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Ask Bill provides links to legal information on
the Internet for legal researchers in the Seventh Circuit, which
includes the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. The sites
have been reviewed, selected and annotated. Official government
sites have been selected wherever possible.
Library of the U.S. Courts | 7th Circuit
Court of Appeals | U.S. Courts
Federal Supreme Court
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Official web site. Includes: Docket, bar admission, oral argument transcripts posted same day argument is heard, court rules, argument calendars, case handling guides, orders, historical materials, including a case citation finder, and other public information. Full text opinions are available as are the bound volumes of United States Reports starting with 502 U.S. (U.S. Supreme Court)
- Opinions
- Docket
Provides case information for decided and pending litigation in the current and the prior term.
- Orders and Journal
- Case Citation Finder
Covers the official citation form for every signed, per curiam, and in-chambers opinion published (or soon to be published) in the United States Reports. Use your Internet browser's Edit and Find features, enter a pratial case name and view the results for the citation.
- Case Handling Guides
Guide to Filing Paid Cases, Guide to In Forma pauperis Cases, Guide for Counsel in Cases to Be Argued.
- Dates of Supreme Court Decisions and Arguments United States Reports Volumes 2 - 107 (1791 - 1882)
Prepared by Anne Ashmore of the Supreme Court Library. This 168-page document is based on research in the handwritten Engrossed Minutes and the
handwritten Engrossed Docket. By volume and page number, it lists case names and the dates of argument and decision.
- Granted and Noted List - Cases to be Argued - October Term 2008
- Oral Arguments
Beginning with the October 2006 Term, the transcripts of oral arguments are available on the same day an argument is heard by the Court. Transcripts of oral arguments are archived on the website beginning with the Octuber 2000 Term. Transcripts prior to the 2000 Term are maintained in the Court's Library.
- Questions Presented
Review the Questions Presented in granted and noted cases by clicking on the hyperlink located within the Docket's case summary information for a particular case. For example, access the docket information for case number 02-1348, click the hyperlink to link to a pdf file setting forth the Question(s) Presented in the case.
- Special Master Reports
Special Masters are individuals named by the Court to conduct preliminary reviews of Original cases the Court has allowed to be filed before it. Original cases - cases tried only in the Supreme Court - usually involve disputes between states. The Court will add future reports as they are issued. Past reports have been and will continue to be posted as well.
- Where to Find Briefs of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
- Solicitor General - Government Briefs (USDOJ)
- The Supreme Court Opinion Announcements hotline, a recorded message, is 202-479-3360.
- Supreme Court Center
- Tab system for Cases, Docket, Decisions, Orders, briefs, Rules, Guides and Schedule. (Findlaw)
- Briefs
- All briefs filed in each case the court has agreed to hear, including amicus briefs, since October 1999 term. In alphabetical order by first-party case name. (Findlaw)
- Case Index
- Organizes pending cases by topic and links to the case at the lower court level.
- Decisions of the Current Term
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- Docket
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- Supreme
Court Collection
- Decisions and petitions
for cert granted or denied may be posted here more quickly than on the Official
Supreme Court site. (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
- Supreme
Court Decisions
- Vol. 150-Current U.S.
Reports, 1893-Current. browse by year or U.S. Reports volume number. Search
by citation, case title or full text. (Findlaw)
- Supreme
Court Preview
- Cases
at a Glance offers an advance look at the issues raised in every case
slated for oral argument. Continuously updated links to the full text of
the Court's decisions as soon as they are handed down. Cases at a Glance
for previous terms are also available. Merit
briefs are also online, accessible by case name or argument date. (ABA)
- U.S. Supreme Court Center: Beta
- Full run of U.S. Supreme Court Cases from v.1 - 545+. Browse by volume or year. Search by citation, party name or words and phrases. Also links to blogs on the Supreme Court and constitutional rights and to other Supreme Court resources. (Justia and Oyez and Forms WorkFlow)
- Appellate.Net
Docket Reports
- Supreme Court Docket Reports in cases of interest to the business community, prepared by Mayer Brown. (Mayer Brown)
- On the Docket - U.S. Supreme Court News
- Continually updated
coverage of the cases pending before the United States Supreme Court. Coverage
includes a current listing of the cases pending before the Court, a story
on each case, additional feature stories on selected cases, links to web
sites relevant to the cases, information provided by attorneys and parties
in the cases, the dates for scheduled oral arguments, the questions presented
to the Court, referrals to the attorneys in the cases, and citations for
the lower court opinions. Coverage dates back to the 1998-99 term. (Northwestern
U. Medill School of Journalism)
- Oyez : U.S. Supreme Court Media
- Gradually creating a public, searchable archive of all audio recorded in the Court since 1955. Presently covers all audio since 1990 and selected audio before 1990. Includes summaries of over 1000 Supreme Court opinions, biographical materials on all the justices, and a virtual reality tour of the Supreme Court building. Recently added MP3 format audio. (Jerry Goldman/Northwestern U.)
- Supreme Court: Jurist Legal News & Research
- Links to Supreme Court related information, including biographies of the justices, recent commentary, documents and video. (Jurist: The Law Professors' Network)
- Supreme Court Nomination Hearings: 1971 - Forward
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary. (GPO)
- Supreme Court Nominations
- John Roberts, Harriet Miers and Samuel Alito Nomination Collections, Web Resources Relating to Supreme Court Nominations and Supreme Court Nomination Documents: Confirmed and Not Confirmed. (Library of Congress)
- U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database
- This is a multi-user, public database containing a wealth of information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Specifically, the Database houses 263 variables, falling roughly into five categories: identifiers, background characteristics and personal attributes, nomination and confirmation, service on the Court, and departures from the bench. (Lee Epstein, Thomas Walker, Nancy Staudt.)
- Web
Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
- Annotated links to
reliable sites for U.S. Supreme Court research. Law librarian Gail Partin
includes the best websites for opinions, case summaries, briefs, oral arguments,
and court docket and calendar information. Also provides links to sites
about the justices (past and present), court practice, court history and
court administration. (llrx.com)
Sites with Free Case Law based on Public Resource.org files
- These sites are using data from the Public.Resource.org which has made available a large database of federal cases at Bulk.Resource.Org
- AltLaw: The Free Legal Search Engine Beta
- Full text search of all U.S. Supreme Court opinions back to 1759. Original court pdf format or plain text. West Reporter Citations (i.e., 23 F.3d 178) not available for recent cases. As of yet, no state or district court cases. AltLaw has full text search with advanced search options including proximity search, Boolean, wildcards, etc. Updated daily. In late April of 2008, AltLaw introduced what they called "Reverse Citations" for cases before 2006 or so. Soon this feature will be applied to newer cases as well. When viewing a case in AltLaw, cases cited by your case appear on the left and cases which cite it are on the right. Both lists are in reverse chronological order. Then in late May, they added "Copy and Paste Bluebook Citations." Just click the "Show full citation" link to the right of the case title to get a complete, Bluebook-style citation with title, year, and court. The citation will appear already selected, so you can immediately copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) it into your word processor. (AltLaw)
- FindACase Network
- Free cases from Versuslaw, which is a subscription service. Research state and federal case law, grouped by state. Includes Supreme Court opinions since 1886, federal circuit opinios since 1930 for all but the 9th, DC and Federal Circuits, which start later, federal district courts back to 1931 and appellate courts for all 50 states plus DC, Puerto Rico and Guam, some as far back as 1910. You must search by state, even for federal cases. There are no citations or docket numbers listed. The full case, including the citation, may be purchased for $2.95. (VersusLaw Inc.)
- Justia: US Supreme Court Cases & Opinions Beta
- All US Supreme Court Cases from v.1 to Current. Has a full text search function. Also browse by volume, year and by recent opinions. (Justia)
- Open Jurist: Making the laws of the land accessible to the people of the land
- Collection includes opinions from the: United States Supreme Court - beginning in 1754 when it was known as the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and Federal Appellate Courts - beginning in 1880. Includes Federal Reporter, First Series, Federal Reporter, Second Series and Federal Reporter, Third Series. If you have the case citation, it is easy to browse to your case. (OpenJurist.org)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present; State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
- PreCYdent Open Law Source Beta
- The beta version contains searchable U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals cases as well as Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the U.S. Code. PreCydent has introduced a case citator with two citator buttons. The Citations button "shows citing and cited opinions." The Citator button "shows judicial actions done by and on the present case." In other words, treatment. There are two columns: In-Citator shows all the actions taken by other cases regarding the current case. For example, the In-Citator will show if the current case has been overruled, reversed, or otherwise acted up, by a higher court. The Out-Citator column shows any actions the current case has taken regarding another case, for example, if the current case overrules, reverses, or takes another recorded action regarding a lower court opinion.
PreCydent has all Supreme Court opinions with official US citation and pagination since 1759. Click on "Our Database" to see what the entire database contains. (PreCydent, Inc.)
- Rutgers-Camden Federal Courts Search Page
- This is a full-text archive of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1754 to 2005 and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal from 1950 to 2007 (F.2d vol. 178 to F.3d vol. 491). Search options include: Full-text search of the federal court decisions, Find a document by citation, Search for cases by date, Search for cases by party name. (Rutgers School of Law)
Federal Court of
Appeals Decisions
- Seventh
Circuit Decisions
- Official Seventh Circuit
Internet site, including Judicial opinions. briefs filed with the court
beginning in 2001 are also online. (Seventh Circuit Internet)
- Seventh
Circuit Citation Lists
- If you know the Seventh
Circuit case name, docket number, or date of decision, use these lists to
locate the Federal Reporter citation for cases decided from 1997 to the
present. Updated monthly by Cary Biskupic, Library Technician at the Library
of the U.S. Courts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Seventh Circuit Library)
- Seventh Circuit Review
- Seventh Circuit Review is a semiannual, online journal dedicated to the analysis of recent opinions published by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The Seventh Circuit Review seeks to keep the legal community abreast of developments and trends within the Seventh Circuit and their impact on contemporary jurisprudence. (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
Court of Appeals Case Searches
- U.S. Courts - Court Links
- Map linking to all Circuit Court of Appeals, District Court, Bankruptcy Court, Probation and Pretrial Services Offices. Searchable by city and state, zip code, county and state, and area code. (U.S. Courts)
- Search
All U.S. Court of Appeals Opinions on the Internet
- The collections of
judicial opinions which this search engine searches are not maintained by
the LII (or any other single institution or organization). As a result there
is great variation in the extent of the collections from site to site; for
example, the 5th Circuit collection extends back to 1986, whereas it is
unusual for others to go back much further than 1995. File formats, titling
practices, layout, and typography all vary widely and there may be significant
gaps in some collections. Cornell updates the index regularly. The updating
process takes about three days, because of the high volume of data which
must be checked. Very, very recent cases will probably not appear in your
search results. (Cornell)
- Seton Hall Circuit Review - Current Circuit Splits and Cases of First Impression
- Brief summaries of circuit splits identified by a federal court of appeal opinion, organized by civil and criminal matters, then by subject matter. The First Impressions section contains brief summaries organized by circuit. (Seton Hall)
- Split Circuits
- Blog dedicated to tracking developments concerning splits among the federal circuit courts. (Professor A. Benjamin Spencer)
Court of Appeals Decisions
- First
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 2000 - present) (First Circuit)
- First
Circuit Decisions (Nov. 1995 - July 2001) (Emory)
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- Second
Circuit Decisions (? - present) (Second Circuit)
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- Second
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1996 - present) (Findlaw)
- Third Circuit Decisions(1997 - present) (Third Circuit)
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- Third
Circuit Decisions (May 1994 - present) (Villanova)
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- Fourth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1996 - present) (Fourth Circuit)
- Fourth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1995 - May 2001) (Emory)
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- Fifth
Circuit Decisions (Apr. 1992 - present) (Fifth Circuit)
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- Sixth
Circuit Decisions (1994 - present) (Sixth Circuit)
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- Sixth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1995 - June 1999) (Emory)
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- Seventh
Circuit Decisions (1991 - present) (Seventh Circuit)
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- Eighth
Circuit Decisions (1995 - present) (Eighth Circuit)
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- Ninth
Circuit Decisions (Jan. 1995 - present) (Ninth Circuit)
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- Tenth
Circuit Decisions (Aug. 1995-Oct. 1997) (Emory)
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- Tenth
Circuit Decisions (Oct. 1997 - present) (Washburn)
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- Eleventh
Circuit Decisions (Nov. 1994 - March 2003) (Emory)
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- Eleventh
Circuit Decisions (1994 - present) (Eleventh Circuit)
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- D.C.
Circuit Decisions (Sept. 1997 - present) (D.C. Circuit)
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- D.C.
Circuit Decisions (Apr. 1995 - Feb. 2008) (Georgetown)
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- Federal
Circuit Decisions (Aug. 1995 - Aug. 2001) (Emory)
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- Federal
Circuit Decisions (Jul. 1995 - Feb. 15, 2008) (Georgetown)
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- Federal
Circuit Decisions (Oct. 2004 - present) (Second Circuit)
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Sites with Free Case Law based on Public Resource.org files
- These sites are using data from the Public.Resource.org which has made available a large database of federal cases at Bulk.Resource.Org
- AltLaw: The Free Legal Search Engine Beta
- Full text search of court of appeals cases. Opinions coverage, for most Circuits, is limited to the last 20 to 30 years. Most Circuit coverage starts in 1971. Original court pdf format or plain text. West Reporter Citations (i.e., 23 F.3d 178) not available for recent cases. As of yet, no state or district court cases. AltLaw has full text search with advanced search options including proximity search, Boolean, wildcards, etc.) Updated daily.(AltLaw)
- FindACase Network
- Free cases from Versuslaw, which is a subscription service. Research state and federal case law, grouped by state. Includes Supreme Court opinions since 1886, federal circuit opinios since 1930 for all but the 9th, DC and Federal Circuits, which start later, federal district courts back to 1931 and appellate courts for all 50 states plus DC, Puerto Rico and Guam, some as far back as 1910. You must search by state, even for federal cases. There are no citations or docket numbers listed. The full case, including the citation, may be purchased for $2.95. (VersusLaw Inc.)
- Justia: US Court of Appeals Cases and Opinions Beta
- All US Federal appellate cases since 1950. Has a full text search function. Also browse by series, by Circuit, then year, or by year. (Justia)
- Open Jurist: Making the laws of the land accessible to the people of the land
- Collection includes opinions from the: United States Supreme Court - beginning in 1754 when it was known as the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and Federal Appellate Courts - beginning in 1880. Includes Federal Reporter, First Series, Federal Reporter, Second Series and Federal Reporter, Third Series. If you have the case citation, it is easy to browse to your case. (OpenJurist.org)
- PreCYdent Open Source Law Benta
- The beta version contains searchable U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals cases as well as Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the U.S. Code. PreCydent contains the Federal Reporter 2nd edition complete with official citation and pagination from 1950, Federal Reporter 3rd edition complete with official citation and pagination until August 2006. All Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, all the opinions, published and not published, released by the Federal Circuit Courts from August 2006 until today, constantly updated every 3 hours. These cases have the official docket number assigned by the Court but do not presently have the official reporter citation. It is hoped that this will be available soon.(PreCydent, Inc.)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present (F.2d Vol. 178-999 (1950-1995), F.3d Vol. 1-present, (1995-present); State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
- Rutgers-Camden Federal Courts Search Page
- This is a full-text archive of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1754 to 2005 and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal from 1950 to 2007 (F.2d vol. 178 to F.3d vol. 491). Search options include: Full-text search of the federal court decisions, Find a document by citation, Search for cases by date, Search for cases by party name. (Rutgers School of Law)
Federal Courts of Special Jurisdiction
- U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (Jan. 1997 - present)
(Armed Forces Court)
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- U.S.
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (1989 - present) (Veterans
Claims Court)
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- U.S.
Court of Federal Claims (July 1997 - present) (Court of Federal
Claims)
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- U.S.
Court of International Trade (Jan. 1999 - present) (Int'l Trade
Court)
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- U.S. Tax Court (TC and Memorandum Opinions starting Sept. 25, 1995; Summary Opinions starting Jan. 01, 2001) (Tax Court)
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Federal District Court
- Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
- General information, hearing information on transferred and denied MDLs, rules, pending MDLs, statistics. (JPML)
- Justia Federal District Court Opinions & Orders - BETA
- Database of Federal District Court cases. Justia currently has opinions and orders since 2004.
- Justia Federal District Court Filings & Dockets - BETA
- Database of recently filed Federal District Court civil cases allows users to browse by State, by District within the state, by Nature of Suit, by Party Name, by Judge name, and within a given date range. The database is under development and cases are added daily. Data on each case includes a link to the related docket information on Pacer (accessible via subscription to those outside the court, 8 cents per page) as well as to blog, news and finance and web searches on party names. Justia currently has opinions and orders since 2004.
- Users may also subscribe to RSS feeds in each Type of Lawsuit category in order to track a judge or court's decisions. You can be notified whenever something happens in the case. (Justia)
- PreCYdent Open Source Law Beta
- The beta version contains searchable state supreme and appellate cases from 1997 to present, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals cases as well as Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the U.S. Code.
PreCYdent contains Federal District Courts opinions since 2004. Updated every month. It does not contain the following district courts:Canal Zone District court,Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,Guam District Court, Illinois Central District Court, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, Northern Mariana Islands District Court,Virgin Islands District Court. The Federal District Court database is not completed. (PreCydent, Inc.)
Federal Bankruptcy
Appellate Panels
- 1st Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (1st Circuit)
- 6th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (6th Circuit)
- 8th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (8th Circuit)
- 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (9th Circuit)
- 10th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
- (10th Circuit)
Federal Rules of Court
- Federal
Rules of Appellate Procedure
- Current as of January 1, 2008. 7th Circuit Local Rules and IOP in html or PDF format. (Seventh
Circuit Internet)
- Federal
Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
- (Cornell)
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Appendix of Forms included. Official House Committee Print. (U.S. Courts)
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Appendix of Forms included. (Cornell)
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
- Official House Committee Print. (U.S. Courts)
- Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
- (Cornell)
- Federal
Rules of Evidence
- (Supreme Court)
- Rules Governing Section 2254 and Section 2255 Cases
- (U.S. Courts)
- Federal
Rulemaking
- This site provides
access to the national and local rules currently in effect in the federal
courts, as well as background information on the federal rules and the rulemaking
process. All proposed amendments to the rules are posted for your review
and comment and an archive of amendments is also posted. (AOUS)
See this page for:
- Supreme Court Rules
- Present rules were revised on July 17, 2007. The amended rules become effective October 1, 2007. (U.S. Supreme Court)
- U.S.
Tax Court Rules
- Rules in pdf format.
Effective June 30, 2003, with amended rules after that date. (U.S. Tax Court)
Federal Courts of Seventh Circuit
Internet Sites
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit Library
Illinois Central Bankruptcy Court
Illinois Central District Court
Illinois Northern Bankruptcy Court
Illinois Northern District Court
Illinois Southern Bankruptcy Court
Illinois Southern District Court
Illinois Southern Probation Office
Indiana Northern Bankruptcy Court
Indiana Northern District Court
Indiana Northern Probation Office
Indiana Southern Bankruptcy Court
Indiana Southern District Court
Indiana Southern Probation Office
Wisconsin Eastern Bankruptcy Court
Wisconsin Eastern District Court
Wisconsin Eastern Probation Office
Wisconsin Western Bankruptcy Court
Wisconsin Western District Court
Federal Court Local
Rules
- Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals(Seventh Circuit)
- For district and bankruptcy courts that may not be included in the lists below, go to the home page for that court. Links to all federal court home pages are listed in the Federal Judiciary Home Pages section below. (AOUS)
- Local
Rules - U.S. Courts of Appeals
- (AOUS)
- Local
Rules - U.S. District Courts
- (AOUS)
- Local
Rules - U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
- (AOUS)
- Court
Rules, Forms and Dockets
- Comprehensive listing
of Federal and State court rules, forms and dockets available on the Internet,
compiled by the editors at Law Librarian's Resource Xchange. (LLRX)
Federal Judiciary
Codes of Conduct
- Codes
of Conduct for United States Judges
- (AOUS)
- Codes
of Conduct for Judicial Employees
- (AOUS)
- Published Advisory Opinions
- (AOUS)
- Judicial Misconduct and Disability
- Includes links to each circuit for rules and forms and also links to Justice Breyer's Report to the Chief Justice on Implementation of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980. (AOUS)
- National Rules for Judicial Conduct and Judicial Disability Proceedings
- News release announcing, and linking to, the first-ever binding, nationwide set of rules for handling conduct and disability complaints against federal judges. Adopted March 11, 2008. (AOUS)
- Judicial Council of the Seventh Circuit: In Re Complaint Against a Judicial Officer
- Includes Judicial misconduct or disability complaint form, Judicial misconduct or disability complaint rules (as adopted March 11, 2008) and Decisions. (Seventh Circuit Internet).
- Standards for Professional Conduct within the Seventh Federal Judicial Circuit
- In html format. (Seventh Circuit Internet).
Federal Judiciary
Home Pages
- Federal
Judiciary Homepage
- This
is the Judiciary Internet homepage. Includes About the U.S. Courts, Newsroom,
Library of publications and statistical reports, Court Links, Frequently Asked
Questions, Employment Opportunities, and a Search feature. (AOUS)
- Federal
Judicial Center
- Site includes many
Publications available for downloading in PDF format as well as downloadable
educational programs. Examples of the FJC publications available online
include the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence and the Manual for Complex
Litigation.
- The Federal
Judicial History section gives the legislative history of the Supreme
Court, the Circuit Courts, the Courts of Appeals and the District Courts,
as well as biographical information about each presidentially appointed
judge on the courts since 1789. There are also historical documents related
to the judicial branch of government. Using the search boxes you may pull
up the legislative history and judicial biographies of the Court of Appeals
or District Judges in each circuit or state.
The Federal Judges Biographical Database provides information about all judges who have served on the U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court and other life-tenured courts since 1789. To view a judge's biographical entry, type in the judge's name (Last name, First name) or use the alphabetical index.
Use The Federal Judges Biographical Database to construct research questions regarding groups of judges. This section allows users to create customized lists of judges based on multiple categories, including nominating president, type of court, dates of service, and demographic groups.
- Historic Federal Courthouses offers access to images of over 600 historic federal courthouses and other public buildings that have served as the meeting places of federal courts. Captions indicate the date of the image and the name of the building at that time. Each entry then lists the date of the building’s completion; the supervising architect or, in the case of commissioned designs, the private architect; the dates that various federal courts used the building; the building’s fate or current use; and a citation indicating the source of the original photograph.
- Inside
the Federal Courts is available to help federal employees understand how the federal courts
work.
- PACER
Service Center
- The PACER Service
Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and
technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy,
and Appellate court records. There is information about PACER, registration
information, and links to the individual court PACER systems at Public
Access to Court Electronic Records.
- The U.S. Party/Case Index recently added an additional search feature for finding bankruptcy filings. You may now search using the last 4 digits of a Social Security number and the first three letters of the last name. (AOUS)
- U.S.
Sentencing Commission
- Includes Sentencing
Guidelines, Federal Sentencing Statistics, Reports to Congress, and Hearing
Testimony.
Federal Pattern Jury
Instructions
- First Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions - Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions for the District Courts of the First Circuit
- 1997 edition. Pdf format. With a link to Judge Hornby's updated revisions to the pattern criminal jury instructions. (District Court of Maine)
- First Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
- This is an executable version (Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions.Hlp) providing the ability to automatically create an instruction template suitable for WordPerfect, copy an instruction (including all formatting to WordPerfect, copying a number of instructions (including formatting) to WordPerfect at a time, printing a number of instructions at a time, and a link to updates posted by Judge Hornby and his instructions’ committee. (District of Massachusetts)
- Third Circuit Model Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2008 edition in WordPerfect and pdf. Nine chapters are posted. (3d Circuit)
- Third Circuit Model Civil Jury Instructions
- 2008 edition in WordPerfect and pdf. (3d Circuit)
- Fifth Circuit Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2001 edition in html. Also available as a pdf or a downloadable WordPerfect file. (5th Circuit)
- Fifth Circuit Pattern Civil Jury Instructions
- 2006 edition in pdf. (5th Circuit)
- Sixth Circuit Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2005 edition. Includes changes made to the 2005 edition as of April 23, 2008. In html, pdf, WordPerfect and Word. The full version can be downloaded in pdf. The committee has not drafted pattern civil jury instructions. (6th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Pattern Criminal Federal Jury Instructions
- Adopted November 30, 1998. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Federal Civil Jury Instructions
- Adopted May 24, 2005. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Federal Civil Jury Instructions - Final Federal Employee Liability Act and Similar Statutes Pattern Jury Instructions
- In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Federal Civil Jury Instructions - Final Patent Pattern Jury Instructions
- Adopted July 19, 2008. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Federal Civil Jury Instructions - Proposed Pattern Copyright Jury Instructions
- In pdf format. Comments accepted through May 30, 2009. (7th Circuit)
- Seventh Circuit Federal Civil Jury Instructions - Proposed Family and Medical Leave Act Pattern Jury Instructions
- In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Eighth Circuit Manual of Model Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2008 edition as well as additional Proposed Criminal Jury Instructions and Model Death Penalty Jury Instructions. In pdf, WordPerfect and Word formats. (8th Circuit)
- Eighth Circuit Manual of Model Civil Jury Instructions
- 2007 edition as well as proposed 2008 Model Civil Jury Instructions. In pdf, WordPerfect and Word formats. (8th Circuit)
- Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Criminal Jury Instructions
- 2003 edition. Last updated August 2008. In WordPerfect, pdf and browseable formats. (9th Circuit)
- Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Civil Jury Instructions
- 2007 edition. In pdf, WordPerfect, pdf and browseable formats. (9th Circuit)
- Ninth Circuit Manual on Jury Trial Procedures
- August 2004 edition. In pdf and browseable formats. (9th Circuit)
- Tenth Circuit Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2005 edition, updated February 2006. In pdf, WordPerfect and Word formats. (10th Circuit)
- Eleventh Circuit Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2003 edition. Scroll down to the pattern jury instructions. In pdf and WordPerfect formats. (11th Circuit)
- Eleventh Circuit Civil Pattern Jury Instructions
- 2005 edition. Scroll down to the pattern jury instructions. In pdf and WordPerfect formats. (11th Circuit)
District Court Pattern Jury Instructions
- Illinois - Northern District of Illinois Jury Instructions
- Collected by Chicago IP Litigation Blog. Has General Civil Instructions plus Patent and Trademark instructions. (R. David Donoghue)
- Illinois - Model Civil Jury Instructions from District Judge Philip G. Reinhard
- (Northern District of Illinois)
- Indiana - Northern District of Indiana Jury Instructions
- Many of the judges have posted Preliminary and Final Jury Instructions or General Civil or Criminal Instructions on their individual pages. Judge Simon provides instructions for several specific categories of civil cases. (Northern District of Indiana)
- Iowa - Jury Instructions Used in Trials Listed by Judge
- Searchable by category, by judge, and by date. (Northern District of Iowa)
- Maine - Judge Hornby's Proposed Civil Jury Instructions
- Proposed instructions for Cases of Employment Discrimination (Disparate Treatment),for Cases of Excessive Force in Violation of the Fourth and Eighth Amendments, for Cases of Railroad Employee Personal Injury and for Cases of Maritime Employee Personal Injury. (District of Maine)
- Maine - Judge Hornby's Updated Revisions to the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions for the
District Courts of the First Circuit
- (District of Maine)
- New Mexico - Civil and Criminal Jury Instructions for Various Judges
- Click on Judges on the left and then click on individual judges names. Many of them have a "Jury Instructions" section on their pages. (District of New Mexico)
Patent Jury Instructions
- AIPLA's (American
Intellectual Property Law Association) Model Patent Jury Instructions
- March 2008. (AIPLA)
- Model
Patent Jury Instructions - Sample Jury Instructions from Northern District
of California
- (Northern District
of California)
- Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes Manual (Jury Instructions)
- Third Edition. September 2006. Jury instructions are found in Appendices B - F. (DOJ)
- Seventh Circuit Final Pattern Patent Civil Jury Instructions
- Adopted July 19, 2008. In pdf format. (7th Circuit)
- Uniform
Jury Instructions for Patent Cases in the United States District Court for
the District of Delaware
- Click on FORMS on
the left to get to jury instructions. In PDF format. (District of Delaware)
- There are also patent instructions in Section 9 of the 5th Circuit Pattern Civil Jury Instructions, as listed above.
