProQuest Congressional (formerly Lexis Nexis Congressional)
    Contains bill tracking services, congressional publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National Journal.
    Covers: 1789 - present
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  • Westlaw Campus Research
    Full text access to federal and state court cases, laws and regulations; legal periodicals and encyclopedias; and legal guides and information for pre-law students.
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  • LexisNexis Academic (Lexis Nexis Academic)
    News coverage in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Company information. Federal and states court cases back to 1789.
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  • Social Science Citation Index via Web of Science
    Social Sciences Citation Index®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides access to the bibliographic and citation information data from 2,474 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.  Use Cited Reference Search to find articles that cite or are cited by an author. With the addition of Century of Social Sciences,  SSCI® delivers comprehensive backfile and cited reference data from 1900.
    Covers: 1900-present
  • Criminology: A Sage Full-Text Collection
    Full-text of 23+ journals. Subjects include criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence.
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  • PAIS International
    The Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) contains citations and short abstracts for journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Subjects include government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas.
    Covers: 1972 - present, abstracts start at 1985.
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  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
    WPSA provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
    Covers: 1000 A.D. - present
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