Other Pattern Jury Instructions
- Criminal
Tax Manual Jury Instructions
- 2008 edition. (DOJ)
- North
American Securities Administrators Association Model Jury Instructions
- In PDF format. (NASAA)
Federal Pro Se Litigants
- Federal
Court Prison Litigation Project Revised Handbook
- Handbook for attorneys
appointed by the United States District Court for the Northern District
of Illinois to represent prisoners in litigation filed pro se. The Illinois
Institute for Community Law, in conjunction with the District Court, has
revised this handbook to provide information regarding correctional policies
and procedures and the substantive and procedural rights of incarcerated
persons. Revised January 2002. (Northern District of Illinois)
- Filing
a Civil Case Without an Attorney: A Guide for the Pro Se Litigant
- (Northern District
of Illinois)
- Filing for Bankruptcy Without an Attorney
- Information from the U.S. Courts. (US Courts)
- How to File an Appeal (Pro Se)
- These documents are intended to assist litigants who are not represented by an attorney, also known as pro se litigants, in opening cases. General information is provided along with more specific information for opening immigration cases and non-immigration agency cases. The documents are provided in both HTML format and as an Adobe Acrobat PDF document. (9th Circuit Court of Appeals)
- How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers
- This guide is intended to help a person with a legal problem find legal rules that can resolve or prevent conflict. Prepared by law librarians Lee Warthen and Angus Nesbit. (AALL)
- Law
Libraries Serving Prisoners
- Temporarily unavailable.
Online version of the print directory compiled by the AALL Standing Committee
on Library Services to Institutionalized Persons. Search for law libraries
by name or location - city, state, or county. (AALL)
- Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals
- Introduction to the subject-matter jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Examines procedural issues related to the exercise of appellate jurisdiction in appeals from final judgments and interlocutory appeals. Coverage includes civil and criminal appeals, extraordinary writs, and federal administrative agency reviews. Prepared by Thomas E. Baker. In pdf format. (FJC)
- Prisoner Litigation Handbook
- The Prisoner Litigation Handbook is a document that you can open online, fill in the appropriate fields and then print on your printer. (Northern District of Illinois)
- Prisoner Pro
Se Handbooks
- Civil Rights 1983, Habeas Corpus 2254 and Motion under 2255.(District Court of
Idaho.)
- Pro Se Handbook: The Manual for the Litigant Filing Without Counsel
- (District Court of Idaho.)
- Representing Yourself in Federal Court
- Includes Pro Se Litigants' Resources and Pro Se Forms. (Southern District of Indiana)
Historical American
Documents
- American Founders Online: An Annotated Guide to Their Papers and Publications
- Provides online access, in varying degrees, to the personal papers and/or publications of the major founders of the American Republic— those men who served in roles of national political leadership between 1765 and 1815—and members of their families. (Library of Congress)
- Avalon Project
- Comprehensive collection of digital documents in law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Links to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. Documents range from the Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents to the UN Charter. There is also a collection of Documents on Terrorism.
Keep this site in mind when searching for classic legal titles like the Code of Hammurabi or Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. (Yale)
The Annotated Justinian Code is another classic text, available courtesy of the U. of Wyoming College of Law.
- Documents
from the Constitutional Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789.
- The Continental Congress
broadside Collection (256 titles) and the Constitutional Convention broadside
Collection (21 titles) contain 277 documents relating to the work of Congress
and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts
of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports,
treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and
the Declaration of Independence. Most broadsides are one page in length,
others range from 1 to 28 pages. (Library of Congress)
- A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
- This site consists
of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States
of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875.
It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters
of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention
of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions
on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates;
the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate
(1789-1875), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875); the Journal
of William Maclay (1789-91), senator from Pennsylvania in the 1st Congress;
the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824),
the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional
Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State
Papers (1789-1838); and congressional bills and resolutions for selected
sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799) in the House of Representatives
and the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate. A select number of documents
and reports from the monumental U.S. Congressional Serial Set are available
as well. This online collection houses the records of the U.S. Congress
up to 1875, which includes the first three volumes of the Congressional
Record, published by the Government Printing Office. (Library of Congress)
- Declaration
of Independence
- July 4, 1776. (NARA)
- Federalist
Papers
- Eighty-five essays
written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison between October
1787 and May 1788. (Avalon)
- Constitution of the United States
- Includes Constitution,
Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10) and Amendments 11-27 to the Constitution.
(NARA)
- Constitution
of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation
- Annotations of Cases Decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States. Senate Document 108-17, the 2002 edition and the 2008, 2006 and 2004 supplements.
Provides an overview, scholarly commentary, cases interpreting each section, and law review articles. Also includes tables of laws held unconstitutional, table of cases and index. The 2002 date for the main edition refers to the date that annotations to the constitution are cut off at, not the date of publication. The earlier 1992 edition and its supplements are also available on this site. (Congressional Research Service. Library of Congress)
- Our Documents
- One hundred milestone documents of American history. The list begins with the Lee Resolution of June 7, 1776 and ends with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (NARA)
- Popular Names of Constitutional Provisions
- Many provisions of the U.S. Constitution are known by popular name or nickname. This page identifies many of those popular names and includes the text of the relevant provisions. The information is arranged in two lists: the first, alphabetically by popular name and the second, arranged by appearance in the Constitution. (University of Washington School of Law. Gallagher Law Library)
- U.S.
Constitution
- Findlaw has taken
the CRS (1992 edition) constitution and divided the document up into smaller
sections for the web, adding hyperlinks to Supreme Court cases cited in
the annotations. (FindLaw)
- United States: The Constitution
- Recently launched website on the United States Constitution combines various items from the Law Library of Congress in one centralized location. Includes sections on Constitutional Interpretation, Executive Privilege, Military Tribunals, Presidential Inherent Powers, Presidential Signing Statements, Second Amendment, State Secrets Privilege, War Powers, War Powers Resolution, and Additional Constitutional Resources. (Law Library of Congress)
Federal Legislative
Branch Web Sites
- Government Resources: Links to Congressional Information
- Includes links to
House and Senate sites, individual members, Congressional Directory, information
about Congress and the Capital Building, links to legislative agencies like
GAO and Congressional Budget Office, Links to official and non-official sources for legislative
research, including voting records, newslinks, partisan sites. (Library
of Congress)
- Guide to House and Senate Members
- A single point of access for Member information from several different official sources. Both congressional offices and the public will be able to:
- Access data concerning House and Senate Members from various publications including: the Congressional Pictorial Directory, Congressional Biographical Directory, and, in the near future, the Congressional Directory.
- Search for and retrieve individual Members by name, district, hometown, or groups of Members by state, party affiliation, or number of terms.
- Link to individual Member's corresponding information in the Biographical Directory maintained by the House and Senate.(GPO)
- Members of Congress & Congressional District Maps
- Find your representative or senator, view their committee memberships, bills assigned to them and look at voting statistics. (GovTrack)
- U.S.
House of Representatives Home Page
- Includes House Offices - searchable by member name, map/state name, Committee Offices, Leadership Offices, Other House Organizations, Commissions, and Task Forces; Legislative Resources - Schedules for the week, Committee Hearings, and the current Calendar, Roll Call Votes; Current Events - House Operating Status, This Week on the House Floor, and House Calendar; Constituent Services - Find Your Representative by ZIP; Education Resources and Tourism Information. (House)
- U.S. Senate Home Page
- Primary areas available directly from the homepage are Senators, Committees, Legislation & Records, Art & History, Visitors and Reference. In addition to information about each senator and committee, the site also contains a complete floor schedule for the Senate,
along with recent votes, nominations lists and links to hearings. (Senate)
Committee Home Pages
- House
Committee Home Page
- Links to each committee.
(House)
- Senate
Committee Home Page
- Links to each committee.
(Senate)
- Congressional Committee
- Links to any documents available on GPO/FDSys by Senate and House Standing Committees, Select, Special and Other Committees, Caucuses, and Joint Committees. (GPO/FDSys)
Judiciary Committees
- House
Judiciary Committee
- Includes information
about members, subcommittee members, committee documents, hearings testimony,
business meetings and markups. (House)
- Senate
Judiciary Committee
- Includes information
about members, subcommittee members, jurisdiction, rules, hearings schedules
including selected prepared testimony, a list of printed hearings (no links),
links to Senate reports and bill text of legislation referred to the Senate
Judiciary committee. (Senate)
Biographical Information about Members of Congress
- Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
- Enter name, position
or state to retrieve biographical information about members of Congress. (House)
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005
- Download the entire file as a ZIP file or download pdf sections. (GPO)
- Congressional Directory
- Directories for the 104th (1995-96) Congress forward. There is a Quick Search feature, but there is also a browse the Directory feature that allows you to pull up information arranged by State with listings of members of Congress, biographies, office listings, and district descriptions. (GPO)
- Congressional
Pictorial Directory
- Members of Congress
with biographies and pictures. (GPO)
- U.S. Senate Virtual Reference Desk - Biographies
- Biographies of current and former Senators and Representatives as well as Senate spouses. (U.S. Senate)
Federal Legislative Materials
- THOMAS: In the Spirit of Thomas Jefferson, Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
- Searchable database of the legislative activities and proceedings of the U.S. Congress from the Library of Congress. Left-side menu provides direct links to Bills, Resolutions, Congressional Record, Presidential Nominations, Treaties, Committee Reports, and links to Government Resources. Middle column offers: ability to find legislation in current Congress - search bill text and browse bills by sponsor. Also search multiple previous Congresses, search appropriations bills. Right-side menu covers current activity - yesterday in Congress, latest Congressional Record Daily Digest, connection to the last seven days of House floor proceedings, Congressional Schedules and Calendars.
Includes: Bill summary & status: 1973-Current; Bill text: 1989-90 to Current; House Roll Call votes; Senate Roll Call Votes, Public Laws by law number 1973-current; Congressional Record Text search: 1989-Current; Congressional Record Index: 1995-Current; Committee Reports: Congress: 1995-Current.
THOMAS has posted several new features on their website. Users may search all of THOMAS by keyword or bill number, may browse current legislation by sponsor or topic and may engage in a guided search. (Library of Congress)
Guides to Federal Legislative History Research
- Comparison of Legislative Resources on GPO Access and Selected Government and Non-Government Web Sites
-
A comparison of legislative resources available on GPO Access and other Government and non-Government Web sites was completed October 2008. Eight Web sites were selected for in-depth analysis including GPO Access, THOMAS, House.gov, Senate.gov, CQ.com, HeinOnline, Lexis-Nexis Congressional, and Westlaw. The report evaluates the availability of legislative resources on all of the databases examined, the scope of the resources on each database, the source of those resources (i.e., whether they house their own content or link to other Web sites for it), and additional legislative resources or features exclusive to comparable Web sites.(GPO Access)
- Federal
Legislative History Research
- Subtitled: A Practitioner's
Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative Intent. This
site explains in detail (both in outline and in written narrative form)
the steps to go about in researching, compiling and sifting through the
legislative history documents of recent and historical U.S. public laws.
From LLSDC's Legislative
Source Book which has many useful links for legislative history research.
(LLSDC)
- Guide
to the U.S. Federal Legal System: Web-Based Publicly Accessible Sources
- Compiled by Reference
Librarian Gretchen Feltes. (NYU School of Law)
- How Congress Works
- (House Committee on Rules)
- How
Our Laws Are Made
- A basic outline of
our federal lawmaking process from the source of an idea for a legislative
proposal through its publication as a statute. Updated by Charles W. Johnson,
Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives. (House of Representatives)
- Legislative Archive
- Includes Roll Call Votes, Bill Text, Bill Status, Amendment Status, Committee Reports, Congressional Record. From 104th Congress to Current. (House of Representatives)
- Legislative Process
- (House of Representatives)
- Legislative Process
- (U.S. Senate)
- Legislative Process: Enactment of a Law
- Updated by Robert Dove, Parliamentarian, U.S. Senate. (U.S. Senate)
- U.S.
Government Documents: The Legislative Process
- This excellent guide
traces the process by which a bill becomes a law and includes links to full
text Internet sources. (Columbia U. Libraries)
Text of Congressional Bills
- Years of the 1st through 110th Congresses (1789 - 2008)
- Table listing the years of each Congress. (U.S. Senate)
- Years and Session Dates of the U.S. Congress
- (GPO)
- Bills and Resolutions
- Bills and Resolutions are available for selected sessions of Congress - 6th - 42nd Congress in the House of Representatives, 16th - 42nd Congress in the Senate, and 18th - 42nd Congress for Senate Joint Resolutions, covering the time period from 1823 - 1873. (Library of Congress)
- Bills, Resolutions
- Simple and advanced searches for full Bill Text since 1989, Bill Summary and Status since 1973 or Multiple Congresses since 1989. (Library of Congress)
- Multi-Congress Search
- Search bill text across multiple Congresses. (Library of Congress)
- Yesterday in Congress
- Go to Current Activity column and click on "Yesterday in Congress" to search for the most recent legislative action. (Library of Congress)
- Bill Summary for House and Senate Bills
- Bill summary and status since 1973. Searchable by word/phrase, subject, bill number, stage in the legislative process, dates of introduction, sponsor and committee. Scroll down to the Stage in Legislative Process pulldown menu if you are looking for what bills have been presented to the President or which bills the President has signed or vetoed. (Library of Congress)
- Bill Text for Current or Previous Congresses
- Search current congress or search bill text since 101st
Congress (1989-90). (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Bill Text for House and Senate Bills, House and Senate Joint Resolutions, House and Senate Concurrent Resolutions and House and Senate Simple Resolutions.
- FDsys contains all published versions of bills from the 103rd (1993-1994) Congress forward. (GPO/FDsys)
- Sponsor/Cosponsor Summaries
- Browse since 1973. (Library of Congress)
- Text of Legislation as reported from Conference Committees in the 110th Congress
- Text also available from 105th, 106th, 107th
108th and
109th Congresses. (House)
- History
of Bills
- The History of Bills
and Resolutions is a section of the Congressional Record Index that provides
information about all bills and resolutions introduced during that session
of Congress. The database is updated daily, usually the day after publication
of the Congressional Record. Each year since 1983 is available for searching individually,
however, searching the Historical database searches all years except for
the current year. Entries for each bill include actions that are reported
in the Congressional Record and reference issue and date and pages where
the action is reported. (GPO)
- Sources for the Text of Congressional Bills and Resolutions
- Onlines sources, microform and paper sources. Compiled by Rick McKinney. (LLSDC)
House and Senate Calendars
- Congressional Calendars
- The Congressional Calendars collection includes the Calendars of the U.S. House of Representatives and History of Legislation and the Senate Calendar of Business. The Calendars of the U.S. House of Representatives and History of Legislation is prepared under the direction of the Clerk of the House of Representatives by the Office of Legislative Operations. It is published daily by 8:00 a.m. when the House is in session. The Senate Calendar of Business is prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate by the Legislative Clerk. It is updated each day the Senate is in session. Both calendars available from 104th Congress (1995-96) to Present. (GPO FDsys)
- Congressional Schedules, Calendars
- Congressional calendar is an agenda or list of business awaiting possible action by the House or Senate. Floor schedules list all the activity scheduled to take place in the House or Senate chamber for a given week or month. Includes link to Days-in-Session Calendars which show the days the House and Senate met. Coverage in Senate since 1978 and in House since 1995. (Library of Congress)
- House Committee Listings - Committee Schedules
- (House of Representatives)
- Senate
Legislative Calendar
- Links to Title Page
and Pending/Unfinished Business, Cross Index of Measures to General Order
Numbers, Measures Placed on Calendar Under General Orders Resolutions/Motions
Ordered to Lie Over, Bills and Joint Resolutions Read the First Time, Motions
for Reconsideration, Bills in Conference, Status of Appropriations Bills
(Senate)
Committee Hearings and Committee Prints
Be aware that many hearings are not available in a format which corresponds exactly to the printed version. Most, but not all, congressional committee and subcommittee websites have the prepared statements for their hearings. A few committees have the oral transcripts, but the complete hearing is normally only available in print or microfiche from the GPO. Most Congressional hearings may not be immediately available since they are published two months to two years after they are held.
A Committee Hearing is "a meeting or session of a Senate, House, Joint, or Special Committee of Congress, usually open to the public, to obtain information and opinions on proposed legislation, conduct an investigation, or evaluate/oversee the activities of a government department or the implementation of a Federal law. In addition, hearings may also be purely exploratory in nature, providing testimony and data about topics of current interest."
Congressional Committee Prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. The subjects of the committee prints vary greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual committee. Some basic varieties of committee prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses. (Definitions from GPO Access)
- Quick Links to House and Senate Committee Hearings and Other Publications
- This is an excellent site that will save you a lot of time when looking for hearings. Arranged by House and Senate committee name. For each committee the quick links include: the committee's GPO hearings site; Hearing List, News, Publications, Schedule, Search, Testimony, Transcripts,Visual/Audio and Comments that indicate where you can find the committee's recent hearings and how long it takes them to appear. (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.)
- CapitolHearings.org - Daily Senate Hearings Live on the Web
- A new public service from C-SPAN to provide public access to the legislative process. CapitolHearings.org distributes gavel-to-gavel audio coverage of U.S. Senate Committee hearings. The Senate produces the audio feeds, and C-SPAN encodes and streams these hearings via CapitolHearings.org. There are 26 U.S. Senate Committee hearing rooms that have audio streaming capabilities. A full list of the hearing rooms available on CapitolHearings.org appears on the right hand column. Check daily hearing schedules and click on a hearing room to begin streaming audio. (C-SPAN)
- Congressional Committee Prints
- 100th Congress (1987-1988) to present. (GPO FDsys)
- Congressional Hearings
- Selected House and Senate hearings since the 105th Congress (1997-98).
- A hearing is a meeting or session of a Senate, House, joint, or special committee of Congress, usually open to the public, to obtain information and opinions on proposed legislation, conduct an investigation, or evaluate/oversee the activities of a government department or the implementation of a Federal law. In addition, hearings may also be purely exploratory in nature, providing testimony and data about topics of current interest. Most congressional hearings are published two months to two years after they are held.
Not all congressional hearings are available on FDsys - GPO Access. Whether or not a hearing is disseminated on FDsys - GPO Access depends on the committee. GPO continues to add hearings irregularly as they become available during each session of Congress. If a congressional hearing is not listed in the catalog, it is not available electronically via GPO at this time.
FDsys-GPO Access contains contain selected House and Senate hearings for the 105th Congress (1997-98) forward. The House and Senate appropriations hearings for fiscal year 1998 are included. Documents are available as text and PDF. Graphics, including scanned images of camera ready copy are omitted from the ASCII text version but are contained in the PDF files. (GPO/FDsys)
- Congressional Hearings Online
- Hearings included in this full-text online collection date from the 1970's to 1998. Material will continue to be added. Browse listings or search the texts. (1997-98). (Rutgers School of Law)
- Congressional Hearings Project
- A pilot project was undertaken with Google to digitize the entire hearings collection held by the Law Library of Congress and make it freely available to Congress and the world. Three collections have been selectively compiled to provide users with a test experience: U.S. Census, Freedom of Information/Privacy and Immigration. These selected Hearings, stored as PDF files, are samples of a larger group that will be digitized and made available as a result of this project. Ultimately, both the Library and Google will provide full-text access to the entire collection of Hearings. (Law Library of Congress)
- Congressional Hearings on the Web
- This guide documents electronic sources of Congressional hearings available to the public without cost. References to some hearings identified here date back to 1995. This guide predates the Quick Links LLSDC guide. It has not been updated since March 2000. (U. of Michigan)
- House of Representatives Committee Hearings
- Selected committee hearings transcripts since 1997. (House)
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearings, Meetings, & Nominations
- Hearings listed from 2001 to present. (Senate)
- How to...Find Committee Hearings
- Helpful suggestions for locating committee hearings. (U.S. Senate)
- U.S. Congressional Bibliographies
- Enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted. Its sources are the Congressional Record's "Daily Digest" and bibliographic information supplied by the U.S. Senate Library. Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees. The Senate Bibliographies section provides comprehensive lists of Hearings, Prints, and Publications printed by the Senate, 1983 to present. The House Meetings section provides lists of House Committee Meetings recorded in the Congressional Record's Daily Digest, 1985 to present.
There is now a Committee Meetings Index prepared by the NCSU library staff. The daily Congressional Record, in addition to its verbatim transcription of the debates of the House and Senate, briefly notes meetings held by Senate, House, and Joint committees in a section called the "Daily Digest."
Staff of the NCSU Libraries has extracted the abstracts of the committee meetings reported in the Daily Digests, beginning with the 99th Congress (1985 to the present); reformatted these entries into XML records and indexed them.
(North Carolina State)
Reports
- U.S.
Serial Set
- The Serial Set contains
the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. At this
time the site includes selected documents and reports printed in the 23rd
(1833-35) through the 64th (1915-1916) Congresses. (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Reports
- Since the 104th Congress (1995-96). (GPO)
- Congressional reports originate from congressional committees and deal with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. FDsys contains House, Senate, Conference and Executive reports from the 104th Congress (1995-96) forward. The collection for the current Congress is updated irregularly, as electronic versions of the documents become available. Reports are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
House and Senate Reports are reports of congressional committees concerning proposed legislation and/or containing findings on matters under investigation. Senate Executive Reports are reports of the Committee on Foreign Relations relating to Treaties between the United States and foreign nations, which have been submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification, or are reports of various Senate Committees regarding nomination of individuals. (GPO/FDsys)
- House
and Senate Committee Reports, Conference and Joint Committee Reports
- Since the 104th Congress
(1995-96) (Library of Congress)
- Conference Reports
- A conference report is a compromise on legislation that is negotiated between the House and Senate via conference committees. It is printed and submitted to each chamber for its consideration. This page contains links to active ("unofficial") and archived ("official") conference reports. Conference reports are available to the public as a filed version prior to official printing. Documents are available in ASCII Text and PDF. Since the 109th Congress (2005-06). (GPO)
- Congressional Documents
- Since the 104th Congress (1995-96).
- The Congressional Documents collection consists of House Documents, Senate Documents, and Senate Treaty Documents. House and Senate documents contain various kinds of materials ordered to be printed by both chambers of Congress. Documents can include reports of executive departments and agencies, as well as committee prints, that were ordered to be printed as documents. Senate Treaty Documents contain the text of a treaty as it is submitted to the U. S. Senate for ratification by the President of the United States. FDsys contains selected House, Senate, and treaty documents from the 104th Congress (1995-96) forward. Only the Congressional documents that are printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) are included. The database for the current Congress is updated irregularly, as electronic versions of the documents become available. Reports are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (GPO/FDSys)
Congressional documents originate from congressional committees and cover a wide variety of topics and may include reports of executive departments and independent organizations, reports of special investigations made for Congress, and annual reports of non-governmental organizations. There are three types of documents:
House and Senate Documents - Contain various other materials ordered printed by both chambers of Congress. Documents can include reports of executive departments and agencies, some of which are submitted in accordance with Federal law, then later are ordered printed as documents. Sometimes committee prints are ordered printed as documents also, if the information they contain is in demand. Documents have a larger distribution than committee prints.
Senate Executive Documents - Contain the text of a Treaty as it is submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification by the President of the United States. Beginning with the 97th Congress in 1981, Executive Documents became known as Treaty Documents, and they are now numbered instead of lettered alphabetically.
Senate Treaty Documents - Contain the text of a Treaty as it is submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification by the President of the United States. Numbered consecutively from the 1st Session through the 2d Session of a Congress. Prior to the 97th Congress known as Executive (Lettered) Documents, and identified by letters of the alphabet.
- Treaties
- Information provided about Treaties includes treaty number, date treaty was transmitted, short title, formal title, treaty type, legislative actions and index terms. There is no full text - that must come from GPO Access. 94th Congress-present; 90th-94th, some missing data; few from 81st-89th. Complete coverage begins with the 94th Congress. Older treaties are included if they were pending in 1975 when the database was created. (Library of Congress)
- Treaties
- Connects to Treaties in Force and links to other treaty information. (U.S. Senate)
- Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs has begun efforts to make TIAS available on-line, as well as to reduce the delay between entry into force of an agreement and its official publication. 1996 and 1997 documents are online. In the interim, view the texts of agreements that entered into force after 1998 on the Department of State's Freedom of Information Act Document Collections page. (Secretary of State)
- Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements Compiled by law librarian Marci Hoffman. (LLRX)
Floor Action
- Congressional Record
- Search the full text of the Congressional Record by word/phrase, member of Congress and/or date or date range. You can also limit your searches by section of the record (House, Senate, Extensions of Remarks, Daily Digest. The Congressional Record (Daily Edition, not the final edition) is available since 101st Congress (1989-90) and the Index is available since 104th Congress, 1st Session (1995). (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Record Index
- Browse the keyword index to the daily editions of the Congressional Record. Page references for index terms and bill numbers are linked to the full text of the Congressional Record. (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Record Latest Daily Digest
- Go to right-side column, Current Activity section. Daily Digest is a summary of a day's activities in both chambers of Congress. There are links to full text of the record and bill numbers in the digest are linked to the full text of the bill. (Library of Congress)
- C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle
- Index to the C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings. The video recordings are matched with the text of the Congressional Record as soon as the Record is available. Currently the 108th (2003-2004), 109th (2005-2006), and 110th (2007-present) Congresses are available. The 107th (2001-2002) and the 106th (1999-2000) will be available soon. Previous Congresses back to 1988 will be added as the video is digitized and indexed at the rate of two Congresses per year.
- On the House Floor Now
- Go to right-side column, Current Activity section. This links to House compilation of floor actions occurring in the House on the current legislative day listed in reverse chronological order. File is updated at approximately 15 minute intervals. (Library of Congress)
- Congressional Record
- Daily edition. Since Volume 140(1994). (GPO)
-
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873, and is still published today. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). These can be accessed through A Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates.
The Congressional Record consists of four sections: Daily Digest, House section, Senate section, Extension of Remarks.
FDsys contains Congressional Record volumes from 140 (1994) to the present. The current year's Congressional Record database is usually updated daily by 11 a.m., except when a late adjournment delays production of the issue. Documents are available in ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Following each session of Congress, the daily Congressional Record is revised, printed, permanently bound and sold by the Superintendent of Documents in individual parts or by sets. The Bound Congressional Record is also available online. (GPO/FDsys)
- Congressional Record
- Bound edition. Since Volume 145 (1999; first session of the 106th Congress). Additional volumes are expected to be added. (GPO)
- Congressional
Record Index
- Since 98th Congress (1983-84). (GPO)
Voting Records
- C-Span
Congressional Vote Search
- Search by member,
month or subject. Since 104th Congress, 2nd Session (1996) (C-Span)
- GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress
- Brings together legislative data from existing government sources and presents it in a more user-friendly format. GovTrack brings together information on the status of federal legislation, voting records, and campaign contributions. The site automatically tracks legislative events and categorizes them into thousands of subjects, such as "nuclear energy" and "medicine," so that users can follow just the events that interest them. (GovTrack.us)
- House
of Representatives Roll Call Votes
- As compiled by the
electronic voting machine under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
Since 101st Congress, 2nd Session (1990). (House)
- Project
Vote Smart
- Selected votes of
individual members along with other information. (Project Vote Smart)
- Senate Roll Call Votes
- (Senate)
- U.S. Congress Votes Database
- A database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). Browse votes in a variety of ways - both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress. Browse the database by drilling down to a particular Congress (e.g. 109th Congress) or particular member (e.g. 109th Congress senators). The site publishes an RSS feed of recent votes by each member of Congress, and a feed of the most recent votes in both chambers. (Washington Post)
Presidential Action
- History of Line Item Veto Notices
- Cancellation of legislative items pursuant to Line Item Veto Act (Public Law 104-130) with links to affected legislation. (GPO)
- Presidential
Executive Orders Disposition Tables
- Numerical listing
of Executive Orders available electronically from January 8, 1937 - current. (NARA)
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Consists of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents which are the official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary. The Compilation of Presidential Documents is published by the Office of the Federal Register,National Archives and Records Administration. This collection integrates material from the weekly publication dating from 1993, with Daily Compilation material as published from January 20, 2009 – forward. The website will be updated frequently, as information is released by the White House press office to Federal Register editors. Documents appearing in the Compilation of Presidential Documents collection are edited for accuracy and annotated with additional information to provide an authoritative record of the Presidency. It includes such material as: Proclamations, Executive orders, Speeches, Press conferences, Communications to Congress and Federal agencies, Statements regarding bill signings and vetoes, Appointments, nominations, Reorganization plans, Resignations, Retirements, Acts approved by the President, Nominations submitted to the Senate, White House announcements, Press releases. (GPO/FDsys)
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- No longer produced, this is the predecessor to Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents. Record of Presidential signings and vetoes. 1993 - January 29, 2009. (GPO)
Public Laws
- Public Law Listings
- When a bill is signed into law by the President it is sent to the Office of the Federal Register to be assigned a law number and paginated for the United States Statutes at Large. NARA maintains a list which is updated as soon as public laws become available. The list is arranged by law number and includes: Bill number, Public Law Number, Name of Act, Approval date, and U.S. Statutes at Large page citation. Public law numbers since 103rd Congress (1993). (NARA)
- Public and Private Laws
- Since 104th Congress (1995-96). (GPO/FDsys)
- Public and private laws are prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). FDsys contains the text of public and private laws enacted from the 104th Congress to the present. The database for the current session of Congress is updated when the publication of a slip law is authorized by OFR. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Public Laws - Most laws passed by Congress are public laws. Public laws affect society as a whole. Private Laws - Affect an individual, family, or small group. Private laws are enacted to assist citizens that have been injured by government programs or who are appealing an executive agency ruling such as deportation.
Once an enrolled bill is signed into law by the President, the original enrolled bill is sent from the White House to the Archivist of the United States for publication. The enrolled bill is assigned a public law number by OFR and is issued in print as a "slip law." In addition to the law number, OFR assigns the legal statutory citation of each law and prepares marginal notes, citations, and the legislative history (a brief description of the Congressional action taken on each public bill), which also contains dates of related Presidential remarks or statements). OFR publishes the slip laws through the U.S. Government Printing Office. Therefore, there is a delay from the signed enrolled bill and the availabilty of the public law. Until then, you can read the full-text of the law using the enrolled version of that bill. The text of the enrolled bill will be identical to the public law.
- Public Law Numbers: Previous Sessions of Congress Public Law Numbers
- List of numbers for law starting with the 103rd Congress. (NARA)
- Public Laws by Law Number
- Search by bill number since 93rd Congress (1973-74). (Library of Congress)
- U.S.
Statutes at Large
- United States Statutes
at Large, commonly referred to as Statutes at Large, is the official source
for the laws and resolutions passed by Congress. The eighteen volumes presented
in this online collection cover the laws of the first forty-three Congresses,
1789-1875. (Library of Congress)
- U.S. Statutes at Large
- Starts with v.117, 108th Congress, 1st Session, 2003-2004, and now includes v.118, 108th Congress, 2nd Session, 2004. It is not clear on this page that v.117 is available, but you can do a quick search for v.117 pages, or you can go to the Retrieve a Page link to see the volumes available and pull up a page in pdf. (GPO)
Miscellaneous Reports
- Congressional
Research Service Reports
- Law librarian Stephen
Young links to online sources for these reports. Updated September 17, 2006. (LLRX.com)
- Memory Hole Over 300 Congressional Research Service Reports that were pulled from the Web. (Russ Kick)
- Congressional
Research Service Reports - Intellectual property, Cyberlaw and Electronic
Commerce
- Since 1993. (Franklin
Pierce Law's IP Mall)
- CRS Reports
- Search full text by keyword, title, author, subject and report number, or browse CRS reports by subject area. (U. of North Texas)
- CRS Reports
- Thurgood Marshall Law Library has begun to create an online collection by providing links to CRS Reports available on the Web. Search by subject or sort by date or title. (TMLL)
- Find
Congressional Research Service Reports
- Search by keyword
or number. (ZFacts)
- Open CRS Network: Congressional Research Reports for the People
- Provides access to CRS Reports in the public domain. Features the report collections of a number of organizations. (Center for Democracy and Technology)
- Selected Congressional Research Service Reports
- Concentrates on reports dealing with Homeland Security, Terrorism, and similar military and security issues. (U.S. Air War College)
- Selected Congressional Research Service Reports on Congress and Its Procedures
- With links to most other CRS Reports on the Internet. (LLSDC)
- WikiLeaks: Congressional Research Service Reports
- Alphabetical list and chronological list of reports. (WikiLeaks)
Federal Compiled Legislative Histories
- Laws and Links Related to General Federal Agency Operations
- The site
alphabetically lists some 40 Federal laws and then links them to the original public law statute, the U.S. Code cite, the C.F.R. cite (when applicable), and, if enacted after 1972, the related legislation on the Library of Congress THOMAS database. Some of the laws listed include the Administrative Procedure Act, Annual Appropriations General Provisions, the Buy American Act, the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959, the Fly American Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Inspector General Act of 1978, the Prompt Payment Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, and other acts that deal specifically with general
Federal agency operations. (LLSDC)
- Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet
- This recently expanded site now encompasses almost all commercial as well non-commercial (free) Federal legislative histories available on the Internet. These commercial histories (Lexis, Westlaw, and HeinOnline) are listed alphabetically by the short title of the public law and then in public law number order whether or not that arrangement is on the vendor site. The layout is similar (but with less detail) to the two listings of non-commercial legislative histories presented just before the commercial listings. Each entry also has a direct link to the history's URL site or to its general vendor site. In addition, following the public law number list for commercial histories, are entries and links to large or special collected histories (such as the new GAO histories on Westlaw or collected tax related histories). Finally, at the bottom of the site are many explanatory notes about legislative histories, source sites, and citations to public law numbers as well as related statute, U.S. Code and C.F.R. cites. (LLSDC)
- Compilation
of the Social Security Laws
- Also find an In
Depth Legislative History of the Act. (SSA)
- DMCA
(Digital Millenium Copyright Act) Legislative History
- All relevant documents
comprising the official legislative history of the DMCA, also known as the
WIPO Copyright Implementing Legislation - P.L.105-304. (Home Recording Rights
Coalition)
- GAO Pilot Data Release - Public Resource.org
- Public.Resource.org has placed online legislative histories prepared by GAO legislative historians covering the period from 1921 to 1974.(Public.Resource.org)
- Immigration and Naturalization Legislation
- Click on the left hand navigation bar to get to Public laws amending the Immigration and Naturalization Act. (Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration)
- Legislative History of the Emergency Economic Stability Act (EESA) 2008
- 2008 Financial Crisis Resource. (Fordham Law)
- Legislative History of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA)
- (NARF)
Federal Statutes
- United States Code
- Titles 1 through 50. Database includes all official U.S. code notes and appendices as well as the Table of Popular Names. (House of Representatives)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present (F.2d Vol. 178-999 (1950-1995), F.3d Vol. 1-present, (1995-present); State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
- U.S. Code Classification Tables
- To update the Code, the tables list all of the sections of the U.S. Code that have been amended since the last time the text of those sections were published in the Code. The Table covers Public Laws 105-1 to 105-153 through Current (1997 to current) and is available both in public law order and in U.S. Code title and section number order. (House of Representatives)
- United States Statutes and the United States Code: Historical Outlines, Notes, Lists, Tables, and Sources
- History of U.S. Statutes at Large and the U.S. Code with explanatory notes, discussion of U.S. Code notes, prima facie and positive law and other matters. PDF copies of the six tables of the U.S. Code, 2000 edition. (LLSDC)
Federal Executive
Branch Web Sites
- Official
Executive branch Web Sites
- Links to Executive
Office of the President, executive agencies, independent agencies, boards,
commissions and committees, and quasi-official agencies (the Smithsonian).(Library
of Congress)
- United
States Government Manual
- browse the current
edition in ASCII text and PDF format. Also search or browse manuals back
to 1995-1996. (NARA)
- The
White House
- Search press releases,
weekly video addresses and other material since 2009. (White House)
- American Presidency Project
- Document, audio and video archive. The document archive contains
Executive Orders, State of the Union Addresses, Proclamations, State of the Union Messages, Press Conferences, Inaugural Addresses, Saturday Radio Addresses, Addresses to Congress, Fireside Chats (FDR), Addresses to Nation, Prayer Breakfasts, Addresses to the United Nations, Radio & TV Correspondents Dinners, Addresses to Foreign Legislatures, Party Convention Addresses, College Commencement Addresses. Also includes Election Index and Links to all the Presidential Libraries. (Gerhard Peters - U.C. Santa Barbara)
- American President: An Online Reference Resource
- A comprehensive collection of material about the U.S. Presidents and the history of the presidency. This web site features essays about each President and their lives before, during, and after their presidential terms. It additionally provides information about the First Lady and cabinet officials of each administration. (University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs)
- Commission on Presidential Debates
- Unofficial transcripts from most presidential debates 1960 to current. (Commission on Presidential Debates)
- "I
Do Solemnly Swear..." Presidential Inaugurations
- (Library of
Congress)
- Index of Presidential Signing Statements 2001-2007
- Provides a list of every provision of a law objected to by the White House in a statement, the reason for the objection and a link to the signing statement. Compiled by Neil Kinkopf and Peter Shane. (American Constitution Society)
- Portraits
of the Presidents
- (National Portrait
Gallery)
- POTUS:Presidents
of the United States
- Background,
election results, cabinet members, historical documents. (IPL)
- Presidential Libraries
- (NARA)
- Presidents
of the United States
- Short biographies.
There are also biographies of the First Ladies. (White House)
- Presidential
Directives and Executive Orders
- The President's
policy decisions in matters of foreign policy and national security
are announced by decision directives, organized here by President
from Truman to Bush. (Federation of American Scientists)
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
- The Public Papers of the Presidents are published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR). This is the official publication of United States Presidents' public writings, addresses, and remarks. Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material is presented in chronological order, and the dates shown in the headings are the dates of the documents or events. In instances when the release date differs from the date of the document itself, that fact is shown in the textnote. Files are available in ASCII text and PDF formats. From 1991 forward. (GPO)
- State of the Union Addresses of the American Presidents
- Search the full text of all the addresses. (AskSam) Videos of State of the Union Addresses are available from C-SPAN from 1989 to current. Transcripts are available from 1945. (C-SPAN)
- Guide
to Presidential Documents
- Presidential
Documents on NARA web sites, including Executive orders, Proclamations
and other Presidential Documents. Includes the Executive Orders Disposition
Tables, Codification of Executive Orders and Proclamations, and links
to the Compilation of Presidential Documents, the Public Papers
of the Presidents (so far only Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ronald
Reagan), the NARA's Presidential Libraries home page, and the NARA Online
Research Room for Presidential materials. (NARA)
- Presidential
Executive Orders Disposition Tables
- Executive Orders
Disposition Tables from January 9, 1933 -- Current. Includes title,
signature date, Federal Register citation, and detailed history of
amendments and revocations. (NARA)
- Codification
of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders
- The Codification
covers April 13, 1945, through January 20, 1989, spanning the administrations
of Harry S. Truman through Ronald Reagan. The Codification links to
the text of proclamations and Executive orders with general applicability
and continuing effect. (NARA)
- Table
of Congressional Publication Volumes and Presidential Issuances
- Table tells
you which session of Congress, Congressional Record volume, U.S. Statute
Volume, Serial Set volume, Federal Register volume and what number
Executive Orders begin with, for each President's term of office. 1789 - Present. (LLSDC)
Federal Administrative
Regulations
GPO has a CFR database
available for permanent public access that corresponds to the books as published.
Separately, GPO maintains the beta version of the eCFR database in which
each regulation is updated on its effective date, so that today's database
is all the regulations in effect today. It will also be maintained for permanent
public access.
- Code
of Federal Regulations
- (1996-Current) Previous
editions will be maintained on the site as a historical set. Keyword search
entire set of CFRs or your choice of CFR titles. (GPO)
- e-CFR:
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
- The Electronic Code
of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) is a prototype of a currently updated version
of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The e-CFR prototype is a demonstration
project. It is not an official legal edition of the CFR. (NARA, OFR, GPO)
- List of CFR Sections Affected
- To update CFR citation, either search in Federal Register by keyword, CFR cite (ex."40 CFR part 55") or search CFR Parts affected (check box marked "Reader Aids", search by specific date.) The List of CFR Sections Affected lists proposed, new, and amended Federal regulations that have been published in the Federal Register since the most recent revision date of a CFR title. Each LSA issue is cumulative and contains the CFR part and section numbers, a description of its status (e.g., amended, confirmed, revised), and the Federal Register page number where the change(s) may be found. This collection includes the LSA Compilation for 2002 and Monthly LSA from 1997 to Present. (GPO FDsys)
- Federal Register
- Since v.59 (1994) (GPO/FDsys)
- Official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. Updated daily by 6 a.m. and published Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. FDsys contains Federal Register volumes from 59 (1994) to the present. Documents are available in Summary, PDF, ASCII text, or HTML format. HTML documents are available from 2000 forward and provide hypertext links to Web sites mentioned in the FR document. The active HTTP-link feature will be added to previous Federal Register databases in the near future. (GPO/FDsys)
- Federal Register
Links to the GPO access site, but the NARA site includes a preview of tomorrow's Federal Register - a list of documents that are available for you to review before they are printed in the Federal Register. Also includes Current and Annual Indexes since 1994. (NARA)
- Electronic Public Inspection Desk
The Office of the Federal Register has created an Electronic Public Inspection Desk to provide free worldwide electronic access to public documents. The documents are on file at the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and will be published in the Federal Register on the dates listed. Regular Filing documents are routinely placed on file at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time, for publication in the next day's Federal Register. Special Filing documents are filed at other times and/or dates prior to publication. These documents will be published in the next day's Federal Register.(NARA)
- The Federal Register Tutorial
The Federal Register: What it Is and How to Use it.(NARA)
- Justia Regulation Tracker: Rules, Proposed Rules & Notices BETA
Search and track the Federal Register, browse by government agency, browse by date from 2005 to current, list of recent federal regulation documents, with the option to subscribe via RSS to the recent document list. (Justia)
- Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations
By law librarian Richard J. McKinney. (LLSDC)
- Lexis and Westlaw
each go back to July of 1980 online.
- The Chicago
headquarters library has the Federal Register on microfiche from 1964
to date.
- The Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations is published in April and October of each year and identifies regulatory priorities and contains additional detail about the most important significant regulatory actions that agencies expect to take in the coming year. browse by agency or subject. (GSA)
- Regulatory Information Service Center - Where to Find Government Regulatory Information (OMB and GSA)
- Regulations.gov
To find Federal Register documents currently open for comment, use
the GO buttons on the top right of every page to search for regulations
by keyword or by specific agency. View the text in pdf or html format.
Users may choose to submit a comment on the regulation using an online
form generated by the system or comment by e-mail or postal mail.
(Interagency partnership of federal agencies)
Federal Administrative
Opinions
Compilations of Decisions
- Executive
branch Resources on GPO Access
- (GPO)
- Federal
Administrative Decisions & Other Actions
- Compiled by a librarian
at the University of Virgina, this useful site gathers administrative
actions which are outside the scope of the CFR or the FR, including opinions,
directives, and orders. Links to Electronic FOIA Reading Room of each
agency covered. Search by subject or by agency. (U. of Virginia)
- U.S.
Federal Administrative Decisions
- Compiled by law
librarian Paul Axel-Lute, this site gathers administrative decisions and
may have different sites than the U. of Virginia compilation. (Rutgers
U.)
Selected Individual Sites
- Armed
Services Board of Contract Appeals
- ASBCA decisions,
rules and other documents. Includes March and April 1996, December 1997,
and January 1998 to Current. Since January 2000 in PDF format. Earlier
material in Microsoft Word format. (ASBCA)
- Black
Lung Collection
- Newsletters on recent
published decisions, Benefits Review Board decisions on Black Lung and
Longshore cases, both published and unpublished opinions since 1989, Black
Lung Deskbook and Judge's Benchbook on Black Lung, statutory and regulatory
materials, and miscellaneous federal court decisions concerning the Black
Lung Benefits Act. (Department of Labor)
- Board of Immigration Appeals
- Decisions from 1955 - Current (v.8 - Current). Cumulative Indexes to Board Precedent Decisions from v.1, BIA Precedent table, BIA Indexed Decisions. (DOJ)
- Commissioner
of Patents and Trademarks Decisions
- (Franklin Pierce
Law School)
- Commodity
Futures Trading Commission Opinions and Orders
- Opinions since February
1997. Also includes No Action and Interpretative letters. (CFTC)
- Comptroller General Decisions and Opinions
- Decisions on Bid Protests for the last 60 days and Appropriations decisions for the last 6 months. Decisions since October 1995 can be found on the GPO Access site where they are searchable by full text, B-number, title and issue date. (GAO)
- Court
of Federal Claims
- Published opinions
and orders of the United States Court of Federal Claims since 1997 as
well as rules. (Court of Federal Claims)
- Employees'
Compensation Appeals Board Decisions
- Volumes 39-49, ECAB Headnotes and Decisions.(ECAB)
- Federal
Labor Relations Authority Cases and Case Summaries
- Since 1994. (FLRA)
- Merit
Systems Protection Board Opinions
- Since 1979-80. (MSPB)
- National
Labor Relations Board Opinions and Orders
- Since v.272.. (NLRB)
Federal Administrative
Material
- NARA's
Great Lakes Region (Chicago)
- Information about
accessing retired records from Federal agencies and courts in Illinois,
Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. (NARA)
- Department
of the Treasury's Listing of Approved Sureties
- Department Circular
570; Current revision and list of changes. (FMS)
- Employees'
Compensation Appeals Board
- Includes laws and
regulations and a library. (ECAB)
- EEOC Brief Bank Index
- This guide is the index to the EEOC's legal brief bank, a collection of legal filings and court documents concerning a wide range of employment issues. (MemoryHole)
- EEOC Compliance Manual and Enforcement Guidances
- This site includes a section called Laws, Regulations and Guidance which links to the Enforcement Guidances since 1990. Parts of the Compliance Manual (sections 2,3,8,10,12,13 and 15) are also online. (EEOC)
- Federal
Bureau of Prisons
- Includes a directory
of correctional institutions, BOP publications and policies. (BOP)
- GAO
Reports and Policies
- Site includes Principles of Federal Appropriations Law (Red Book). The link is in the Key Resources column on the right hand side of the page. (GAO)
- Internal
Revenue Electronic Reading Room
- Includes
Chief Counsel documents. (IRS)
- IRS
Information Letter
- An
information letter provides general statements of well-defined law without
applying them to a specific set of facts.
- IRS
Written Determinations
- Starting with 1999. These are taxpayer-specific rulings,
determination letters, technical advice memoranda, and Chief Counsel
advice.
- Internal
Revenue Manual
- The IRM (plus the
Chief Counsel Directives Manual) contains the policies, procedures, instructions,
and guidelines used by the Internal Revenue Service. (IRS)
- Medicare
and Medicaid Program Manuals_IOMs
- Internet Only Manuals. (HCFA)
- National Archives - Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
- Online access to a selection of millions of historic electronic records created by more than 20 federal agencies on a wide range of topics. (NARA)
- OMB
Circulars
- Arranged in numerical
order or by subject category. (OMB)
- Securities
and Exchange Commission
- EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Updated in real time, it can be used to retrieve any document filed electronically with the SEC since January 1, 1994. (SEC)
IDEA will be the successor to the EDGAR database. The new system, called IDEA (Interactive Data Electronic Applications), will give investors faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds. IDEA will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system, which will become an archive of SEC filings made prior to the new era of financial reporting in interactive data format. The SEC has formally proposed requiring U.S. companies to provide financial information using interactive data beginning as early as 2009, and separately has proposed requiring mutual funds to submit their public filings using interactive data.
U.S.
Attorney's Manual
Titles 1 through 9, plus alphabetical index.
(DOJ)
U.S.
Trustee Manual
Includes v.1 (Overview),
v.2 (Chapter 7), v.3 (Chapter 11), v.4 (Chapter 12 and 13), v.5 (Bankruptcy
Fraud and Abuse) and v.6 (Administrative Policies). Some parts in html and/or pdf and/or WordPerfect.
(DOJ)
Federal Military
Materials
- Manual for Courts-Martial
- 2008 edition. Pdf format. Includes executive orders through September 28, 2007. (Joint Service Committee on Military Justice)
- Manuals for Courts-Martial
- Collected versions, from 1928 to current edition. Pdf format. (Library of Congress)
- Uniform Code of Military Justice
- (Air War College)
- Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) Guide
- (JAG) Also see: A Non-Technical Resource Guide to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) by the Department of Labor.
- U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals
- (U.S. Air Force)
- U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals
- (U.S. Army)
- U.S. Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals
- (U.S. Coast Guard)
- U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals
- (U.S. Navy-Marine Corps)
- Air War College - Gateway to the Internet
- Organized by subject. (AWC)
- Army Electronic Publications and Forms
- Official Department of the Army Publications and Forms. (U.S. Army)
- DefenseLINK Publications
- General information, facts, reports, regulations and forms and a publication archive.
- Military Legal Resources
- Primary source materials from the U.S. Army Judge advocate General's Legal Center made available in pdf format.(Library of Congress)
- Military Resources
- Part of a subject guide organized by topic. (Dudley Knox Library of the Naval Post-Graduate School)
- American Veterans' and Servicemembers' Survival Guide
- This electronic book is a follow-up to the Viet Vet Survival Guide. The new reference manual details the benefits, assistance and resources available as well as the step-by-step directions for navigating the bureaucracies that serve our troops and veterans. The new Survival Guide contains 28 chapters, including 17 for veterans and their families and 11 for active-duty servicemembers, National Guard members and reservists, and their families. From legal to health services, job assistance to women’s issues, the new Survival Guide is designed to meet everyone’s needs. The download is free. Enter your e-mail address and the download link is sent to you. (Veterans for America)
State Court Opinions
- Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court Opinions
- Supreme Court opinions since May 23, 1996 and Appellate Court opinions (including Industrial Commission Division) since September 1996. These are slip opinions only. Official opinions are published in the Official Reports. (State of Illinois)
- Indiana Appellate Opinions
- Today's opinions and archived opinions since October 1997. (State of Indiana)
- Indiana Supreme Court case archives from 1816 to 1872 are available in a searchable database. Go to the Indiana Supreme Court site and click on the Supreme Court Archive Search link to get to the Supreme Court Case Records on the Indiana State Archives extranet site. (State Archives of Indiana)
- Indiana Supreme Court
- History of court, duties, biographical information on the justices, oral arguments, calendar and much other information.
- Indiana Court of Appeals
- History of the court, duties, oral arguments and much other information.
- Indiana Clerk of Courts: Online Docket
- Search by case number, lower court case number, litigant's last name, attorney's last name.
- Indiana Court Forms
- This site includes links to forms for use in Indiana trial courts and appellate courts. Administrative and other forms can be found using the links to the right. (Indiana Courts)
- Indiana Tax Court
- Governing statutes, tax court judge biography, initiating an original tax appeal, rules of the Indiana Tax Court, tax appeals procedure, pro se guide to tax court procedure.
- Indiana Supreme Court Library
- Online catalog, forms, publications, judicial orders, rules of court, judicial opinions and legal links. (State of Indiana)
- Indiana Trial Courts and Clerks
- Basic information about Indiana's trial courts including: Clerk's name and contact information, Court divisions and contact information, Name of judges and magistrates for the county, Links to court and clerk websites (if available) and to Local rules of court (if available), Link to a map to the courthouse. (State of Indiana)
- Wisconsin Opinions
- Searchable Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals opinions (from September 1995) and Courts of Appeals opinions (from June 1995) as well as information about the Wisconsin Judicial System, including history of the court, biography and portraits of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as forms. (State of Wisconsin)
- State
Courts - By Jurisdiction
- Provides links
to state appellate court sites and opinions. (Cornell)
- State Courts - Judicial Selection in the States
- To view state-specific information, select a state from the drop-down menu in the upper right or from the map. To view practices among states, select a topic on the left. For each state there is detailed information on Current Methods of Judicial Selection, History of Judicial Selection, Reform, Judicial Campaigns and Elections and Diversity of the Bench. (AJS)
Sites with Free Case Law based on Public Resource.org files
- These sites are using data from the Public.Resource.org which has made available a large database of federal and state cases at Bulk.Resource.Org
- FindACase Network
- Free cases from Versuslaw, which is a subscription service. Research state and federal case law, grouped by state. Includes Supreme Court opinions since 1886, federal circuit opinios since 1930 for all but the 9th, DC and Federal Circuits, which start later, federal district courts back to 1931 and appellate courts for all 50 states plus DC, Puerto Rico and Guam, some as far back as 1910. You must search by state, even for federal cases. There are no citations or docket numbers listed. The full case, including the citation, may be purchased for $2.95. (VersusLaw Inc.)
- PreCYdent Open Source Law Beta
- The beta version contains searchable state supreme and appellate cases from 1997 to present, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals cases as well as Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the U.S. Code.
PreCYdent contains all the cases, published and not published, including the official docket number but not official pagination and citation, released by the following Courts and starting from the reported date: * Alaska Supreme Court since September 2007 * Alaska Court of Appeals since November 2007 * Arizona Supreme Court since February 1998 * Arizona Court of Appeals since January 2008 * Arkansas Supreme Court since January 1996 * Arkansas Court of Appeals since January 1996 * California Supreme Court since January 2000 * California Court of Appeals since January 2000 * Delaware Supreme Court since January 2000 * Delaware Superior Court since January 2002 * Delaware Court of Chancery since January 2000 * District of Columbia Court of Appeals since August 1998 * Florida Supreme Court since January 1986 * Florida Court of Appeals since May 2001 * Georgia Supreme Court since January 2006 * Hawaii Supreme Court since January 1998 * Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals since January 1998 * Idaho Supreme Court since January 2007 * Idaho Court of Appeals since May 2006 * Illinois Supreme Court since May 1996 * Illinois Court of Appeals since September 1996 * Indiana Supreme Court since March 1998 * Indiana Court of Appeals since January 1997 * Iowa Supreme Court since May 1998 * Iowa Court of Appeals since January 1998 * Maryland Court of Appeals since March 1995 * Maryland Court of Special Appeals since January 1995 * Massachusetts Supreme Court since January 1999 * Massachussetts Court of Appeals since January 1999 * Michigan Supreme Court since January 2001 * Michigan Court of Appeals since April 1996 * Minnesota Supreme Court since May 1996 * Minnesota Court of Appeals since May 1996 * Mississipi Supreme Court, dic 1999 * Mississipi Court of Appeals, dic 1999 * Missouri Supreme Court since March 1997 * Missouri Court of Appeals since May 1997 * Nevada Supreme Court since January 2008 * New Hampshire Supreme Court since November 1995 * New Jersey Supreme Court since January 1994 * New Jersey Court of Appeals since April 1994 * New York Court of Appeals since January 1992 * North Carolina Supreme Court since February 1997 * North Carolina Court of Appeals since Janaury 1996 * North Dakota Supreme Court since January 1966 * Oklahoma Supreme Court since April 1890 * Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals since October 1968 * Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals since January 1900 * Ohio Supreme Court since May 1992 * Ohio Court of Appeals since April 1999 * Oregon Supreme Court since January 1998 * Oregon Court of Appeals since January 1998 * Pennsylvania Supreme Court since September 1998 * Pennsylvania Superiour Court since September 1998 * Pennsylvania Commonwelth Court since August 1998 * Rhode Island Supreme Court since September 1999 * South Dakota Supreme Court since January 1996 * Tennessee Supreme Court since January 1998 * Tennessee Court of Appeals since January 1986 * Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals since April 1997 * Texas Supreme Court since January 2003 * Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since October 2003 * Utah Supreme Court since January 1997 * Utah Court of Appeals since January 1997 * Vermont Supreme Court since May 1993 * Virginia Supreme Court since June 1995 * Virginia Court of Appeals since May 1995 * Washington Supreme Court since June 1939 * Washington Court of Appeals since September 1969 * West Virginia Supreme Court since July 1997 * Wisconsin Supreme Court since October 1995 * Wisconsin Court of Appeals since January 1996 * Wyoming Supreme Court since January 1980. Official citation and pagination is not available, but the official docket number released by the Court is available. (PreCydent, Inc.)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present (F.2d Vol. 178-999 (1950-1995), F.3d Vol. 1-present, (1995-present); State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
State Court Rules
- Illinois Code of Civil Procedure
- Chapter 735. (State of Illinois)
- Illinois Code of Criminal Procedure
- Chapter 725. (State of Illinois)
- Illinois Circuit Court Websites
- Include Rules of each court. (State of Illinois Courts)
- Indiana
- Title 34. State
Code of Civil Procedure. (State of Indiana)
- Indiana
- Title 35. State
Code of Criminal Procedure. (State of Indiana)
- Indiana Rules of Court
- (State of Indiana)
- Indiana Local Rules for Trial Courts
- Current local rules for many Indiana Counties.
- Wisconsin
- Circuit Court rules by county. (Wisconsin State Bar)
- Wisconsin Opinions and Rules
- Includes
Supreme Court Rules. (Wisconsin)
- Wisconsin Circuit Court Access
- Provides public access to records of the Circuit Courts of Wisconsin that are open to public view by statute. (Wisconsin)
- Court
Rules, Forms and Dockets
- Comprehensive listing
of Federal and State court rules, forms and dockets available on the Internet,
compiled by the editors at Law Librarian's Resource Xchange. (LLRX)
- Court Web Sites
- Judicial branch links for each state, including the administrative office of the court, the court of last resort, the intermediate appellate courts and the trial courts. (NCSC)
State Jury Instructions
- Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions
- These instructions are being reviewed and edited by a committee appointed by the Alaska Court System but have not yet been approved or promulgated by the Court. (Alaska Court System)
- Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions
- (Alaska Court System)
- Arizona Revised Jury Instructions Civil
- 4th edition. Click on the title to open the pdf document. (State Bar of Arizona)
- Arizona Revised Criminal Jury Instructions (RAJI)
- 3rd edition. Click on the chapter to open the pdf document. (State Bar of Arizona)
- California Civil Jury Instructions Resource Center
- Pdf format. (California Courts)
- California Criminal Jury Instructions Resource Center
- Pdf format. (California Courts)
- California Judicial Council Task Force on Jury Instructions
- Draft circulated for comment. Pdf format. (Judicial Council of California)
- Connecticut Civil Jury Instructions
- (State of Connecticut Judicial Branch)
- Connecticut Criminal Jury Instructions
- (State of Connecticut Judicial Branch)
- Delaware Pattern Jury Instructions for Civil Practice in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware
- Pdf format. (State of Delaware Courts)
- Florida Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases
- Pdf format. (State of Florida Courts)
- Florida Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases
- Pdf format. (State of Florida Courts)
- Hawaii Civil Jury Instructions
- (Hawaii State Judiciary)
- Hawaii Criminal Jury Instructions
- (Hawaii State Judiciary)
- Idaho Civil Jury Instructions
- (Idaho State Judiciary)
- Idaho Criminal Jury Instructions
- (Idaho State Judiciary)
- Illinois Pattern Civil Jury Instructions
- Recent instructions that are not yet contained in the IPI Civil Jury Instructions bound volumes. Has an e-mail notification service if you want to know when new instructions are posted on the website. (Illinois Supreme Court)
- Michigan Model Civil Jury Instructions
- (Michigan Courts)
- Missouri Approved Instructions: Civil and Criminal
- Recent revisions. (Missouri Courts)
- Montana Criminal Jury Instructions
- Instructions adopted since publication of the 1999 edition of the MCJI. (State of Montana)
- New Jersey Model Civil Charges
- (State of New Jersey Judiciary)
- New Jersey Model Criminal Jury Charges
- (State of New Jersey Judiciary)
- New Mexico Uniform Jury Instructions - Civil
- Click on the New Mexico Statutes and Court Rules folder on the left. Then click on the Contents of Judicial Volumes folder to get to the Uniform Jury Instructions - Civil.(State of New Mexico)
- New Mexico Uniform Jury Instructions - Criminal
- Click on the New Mexico Statutes and Court Rules folder on the left. Then click on the Contents of Judicial Volumes folder to get to the Uniform Jury Instructions - Criminal.(State of New Mexico)
- New York Criminal Jury Instructions 2d
- (State of New York Unified Court System)
- North Dakota Pattern Jury Instructions - Civil and Criminal
- Use the site index to find specific instructions or search using keywords. (State Bar Association of North Dakota)
- Oklahoma Uniform Jury Instructions - Civil, Criminal and Juvenile
- (Oklahoma Supreme Court)
- Texas Pattern Jury Charges Criminal
- Also Criminal Jury Forms. (5th Circuit Library Intranet)
- Texas Pattern Jury Charges Business, Family, General Negligence, and Malpractice
- (5th Circuit Library Intranet)
- Utah Model Jury Instructions 2d - Civil and Criminal
- (Utah Courts)
- West Virginia Proposed Jury Instructions - Instructions on the Elements of Crimes
- (Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia)
Other Jury Instruction
Sites
- Jury Instructions Update
- Publicly available electronic versions of state jury instructions.Compiled by law librarians Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen. (LLRX.com)
State Self Help
Legal Sites
- Illinois Legal Aid
- Browse articles by topic. (Illinois Legal Aid Online)
- Self
Help Legal Center: A Site for Information on Illinois Law
- Includes forms and
instructions on how to handle common legal problems, including divorce
in Illinois. (Southern Illinois U. School of Law)
- Indiana Justice Center
- Click on Find Legal Help to find information about the Indiana programs that provide free legal assistance to low income people in Indiana. (Indiana Justice Center)
- Indiana Pro Se Guide to Appellate Procedure
- (Indiana Clerk of the Appellate Courts)
- Indiana Pro Se Guide to Tax Procedure
- (Indiana Clerk of the Appellate Courts)
- Indiana Self-Service Legal Center
- Find valuable information, court forms, and various resources to help those persons considering representing themselves in court. Includes forms for divorce in Indiana. (Indiana Judicial System)
- Indiana Small Claims Manual
- (Indiana Judicial Center)
- BadgerLaw.Net: Wisconsin's Public Interest Law Network
- Gateway to Internet resources on public interest law legal issues in Wisconsin. (Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc.)
- Wisconsin
Self-Help Center
- Designed to assist
people who are considering representing themselves in court. Developed
by the staff of the Wisconsin State Law Library. (Wisconsin Court System)
- Directory of Court-Based Self Help Programs
- Developed by a consortium of organizations working for access to justice for the self-represented. (National Center for State Courts)
- FindLaw
for the Public
- Articles and guides
for the public. (Findlaw)
- How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers
- This guide is intended to help a person with a legal problem find legal rules that can resolve or prevent conflict. Prepared by law librarians Lee Warthen and Angus Nesbit. (AALL)
- JDSupra Beta
- Legal documents, legal forms court filings, articles and research by the legal community provided at no charge. Promotes the free exchange of information to benefit the legal community, legal consumers, the media, and the general public. (JD Supra, LLC)
- LawHelp
- LawHelp helps low and moderate income people find free legal aid programs in their communities and answers to questions about their legal rights. Use the state list to the right to find a nonprofit legal services provider in your state and information to help you with problems related to housing, work, family, bankruptcy, disability, immigration and other topics.
(LawHelp.org)
- Links
to Online Driver Manuals
- (Roadfan)
- Pro Se Law Center
- (Site co-sponsors include ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services)
- Resources for Self Represented Litigants
- (ProBono.net)
- Self-Service
Sites in Other States
Scroll down the page to get to the other states.
(Indiana Judicial
System)
- Unclaimed
Property
- Enter the site as
an "owner" to search for unclaimed property. Organized by state. (NAUPA)
State Legislative
Sites
- Illinois
Legislative Information
- Includes links to
Legislation including Bills and Public Acts, Illinois Compiled Statutes
and Constitutions. Illinois General Assembly Senate and House Member Information
and Schedules, Rules, Audio, Reports, and other information. (State of
Illinois)
- Indiana Legislative Information
- Includes Indiana General Assembly member contact information as well as links to search bills and resolutions, to General Assembly sessions, to session calendars, and to Indiana laws and administrative rules. (State of Indiana)
- Wisconsin State Legislature
- Includes Wisconsin Blue Book, member information, Acts since 1995, hearings calendars and other information. (State of Wisconsin)
- The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized the full text of the Wisconsin Blue Books going back to 1853.(University of Wisconsin)
- State Blue Books
- Lists the state, the "blue book" title and web address. (SLDTF)
- State
Constitutions, Statutes and Legislative Information
- (Cornell)
- State
Legislatures Internet Links
- Lists sites of the
legislatures and legislator home pages for all 50 states. (National Conference
of State Legislatures)
State Legislative
History
- Illinois
Legislative Information
- (State
of Illinois)
- Indiana Legislative Information
- Links to Indiana Constitution, Code, Acts of Indiana and Indiana Administrative Code.. The official printed version of the Indiana public laws ceased publishing with the Acts of Indiana - 2000. The public laws are now available in CD-ROM format or from this website. (State of Indiana)
- Indiana does
not publish debates or committee minutes. House and Senate Journals
do not include discussions. There are occasional printed study reports
from standing committees that have been assigned the task of studying
a certain issue. See the Interim
Information page for a list of the Indiana Study Committees. Some
of the committees will have issued minutes or reports that may be
useful.
- See the Interim
Information Archives page for an archive of Study Committee materials
from 1998 to current.
- See the Bill
Info page that lists committees. If you click on the House committee
names, you will find a list of bills. Click on a bill you are interested
in and you will find a Digest of that bill. There will be a list of
information for each bill - some items will be active links with further
information available - Action List, Introduced Bill, Fiscal Impact
Statement(s), Indiana Code Citations Affected, House Committee Reports,
House Amendments, Senate Committee Reports, Senate Amendments, Conference
Committee Reports. If the committee report link is active, you will
find a very limited committee report for your bill.
- You may also contact the Indiana Legislative Services Agency's Legislative Information Center, 317-232-9856. They may suggest contacting the bill sponsor for information.
- See Legislative Research: Where to Locate Indiana Legislative History Sources by IU Bloomington, School of Law Library.
- See also Locating State Legislative Histories by IU Indianapolis, School of Law Library.
- See also Policy Making in Indiana: Processes and Sources by IUPU Fort Wayne, Helmke Library.
- Wisconsin Legislation
- Bills and resolutions introduced in the current Wisconsin Legislature as well as previous sessions, starting with 1995-96 Wisconsin bills, joint resolutions, and resolutions. (State of Wisconsin)
- Laws of Wisconsin Scanned copies of the Laws of Wisconsin from 1969 to the present. Acts from 1969 to 1995 are available in .pdf only. Acts from 1995 to the present are available in searchable Folio Infobases and .pdf format.
- Bill drafting records prior to 1999 are available at the Marquette Law Library. To research on microfiche, it is necessary to know the specific year and act number.
- Wisconsin Statutes and Annotations Search and view editions from 1969 to the present. Statutes from 1969 -1970 to 1987-1988 are availabe in .pdf only. Statutes from 1989 - 1990 to current are available in searchable Folio Infobases and .pdf format.
- Wisconsin Law Archive Quick links to Wisconsin Statutes and Acts in Folio and .pdf format. Also Sections Affected by Acts in Folio.
- Beginning with the 1999-2000 legislative session, the Milwaukee court library has bill drafting records available on CD-ROM.
- Wisconsin Legislative Drafting Records starting with the 1999/2000 sessions. (U. of Wisconsin Law Library)
- In order to retrieve bill drafting records, you will need the Wisconsin Act number, year of passage, and a section number. In addition to the year and act number, a popular name for the act, if available, is very helpful. Bill drafting records dating back to 1865 are available on microfiche from the Marquette Law Library.
- Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau and Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau are sites that may provide helpful information.
- Legislative Council Reports may provide additional information. From 1995 on these are available at the Wisconsin Joint Legislative Council site. Use this for reports and study committee information dating back to 1996, amendment memos, standing committee members, staff contacts and administrative rules.
- For reports prior to 1995, call the Legislative Council in Madison at 608-266-1304.
- Barbara Fritschel, Milwaukee Satellite Librarian, has prepared a guide called Compiling a Wisconsin Legislative History. (U.S. Courts Library - 7th Circuit)
- WisconsinEye covers legislative floor sessions and committee hearings similar to what C-SPAN does for Congress. The site also provides coverage of oral arguments before the Wisconsin Supreme Court beginning with the 2007 biennium. A search engine is being developed, but for now the files are archived in reverse chronological order. (WisconsinEye)
- For background see Introduction to Legal Materials: A Manual for Non-law Librarians in Wisconsin. (LLAW)
- Also see Guide to Researching Wisconsin Legislation. (Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau)
- See Looking for Information on Wisconsin Legislation.. May 2006 article by Carol J. Schmitt. (Wisconsin Lawyer)
- Also see an earlier article Using the Wisconsin Legislature Web Site. December 2004 article by Amy Gannaway. (Wisconsin Lawyer)
- State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web
- Links to guides and sources for legislative history in all states. Compiled by documents librarian Jennifer bryan. (Indiana U. Law School)
State Statutes
- Illinois
Constitution
- (State of Illinois)
- Illinois
Compiled Statutes
- (Legislative Reference
Bureau)
- Indiana
Constitution
- (Indiana U.)
- Indiana
Code
- Searchable and downloadable .zip files. (Legislative Services Agency)
- Wisconsin
Constitution
- Available in NXT format for searching or PDF format for viewing and printing, available without annotations, and with an index to the constitution (State of Wisconsin)
- Wisconsin
Statutes
- (State of Wisconsin)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. Links to official sites of all state statutes. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present (F.2d Vol. 178-999 (1950-1995), F.3d Vol. 1-present, (1995-present); State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
State Executive
Agency Sites
- Illinois Government Information (IGI) - Find-It Illinois
-
Agencies, Boards and Commissions List lists all Illinois state government agencies. (State of Illinois)
- Access Indiana
- Find an Agency lists all Indiana state government agencies. (State of Indiana)
- Wisconsin.gov
- List of State Agencies lists all Wisconsin state government agencies. (State
of Wisconsin)
- Governors
- Database of past
and present U.S. governors is under development. Includes portraits and biographies and can
be searched using a number of different fields. (National Governors Association)
- Secretary of State
- Links to each state's
Secretary of State web site, good for checking on corporations. (State and Local Government on the Net)
- State
and Local Government on the Net
- A guide to government
sponsored Internet sites for all states, including state, regional, county
and city links. (HelloMetro Group)
- State
Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations, Website Links and Telephone
Numbers
- Handy scrolldown
page with direct links and telephone numbers to each state government
operator, legislative assemblies, legislative reference center, and state
law library. (LLSDC)
State Regulations
- Illinois Administrative Code
- Includes full text. (Joint Committee on Administrative Rules)
Illinois agencies publish their own rules at the following sites:
- Children
and Family Services
- Human
Rights
- Labor
- Nuclear
Safety
- Professional Regulation
- Public
Aid
- Revenue
- State
Fire Marshal
Illinois boards and commissions publish their own rules at the following
sites:
- Commerce
Commission
- Environmental
Protection Agency
- Liquor
Control Commission
- Division of Banks and Real Estate
- Pollution
Control Board
- Property
Tax Appeal Board
- Workers' Compensation Commission
- Name change from Industrial Commission effective 01/01/2005.
-
- Indiana
Administrative Code
- Updated regularly. (Legislative Services Agency)
- Indiana Register
- Since July 1, 2006, the Indiana Register has become an Internet only publication. It is updated on a more frequent basis than the former monthly issue. The IR will no longer be a paged publication. Instead, documents, notices, proposed rules, executive orders, etc., will be posted on the web as individual documents. Documents are posted to the web as they are received in the Indiana Register office and grouped in daily, weekly and monthly collections. There is an IR Database Guide. (Legislative Services Agency)
- Official Opinions of the Indiana Attorney General
- Archived starting with opinions from 2001. (Indiana Attorney General)
- Indiana Attorney General Opinions
- When complete, the collection will include volumes of the Indiana Attorney General Opinions from 1921 to 1976. Collection presently includes opinions from January 1, 1940 - December 31, 1976. (IUPIU Digital Archive)
- Wisconsin Administrative Code
- Updated monthly. (Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes)
- Wisconsin Administrative Register
- Online since January 15, 1996, no. 481. (Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes)
- Wisconsin Administrative Rules
- At this site, you can: Search for rules; View the status of current rulemaking; View documents associated with rulemaking; Submit and view comments on rules; Subscribe to receive notification of rulemaking. (State of Wisconsin)
- Wisconsin
Attorney General Opinions
- Starting with October
2, 2003. (State of Wisconsin)
- Locating Wisconsin Administrative Decisions Online
- Prepared by law librarian Carol J. Schmitt. (Wisconsin Lawyer)
- Administrative
Law Resources Arranged by State
- Links to administrative resources
for each state. (Law Sources)
Local Government Links
Municipal Government
- Municipal
Codes Online
- List of links to city
and county codes available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide
Web. There are actually two separate areas to check on this site - there
is a list of 7 Code Publishers at the top of the page, followed by a listing
broken down by state. Each Code Publisher must be searched individually;
the state by state listing does not include the cities on the Code Publishers
list. Chicago is now with American Legal Publishing. (Seattle Public Library)
Scott Burgh, Chief Law Librarian for the City of Chicago Department of Law Library relays this valuable information regarding the Chicago Code. "Prior to 1990, the Municipal Code of Chicago was the 1939 code as amended through 1984. There were no published amendments from 1984-1990. In 1990, Book Publishing Company of Seattle got the contract and republished the Municipal Code of Chicago into 20 titles. They are now owned by Lexis and are still publish the code and have it available electronically on Lexis...The current city contract is with American Legal Publishing... They also publish a separate building code and zoning code in a looseleaf format...A new feature is the Advance Legislative Service in which one can use "Find" through Internet Explorer. For example, if you were looking for changes to a code section such as 4-60-023, plug that section into "Find" in the Advance Legislative Service and you can find City Council activity which can affect the code section in which you are interested. Once you have the date and page of the City Council action, you can then go to the City Clerk's website and find the pages of the council meeting having the ordinance. The city council journal's are archived back to 2004."
- Municipal Codes
- Links to city codes. Because this is one of the publishers listed separately in the site above, its listings will be different than the state by state listing above. Be sure and check both municipal code sites. This site now includes the following cities, among many others - Peoria, Springfield, as well as Cook County, Illinois; Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana; and Madison, Wisconsin. (Municipal Code Corporation)
- Municipal
Codes Web Library
- This site links to municipal codes published and maintained online by LexisNexis.
The codes are available free of charge. The preface, or opening page, of
each code indicates how up to date it is. (LexisNexis)
Just because you do not see the city code on one of the
sites above, do not assume that an Internet version does not exist. Some
cities or counties may place their codes on their own web pages. Use a resource like State
and Local Government on the Net to check your city.
- Wisconsin
Codes and Ordinances
- Codes and ordinances
compiled by the Wisconsin State Law Library. Includes the Milwaukee City
Charter and Code as well as the Milwaukee County Code of Ordinances. (Wisconsin
State Law Library)
- City
Governments
- Arranged by state.
(NewsDirectory.com)
- State
and Local Government on the Net
- A guide to government
sponsored Internet sites for all states, including state, regional, county
and city links. (HelloMetro Group)
- State
and Local Government Information
- Meta-indexes for state
and local government information, state maps, state government information.
(Library of Congress)
County Government
- County Codes
- Links to a limited number of county codes. Also useful is County Data and Demographics which gives you the ability to search by county name or county official's last name. (NaCo)
- Circuit
Court of Cook County, Illinois
- Full text circuit
court rules and general orders, general administrative rules and orders.
Also see: Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Cook County for case information. (Cook County)
- County
Codes
- Links to a limited
number of county codes. Also useful is County
Data and Demographics which gives you the ability to search by county
name or county official's last name. (NaCo)
- County
Governments
- Arranged by state.
(NewsDirectory.com)
- County
Prosecuting Attorneys, District Attorneys, Attorneys General and U.S. Attorneys
- Handy links to county
prosecutor web sites. (Eaton County Prosecuting Attorney)
- Find
a County
- Information on counties,
including county officials, courthouse addresses, county seats and cities
in a county. (NACO)
- State
and Local Government on the Net
- A guide to government
sponsored Internet sites for all states, including state, regional, county
and city links. (HelloMetro Group)
Administrative Law Resources
- ABA Administrative Procedure Database
- Links to federal and state Administrative Procedure Acts (APA), reform proposals, and organizational and other resources. (FSU)
- Blackletter Statement of Federal Administrative Law
- This is the TOC only. The full text is available in 54 Admin.L.Rev. 1 (2002). Chicago and South Bend libraries have a print copy. (ABA)
Antitrust Law Resources
- Antitrust Division Manual
- (DOJ)
- Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog
- Antitrust resources compiled by a law professor. (Shubha Ghosh. U. of Buffalo Law School)
- Antitrust Directory and Gateway to Antitrust Resources
- (American Antitrust Institute)
Bankruptcy Resources
- Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
- Incorporating revisions that took effect Dec. 1, 2008. (Cornell LII)
- Official Bankruptcy Forms
- (U.S. Courts)
- American Bankruptcy Institute: The Essential Resource for Today's Busy Insolvency Professional
- Resources include Bankruptcy Headlines, What's New, Upcoming Events, Legislative News, About ABI, ABI Membership, Online Resources, Publications, with articles online, Newsroom, and a Consumer Education Center. (American Bankruptcy Institute)
- Bankruptcy LawTrove
- Includes links to Statutes, Regulations, Courts and Cases, Bankruptcy Law Resources, Government Resources, Vendor Pages with Products and Services for bankruptcy professionals, an On-line Bookstore provided in association with Amazon.com., Frequently Asked Bankruptcy Law Questions Designed for individuals curious about bankruptcy law, links to Other Bankruptcy Sites, and General Legal Resources. (Swiggart and Agin)
uptcy
- Bankruptcy
Law Materials
- Links to federal material
including the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994,
Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, and the Internal Revenue regulations
pertaining to bankruptcy (26 CFR). Also includes court decisions, state
material, and a search engine. (Cornell)
- Commercial Law League of America
- Contains Washington Hot News, Press Releases, Member News, Upcoming Events, Online CLLA Forums, the Commercial Law Journal and the Commercial Law Bulletin (for members only), and a Resources section. (CLLA)
- Debtor
and Creditor Law Materials
- Links to federal material
including the Federal Tax Lien Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,
Consumer Credit Protection Act, Code of Federal Regulations, federal judicial
decisions. State material includes some state statutes, and state judicial
decisions. Other references include key internet sources and useful offline
sources. (Cornell)
- Filing for Bankruptcy Without an Attorney
- Information from the U.S. Courts. (US Courts)
- National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys
- Organization of lawyers representing debtors in consumer bankruptcies. (NACBA)
- National Conference of Bankruptcy Clerks
- (NCBC)
- Bankruptcy Court Directory
- For each district, gives an address and telephone number for each bankruptcy judge and for the bankruptcy clerk. Also includes website links for each Bankruptcy Court and Pacer. (Bankruptcydata.com)
- U.S.
Bankruptcy Courts
- Includes bankruptcy
statistics. (AOUS)
- United
States Trustee Program
- Also see U.S.
Trustee Manual which includes v.1 (Overview), v.2 (Chapter 7), v.3
(Chapter 11), v.4 (Chapter 12 and 13), v.5 (Bankruptcy Fraud and Abuse)
and v.6 (Administrative Policies). In pdf and/or WordPerfect. (DOJ)
Civil Rights Law
- Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
- Collects documents and information from civil rights cases in selected case categories across the United States. (Washington University Law)
- Section 1983 Litigation
- This monograph analyzes the fundamental issues that arise in litigation
under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the statute for redressing constitutional and
federal statutory violations, and the case law interpreting those issues.
Research for this edition concluded with the October 2007 Supreme
Court term and covers courts of appeals decisions reported through
June 30, 2008. By Martin Schwartz and Kathryn Urbonya. (FJC)
Commercial Law
- Unilex on CISG & UNIDROIT Principles: International Case Law & Bibliography
- Collection of international caselaw and bibliography on UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and Unidroit Principles of International Commerical Contracts. (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law )
Copyright and Patent
Resources
- AIPLA: American Intellectual Property Law Association
- (AIPLA)
- All About Trademarks
- Links to trademark information as well as original text. (Attorney Gregory H. Guillot)
- AIPLA: American Intellectual Property Law Association
- (AIPLA)
- BitLaw: A Resource on Technology Law
- Covers patent, copyright, trademark and Internet law. Text as well as links to resources. (Attorney Daniel A. Tysver)
- Copyright
and Fair Use
- Collection of copyright law materials and links, including current legislation and cases. (Stanford U.)
- Copyright Law and Litigation Resource
- Collection of links, compiled by a copyright attorney and adjunct professor. (Rob Kasunic)
- Copyright Renewal Database
- Searchable database of copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. (Stanford U.)
- Digital Law Online
- Online text of Legal Protection of Digital Information by Lee Hollaar and the first chapter of Copyright Law and Practice by William F. Patry. (U. of Utah School of Computing)
- DMCA
(Digital Millenium Copyright Act) Legislative History
- All relevant documents
comprising the official legislative history of the DMCA, also known as the
WIPO Copyright Implementing Legislation - P.L.105-304. (Home Recording Rights
Coalition)
- European
Patent Office
- Free patent database
hosted by the European Patent Office. Provides full images of U.S. patents
dating back to 1920. Search by title, inventor, applicant and so forth.
(EP)
- Franklin
Pierce Intellectual Property Links
- Resource links.
(Franklin Pierce Law School)
- Google Patent Search BETA
- Covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO starting with those issued in the 1790s. They do not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months. (Google)
- Intellectual Property Links
- Links to intellectual property offices and organizations, official gazettes, courts, and others. Compiled by European Patent Attorney Ralph Beier.
- Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes Manual
- Third Edition. September 2006. Published by the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice. (USDOJ)
- Searchable
Intellectual Property Databases
- Compilation by lawyer
Kathy Biehl. (LLRX)
- Stanford IP Litigation Clearinghouse - IPLC
- New project to provide a comprehensive, online resource in the field of intellectual property litigation. The first release, the Patent Litigation Module, includes over 23,000 cases filed in U.S. district courts since 2000. The database includes real-time data summaries, industry indices, and trend analysis together with a full-text search engine.(Stanford Law School)
- Sullivan's IP Law Outline & Analysis
- An on-line outline of Federal Circuit patent cases that is updated regularly. Pdf format. Large download - currently 3.39 MB/1155 pages. Compilation by attorney Michael Sullivan. (LLRX)
- Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Cases
- Domain name dispute decisions resolved under the ICANN UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). (ICANN)
- U.S.
Copyright Office
- (USCO)
- Use the Copyright Catalog to search for copyright information about books, music and other registered works.
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- (USPTO)
- Through Trademark Document Retrieval - TDR - you can view and download any or all documents contained in the electronic file wrapper of almost all pending trademark applications, as well as many registrations.
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- U.N. agency protects worldwide intellectual property. Site includes a Collection of Laws for Electronic Access containing all national laws relating to intellectual property as well as treaties. (WIPO)
Criminal Law Resources
- Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section
- Sections on Computer Crime, Intellectual Property, Electronic Evidence and Other High Tech Legal Issues. (DOJ)
- Criminal Justice Resources: Prisoners' Rights and Resources on the Web
- Compiled by law librarian Ken Strutin. (LLRX)
- Criminal Justice Standards - ABA
- Click on Standards in right hand menu to view Table of Contents with links to individual Standards. (ABA Criminal Justice Section)
- Drug
Enforcement Administration
- Site includes links
to Drug Descriptions.
(DEA)
- Federal
Bureau of Prisons
- Includes a directory
of correctional institutions, grouped according to level of security, BOP
publications and policies. The Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 552) and
the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 USC 552a) authorize the release of certain information
about Federal inmates to any member of the general public requesting it.
This includes information such as name, age, and register number, as well
as sentencing and confinement data (offense, date sentenced, institution
of confinement, etc.). Click on Inmate Locator to search for federal inmates.
(BOP)
To search for inmates in state prisons, use the following sites:
- List of State DOC Websites (Wikipedia)
- Federal
Defenders in Central Illinois
- Includes the Back
Bencher, a newsletter which summarizes criminal cases in the Seventh Circuit.
The site also has a downloadable PDF section detailing possible issues for
review in criminal appeals.
- Legal Resource Guide to the Federal
Bureau of Prisons
- Relevant statutes, regulations, policy documents and current case law concerning issues BOP faces today.(BOP)
- Manual on Recurring Problems in Criminal Trials
- Among the topics covered are jury-related problems, evidentiary issues, civil and criminal contempt, the Fifth Amendment, confessions, and severance of defendants. (FJC)
- National/State Sex Offender Registry
- Search across multiple states or by individual states for the identity and location of known sex offenders. (FBI)
- Resources
for Managing Capital Cases
- Scroll down to Educational Programs and Materials and click on the link to Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases. (FJC)
Death Penalty Cases
- Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995
- James Liebman and others. (Columbia Law School)
- Cornell
Death Penalty Project
- (Cornell)
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Non-profit organization offering comprehensive death penalty information, including current developments. (DPIC)
- Resources for Managing Capital Cases
- Scroll down to Educational Programs. Click on "Resources for Managing Capital Cases." Site contains Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases, Vol.1, Federal Death Penalty Trials in pdf format. Site also includes Vol.2, Habeas Corpus Review of Capital Convictions.
The Center prepared the sites to assist judges assigned capital cases, either federal death penalty prosecutions or capital habeas cases, including resource guides describing practices and procedures used by courts and individual judges. The Center will add new materials as needed, and therefore these guides will be maintained on the Web sites rather than in hard copy form (FJC)
- Survey
of the Federal Death Penalty System
- Statistical survey.
(U.S. Dept. of Justice)
Disability Law
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
- Guidelines and standards and text of the ADA. (U.S. Access Board)
- Americans with Disabilities Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Handbook: A Guide for Appointed Attorneys in the Northern District of Illinois
- In .pdf format. (Laurie Wardell. Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)
- DisabilityInfo.gov
- Comprehensive Federal
website of disability-related government resources. (New Freedom Initiative)
- Employment and Disability
- Comprehensive set of links to disability and the workplace sites. (Cornell U.)
- Notice Concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008
- (EEOC)
- ArchiveADA: The Path to Equality
- Links to article called ADA Amendments Act of 2008 by Law Prof. Chai Feldblum as well as documents and legislative history, including two House Reports from June 23, 2008 that offer analysis. (Georgetown)
- Comparison of the ADA (as construed by the courts) and the ADA Amendments Act
- (Georgetown)
Electronic Discovery
- Discovery Resources
- Information, resources and news about electronic discovery. (Fios)
- E-Discovery Update
- Monthly articles by Conrad Jacoby, an attorney and consultant whose practice focuses on the areas of electronic discovery, litigation information management, and litigation support technology. (LLRX)
- Electronic Discovery
- Information on electronic discovery, the rule changes and online research links for landmark e-discovery cases. (ABANET)
- Electronic Discovery Law
- A blog on legal issues, news and best practices relating to the discovery of electronically stored information. Includes Case Summaries, an E-Discovery Case Database, CLE Events, Federal Rules Amendments, News and Updates. (K&L Gates)
- Materials on Electronic Discovery: Civil Litigation
- Contains links to articles, PowerPoint slide presentations, and other items of interest on electronic discovery, prepared by Federal Judicial Center staff for use in judicial and continuing legal education programs. (FJC)
- Materials on Electronic Discovery: Search and Seizure of Computers and Data in Criminal Cases
- Contains links to articles, PowerPoint slide presentations, and other items of interest on electronic discovery, prepared by Federal Judicial Center staff for use in judicial and continuing legal education programs. (FJC)
- Updated List: Local Rules of U.S. District Courts Addressing E-Discovery Issues
- At least 41 United States District Courts have enacted special rules addressing electronic discovery. This is an updated and current collection of United States District Court local rules, standards, guidelines and forms that specifically address e-discovery issues. In the Seventh Circuit, both the Central and Northern Districts of Illinois and the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana currently have rules or forms. (K&L Gates)
Employment Law Resources
- Labor
and Employment Law Resources on the Internet
- Guide compiled by
law librarian Alyssa Rosen. (LLRX)
- Title
VII and Section 1981: A Guide for Appointed Attorneys in the Northern District
of Illinois.
- For use by attorneys
appointed to represent indigent clients in employment discrimination cases.
(Laurie Wardell: Chicago Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)
Environmental Law
- United Nations Environment Documentation: Research Guide
- Links to important environmental bodies in the climate change area and to treaties including the Kyoto Protocol. (UN)
Evidence
- Daubert on the Web
- Attorney Peter Nordberg covers in detail the 1993 Supreme Court decision on scientific evidence and the admissibility of expert scientific testimony. (Peter Nordberg)
Freedom of Information
Act
- FOIA Facts: What Now?
- A new FOIA Memorandum has been issued and this March 24, 2009 article outlines what will likely happen with FOIA processing. (LLRX)
- Citizen's
Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974
to Request Government Records
- Copy of House Report. (FAS)
- Freedom
of Information Act
- Explanation
of the Freedom of Information Act, list of FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms and
other agency FOIA sites. (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
- DOJ
FOIA Reference Guide
- Explanation
of the Freedom of Information Act prepared by Justice Department.
- FOIA
Reading Rooms
- Under subsection (a)(2) of the FOIA, agencies must
make four distinct categories of records affirmatively available for
“public inspection and copying.These "reading room" records include:
(1)final opinions and orders rendered in the adjudication of administrative
cases; (2) specific agency policy statements; (3) certain administrative
staff manuals; and, (4)records disclosed in response to a FOIA request
that the agency determines have become or are likely to become the subject
of subsequent requests for substantially the same records.
- Other
Federal Agencies' FOIA Web Sites
- Who
Isn't Covered by the FOIA
- Short explanation
prepared by attorney Scott A. Hodes. (LLRX)
Immigration Law
- CALS Asylum Case Research
- Describes basic sources for research on behalf of individuals seeking asylum in the United States. (Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center)
- EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review) Virtual Law Library
- Links to Decisions, CFR, Federal Register and BIA Practice Manual. (EOIR Law Library)
- How to File a Petition for Review
- Procedures and general requirements for filing and litigating a petition for review. (American Immigration Law Foundation)
- Immigration Court Practice Manual
- Practice manual for parties who appear before the Immigration Courts. Beginning on July 1, 2008, Local Operating Procedures will no longer be used and parties will be expected to follow the practice manual. (Office of the Chief Immigration Judge)
- Ninth Circuit Immigration Outline
- The Immigration Outline is provided as a resource to assist attorneys in analyzing petitions for review. It synthesizes procedural and substantive principles relating to immigration law in the Ninth Circuit and covers the following topics: Jurisdiction, Standards of Review, Relief from Removal (e.g. Asylum, Cancellation of Removal, Adjustment of Status), Motions to Reopen or Reconsider, Criminal Issues, Due Process, and Attorney Fees. (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.)
- Refworld
- Compiled by the UN Refugee Agency, Refworld is a source of information necessary for making decisions on refugee status. Refworld contains a collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. The information has been carefully selected and compiled from UNHCR's global network. (UNHCR)
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Replaces the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which ceased to exist on March 1, 2003 when its functions were transferred to this section of the Department of Homeland Security.(USCIS)
- U.S.Immigration Law Research
- Includes an Introduction, Legislation, Federal Agencies, Administrative Materials, Current Awareness, Secondary Sources, Getting Specific Facts, Organizations, Other Related Research Guides. (Georgetown U. Law Library)
- Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
- Provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized. The Yearbook also presents data on immigration law enforcement actions, including alien apprehensions, removals, and prosecutions. (Homeland Security)
Insurance Law Resources
- Insurance
- From WEX, a public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. (Cornell)
- Insurance Law
- (Findlaw)
- Insurance Law
- Includes vehicle ratings. (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)
International Law
Resources
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
-
(ASIL)
- Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law
- This guide describes basic strategies for finding the laws of countries other than the U.S, primarily in English. The emphasis is on codes and laws rather than cases. The guide will also help you find secondary materials that describe other countries' laws. It includes links to websites and to other guides. Prepared by Law Librarian Mary Rumsey. (GlobaLex)
- British
and Irish Legal Information Institute -- BAILII
- Provides access to
the most comprehensive set of british and Irish primary legal materials
that are available free and in one place on the internet. (BAILII)
- Background
Notes
- Basic demographic
and economic information. (State Department)
- Chiefs
of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
- Updated regularly.
(CIA)
- Commonwealth Legal Information Institute - CommonLII
- The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) aims to provide one central Internet location from which it is possible to search - for free - core legal information from all Commonwealth countries. (CommonLII)
- Comparative/Foreign Law
- Links to all LLRX articles dealing with comparative and international law. (LLRX)
- Constitution Finder
- Constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. When available, also includes superseded and draft constitutions. (University of Richmond)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
- Reports submitted by U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress, since 1999. (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country
Studies/Area Handbooks
- In-depth studies of
over 100 countries. (Library of Congress)
- Criminal
Law Resources on the Internet
- Provides on-line access
to criminal law materials from the United States and throughout the world,
including, among other things, criminal codes, criminal procedure codes,
and enforcement codes. (U. of Buffalo)
- Eur-Lex
- Website of the European
Union. (European Union)
- FLARE - Foreign Law Research
- Collaboration between the major law libraries in the United Kingdom focused on improving national coverage of the law of the central and Eastern European jurisdictions. So far, has posted research guides to Poland, Russia and Ukraine. (FLARE)
- Foreign Law Research Guide by Country
- Grid format linking to CIA World Factbook, regional maps, online guides from other libraries, World LII, Westlaw and Lexis databases if available and other databases.(Yale Law School Library)
- Foreign Law Translations
- Translated decisions and statutes for French, German, Italian, and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. (U. of Texas School of Law)
- GIMSS:
Government Information, Microforms and Statistical Services - Country Resources:
The Green Boxes
- Virtual "green boxes"
collecting the best current information about countries.(IU Libraries)
- Global Legal Information Network - GLIN
- GLIN is a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available in participating jurisdictions. (Law Library of Congress)
- Global Legal Monitor
- For those who have an interest in legal developments from around the world. This online publication will be updated frequently, drawing upon information selected from the Global Legal Information Network, official national legal publications, and reliable press sources. Back issues from July 2001 to March 2006 of World Law Bulletin a monthly publication of the Law Library of Congress that is provided to Congress are now available online courtesy of FAS. (Law Library of Congress)
- Government
Gazettes Online
- Official communications
of governments - comparable to the Federal Register of the United States.
(U. of Michigan)
- Guide
to Foreign and International Legal Databases
- Comprehensive site
compiled by law librarian Mirela Roznovschi. (NYU School of Law Law Library)
- International and Foreign Legal Research:
A Coursebook
- Links to sources compiled by law librarians Marci Hoffman and Mary Rumsey. (U. of California Berkeley School of Law)
- International
Documents
- To access documents
of foreign governments. Alphabetical by country. (Northwestern U.)
- International
Governmental Organizations
- Alphabetical links
to international organizations. Large organizations are broken down into
subcategories. (Northwestern U.)
- Ministry of Justice
- Provides court addresses, daily court lists, forms, judgments and other information. This information was formerly provided by Court Service Website now retained for archive purposes only. (United Kingdom Ministry of Justice)
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD
- Browse "By Country" for individual country sites that contain OECD reports and statistics. Browse the documents in chronological order or by topic (e.g. economy, trade, development, environment, energy, social issues). (OECD)
- Portals
to the World
- Links to legal and
non-legal electronic resources from around the world. (Library of Congress)
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1913
- Searchable online edition of almost 200,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court. (University of Sheffield)
- Reference
Guide to the Geneva Conventions
- Index and full text
of the conventions.(Society of Professional Journalists)
- United Nations
- See the United Nations Documentation: Research Guide for an overview of the different UN documents and publications. (United Nations)
- ODS - Official Document System of the United Nations Coverage begins in 1993, with older UN documents being added daily. UN resolutions are covered from 1946 onwards.
- Declarations and Conventions Contained in GA Resolutions Sort by date, subject, list of declations or list of conventions.
- UNData - A World of Information Search and download from UN statistical databases.
- United Nations Treaty Collection Use the Frequently Accessed column on the left to look at full text and exact page images.
- World Digital Library Digital library seeking to display and explain the relics of all human cultures. The documents are scanned onto the site in their original languages, but the explanations appear in seven different languages. Information may be sorted by place, time, topic,type of item or institution.
- Yearbook of the United Nations The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities. Each Yearbook is fully indexed and includes all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions. The complete collection (1946-2005) is available for free online. The yearbooks may be browsed or searched. Several search options are available, including the ability to limit to one year, a range of years, or a selection of years; proximity searching; and boolean searching.
- World Legal Information Institute
- WorldLII provides a single search facility for databases located on the following Legal Information Institutes: AustLII; BAILII; CanLII; HKLII; LII (Cornell); and PacLII. WorldLII also includes as part of this searchable collection its own databases not found on other LIIs. These include databases of decisions of international Courts and Tribunals. The WorldLII Catalog provides links to over 15,000 law-related web sites in every country in the world. (WorldLII)
Labor Law Resources
- BNA
Labor Relations Reporter General Index and Table of Cases
- The General Index
is an alphabetical arrangement by major subjects and subheads of all topics
covered in the Outlines of Classification for Americans with Disabilities
Cases, Fair Employment Practice Cases, Individual Employment Rights Cases,
Labor Arbitration, Labor Relations (courts and NLRB cases), and Wage and
Hour Cases. Also included are topics covered in Fair Employment Practices
Manual, Individual Employment Rights Manual, Labor Relations Expediter,
State Labor Laws, and Wage and Hour Manual. Use the Internet site and then
use the Labor Relations Reporter set held in the Court libraries in Chicago,
Milwaukee, Indianapolis, and East St. Louis at KF 3315.L3. (BNA)
- Labor
and Employment Law Resources on the Internet
- Guide compiled by
law librarian Alyssa Rosen. (LLRX)
- Labor Research Portal
- Web guides for legal resources pertaining to labor. (Institute of Industrial Relations Library. University of California)
Legal Ethics
- ABA/BNA
Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
- The subject index
and table of cases are available for online searching. (BNA)
- American
Legal Ethics Library
- Links to full text
of professional conduct codes for most U.S. states as well as ABA model
code. Access all of the materials by state or by topic. (Cornell)
- Association
of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
- Includes links to
professional responsibility related websites. (APRL)
- Center for Professional Responsibility
-
- Center
for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
- Online collection
of over 850 codes of ethics.(IIT)
- Judicial
Conduct and Ethics
- Links to Judicial
ethics advisory committees in each state as well as to other judicial codes
of conduct material. (AJS)
Attorney Disciplinary Commissions
- Attorney
Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois
- (Supreme Court of Illinois)
- Indiana
Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission
- (Indiana Supreme Court)
- Wisconsin
Office of Lawyer Regulation
- (Wisconsin Supreme Court)
Ethics Opinions
- Illinois State Bar Association Advisory Ethics Opinions
- Opinions since June 2008 - current are available in searchable PDF format. Earlier opinions, from November 1981 - May 2008, are available only to ISBA members. There is an index of Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct cited in ISBA Advisory Opinions. You may view Advisory Opinions by Subject or by Number. Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct are also available from this page. (Illinois State Bar Association)
- Indiana State Bar Associations Legal Ethics Opinions
- Opinions since 1961. Organized by year for browsing. Downloadable by year. (Indiana State Bar Association)
- State Bar of Wisconsin Ethics Opinions
- Formal opinions address fairly broad questions and are issued in response to requests by State Bar members. Currently, the State Bar issues only formal opinions. Before 1974, the State Bar also issued informal opinions, responding to inquiries from State Bar members about issues generally narrower than those addressed in formal opinions. Memorandum opinions are no longer in use; they were primarily responses to lawyers' requests for ethical guidance from State Bar staff counsel. All three opinion types are on the site in pdf format. Site includes Rules of Professional Conduct for Wisconsin attorneys. (State Bar of Wisconsin)
Legal Writing,
Legal Dictionaries and Citation Style
Citation Style - ALWD, Bluebook, and University of Chicago Maroonbook
- ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation
- Guide to legal citation by the Association of Legal Writing Directors. It is an alternative to the Bluebook. The entire manual, which is now on its 3rd edition, is not on the site, but various resources are available for download. (ALWD)
- The Bluebook
- A joint project of The Harvard Law Review Association, the Columbia Law Review Association, The Yale Law Journal Company and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, The Bluebook website provides free search and browse access to older editions of the Bluebook, the current index, table of contents and Bluebook tips. Full access requires a paid subscription or purchase of the print Bluebook. (Columbia LR, Harvard LR, U of PA LR and Yale LJ)
- Bluebook Abbreviations of Law Review Titles
- Alphabetical list of periodical titles and their abbreviations. (U. of Washington)
- Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
- Most common examples of government document citations. (U. of Memphis)
- Citing Unpublished Opinions in Wisconsin State and Federal Tribunals
- This Wisconsin Lawyer article covers the threshold issue of whether a particular court's rules or standards permit citing a particular unpublished opinion, even if only for persuasive effect. (Mia Sefarbi & Kira Zaporski)
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citation
- Available as a free download or for purchase in paperback form.(NYU Journal of International Law and Politics)
- Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
- LII 2007 ed. Reflects changes in the eighteenth edition of The Bluebook, published in 2005, and the third edition of the ALWD Citation Manual, published in 2006. (Cornell)
- Bluebook Research Guide. The Guide explains the organization and layout of the Bluebook, its use in theory and in practice, and how to cite the most common legal materials, including cases, statutes and treatises. The Guide also reviews how to cite electronic materials but does not include explanations of how to cite administrative materials, legislative history resources, international resources, or foreign resources. (Georgetown Law Library)
- The University of Chicago Law Review Style Sheet
- The Law Review Style Sheet incorporates the Maroonbook and highlights important rules of form from the Chicago Manual of Style. It provides information that will prove useful in citechecking and critical in proofreading the galley and page proofs. In pdf and Word format. (U. of Chicago)
Grammar and Style
- Bartleby's English Usage, Style and Composition
- Access electronic versions of many helpful works on English usage, including Elements of Style by Strunk and White as well as Fowler's The King's English . (Bartleby.com)
- GPO Style Manual
- This popular print manual is now available online. (GPO)
- Grammar Gremlins Index
- Indexes Don K. Ferguson's "Grammar Gremlins" column since January 1992. (Tom Vanderloo, Chattanooga Satellite Librarian)
- Legal Research in a Nutshell Links
- Provides links to websites discussed in Legal Research in a Nutshell. (U. of Virginia)
dt>Legal Writing for the Courts: A Selected Bibliography
- Electronic resources are listed at the beginning of each section. (Western New England College School of Law)
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Grammar and mechanics and style guides. (Purdue University)
- University of Chicago Manual of Style
- Not the Manual itself, but interpretations of the Manual’s recommendations. Questions and answers are grouped by keywords covering topics ranging from Abbreviations to Word Division. Free registration allows access to a search tool for the latest print edition. (University of Chicago)
Legal Dictionaries
- Everybody's Legal Dictionary
- Plain-English definitions for over a thousand legal terms. (Nolo)
- Lawyers.com Glossary
- This special glossary from Merriam-Webster® includes some 10,000 legal terms, pronunciations and definitions. Based on Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law ©2001. Just type in the word to search the database. (Martindale-Hubbell)
- Legal Dictionary
- Dictionary and explanations of U.S. legal terms. (WWLIA)
- U.S. Courts - Commonly Used Terms
- Alphabetical listing of legal terms. (U.S. Courts)
- YourDictionary - Law Dictionaries
- Links to many law dictionaries. (YourDictionary.com)
Native American Law Resources
- Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
- Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, and originally published in 1903-1904, this is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1778-1970. Volumes I through VII are available on the web both as fully searchable digitized text and as page images. The contents may be accessed from the Table of Contents or Index of each volume or through keyword searching.
(Oklahoma State)
- National Indian Law Library
- Tribal codes and constitutions as well as research links are in the section called Resources by Topic. (Native American Rights Fund - NARF)
- National
Tribal Justice Resource Center
- Resources tab links
to searchable tribal codes and constitutions, tribal court opinions, legislative
history. (NTJRC)
- Native
American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
- Comprehensive site
covers - Alaska, Archive, Codes, Cohen's Handbook, Constitutions, Indian
Land Titles, IRA Era Constitutions and Charters, Oklahoma, Opinions of the
Solicitor, Supreme Court, Tribes. Site makes available the 1945 edition
of Handbook of Federal Indian
Law by Felix S. Cohen. (U. of Oklahoma Law Library and National Indian
Law Library)
- Native
American Law Resource Links
- Includes links to
primary material and bibliographies as well as materials from individual
Nations. (NESL)
- Native American Resources
- Compiled by law librarian Faye Hadley. Click on lefthand column to get to her Native American Legal Research Guide, Native American Legal Web Sites or Indian Gaming Law. (U. of Tulsa)
- Wisconsin
Judicare's Indian Law Office
- Lots of links to national
tribal information, but also to Wisconsin tribal information, including
rules of procedure for Wisconsin tribal courts. (Wisconsin Indian Law Office)
Pension and ERISA
- ERISA in the Courts
- Analyzes the complex statutory and case law governing employee benefit plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, with an emphasis on the kinds of issues most frequently presented in federal court litigation. Topics covered include ERISA’s central constraints on the administration of all employee benefit plans (both pension and welfare plans): disclosure, fiduciary obligations, enforcement, and preemption. The monograph also explains ERISA’s rules governing the content of the pension contract, specifically: plan participation and vesting, pension distributions, and the defined benefit plan funding and termination rules, including an overview of the sweeping changes to defined benefit plans wrought by the Pension Protection Act of 2006. By Peter J. Wiedenbeck. (FJC)
Property Law
- HUD
- Links to information
for consumers and professionals. Also see HUDCLIPS
for an official repository of HUD policies and procedures.(HUD)
- Law of Mortgage Lending and Insurance Discrimination: A Substantive and Procedural Manual for Attorneys
- (Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)
Securities Law
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Formed from July 2007 merger of NASD and regulatory arm of the New York Stock Exchange. Includes NASD Manual Online , Code of Arbitration Procedure, Interpretive Letters and other material and FINRA BrokerCheck which provides information on FINRA registered firms and on individual brokers. (FINRA)
- Securities
and Exchange Commission
- EDGAR,
the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs
automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding
of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file
forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Updated in real time, it can be used to retrieve any document filed electronically with the SEC since January 1, 1994. (SEC)
- IDEA will be the successor to the EDGAR database. The new system, called IDEA (Interactive Data Electronic Applications), will give investors faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds. IDEA will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system, which will become an archive of SEC filings made prior to the new era of financial reporting in interactive data format. The SEC has formally proposed requiring U.S. companies to provide financial information using interactive data beginning as early as 2009, and separately has proposed requiring mutual funds to submit their public filings using interactive data.
- Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
- The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. The Clearinghouse maintains an Index of Filings of 2932 issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Clearinghouse also contains copies of more than 29,300 complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related materials filed in these cases. (Stanford Law School)
- Securities Lawyer's Deskbook
- The Securities Lawyer's Deskbook contains the text of the basic federal securities laws and regulations, as well as links to the principal Securities and Exchange Commission forms under those laws and regulations. The Deskbook is designed primarily for use by legal practitioners and scholars, securities professionals, and corporate officers. The Securities Lawyer's Deskbook contains the text of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the rules promulgated under those Acts, and Regulations S-K, S-B, S-X, S-T, S-P, M-A, FD, M and ATS. It also contains the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as a printable (PDF) version of the Act and a hyperlinked table of changes affected by the Act. The data on any page of the Securities Lawyer's Deskbook can be checked for incorporation of the latest regulatory or legislative action by reviewing the history note at the bottom of each page. (University of Cincinnati College of Law)
Sentencing Law
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manuals and Amendments
- Includes current manual as well as manuals from 1994 on. (USSC)
- Sentencing Law and Policy
- Law professor Douglas Berman's blog is, according to the Wall St. Journal, the "chronicler of the sweeping effect of the Blakely v. Washington ruling on the nation's courts." (Douglas Berman)
Social Security
Resources
- Medicare and Medicaid - CMS Online Manual System
- (CMS/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
- Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Online
- O*NET supersedes the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). It provides a comprehensive database that identifies and describes important information about occupations, worker skills, and training requirements. Further explanation is available at the Employment and Training Administration website. (ETA)
- Social
Security Online
- Official web site
of the Social Security Administration. The Social
Security Program Rules Home Page includes the law, the regulations,
full text of Social Security Rulings, Acquiescence rulings since 1986
and lists of superseded rulings. Use this page to connect to:
- Social
Security HALLEX
- HALLEX is the Hearings, Appeals and Litigation Law
Manual - instructions used by employees of SSA's Office of Hearings
and Appeals to process and adjudicate claims at the hearing, Appeals
Council review, and civil actions levels of appeal.
- Social
Security POMS
- Social Security
Program Operations Manual System (POMS) serves as a guideline for
the Social Security Administration in administering its programs and processing claims for Social Security benefits.
The POMs is often used by SSA administrative law judges and other
personnel for interpretive purposes. This site contains the public version of the Program Operations Manual System (POMS). The public version of POMS is identical to the version used by Social Security employees except that it does not include internal data entry and sensitive content instructions.
- Social
Security Program Resources
- Links to full
text of Social Security Handbook, Disability Evaluation Under Social
Security and other sources.
- Social
Security Rulings and Acquiescence Rulings
- All rulings
currently in effect.
- Social Security Death Index
- For finding birth and death dates and SSN of deceased individuals. (Ancestry, Inc.) Try SSN Validator if you have a social security number and want to check on where and when it may have been issued. (Crime Time Publishing Co.)
- For medical dictionaries, use Ask Bill's General Reference Medical section, where several dictionaries are listed.
Taxation Resources
- Criminal Tax Manual
- Includes trial outline of a criminal tax case, model jury instructions and indictment and information forms. 2001. (DOJ)
- Internal
Revenue Bulletins
- Starting
with 1995-02. (IRS)
- Internal
Revenue Information Letters
- Advisory letters
providing general statements of well-defined law without applying them
to specific facts. (IRS)
- Internal
Revenue Manual
- The IRM (plus the
Chief Counsel Directives Manual) contains the policies, procedures, instructions,
and guidelines used by the Internal Revenue Service. (IRS)
- Internal Revenue Written Determinations
- Starting with 1999. In general, there are three types of IRS written determinations: *Taxpayer-specific rulings or determinations are written memoranda furnished by the IRS National Office in response to requests by taxpayers under published annual guidelines. See Rev. Proc. 2008-1 and Rev.Proc. 2008-4 for more information about these guidelines.
*
Technical advice memoranda (TAM) are written memoranda furnished by the National Office of the IRS upon request of a district director or chief appeals officer pursuant to annual review procedures. See Rev. Proc. 2008-2 for more information about these procedures.
*
Chief Counsel Advice (CCA) materials are written advice or instructions prepared by the Office of Chief Counsel and issued to field or service center employees of the IRS or Office of Chief Counsel. See the Chief Counsel Advice Training Materials for more information about CCAs. (IRS)
- Internal
Revenue Service
- Includes forms.
- Illinois
Department of Revenue
- Includes forms and
publications for 1996 to current.
- Indiana
Department of Revenue
- Includes forms and
publications for 1995 to current.
- Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
- Includes forms
and publications for 1995 to current.
- State Tax Forms
- Links to downloadable tax forms in all states. (Federation of Tax Administrators)
Uniform Law Links
- National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
- Includes Uniform Acts and Legislation. Go to Final Acts and Legislation. Search by Act name to find the full text or by State to find which Uniform Acts have been adopted in each state. (NCCUSL)
- National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Drafts of Uniform and Model Acts - Official Site
- Links to the WordPerfect/Word, Adobe PDF, and generic text versions are available at the top of each document. (U. of Pennsylvania Law School and NCCUSL)
- Past and Present ALI Projects
- Compiled by ALI Librarian Harry Kyriakodis. (ALI)
- Uniform
Commercial Code Locator
- Links to state statutes
that correspond to Articles of the Uniform Commercial Code. Locators are
also available for the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Code of Evidence,
and uniform laws in the areas of: matrimonial, family and health and business
and finance. If you are unclear about what Uniform Laws are see the LII
"Uniform Laws" page. Note: Locators may not be as up-to-date as the print
Uniform Laws Annotated which is at KF165.A5 in the court libraries. (Cornell)
- Uniform Laws and Model Acts
- Provides an index of the names of uniform laws and links to each state's online version of those uniform laws. (LawSource)
Legal Search Engines
- FindLaw
- A comprehensive topical indexed guide to law related information on the Internet. The Findlaw Guide includes has two points of entry - a tab for the Public and a tab for Legal Professionals. There are different search capabilities - search the guide, full text of law reviews, the contents of legal sites, or U.S. government sites, among others. Also includes LawCrawler, a specialized search engine that searches only law-related Web sites. (ThomsonWest)
- Law.com Quest: Search the Legal Web BETA
- New keyword search tool from Law.com whose aim is to bring legal professionals relevant results from across the Law.com Network and the legal web. Quest offers the option of either searchiing the Law.com Network, including NY Law Journal, American Lawyer, National Law Journal, U.S. Supreme Court Monitor and more or a broad range of legal sites on the web, including hundreds of hand-picked law firm websites and legal blogs. Results may be filtered by date ranges or content type and you may search within your results. Most but not all or the results are free. (ALM)
- LOUIS: Library of Unified Information Sources BETA
- LOUIS currently contains, in fully searchable format, seven sets of federal documents: Congressional Reports, Congressional Record, Congressional Hearings, Federal Register, Presidential Documents, GAO Reports, Congressional Bills & Resolutions. In addition, LOUIS delivers these federal documents in an electronic, printable, text format for easier use.
Search broadly for keywords or limit searches to a single document set or range of dates. LOUIS, which daily updates its document depository, allows you to set up a "standing query" as an RSS feed. LOUIS can alert you every time there is a new document that references your query. For example, if you want to follow "lobbying reform," and Senators debate the lobbying reform measures of an ethics bill, the LOUIS notifier feed will send an update with a link to the relevant transcript from the Congressional Record. (Sunlight Foundation)
Sites with Extensive
Legal Links
- ALSO : American Law Sources Online
- Comprehensive compilation of links to online sources of law for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Federal and state legal resources are available with links to court decisions, legislation, local rules, legal forms and more. There is also a very complete Uniform Laws section and a section that gathers links to amicus curiae briefs. (LawSource)
- Cornell
Law School : Legal Information Institute
- Includes the Legal
Information Institute's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court
decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution,
Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, the American Legal Ethics
Library, and other important legal materials -- federal, state, foreign
and international. It holds the LII's e-mail address directory of faculty
and staff at U.S. law schools as well as contact information on other
people and organizations in the field of law.
- Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
- Being developed by the law librarians at the Cornell Law Library as a compilation of United States and International legal resources to enhance access to and awareness of these materials in their varied formats. The Legal Research Encyclopedia is a topical and jurisdictional arrangement of all available formats, including print, microform, CD-ROM, WESTLAW, LEXIS and the Internet. Citation to research tools and direct links are provided. (Cornell)
- Cornell Legal Research Engine
- Specialized search engine for locating online research guides. Keyword search in full text of research guides from more than one dozen law schools and LLRX. (Cornell)
- A
Guide to Wisconsin Legal Information Sources
- Originally published
in the Wisconsin Lawyer, written by law librarian Bonnie Shucha. (Wisconsin
Bar)
- Hieros
Gamos: The Comprehensive Law and Government Portal
- From the Greek,
hieros gamos means the harmonization of seeming opposites, sun and moon,
earth and sky, mercury and sulfur and, in the case of the Internet, electronic
and written information. Includes a directory section, over 200 practice
areas, and a global resource guide. Established by Lex Mundi, a global
association of 125 independent law firms. (HG)
- PublicLegal: Internet Legal Research Group
- Categorizes and links to over 4000 law related web sites worldwide, attempting to be the most comprehensive legal resource guide on the Internet. Quality controlled to include only the most substantive legal resources online, based on uniqueness and substantive value of the information provided. (ILRG)
- Law Library of Congress
- Digital resources including: Global Legal Information Network,
Global Legal Monitor, Guide to Law Online, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, Foreign and International Law Guides, Congressional Hearings Project, THOMAS: Legislative Information and Supreme Court Nominations. (Library of Congress)
- Law
Library Resource Xchange
- Updated on the 1st
and 15th of each month, this site is is a unique Webzine with a special
focus on research, management and technology topics for legal professionals.
Each digital issue features articles, departments and columns with up-to-date
information written by expert law librarians, attorneys, information technology
specialists and legal technology consultants. Each edition of LLRX highlights
a broad range of topics including: current Congressional activities relating
to technology, research, and libraries; useful Web sites for legal researchers;
technology training resources; and issues that deal with the challenges
posed to the legal community by the continually expanding electronic world.
(LLRX)
- LawMoose
- Wisconsin Legal Web
- Regional
engine. All content is editorially selected, pertains to law, and is published
by the legal community. Links to judicial biographies. (Pritchard Law
Webs)
- LexisONE
- A free web site providing access to Supreme Court cases from 1781 to present and to the last ten years of federal and state case law,
as well as free legal forms and a legal Internet guide. Allows keyword and citation searches. Requires a simple online registration. (Lexis)
- Nations of the World
- Prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), this site is an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information worldwide on government and law available online without charge. It includes links to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's nations, although none of these sites have yet qualified for full GLIN recognition for the completeness, accuracy and officially certified authenticity of the legal texts they provide. As such sites come online, they will be linked directly to the GLIN database and will receive special recognition in the Guide. The documents are full text in the official language of the country of origin. For other sources of information on United States law, law of states and territories and international law, see the Guide to Law Online. (Law Library of Congress)
- PublicLegal: Internet Legal Research Group
- Categorizes and links to over 4000 law related web sites worldwide, attempting to be the most comprehensive legal resource guide on the Internet. Quality controlled to include only the most substantive legal resources online, based on uniqueness and substantive value of the information provided. (ILRG)
- Wex, Everyone's Resource for Law Learning
- Wex is a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School. Much of the material that appears in Wex was originally developed for the LII's "Law about..." pages, to which Wex is the successor. Cornell limits access to the Wex authoring apparatus as a way of ensuring that the quality of material remains high and free of vandalism of various kinds. (Cornell LII)
- Wisconsin State Law Library
- Links to sources of state, federal and tribal law information, legal and government forms and much more. (WSLL)
Government Search
Sites
- FedWorld
- Electronic gateway
to more than 150 federal government agencies. Site collects government
gophers, file transfer protocol sites, and Web pages into a clearly categorized,
searchable system. Includes full text of some government databases, such
as the EPA Clean Air Act database, and abstracts of other reports, like
the National Technical Information Service's Technical Reports database
or the database of Military Standards, with information about how to obtain
the full text. (NTIS)
- Google U.S. Government Search
- Single location for searching across U.S. government information. Includes U.S. federal, state and local sites with domains such as .gov and .mil as well as select government sites with .com, .us, and .edu. (Google)
- Government
Information Locator Service
- The Government
Information Locator Service (GILS) identifies, locates, and describes
publicly available Federal information resources, including electronic
information resources. The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) puts the
records of other agencies on its server to provide a single point of entry
to access or link all U.S. Federal GILS databases. Not all agencies have
mounted their GILS records on the GPO Access server and some are not easily
accessible. The GPO Access GILS application allows you to search all available
Federal GILS sites at once, or search individual agency GILS databases
maintained at GPO. (GPO)
- Government Printing Office
Home Page
- GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to many information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. To find information by topic, use the site's finding aids. (GPO)
- Library
of Congress Home Page
- Retrieve public
documents and search the card catalog. Special collections include American
Memory and American Treasures with digital images and photographs, as
well as access to library services, catalogs of other libraries nationwide
and research tools.
- SearchGov.com
- Along with its sister
site SearchMil.com, Search Gov.com
presents a no-frills way to search federal, state, and government web
sites. Both sites will produce many hits, but you may find the most relevant
sites are first in the list. (MaxBot.com)
- USA.gov
- USA.gov provides
one-stop access to all online U.S. federal government resources. It is
a world wide web information portal for the United States Federal Government
and a place to find information from local, state and federal government
websites. Easy to search by keyword or by topic. Now includes links to
State Government and also has added a link to International portals. (GSA)
dt>USA Services: FCIC
National Contact Center
- Specializes in
direct linking and searching the Internet to locate information that has
been posted by and for government agencies. Federal
Telephone Directories is an expanding and useful resource. A related
program, the Federal Consumer Information Center (FCIC), specializes in
direct telephone assistance to callers who are trying to locate information
in any format on Federal agencies, programs, and services.
Government Documents
Federal Documents
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- Search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. Find a nearby Federal depository library that has a particular publication. Click on the title of interest from the search results list. Then click on the Locate in a Library link within the displayed record. Coverage dates from July 1976. Plans are underway to include records for publications back to the late 1800s. (GPO)
- Locate
a Federal Depository Library in Your Area
- Clickable map.
The Chicago Headquarters library is a selective depository library.
(GPO)
- U.S.
Government Online Bookstore
- (GPO)
- Government Information Online: Ask A Librarian
- Free national online information service supported by participating official depository libraries. Participating librarians will try to answer your questions through chat or email. (Illinois State Library)
- U.S.
Government Information on the Web Subject Index
- This very useful
site leads to a keyword index of government information subject pages.
Most of the pages have been compiled by libraries with government document
sections. (St. Mary's University, Texas)
State Documents
- Checklist of State Documents
- The State Documents Section collects state documents for distribution to depository libraries throughout Indiana. The section is also responsible for compiling and making available the Checklist of Indiana State Documents, now available as series of online databases. Included in the collection are state agency reports, periodicals, and journals. For the records of various state agencies, contact the Indiana State Archives. This archive of State Documents Checklists starts with 1990. (Indiana State Library)
Defunct Websites
- Archive-It.org
- Internet Archive's subscription service, Archive-It, allows institutions to build and preserve their own web archive of digital content. Subscribers can harvest, catalog, and archive their collections, and then search and browse the collections when complete. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center, and accessible to the public with full text search. (Internet Archive)
- Cybercemetery of Former Federal Web Sites
- Permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions. (University of North Texas and GPO)
- Federal Web Harvests
- The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) harvests Federal web sites on a recurring basis. That harvested and archived material is then made publicly available at this site on the web. Harvests are currently conducted at the end of each Presidential term (4 years) and Congress (2 years) to provide a macro view of how the government's web presence changes with the election cycles.(NARA)
- Finding Old Web Pages
- Lists sources for finding Web pages as they used to exist, whether archived or cached, including how to search for a single "cached" copy of a page using one of the search engines. (Gregg Notess)
- GovernmentAttic.org - Rummaging in the Government's Attic
- Aims to make available materials unavailable elsewhere. Uses a menu format and a Google site search. (Governmentattic.org)
- Wayback Machine
- Stores pages that are no longer posted on the Web in the digital Internet Archive. (Internet Archive)
Directories of Lawyers
- Attorney and Firm Directory Search
- Website of Legal Directories Publishing Company, publisher of many of the state legal directories. (Legal Directories Publishing Company, Inc.)
- Findlaw
West Legal Directory
- Search by location
or name. (Findlaw)
- LawPeriscope
- Profiles the nation's
300 largest firms. The profiles or outlines of each firm take the information
on the firm's own site and organize it under a uniform structure so the
information is easy to find. LawPeriscope lists offices, practice areas,
attorneys, clients, publications and other features, also links to firm's
website. (Periscope Ventures Corp.)
- Locating Lawyers (including Corporate Counsel): A Brief Overview of Attorney Directories and a 50 State Survey of Online State Bar Directories
- Most useful for the state bar sources. Compiled by law librarian Scott Russell. (LLRX.com)
- Martindale.com Lawyer Locator
- Use this Locator to find a lawyer by name. Also search by practice area or location. (Martindale-Hubbell)
- Solicitors-Online: The Place to Find Information About Law Firms and Solicitors in England and Wales
- (Law Society)
- Illinois
Lawyer Finder
- (Illinois State
Bar Association)
- Indiana Roll of Attorneys
- (Indiana Supreme Court)
- WisBar
Lawyer Search
- Most current address
information on Wisconsin attorneys; more current than the directory issue
of the Wisconsin Lawyer. (Wisconsin Bar)
Legal Associations
- American
Bar Association
- Bar Associations
- Links to every state bar, as well as to national and international bar associations. (lawinfo.com)
- Bar Associations
- This section includes profiles of and links to state, national and international Bar associations. The information includes current officers,
- Directory
of Lawyer Disciplinary Agencies
- (ABA)
- Findlaw
Legal Associations and Organizations
- There are separate
categories for National and Specialty Legal Associations, State and Local
Legal Associations, Foreign and International Legal Associations and Other
Legal Associations.
- HierosGamos
Worldwide Bar Associations
- (HeirosGamos)
State Bar Associations
- State and Local Bar Associations
- Links provided to all state bar associations and to local bar associations. (ABA)
- Illinois
State Bar Association
- Indiana
State Bar Association
- WisBar:
State Bar of Wisconsin
County or Regional Bar Associations
Illinois
- Chicago
Bar Association
- Chicago, Illinois
- Chicago Council of Lawyers
- The 2006 Evaluation of the Federal District Judges in Chicago is on the site along with the 2007 Evaluation of Sitting Federal District Court Judges in Chicago on Senior Status and 1994 Evaluations of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Judges. Chicago, Illinois.
- Northwest
Suburban Bar Association
- Arlington Heights,
Illinois
- The 7th Circuit Bar Association
- Chicago, Illinois
Indiana
- Allen County Bar Association
- Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Evansville Bar Association
- Evansville, Indiana
- Indianapolis Bar Association
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Lake County Bar Association
- Crown Point, Indiana
- St. Joseph County Bar Association
- South Bend, Indiana
Wisconsin
- Dane
County Bar Association
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Eastern
District of Wisconsin Bar Association
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Milwaukee
Bar Association
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Other Legal Associations
- American
Arbitration Association
- American Association for Justice - formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- American
Association of Law Schools
- American
Bankruptcy Institute
- American
Judicature Society
- Association
of Federal Defense Attorneys
- Federal
Bar Association
- Federal
Court Clerk's Association (FCCA)
- Federal
Magistrate Judges Association
- Includes Magistrate
Judge Links. Also see the FMJA published Federal
Courts Law Review.
- National
Center for State Courts
- National
Conference of Bankruptcy Clerks
Law Library Associations
- American
Association of Law Librarians
- Archive
of the Law-Lib Electronic Discussion List
- Special
Libraries Association
- Chicago
Association of Law Librarians
- Mid-America
Association of Law Librarians
- Ohio
Regional Association of Law Librarians
Bar Admissions
- ABA
Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- (ABA and National
Conference of Bar Examiners)
- Bar
Admissions: An Overview
- (Cornell)
- National
Conference of Bar Examiners
- (NCBE)
- Illinois
Board of Admissions to the Bar
- (IBABY)
- Indiana
Board of Law Examiners
- (IBLE)
- Wisconsin
Board of Bar Examiners
- (Wisconsin Bar)
Continuing Legal
Education
- Illinois
Institute of Continuing Legal Education
- Indiana
Continuing Legal Education Forum
- Indiana
Commission for Continuing Legal Education
- Admission and Discipline
Rule 29 (the CLE Rule), Admission and Discipline Rule 30. (Attorney Specialization),
Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules (ADR Rules and Courses.) (State of
Indiana)
- Wisconsin
Bar Continuing Legal Education
- ABA
CLE
- ALI-ABA
- Practicing
Law Institute
- Mandatory
Continuing Legal Education
- Includes a state-by-state
summary of MCLE State Requirements. (ABA)
Legal Publishers
- CRIV
Legal Publishers List:Corporate Affiliations of Legal Publishers
- Links to legal publisher's
Internet sites. Last updated in 2006. (CRIV)
- CRIV
List of Divested Titles
- Primarily for law
librarians, this page lists titles of lawbooks in alphabetical order,
their original publishers and current publishers, as well as the date
a title was taken over or ceased publication. Last updated in 2006. (CRIV)
Used and Out of Print Books
- BookFinder.com
- Realtime information
about over 150 million books available online. A book
shopping search engine scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare,
and out of print books. (13th Generation Media)
Legal Employment
- Firm
Salaries & Other Statistics Charts
- Individual firm
salaries, bonus information. (Infirmation.com)
- Job-Hunt.Org:
Law and Law Enforcement Jobs
- Legal job site links.
(Netability.inc)
- Law
Jobs.com
- Legal jobs and career
information. (law.com)
- Job Searcher's Guide to Online Job Sites
- List of the top job searching sites online. Includes information about the privacy practices at each site. (World Privacy Forum)
- NALP Directory of Legal Employers
- Current year's directory online. Quick search and advance search. (NALP)
- PSLawNet
- Public Service Law
Network. Organizations that fund fellowships and are interested in sponsoring
public interest fellows and hiring public interest lawyers. (NALP)
- USAJOBS
- U.S. Government's
official site for jobs and employment information. (OPM)
Law School Sites
& Library Catalogs
All Law Schools
- ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools
- Searchable Edition of the ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools.
(Law School Admission Council/ABA)
- Association of American Law Schools
- Click on About AALS and go to "Member Schools" on the resulting menu for a list linking to the member and non-member fee-paid schools of The Association of American Law Schools. (AALS)
- Law
Schools: USA
- A - Z links to
Law School Home Pages. (Findlaw)
- USA
Law Schools By State
- Each listing has
a link to the law school home page, the law library WWW page, the law
library online catalogue (this may be a telnet link), law reviews and
journals of the school, the university home page, a Princeton Review article
on the school and the admissions address of the law school. (Findlaw)
Illinois Law Schools
- Chicago-Kent
College of Law
- Chicago-Kent
College of Law Catalog - I-Share
- DePaul
University College of Law
- DePaul
Univerity Library Catalog - I-Share
- John
Marshall Law School
- John Marshall's Louis L. Biro Law Library Catalog - INNOPAC
- Loyola
University School of Law, Chicago
- Loyola
University Catalog - Pegasus
- Northern
Illinois University College of Law
- Northern
Illinois University Library Catalog - I-Share
- Northwestern
University School of Law
- Northwestern
University Library Catalog - NUCat
- Southern
Illinois University School of Law
- Southern
Illinois University School of Law Library - Catalog
- University
of Chicago Law School
- University
of Chicago Library Catalog
- University of Illinois College of Law
-
University of Illinois Online Library Catalog
- I-Share
- Formerly called ILLINET. I-Share includes the resources of 76 Illinois libraries belonging to CARLI, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois.
Indiana Law Schools
- Indiana
University School of Law, Bloomington
- Indiana
University Library Catalog - IUCAT
- Indiana
University School of Law, Indianapolis
- Indiana
University Library Catalog - IUCAT
- University
of Notre Dame Law School
- University
of Notre Dame Kresge Law Library Catalog - LINK
- University Libraries of Notre Dame Catalog
- Valparaiso
University School of Law
- Valparaiso
University Library Catalog - GALILEO
Wisconsin Law Schools
- Marquette
University Law School
- Marquette
University Catalog - MARQCAT
- University
of Wisconsin Law School
- University
of Wisconsin Catalog - MadCat
Missouri Law Schools
- Saint Louis University School of Law
-
Omer Poos Law Library Catalog - MERLIN
- University
of Missouri Columbia Law School
- University
of Missouri Columbia Law School Catalog - MERLIN
- Washington
University School of Law
- Washington
University School of Law Catalog
Library Catalogs
- WorldCat
- Find items in nearby libraries. Find books, music, and videos to check out. Find research articles and digital items (like audiobooks) that can be directly viewed or downloaded.
Link to "Ask a Librarian" and other services at your library. Item records in WorldCat now include a Cite this Item link - located on the same line as the ISBN number - which provides bibliographic citations for that item in five common citation styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. (OCLC)
Law Journals
State Bar Journals
- Illinois
Bar Journal
- Available free to
ISBA members. Members and nonmembers can view the contents of the latest
issue and the full text of a selected article. Members can view current
and back issues, subject-matter indexes or beginning with the November 1998
issue, search the full text. (Illinois State Bar)
- Indiana's Res Gestae
- Articles are not currently available on the website. Writing guidelines and current ad rates are on the site. Res Gestae is held in the South Bend and Indianapolis branch libraries. (Indiana State Bar)
- Indiana
Lawyer
- Selected stories available.
(IBJ Corp.)
- Wisconsin Lawyer
- Look to the right hand column to search by Keyword, Title, or Author. Also search current or past issues back to January 1997, search by Topic or be taken directly to court history articles. (Wisconsin State Bar)
Other Bar Journals
- Contents
Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Also includes a list
of law reviews with links to the law review web site. (Tarlton at U. of
Texas)
- Current Law Journal Content
- This free service can be used in a variety of ways. Display all the tables of contents for issues added during a user selected date range; Search for words in article citations (author/title/abstract/journal-name fields); Link to tables of contents for any one of over 1200 individual law journals; Link from authored article citations to corresponding retrieval possibilities in Lexis, Westlaw, or HeinOnline, in which case passwords and an account will be required. Also, the service will supply an RSS feed listing new journal issue contents. (Washington and Lee)
- Guide to Short Form Open Access Legal Publications
- These are publications that provide a forum for scholarly and timely exchanges on new developments and issues. Prepared by law librarian Ken Strutin. (LLRX)
- Law Reviews Online
- Sites offering free and complete access to the full text of articles and notes in complete issues. Sites offering only table of contents or abstracts are not included. (Library of Congress)
- Legal
Journals
- Links to General Law
Reviews, Subject Specific Law Reviews, Commercial Law Journals, Foreign
Law Journals, ABA Journals and Newsletters, Law Review Locating Services,
General Interest and Computing Periodicals, E-Journal Locating Services.
(U. of Southern California)
- University
Law Review Project
- Joint venture of Findlaw,
Cornell LII, Stanford and Jurist. Allows a full text search of many American
law journals and offers abstracts of new articles by e-mail.
- Washlaw
Web
- Some full text
searching of law reviews. (Washburn)
Legal Blogs
- ABA Blawg Directory
- Organizes legal "blawgs" alphabetically, by author type, region and law school. (ABA)
- Blawg: Your Source for Legal Blogs, Podcasts and News Feeds
- This comprehensive directory of law oriented blogs has added podcasts and RSS feeds to the directory and will continue to focus on new trends in communicating within the legal community. (Bill Gratsch)
- Legal Blawgs by Topic
- Web archive of over 100 legal blogs starting with posts from 2007. Retrieve blog postings using keywords or browse by subject, name, or title. (Law Library of Congress)
- Appellate Law & Practice
- Blog devoted to appellate law and advocacy. (A group of federal law clerks and appellate lawyers, some blogging anonymously)
- Federal Civil Practice Bulletin
- Blog dedicated to federal civil practice and procedure. (A. Benjamin Spencer)
- How Appealing
- Blog devoted to appellate litigation. (Howard Bashman)
- ScotusBlog
- Blog devoted to Supreme Court. (Goldstein & Howe)
- Sentencing Law and Policy
- Law professor Douglas Berman's blog is the "chronicler of the sweeping effect of the Blakely v. Washington ruling on the nation's courts." (Douglas Berman)
- Indiana Law Blog
- Focus on Indiana law and interesting developments in law and government. (Marcia J. Oddi)
- WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library
- Legal research and Internet news with an emphasis on Wisconsin. (U. of Wisconsin Law Library)
Legal News
- American Lawyer
- (American Lawyer Media)
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
- Headlines only. Full text requires a subscription. (Law Bulletin Publishing Co.)
- Chicago Lawyer
- Feature story only. (Law Bulletin Publishing Co.)
- FindLaw Legal News
- Current sections include: News Front Page, International, Commentary, Entertainment, Sports, Book Reviews, Weather, and Newswires. (Findlaw)
- Indiana Lawyer
- (IBJ Publishing)
- Jurist: Legal News & Research
- (Jurist)
- Law.com
- The site includes a national daily newspaper for and about the legal profession. Updated daily - 5 days a week. If you are too busy to browse the site, sign up for Legal Newswire and receive a digest of the day’s top legal stories every morning by email. Also includes current filings in federal courts and synopses of current state decisions. (Law.com)
- National Law Journal
- On May 4, 2009, Legal Times merged with National Law Journal. (Incisive Media)
News of Interest
to the Judiciary
- CNN/Time
All Politics.com
- For timely information
on Politics. Also see the CNN/Law Center
for legal headlines.
- House Floor Proceedings
- Located in the center of the page, when the House is in session, floor business is reported in reverse chronological scroll. In addition, this site affords users access to legislative information. Reported floor activity pertaining to a particular bill links directly to the text and the status of that bill via THOMAS.
- Project
Vote Smart
- This is the best site
for nonpartisan information - biographies, campaign finances, issue stands,
and more - about state and federal candidates and elected officials. There
is also material on elections and governmental units.
- Roll
Call Online
- Plug into Congress
with this Washington D.C. newspaper, including news, politics, policy and
commentary. (Roll Call)
- Third
branch: The Newsletter of the Federal Courts
- Issues from 1995-Current.
(AOUS)
Judicial Nominations
- ABA Ratings for Article III Judicial Nominees
- Ratings from the 101st Congress to the present. (ABA)
- History of Federal Judgeships
- Process for soliciting and evaluating requests for additional appellate and district court judgeships, including historic information on authorized judgeships by presidents since 1933. (AOUS)
- Judges and Judgeships
- Information about judicial vacancies and authorized judgeships. Article III Judges only. (AOUS)
- Judicial
Nominations Database
- Database of all recent
federal judicial nominations and recent confirmations. Sortable by name,
court, nomination and confirmation dates. (U. of Michigan Law School)
- Presidential Nominations
- Searchable. Presidential Nomination number, date the nomination was received by the committee, legislative actions, and the nominee. Since 1987. (Library of Congress)
- Senate
Nominations Page
- Links to documents
listing nominations received from the President during the current Congress
that are currently pending in committee, pending on the calendar, confirmed
by the Senate, and withdrawn by or returned to the President. (U.S. Senate)
Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Abbreviations.com
- Browse alphabetically, by category or use the search box. (Stands4LLC)
- Acronym
Finder
- Type in your acronym
in the search box. Database of several hundred thousand acronyms. (Mountain
Data Systems)
- Acronyma
- Provides users an interface to a large database of acronyms found on the Internet using proprietary algorithms. (Studio Jalapeno)
- Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
- Search by publication title or abbreviation. Mainly covers law reports and law periodicals, but some legislative publications and major textbooks are also included.(Cardiff U.)
- GovSpeak: A Guide to Government Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Lists the full names of the agency or program to which they refer and in most cases a link to the official agency website. (Kelly Smith)
- Internet Acronym Server
- A simplified version of the Worldwide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server. (U. of Cork, Ireland)
- Military Acronyms and Glossaries
- (IUPUI)
- Selected Sources for Decoding Periodical and Journal Abbreviations
- This is a brief list of sources on the Internet and print that decode or index journal abbreviations or list sources that decode such
abbreviations.
Address and Telephone
Directories
Government Directories
- Federal
Government Telephone Directories
- Federal government
telephone numbers and e-mail addresses for selected agencies and the Congress.
(FCIC National Contact Center)
- State
Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations Web Site Links and Telephone
Numbers
- Scrolldown page with
links to laws and regs and telephone numbers to state government operators,
legislative assemblies, legislative reference centers, and state law libraries.
(LLSDC)
- U.S.
Government Telephone and E-Mail Directories
- (USA.gov)
Personal and Business Directories
- AnyWho Directories
- Tabs include the Home tab, where you can search for people or businesses, also tabs for Yellow (Business), White (People) and Reverse Look-up of phone numbers. All residential and business listings are obtained through the most current public records and published local telephone directories. The listings are updated approximately every three months. None of the listings contained in the White Pages are obtained from AT&T billing records. There are map links available with the listings. At this time there are no e-mail addresses available on AnyWho. (AnyWho, a servicemark of AT&T)
- AT&T
Directory Assistance
- Find phone numbers,
addresses, maps and directions for businesses and people in the U.S. Also includes reverse look-up.(AT&T)
- DEXKnows.com
- Dex Media is the official directory provider for Qwest telephone listings for Qwest's 14 state region, which includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. White pages with People Search, Reverse Number Search and Reverse Address Search. Yellow pages with What and Where fields. (Dex Media)
- 411
Locate
- Search by name, phone
number or reverse look-up. (411 locate.com)
- LinkedIn
- An interconnected network of millions of experienced professionals from around the world, representing 170 industries and 200 countries. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional expertise and accomplishments and then form connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to a vast number of professionals and experts. (LinkedIn Corp.)
- Reverse
Directory Phone Book for White Pages, Yellow Pages and Reverse Street Address
- Gathers all the reverse
directory search engines on one page. Other searches, like person finders,
dictionaries and so forth also available.(Langenberg.com)
- SuperPages.com
- Use tabs to search for businesses or people, maps and online shopping. People Search includes a reverse phone and a reverse address search for residential listings. (Idearc Media Corp.)
- Switchboard
- Find a Person, a Business, or a Map, Reverse Look-up of phone numbers, Area and Zip Codes.
(Switchboard Inc.)
- Yahoo! People Search
- Yahoo! has a US Phone and Address Search and also an E-Mail search. Email addresses are gathered from Yahoo! users. (Yahoo)
- ZabaSearch - People Search
- Full telephone numbers and addresses. Gets information from public databases. Has some unlisted numbers.(Zaba)
- ZoomInfo: Find People and Companies
- Comprehensive source of business information on people and companies in the world. Find people or companies. Search for their name in the directory and get details on career history, education, places they have been mentioned on the Web and more. You can also use the search box. (Zoom Information Inc.)
Locating E-Mail Addresses
Searches for e-mail addresses are often not successful, yielding either defunct
addresses or no addresses at all.
- Infospace
- Email email address searching. (Infospace, Inc.)
- Yahoo
People Search
- (Yahoo)
Meta-Search Sites
- Infobel World Telephone Directories on the Web
- An index of links to online telephone, fax and business directories from over 216 countries around the world. (Kapitol)
- MelissaData Free Lookups
- Address and street data, area codes, zip codes, maps and more. (MelissaData)
Area Codes and Zip Codes
- Area Code Maps
- U.S. and Canadian area code maps. (NANPA)
- Area
Decoder - Area Code Lookup Service
- Enter area code and
get a city or enter a city and get the area code. Also country codes for international
calls. (AmeriCom)
- Fone
Finder
- Fone Finder finds the
geographic location of any phone number in the world. Key in a phone number,
and it will give you the city, state, country, a flag, map, and links to the
area. Fone Finder can also find the country code, area code, and prefix given
the city name. (Primeris, Inc.)
- Zip Code Lookup
- Zip codes plus Zip Code Address Locator with link to official USPS abbreviation lists for states and streets. (USPS)
International Calling Codes
- AT&T International Dialing Guide and Access Codes
- (AT&T)
- International
Dialing Codes
- Table lists international
direct dialing prefixes. (Steve Kropla)
- International Dialing Codes
- If you need to make a phone call to someone in another country and you are not quite sure how to dial the number, then this service should help you. Tells you what to dial and gives you a local time comparison. (Time and Date AS)
Almanacs and Factbooks
- Country
Studies and Area Handbooks
- Online versions
of books previously published in hard copy. Description and analysis of
the historical setting and the social,economic, political and national
security systems of over 100 countries and regions. (Library of Congress)
- Information
Please Almanac
- Online version of
this almanac is browseable by subject and searchable. Sections full of
facts on World, People, U.S., Sports, Entertainment, Weather, Health,
Finance and Business, Living, Society, and Science. (Family Education
Network)
- World Factbook
- Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map. Downloadable by country. (CIA)
- International Country Profiles
- Guide to history, politics and economic background of countries. (BBC)
- World
Factbook
- Sections on Geography,
People, Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military,
and Transnational issues. Downloadable by country. (CIA)
Associations
- ASAE's
Gateway to Associations Online
- Searchable database
of associations. Can be searched by name, category or state. (ASAE)
- Associations on the Net
- Guide to web sites of prominent organizations and associations. (IPL)
Automobile Values
- CarTalk
Car Reports
- Free online report.
Search by year and model. (Cars.com)
- Edmund's
Automobile Buyer's Guides
- New car pricing
and used car values back to 1990. Edmunds.com's True Market Value is a
proprietary system that takes into account market variables to provide
information on what you should pay for a new vehicle - or what you should
expect to pay or receive for a used vehicle. TMV pricing has national
coverage, with regionalized values throughout the United States. (Edmunds.com)
- Kelley
Blue Book
- Used car bluebook
values from 1987 as well as new car pricing. Gives trade-in value if you
are going to purchase from or sell to a dealer and private party value
if you intend to purchase from or sell to another consumer. Also values
Motorcycles, Personal Watercraft and Snowmobiles. Older and Collector
cars, Recreation Vehicles, Motor Homes and Travel Trailers values are
not available on the Internet at this time. (Kelley Blue Book)
- NADAguides.com
- New car pricing
and covers used cars, trucks, SUVs, Vans and minivans back to 1988,
as well as classic and collectible cars from 1926-1987. Also values Motorcycles,
ATVs, Personal Watercraft and Snowmobiles, Boats, Recreational Vehicles,
Airplanes and Manufactured Housing. (NADA Appraisal Guides)
Bible and Other
Sacred Texts
- All-in-One
Biblical Resources Search
- Enables you to go
to one page to search several Bible resource sites. (Dr. Mark Goodacre,
U. of Birmingham)
- Bible
Gateway
- Search for biblical
references in nine languages and multiple Bible versions, including the
following versions in English: Darby, King James (KJV), New American Standard
Version (NASB), New International Version (NIV), Revised Standard Version
(RSV), and Young's Literal Translation (YLT) . Also includes the Arabic
Book of Life, the Chinese Gospels, Farsi New Testament, and Maylayalam
New Testament. (Gospel Communications Network)
- Internet
Public Library - Sacred and Other Religious Texts
- (IPL)
- Internet
Sacred Text Archive
- Click on topics
list on the left to get to electronic texts about religion, mythology,
legends and folklore. (sacred-texts.com)
- The
Unbound Bible
- A collection of
searchable Bibles consisting of 10 English versions, Greek and Hebrew
Versions, 4 ancient versions and 42 versions in other languages. (Biola
University)
Biography
- Biography.com
- Search by entering
a name into the search box, or scroll through an alphabetical list. (A&E)
- Law Professors
- Links to faculty biographies and bibliographies at law schools. (Jurist)
- Political
Graveyard - A Database of Historical Cemeteries (The Web Site That Tells
Where the Dead Politicians are Buried or The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography)
- Originally begun
as a listing of the burial places of every significant American politician
who ever lived, this site is a research tool filled with biographical
information about Presidents, Congressmen, Senators, and Governors from
America's past. The author of this site uses the Biographical Directory
of the U.S. Congress, but also obtains information from many other
biographical sources including state legislative manuals, the Congressional
Directory, newspaper obituaries, library vertical files, and genealogists
and political historians. The site includes everyone who served in the
Presidency or Vice-Presidency, the Cabinet, the U.S Congress, and the
U.S. Supreme Court, or as Governor of any state. Politicians (over 18,000)
are listed in alphabetical order, by state and offices held, by state
and country of birth or death, by date born or died, and by many other
categories. As an example of what you may find, see the pages on The
Federal Judiciary or Indiana
Offices - Index of Politicians by Office Held or Sought. (Lawrence
Kestenbaum)
- Uncle
Sam - Who's Who in the Federal Government
- (U. of Memphis)
Books Online
Search Tools with Links
to E-Text/E-Books Sites
- Booksearch x 3
- Search inside books with A9.com and Google Books. Small search box in the top frame and presents results in columns, one for each search engine.
- Directory
of Electronic Text Archives
- Use the search box
to look for your text title. (Google)
- Google Book Search
- Do a search and when Google finds a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, you will see some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given permission, you will see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book. In all cases, you'll see links that lead directly to online bookstores where you can buy the book. (Google)
Major Free E-Text Collections on the Internet
- Bartleby.com:Great
Books Online
- Online verse, fiction
and nonfiction, as well as reference works. (Bartleby.com)
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
- Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. (Lund U. Libraries)
- Electronic Books
- A comprehensive
site that links to sources of books on line, to book publishers, to bookstores.
(U. of Texas Libraries)
- Folklore
and Mythology Electronic Texts
- (U. of Pittsburgh)
- Humanities
Text Initiative
- Online access to
full text works which are searchable and browseable within each collection.
There are many collections including: American Verse prior to 1920, Modern
English from Aesop's Fables to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and 15,000 IPL
Online Texts. (U. of Michigan)
- IPL
Online Texts Links
- Rather than continuing to maintain its own index of online texts, the IPL now recommends a number of other worthwhile resources for this information
(IPL)
- Online
Books Page
- browse or search
thousands of online books by author, title, subject or serial title. (John
Mark Ockerbloom)
- Perseus
Digital Library
- Includes Greek and
Latin classical texts available in English, as well as an English Renaissance
library focusing on Shakespeare and Marlowe, and a London library focusing
on Dickens. The collection will continue to add more online texts. The site is not working right now, but we will leave it on. (Tufts
U.)
- Read Print
- Search for books, poems, and short stories by author or title. (Read Print)
- Social Science Research Network - SSRN
- Open access electronic repository for articles. Composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, including a Legal Scholarship Network which is a good place to look for law review articles that are not yet published or for working papers and drafts. Requires free registration. (Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.) A similar network is the BePress Legal Repository from the Berkeley Electronic Press.
Book Reviews
- Book Reviews - Bookspot
- Links to book reviews in newspapers, magazines and online. Also organizes by genre. (StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.)
- New
York Review of Books
- Includes a searchable
index of the magazine's contents. The current issue is available in full
text. Complete searchable index of the magazine's contents from 1963 to
the present. The site currently offers free access to the full text of
several hundred articles from the Review, both recent and from years past
(including the complete first issue).(nybooks.com)
- New
York Times on the Web - Books Section
- Use the search feature
at the top of the page to search the full text archive of reviews, news
and author interviews since 1981. (NYT)
Purchasing and Valuation of Used Books
- Abebooks.com
- Abebooks is the
world's largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books.
Over 13,500 booksellers list on Abebooks. (Advanced Book Exchange)
- AddALL
: Book Search and Price Comparison
- Search for a book
and get a price comparison chart with price and shipping costs from many
book selling sites. (AddALL.com)
- BiblioBot
- Instant book valuations. (PBA Galleries)
- BookFinder.com
- Realtime information
about over 125 million books available online. A book
shopping search engine scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare,
and out of print books. (Bookfinder.com)
- isbn.nu:
Search for Books and Compare Prices
- Search by title,
author, subject or ISBN. (Glenn Fleishman)
Calculators
- Calculators On-Line Center
- Contains over 23,000 calculators created by individuals, businesses & tax supported entities world wide. Part of Martindale's Reference Desk. (Jim Martindale)
- Dictionary
of Units
- Units of measurement
with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard'
unit. (Cleave Books)
- Financial Calculators
- (About.com) Also see: Financial Calculators from Dinkytown.net, Financial Calculators from Financial Calculators, Inc. or Calculators from Choose to Save.
- Measure
4 Measure
- A collection of
interactive sites on the Web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, and translate.
Compiled by librarian Judi Wolinsky.
- Mortgage
Calculators
- A dynamic mortgage calculator. (Karl Jeacle)
- Online Conversion.com
- Convert just about anything to anything else. (Robert Fogt)
- Universal
Currency Converter
- This is the Full
Universal Currency Converter which contains currency information on 180
currencies in over 250 geographical locations. There is also a Standard
Universal Currency Converter that does not have such a long list to
scroll through. (Xenon Laboratories Incorporated)
An alternative currency converter is found at Oanda.com:
The Currency Site. In addition to the currency converter, it includes
traveler aids such as the ability to print out a walletsize "currency
cheatsheet" or order foreign currency or traveler's checks. (Oanda)
Historical foreign exchange rates from 1971 to present may be found at
the Federal
Reserve Statistical Release H.10 - Foreign Exchange Rates site.
To find the exchange rate for any year or range of years between the U.S. dollar and forty other countries between 1913 and 2008, use Exchange Rates Between the United States Dollar and Forty-one Currencies. (Institute for the Measurement of Worth)
To find the purchasing power of money in the U.S. from 1774 to 2008, use Purchasing Power of Money in the United States. (Institute for the Measurement of Worth)
Calendars and Time
- Calendar
Zone
- Collection of links
to calendars of all sorts. (Janice McLean)
- Official U.S. Time
- Also has a World Time Zone Map.
- (NIST and USNO).
- Perpetual
Calendar
- Type in a month
and year from 0001 to 9999 and the Sunday to Saturday style calendar appears.
(Herb Weiner)
- Time
and Date.com
- Easy way to search
for time in different cities of the world. (Steffen Thorsen)
- Virtual
Perpetual Calendars
- Good collection
of perpetual calendars, holiday dates, leap years. (Mark J. Smith)
- World
Time Server
- Provides current
local times and makes real time adjustments for Daylight Saving Time.
(Chaos Software Group)
Colleges & Universities
- Web U.S. Higher Education
- Lists Universities and Community Colleges. Organizes by State and Alphabetically. (U. of Texas, Austin)
- American
Community College Web
- (Maricopa Community
College District)
- Canadian
Universities
- (Chris Redmond)
- Universities
Worldwide
- (Klaus Forster)
Company Information
- A.M. Best Search
- Locate content from a variety of A.M. Best sources, including all of site, insurance ratings, companies and news. Requires registration. (Best)
- AnnualReports.com
- Links to the reports on the companies' web sites.View annual reports in either html or pdf format after searching for a company alphabetically, by company name, or by ticker symbol. (AnnualReports.com)
- Business.gov - Official Business Link to the U.S. Government
- Managed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in a partnership with 21 other federal agencies. This partnership, known as Business Gateway, is a Presidential E-government initiative that provides a single access point to government services and information to help the nation's businesses with their operations. Site tools include: Start a Business; Register, Licenses & Permits; Finance & Taxes; Expand Your Business; Stay Compliant with Laws; Industries; State & Local and a Search feature. (U.S. Small Business Administration)
- Business Reference Services (Library of Congress)
- Starting point for conducting research at the Library of Congress in the subject areas of business and economics. Bibliographies and Guides and Internet Resources. (Library of Congress)
- Designed for businesses that operate in a crossborder context, providing essential information on the latest legislative and regulatory changes and operating conditions in more than 50 jurisdictions. (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu)
- Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations
- Looks at small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. (World Bank Group)
- Forbes
Company Lists
- Includes Forbes
500. (Forbes)
- Foundation
Center: Your Gateway to Philanthropy on the World Wide Web
- Click on Foundation
Finder to receive free information about 73,000 nonprofit organizations,
including the most recent IRS990-PF filing in pdf format. (Foundation
Center)
- Guides to Doing Business
- More than 130 guides to doing business for countries, states and provinces. (LexMundi)
- GuideStar:
The Donor's Guide to the Charitable Universe
- Searchable database
of more than 1 million nonprofit organizations in the United States. (Philanthropic
Research, Inc.)
- Hoover's
- Free information on the site allows you to research by company, find business people, and generate custom lists. (Hoover's, Inc.)
- IRS
Cumulative List of Organization - Charities and Non-Profits
- Online version of
Publication 78, Cumulative List of Organizations, intended to assist you
in learning if an organization is exempt from federal taxation and, if
so, determining how much of your contributions to that organization are
tax deductible. (IRS)
- PrecisionIR.com Annual Reports Service
- Free service provides you with quick access to annual reports and other information on select companies. Receive the latest edition, and where possible, be registered for the new report once it is received. (PrecisionIR Group)
- Thomas Register
- Find addresses, telephone numbers, catalogs and company website links. (Thomas Publishing) A similar industrial directory site is MacRae's Blue Book. (Owen Media Partners)
- Yahoo Finance Search
- Complete company profiles including address, officers, financials, investment prospects. (Yahoo)
Corporation Status
- Illinois
Services for Business
- Click on Corporate/LLC Information Search to check name availability, date of incorporation and current status
of Illinois corporations. (Illinois Secretary of State)
- Indiana
Corporations
- General information,
including corporation forms, and Corporation Online, for business entity
name search, name availability, and certificates of existence. (Indiana
Secretary of State)
- Wisconsin
Corporations Home Page
- Find the legal name,
date of incorporation and current status of all Wisconsin corporations.
(Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions)
- Business
Filings Databases
- Lists all states
that make Corporate and Business filings available online. Compiled by
law librarian Kathy Biehl. (LLRX)
Collected Business Resources
- ALA Best of the Best Business Web Sites
- Compiled by Business Reference and Services Section of American Library Association. (ALA)
- Business
Resources on the Web
- Collection of business
related websites. (U. of Washington Libraries)
- Business Research Guide
- Includes more than 3000 selected business and management-related Internet resources. (Rutgers U.)
Stock Values
- Big
Charts Historical Stock Quotes
- This site will give
you closing price stock quotes back to 1985. Go down to the middle of
the page, enter the stock symbol, then type in the day you need to check
on, and click the "Look Up" button. If you click on the tab for Quotes,
you could set up a Favorites page with a group of stock symbols that will
pop up every time you return to that tab. Simply type in symbols and click
the "Add" button. (MarketWatch.com)
- Yahoo
Historical Stock Quotes
- Yahoo! Finance offers
access to historical quote data in tabular format in several timeframes:
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Dividends. These Historical Quotes include
notations for all splits and dividend distributions during the date range
covered. Open, high, low and close quotes are not adjusted for splits
or dividends. An additional column, Adjusted Close, is provided which
is the close price adjusted for all splits and dividends. You may choose
the date range of the data displayed, change the ticker symbol query,
or switch to a different timeframe format. If the data requested is beyond
the range of historical quotes available through Yahoo! Finance, all available
data within the range will be displayed. Historical Quotes typically do
not go back further than 1970. (Yahoo)
Computers
- DOE-CIRC Home Page
- The Cyber Incident Response Capability site helps you deal with virus warnings. (Dept. of Energy)
- Wi-Fi-FreeSpot
Directory
- List of Wi-Fi locations
that offer free wireless Internet access. (Wi-Fi Alliance)
Dictionaries and
Translations
Collected Dictionary
Sites
- Cambridge
Dictionaries Online
- Searchable assortment
of dictionaries, including a Dictionary of Idioms, (Cambridge U. Press)
- One-Look
Dictionary
- Excellent way to
search online through more than 1000 specialized and general reference
dictionaries. The "browse Dictionaries" link at the top right allows you
to search dictionaries by subject area. (Study Technologies)
- RhymeZone: Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, homophones, similar sounding words, match consonants, related words, similar spellings, match letters, search for pictures and search in Shakespeare. (Datamuse)
T
- Visual Dictionary Online
- Includes images along with the word and its definition. (Merriam-Webster)
- Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to New Words
- Website devoted to new words and phrases that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites and other recorded sources. (Paul McFedries and Logophilia Limited)
- YourDictionary.com
- General or specialized
words in literally thousands of English and foreign-language dictionaries.
Seeks to link to all the creditable dictionaries, glossaries and word
lists available on the Web. (yourDictionary.com)
Dictionaries with Audio
Word Pronunciations
- Merriam-Webster OnLine
- Includes audio word pronunciations wherever you see a red audio icon. Dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish and medical. (Merriam-Webster)
- Voice
of America Pronunciation Guide
- Audio pronunciations
of the names of world leaders. (VOA)
Thesauri
- One-Look
Reverse Dictionary
- Describe a concept
and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. (Study
Technologies)
- Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
- (Bartleby)
- Roget's
Thesaurus - ARTFL Project
- Online searchable
1991 version. (U. of Chicago)
- WordNet:
Lexical Database for English
- Online reference
tool that will give synonyms, hyponyms, hypernyms and other variations
on a word. (Princeton)
- WordWeb Online
- International dictionary and word finder covering American, British, Australian, Canadian and Asian English spellings and words. (WordWeb)
Translations
- Google Language Tools
- Google allows you to translate either text or entire web pages automatically. Languages available are Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croation, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish. In addition, you can now translate text and web pages as well as perform cross-language searches between any two languages that are offered. For example, Chinese translation to/from any of the languages (e.g., Chinese to French). If you use the Google Translate BETA there is also a "Detect Language" option to help you automatically identify the language of the text you're trying to translate. (Google)
- IATE - InterActive Terminology for Europe
- European Union inter-institutional terminology database. Database contains approximately 1.4 multilingual entries in twenty four languages, including technical, terms, abbreviations, acronyms and phraseology. (IATE)
- WordReference.com
- Online French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish translation dictionaries. (WordReference.com)
- Yahoo! Babel Fish Translation
- AltaVista Babel Fish Translation enables you to translate short passages of text or entire Web sites among 36 pairs of languages including Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. (Yahoo)
- YourDictionary.com - Translate Between Languages
- Links to additional translation sites. (YourDictionary.com)
Electronic Citation
Style
- Assembling
a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
- Charts show how
to cite different categories of material according to APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian and CSE. (Duke Libraries)
- Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
- Most common examples of government document citations. (U. of Memphis)
- Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States
- Guidelines for citing unpublished NARA records. The guidelines cover citations to textual records, microform records, nontextual archives (i.e., photographic records, posters, motion pictures, tape recordings, cartographic records, and architectural drawings), electronic records, and online references.(NARA)
- Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide
- Humanities style and author-date style. (U. of Chicago)
- Citing
Electronic Sources
- Links to sites that
recommend electronic citation styles for referencing WWW sources, e-mail,
mailing list messages, and CD-ROMS. Includes MLA and APA style guides.
(Internet Public Library)
- Internet
Citation Guides: Citing Electronic Sources in Research Papers and Bibliographies
- Contents of page are being updated. (U. of Wisconsin
Memorial Library)
- Online!
Citation Styles
- An excerpt from
Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources, these chapters tell
how to cite online resources using MLA Style, APA Style, Chicago Style,
and CBE Style. (Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger)
- WorldCat
- Item records in WorldCat now include a Cite this Item link - located on the same line as the ISBN number - which provides bibliographic citations for that item in five common citation styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. (OCLC)
Encyclopedias
Forms
- FedForms: The U.S. Government's Official Hub for Federal Forms
- Forms needed for
the government services most used by the public, including GSA Standard
and Optional Forms. (GSA)
- Forms
from the Feds
- (U. of Memphis)
- LegalEngine.com: Forms
- Many of the government forms are free pdf files available on the site, however the legal or business forms may require payment. The self-help and business center tabs lead you to books in selected subject areas. (Legalengine.com)
- LexisOne
Free Forms
- Registration is
required, but over 6000 forms may be accessed at no charge. (LexisNexis)
- Public Library of Law: PLOL Beta
- Said to be the largest free legal search engine online. All U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1757 to present and Courts of Appeals cases from 1950 to present (F.2d Vol. 178-999 (1950-1995), F.3d Vol. 1-present, (1995-present); State appellate cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states, either online or via links; also links to Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, court rules, and constitutions. (PLOL)
- U.S.
Courts Forms
- Includes Official
Bankruptcy Forms. Available on Internet.(AOUS)
- Illinois Publications - State Forms
- Each link leads to a set of forms. (State of Illinois)
- Indiana Court Forms
- This site includes links to forms for use in Indiana trial courts and appellate courts. Administrative and other forms can be found using the links to the right. (Indiana Courts)
- Indiana
State Forms
- (State of Indiana)
- Wisconsin Bar Downloadable Forms
- Wisconsin practice forms, court forms, state agency forms and Federal court and agency forms. (Wisconsin Bar)
- Wisconsin Online Forms for Practitioners
- Online forms useful to Wisconsin practitioners, focusing on those forms produced by a readily verifiable, reliable source, and available for free or at low cost. (Law librarian Kira L. Zaporski)
- Wisconsin State Law Library - Legal Forms
- Links to Wisconsin Court Forms, Agency Forms, Forms by County, Federal Court Forms, Federal Agency Forms, Forms From Other States, Forms by Topic, Sample Forms and Forms For Sale. (WSLL)
General Search
Engines
If you search and cannot
find something, change queries or change search engines. All search engines
index different sites, so you will get different results with each search
engine. Call your librarian for help with your search.
For help in learning how to search most effectively, follow the U.C. Berkeley Library's five step Recommended Search Strategy.
These sites offer additional
web searching tips:
Directory or Subject Catalog
A directory is a catalog or index of web pages organized
by subject. People actually choose the sites that are included in the directory,
so the entire web is not being searched when you search in a directory.
You usually click through several layers of menus to reach a screen providing
a choice of specific web sites to visit.
- Infomine
- Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- Virtual library
of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff
at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as
databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing
lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers,
and many other types of information. Built by librarians. (U. of California,
Riverside)
- Librarians' Internet Index - Websites You Can Trust
- This site is maintained by librarians. All sites are selected by librarians. Lists subject categories and also has a browseable alphabetical list of subjects. (Librarians' Internet Index - LII)
- Yahoo!
- Yahoo! has a feature called Search Assist. This is a box that drops down below the search box with suggested search terms based on what has been typed in the search box. If you choose one of the suggestions, you will see related terms. If you click on one of them you will be taken to a list of sites and can also "Explore Concepts" and branch off into other areas. (Yahoo)
- Go to Yahoo! Shortcuts for a list of the quickest way to get to the information you want - airport information, dictionary definitions, package tracking, maps and so forth.
- Yahoo can be searched by keyword, but it may also be searched as a directory at Yahoo!.
Keyword Search Engines
Keyword search engines index the text content of millions
of web pages, word by word, using "spiders" and "robots"
to go out onto the web and find and index documents. They allow you to input
specified keyword search terms and locate home pages containing those terms.
You will always get results, but those results will vary in their usefulness
and relevance. Increase search efficiency by reading the directions and
using advanced search techniques. Every search engine offers a search tips
or a help page. Searching Tip: Google and Yahoo are favorite search engines among
librarians because they so often return relevant search results.
- Answers.com
- Look up any word or phrase for definition or explanation. Not lists of links. Original articles researched by an in-house editorial team, community-contributed articles from Wikipedia, and user-generated questions & answers from Answers.com's WikiAnswers™ (Answers Corp.)
- Ask.com
- The first search result is assumed to be the most relevant by Ask and shows up at the top of the page, above the ads. Search types: Questions, web, images, news, q&a, city, maps, tv listings, events, recipes, videos, shopping, and blogs. (Ask.com)
- Bing
- New search engine from Microsoft, replaces Live Search. (Microsoft)
- Gigablast
- Search the Web or the Gigablast Directory. (Gigablast, Inc.)
- Google
- It is worth your time to become familiar with the special Google features that are listed under More Google Products.
- Go to Google Help for links to all the Google features.
- Go to Basics of Search to learn how to search Google.
- Try Soople: Easy Expert Search which has been called "Google for dummies" and which makes the advanced features easy to use. (OneStat.com)
- Use a new feature called Google Scholar to search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- Google facilitates
finding maps, business and public residential telephone numbers and
addresses. To locate a map, enter a city name or zip code. Find a
business by entering its telephone number. Find a residential address
or telephone number by entering an individual's name or a combination
of name and address. You can also run a reverse look-up of a residential
telephone number.
- To search for
phrases on Google, use a word-sized asterisk, or an asterisk in place
of a word. For instance, the search: ruth * ginsburg, will find Ruth
Bader Ginsburg.
- Go to Google U.S. Government Search for a single location for searching across U.S. government information. Includes U.S. federal, state and local sites with domains such as .gov and .mil as well as select government sites with .com, .us, and .edu. (Google)
- Google searches
.pdf files. Limit your search to .pdf files only by typing in the
search box: filetype:pdf as well as your search terms. Google searches
in 13 different types of files. Go to Google
File Types for a fuller explanation.
- Google
Toolbar can be placed on your Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox browser.
- Hakia: Semantic Search Beta
- Semantic technology provides a search experience focused on quality, not popularity. Hakia search results (1) come from credible Web sites recommended by librarians, (2) represent the most recent information available, and (3) remain relevant to the query. Search results are organized in a tabbed format that distinguishes results as Web results, hakia Credible Sites, images and news. (Hakia)
- Hathi Trust: A Shared Digital Repository
- Experimental large scale full test searching in this collaborative digital repository supported by major research libraries. This search is of about half a million volumes of the currently over two and a half million digitized volumes. The search supports phrase searching. For bibliographic information go to the HathiTrust Digital Library Search in the Mirlyn Library Catalog to search all of the repository's holdings. (Hathi Trust)
Metaindexes
Metaindexes or meta-search engines allow you to enter one
search and have it run in several search engines at one time. A search in
a meta-search engine takes longer to run, but should retrieve more complete
results because it uses several search engines at once.
- Clusty
- Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, Clusty groups similar results together into clusters or folders. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items.
Vivisimo's Clusty search engine has a "Gov" tab (www.gov.clusty.com) , allowing users to focus on U.S. government and politics. This tab will search USA.gov, think tanks including RAND and the Brookings Institution, government documents (including large, publicly released documents such as the report of the 9/11 commission and the 2006 federal budget), and political news. Additionally, the tab will provide relevant information for ZIP code or city searches, such as links to senators' and state representatives' sites and voting records. Other tabs include Web, News, Images, Wikipedia, Blogs, Shopping, and Labs, where you can try out the latest Clusty projects. Clusty has also introduced Clustering 2.0 which allows you to remix and fine-tune results. (Vivisimo)
- Dogpile
- The only metasearch engine to include the current four primary search engines - Google, LiveSearch, Ask and Yahoo.
- KartOO
- If you like the
idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows
the results with sites being interconnected by keywords.
- MetaCrawler
-
- MetaCrawler may send your query to several Web search engines, including Google, Yahoo, LiveSearch, Ask, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more. Caveat: Some of the results may be paid submissions.
- Search.com
- Submits your query
to multiple search engines simultaneously. Caveat: Some of the results
may be paid or sponsored submissions.
- ZapMeta
- Submits query to 7 major search engines, sorts results by your choice of relevance, popularity, title, source or domain, and offers the option to see a snapshot of each webpage. (ZapMeta, Inc.)
Search Switching Sites
These sites are all-in-one search pages that gather many search engines on one site, so you can easily try different search engines one at a time without having to retype your search.
- Browsys Powersearch
- Long list of search engines across the top of the page, making it easy to switch from one search engine to another. (Browsys.com)
- Proteus Internet Search
- Type once, search everywhere. (Proteus Internet Search)
- Trovando.it: Search Different!
- Multipurpose search service. The default tool is a search box where you insert keywords, then click on one of many search engines in the box below to perform the search on several search engines, all with no retyping. You can search: web, image, reference, news, price (comparison shopping and auctions), blogs, audio/video (including pod casts), and torrent. Each one has its own group of search engines.
Three tabs that contain special tools. The URL tab has some useful webmaster tools: You can search Yahoo!, Google, and MSN for backlinks and for indexed pages from any site. You can validate HTML, CSS, Feed, accessibility, and more. There is also trend search, keyword density search, whois search, and more. Use the Custom tab to add search engines from an extensive list including vertical search engines and search engines from around the world. The Trovando tab gives you access to information about Trovando and leads to a Firefox plugin and a toolbar for Internet Explorer. (Trovando)
- TurboScout: Access All Search Engines Without Retyping
- Enter keywords above, then click a search provider below. (TurboScout)
- Zuula BETA
- The home page is a simple search box, but once you perform a keyword search, the first set of results opens on a page with additional search engine tabs so the search can be performed using a different search engine. Zuula also has a search history function displayed on the left.
Searching the Invisible Web
The "invisible" or
"deep" web refers to sites with content that cannot be retrieved using the
regular search engines but instead require the use of a direct query to
retrieve the data. The sites listed below gather lists of "deep" websites
organized by category.
The Berkeley library
staff suggests using Google and other search engines to locate searchable
databases by searching a subject term and the word "database."
- CompletePlanet: The Deep Web Directory
- Comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases. Find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface web search engines (BrightPlanet.com)
- Deep Web Research 2009
- Includes various classified resources that allow you to search through the currently available web to find key sources of information located via an understanding of how to search the “deep web”. By law librarian Marcus P. Zillman. (LLRX)
- Virtual
Technical Reports Center
- Links to technical
reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports
of all kinds. (U. of Maryland)
Subject Searches
- Intute: Social Sciences
- Access to the best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism.
Intute: Social Sciences has been created by bringing together two of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): Altis and SOSIG. In combining the resources and services of these two services, Intute: Social Sciences offers an easy to use and powerful tool for discovering the best Internet resources in this important range of subjects. (Intute Consortium)
- Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
- Searches science-specific web pages. (Elsevier)
- Science.gov
- Gateway to government science information and research results. Currently in its fifth generation, Science.gov provides a search of over 36 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to 1,850+ scientific Websites. (USA.gov)
- Science Research.com Beta
- Federated search technology returns relevant results from across the World Wide Web, including blogs, wikis, mainstream searches and deep web sources to one, easily navigable page. Each search is done in real-time, searching the sources you select as if you were entering the search term on each individual website yourself. Duplicates are removed, the results weighed for relevance and then ranked according to how closely it matches your search word or phrase. (Deep Web Technologies)
- Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
- Searches science-specific web pages. (Elsevier)
- Scitopia.org: Deep Federated Search
- Free federated search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies. (Deep Web Technologies)
Searching for Images, Audio and Video
Many of the search engines now facilitate searches for image files. Try going to Google or Yahoo and click on the special image searching tabs. There are also other specialized image files, including:
- AOL Video
- Video, Web, Audio. (AOL)
- Life - Your World in Pictures Beta
- Search millions of photos from the LIFE photo archive. Put the word "cover" in your search if you are looking for a certain cover photo. (See Your World LLC)
- MorgueFile: Public Image Archive
- The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. To acknowledge the artist's accomplishments, it is asked that you credit the photographer when possible. (Morguefile)
- NYPL Digital Gallery. (New York Public Library)
- Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC). (Library of Congress)
- Wikimedia Commons: Free Media Repository
- A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips).
Government Employees
and Benefits
Federal Employee Associations
- Federal
Court Clerk's Association
- (FCCA)
- National
Association of Retired Federal Employees
- (NARFE)
Federal Benefits Programs
- Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund (FEEA)
- Scholarship assistance. (FEEA)
- Federal Employees' Insurance Programs
- Links to all the federal employees' insurance programs. (OPM)
- Benefits, Leave, and Pay
- For federal employees. (USA.gov)
- Federal Retirement Program
- Up-to-date benefits information including an entire library of retirement information and a retirement calculator for computing retirement benefits. You may also go directly to the Site Index for the OPM web site. (OPM)
Federal Benefits Calculators
- FedCalc.com Retirement Planning Tools
- Retirement calculators. (Quantos Software)
- GovBenefits.gov: Your Benefits Connection
- A partnership of federal government agencies set up to help you find government benefits. (GovBenefits.gov)
- Retirement Calculator
- Calculates the basic benefit amount you can expect to receive from CSRS, CSRS-offset, or FERS. Also calculates retirement eligibility and survivor benefits, and provides a host of information on retirement issues. (USGS)
- Social Security Benefits Planner
- Benefits calculator permits you to use different assumptions about your future work to see how they may affect your benefit amounts. The page called More Charts and Calculators has calculators that will help you decide whether to retire early and take a reduced benefit or wait until full retirement age. (SSA)
- Taking The Mystery Out Of Retirement Planning
- Interactive worksheets to help you with calculations for retirement. (Dept. of Labor)
- TSP Calculator
- Calculates the return on your investment from TSP based on your salary, contribution amounts, and estimated rates of returns. Also allows you to simulate how future events (changes in salary, return rates, etc.) will affect your overall balance at retirement. (USGS)
- TSP Calculators
- Has 6 different calculators including a Project your TSP account balance, Monthly payments calculator, and an Annuity calculator. (TSP.gov)
Federal Savings Programs
- Savings Bonds, Treasury Bills, Notes and Bonds
- (Bureau of the Public Debt)
- Thrift Savings Plan
- Access your own Thrift Savings Plan at this site, which also includes TSP features, Current information, Rates of return, Financial calculators, Forms & publications. (FRTIB)
- U.S. Employees Credit Union
- This site now allows Internet access to member accounts and Internet home banking. The Credit Union has five offices in Chicago and 6 ATMs. (USECU)
Other Useful Sites
- Federal
Acquisition Regulation Web Site (FAR)
- Includes current
FAR in PDF, HTML and zipped format. Also includes federal acquisition
circulars. (GSA)
- Post
Judgement Interest Rates
- Interest allowed
on judgments entered in Federal courts. (AOUS)
- Principles of Federal Appropriations Law - Red Book
- Scroll down and click to see the 5 volume Principles of Federal Appropriations Law in separate pdf files. (GAO)
- ABTolls
- Phone rate comparison shopping. (ABTolls.com)
Other comparison shopping sites include:
- AnnualCreditReport.com
- This central site allows you to request a free credit file disclosure, commonly called a credit report, once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. You can also request your report by phone or mail. (Central Source LLC)
- Become.com:Be Smart, Be Thrifty
- Locates shopping-related research: buying guides, expert reviews, consumer reviews, articles, specifications, forums, merchants, and a variety of other relevant information to help you buy the right product. (Become, Inc.)
- EDIE the Estimator
- Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator calculates your FDIC insurance coverage for each FDIC-insured bank where you have deposit accounts and lets you know if your deposits are within coverage limits.(FDIC)
- Family History and Genealogy
- Official information and services from the U.S. government for genealogists and family historians. (USA.gov)
- Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency
- (EPA)
- GetHuman Database
- Search for companies and find instructions to get to a human when calling a company for customer service. (Paul English)
- Home Energy Saver
- First web-based do-it-yourself energy audit tool. (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- Know Your Stuff Home Inventory
- Insurance Information Institute's free online home inventory software. The information is stored on the Institute's servers. (Insurance Information Institute)
- National Do Not Call Registry
- The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years. (FTC)
- Online Data Vendors: How Consumers Can Opt Out of Directory Assistance and Non-public Information
- Scroll down to chart listing opt-out websites and addresses, along with the information you will need to opt out. (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse)
- OptOutPrescreen.com
- Official Consumer Credit Reporting Industry website to accept and process requests from consumers to Opt-In or Opt-Out of firm offers of credit or insurance. (Opt Out Services LLC)
- Partnership for Prescription Assistance
- For patients without prescription coverage and for their caregivers to determine if there are programs they may be eligible for to get the medicines they need. (PPARx.org)
- Recalls.gov
- Most recent recalls issued by the six government regulatory agencies participating in Recalls.gov. Covers recalls in the following areas: consumer product, motor vehicles, boats, food, medicine, cosmetics and environmental products. (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
- Telecommuting From Overseas
- Using The Internet
for offshore communications: telecommuting Links & resources, Internet telephones, Internet fax, Internet videoPhone, Email, Telephones. (EscapeArtist.com)
- TV Converter Box Coupon Program Website
- Each household can apply for two $40 coupons to help purchase digital-to-analog TV converter boxes. (NTIA)
- U.S.
Office of Special Counsel
- Information about
political activity of federal government employees, whistleblower disclosures
and prohibited personnel practices. (OSC)
- Vanguard Planning and Education Tools and Calculators
- An example of the free information that can be found in the private sector. (Vanguard)
- Zillow.com: Your Edge in Real Estate
- This is a beta site with fairly complete data in some areas, but little to no data in others. Enter your address to find out your home's market value and the market values of the homes around you. (Zillow.com)
Internet Skills
- Evaluating Web Pages:
Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
- Teaches a process that begins with looking at your search results from a search engine or other source, follows through by investigating the content of page, and extends beyond the page to what others may say about the page or its author. (UC Berkeley)
- Search Smart: Locating and Evaluating
the Best of the Web
- Tips on how you can hone your search skills to locate highly relevant results and to evaluate what you find. (University of Georgia School of Law)
Libraries
- WorldCat
- Search many libraries for an item and then locate it in a library nearby.
Find books, music, and videos to check out. Find research articles and digital items (like audiobooks) that can be directly viewed or downloaded.
Link to "Ask a Librarian" and other services at your library. (OCLC)
Libraries in Illinois
- Public
Libraries in Illinois with Web Catalogs
- (Thomas Dowling)
- Chicago
Public Library Catalog
- (CPL)
- Search Illinois Library Catalogs
- (State of Illinois)
- Illinois
State Library
-
Libraries in Indiana
- Public
Libraries in Indiana with Web Catalogs
- (Thomas Dowling)
- INCat: Indiana Library Catalog
- Brings the collections of over 400 Indiana libraries together. (Administered by Indiana State Library. INCat service provided by INCOLSA)
- Indiana State Library
- Indiana Memory database contains primary sources that have been digitized by various libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions in the state. One of the collections is Indiana's Road to Statehood which contains copies of original documents and research materials relating to Indiana's constitutional history. (Indiana State Library)
Libraries in Wisconsin
- Public
Libraries in Wisconsin with Web Catalogs
- (Thomas Dowling)
- Wisconsin
State Law Library
-
Other Libraries
- CIC: Virtual Electronic Library - Access the VEL
- Combined catalogs of the Big Ten Universities, plus the University of Chicago and the Center for Research Libraries. Searches may take some time to complete. (Committee on Institutional Cooperation)
- European Library - The National Libraries of Europe
- Links to the websites of national libraries and also allows searching and browsing in the collections. (European Library)
- Government Libraries
- National and federal agency libraries. (USA.gov)
- LibDex: The Library Index
- Look under USA. Locates libraries and their online catalogs. Useful if you do not have access to OCLC. (Bixca International Investments)
- Libweb
- Library catalogs
via WWW for more than 7,300 public, academic, and specialized libraries
and archives in over 125 countries. (Thomas Dowling)
- Library
of Congress
- (LOC)
- State
Library Websites
- Library websites
for state library agency websites in all the states. (Wisconsin Dept.
of Public Instruction)
- World Digital Library
- In early stages. Will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research. (UNESCO and Library of Congress)
Maps
Geo Search
- Flash Earth: Satellite and Aerial Imagery of the Earth in a Flash
- Makes it easy to switch between the various aerial and satellite imagery from online mapping websites. (Paul Neave)
Map Portals
- All
the Worlds Maps
- A compilation of
each nation's maps. (EmbassyWorld)
- U.S.
Gazetteer
- Search for places,
counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation or a 5 digit
zip code. Links to Tiger maps and also gives you census data. (U.S.
Census)
- USGS
National Mapping Information
- Among other information,
links to
U.S. Board on Geographic Names which retrieves detailed information
about a specific place including elevation, population, description, history
notes, variant names. Also tells you what county a city is located in.
(USGS)
Maps with Directions
- Google Maps, Local Search and Directions
- Google has added Satellite images that load very quickly. Use the Local Search feature to find where, for instance, you can find free wifi, or pizza, in your zip code area. (Google)
- How
Far Is It?
- Get the distance
between two locations, a map showing the two locations and a set of driving
directions. This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary
list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of
two places, and then calculates the distance between them, as the crow
flies. It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox
PARC Map Server and driving directions courtesy of MapQuest. For U.S.
locations it will also tell you what county a city is located in. (Bali
Online)
- Mapquest
- Find an address, print out a map or get driving directions from one location to another. Multi-stop Route Builder to add up to 10 locations. Routing options include shortest time, shortest distance, aoid highways, and avoid tolls. (Geosystems Global Corporation)
- Yahoo Maps and Driving Directions
- (Yahoo)
Historical and Instructional Maps
- Map Collections
- Search by keyword, browse by geographic location index, by subject index, creator index or title index. (Library of Congress)
- National
Atlas of the United States of America
- After you find a
map of the segment of the U.S. that you seek, add overlays to view environmental
and demographic information for the area. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior)
- National Geographic Map Machine
- Tabs for Road maps, Satellite maps, Physical maps and Theme maps. (National Geographic.com)
- Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
- Collection of online
maps, both current and historical, in geographic order. Extensive links
to other map collections. (U. of Texas)
- World
Fact Book
- Current world maps.
(CIA)
Topographic Maps
- Earth Observatory
- The purpose of NASA’s Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth’s climate and environmental change. (NASA)
- General Aerial Photograph Information
- Links to TerraServer-USA. (USGS)
- Google Earth
- Google Earth is free for personal use. No registration is required, however a download is required. There are very specific operating system requirements. (Google)
- Maptech
Mapserver
- Free interactive,
online resource for viewing over 70,000 geo-referenced topo maps, nautical
charts, aeronautical charts, and aerial photographs. (Maptech)
- TopoZone
Medical
- Researching Medical Literature on the Internet - 2008
- Notes on medical databases found to be reliable and useful. Prepared by law librarian Gloria Miccioli. (LLRX)
Current Medical Research and Clinical Trials
- Amedeo.com: The Medical Literature Guide
- Free weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications in 93 subjects, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months. Supported by grants from pharmaceutical companies. (Flying Publisher)
- Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
- Lists research being done by private firms as well as government. Also provides information on the results of clinical trails and of drugs recently approved by FDA. (Centerwatch)
- Clinical Trials
- Federal and privately supported clinical research. Search by condition and geographical location. NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories are also provided in cases where such release could significantly affect morbidity and mortality. (NIH)
- PubMed Clinical Queries
- Find citations corresponding to a specific clinical study category. (NCBI)
Dictionaries
- APA Diagnostic Classification - DSM-IV-TR
- The site is intended to provide organized access to disorder pages. It is not intended to be complete or to take the place of the manual published by the American Psychiatric Press. (BehaveNet)
- Dorland's
Illustrated Medical Dictionary
- Look up definitions
for complex medical terms. Use this resource just as you would a printed
dictionary. Terms are listed within ranges of words.(Merck & Co.)
- Gray's
Anatomy
- 1918 edition of
Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. (Bartleby)
- Medical Glossary
- Resource for medical transcriptionists. (Elsevier)
- Merriam-Webster
Medical Dictionary
- (NLM)
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary
- Search 27th edition by keyword, definition or wildcard. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
Drugs and Herbs
- About
Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
- Search by name.
(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
- Drugs.com:
Drug Information Online
- Search by drug name
or using keyword search. Information is supplied by four independent medical information suppliers. (Drugs.com)
- DrugDigest
- Search for drug information, drug interactions, side effect comparisons, drug comparisons and images of pills. (Express Scripts, Inc.)
- Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information
- Browse by first letter of generic or brand name drug, herb or supplement. (NLM)
- International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) Database
- Access bibliographic citations and abstracts from published scientific literature on dietary supplements. (NIH)
- PDRhealth
- Consumer Web portal of the Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR®). The PDRhealth site offers consumer-friendly explanations of disease states and conditions as well as the safe and effective use of prescription and non-prescription drugs as well as herbal medicines. The drug information on PDRhealth is written in lay terms and is based on the FDA-approved drug information found in the PDR or from manufacturers. It gives consumers plain-English explanations for the safe and effective use of prescription and nonprescription drugs. (Thomson)
- RxList:The
Internet Drug Index
- The RxList database
consists primarily of products currently on the U.S. market or close to
approval and is compiled by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D., Manager of Automated
Technologies for a Major Pharmaceutical Distributor. Information includes:
brand names, Formularies, Cost, Boxed warning, Description, Clinical pharmacology
, Clinical studies, Indications and usage, Contraindications, Warnings,
Precautions, Adverse reactions, Dosage and administration, References,
Patient information, How supplied.
- Yahoo Drug Index
- For each drug includes an overview section as well as a section of precautions and side effects. From Micromedex Thomson Healthcare. (Yahoo)
Encyclopedias and Online Texts
- Bookshelf
- Growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the search box and selecting "Go." Books can also be searched individually by clicking on the image of the book cover. (NLM)
- E-Medicine.com Reference Centers
- Evidence-based content, updated regularly by nearly 10,000 attributed physician authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on nearly 7,000 diseases and disorders and is illustrated with some 30,000 multimedia files. (eMedicine.com)
- Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Online Edition
- The Online edition includes over 300
chapters on medical diseases, disorders, and related drug information
in 23 specialty areas that include Nutritional Disorders, Cardiovascular
Disorders, Infectious Diseases, Gynecology/ Obstetrics, Clinical Pharmacology,
and Poisoning. Entries for each disease or disorder provide information
such as causes and risk factors, symptoms and diagnosis, prevention, and
treatment. The Manual is searchable by keyword and includes hyperlinks
to chapters, topics, diagrams, and tables throughout the text. Site also
includes the Merck Manual of
Medical Information, Second Home Edition and the Merck
Manual of Geriatrics, Third Edition as well as the Merck Manual of Health & Aging and the Merck Veterinary Manual. (Merck)
Medical Images
- Medical Image Databases on the Internet
- Compilation of databases, directories and search engines leading to medical images. (U. of Texas Health Science Center Library)
- Medical Images on the Web
- Annotated links to web sites of visual medical information. (McGoogan Library of Medicine of the University of Nebraska Medical Center)
Medical Lab Tests
- Lab
Tests Online
- Explains lab tests.
(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
Online Medical Journals
- Free Medical Journals
- Promoting free access to medical journals. (Bernd Sebastian Kamps)
- Medical E-Journals
- Links to free full text medical journal articles. (National Library of Medicine)
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Abstracts or 100 word extracts are available for all articles. Six months after publication, full text of Original (reports of original clinical research) and Special Articles (reports of research on health policy) is available if you register. (Massachusetts Medical Society)
- PubMed Central (PMC)
- Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Physician and Hospital Finders
- American
Medical Association
- Includes a link
to the Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA) with issues back to 1997. Also see the AMA
DoctorFinder, an online physician locator. (AMA)
- Find
a Doctor
- Help in finding
a doctor who specializes in treating specific diseases or conditions.
(NLM)
- Hospital Compare: A Quality Tool Provided by Medicare
- Information on how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures, and results from a survey of patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. (HHS)
- Nursing Home Compare
- Detailed information about every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country. (HHS)
- State Board Directory
- Directory of state medical boards with links to the board sites. (CME)
Portals
- Alternative Medicine HomePage
- Compiled by medical librarian Charles B. Wessel to provide links to quality information in an objective manner. (U. of Pittsburgh)
- Diseases Database
- Search for information on a disease, symptom, physical sign, non-brand drug or laboratory abnormality. (MOOSe Technology)
- eHealthcareBot.com - Search Engine for Healthcare Resources
- Searches over 135 selected healthcare meta search engines and is powered by Google. (Marcus P. Zillman)
- Healthfinder
- Gateway to consumer health and human services information that leads to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as to government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- Medicare: Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare.
- Includes Nursing Home Compare and Participating Physician Directory. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- MedicineNet
-
MedicineNet is a network of physician educators dedicated to providing up-to-date, quality medical information for the public. The site includes a medical dictionary, an alphabetical section on diseases and treatments, as well as a pharmacy/drugs section. Part of WebMd. (MedicineNet)
- MedlinePlus Go Local: Your Source for Health Services in Your Community
- Go Local is a service for finding local resources for health-related issues. Select your state on the map to search for health services and topics in your area. (NLM)
- Medpedia Beta
- Medpedia was released in beta on Feb 17, 2009. At the time three interrelated collaborative services were operational: 1) a collaborative encyclopedia or knowledge base (a wiki), 2) a Network & Directory for health professionals and organizations, and 3) Communities of Interest where medical professionals and non-professionals can share information.
In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading global health organizations. (Medpedia, Inc.)
- Medscape
- Full-text, peer-reviewed clinical journal articles from contributing publishers. All articles may be downloaded and printed for individual use. For users interested in researching a clinical topic, Medscape provides a search engine. Also free MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, & TOXLINE access, with more than 9.5 million abstracts from 3,900 medical journals. Links to a medical dictionary, drug information, clinical treatment guidelines and much more. Free registration is required. (Medscape Inc.)
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- Source for clinical practice guidelines. Recently published and current American College of Physicians ACP Clinical Practice Guidelines as well as past ACP Guidelines are another source for clinical practice guidelines.(ACP)
- National Institutes of Health: The Nation's Medical Research Agency
- This site has an A-Z Health Topics section and also leads you to the 27 Institutes, Centers and Offices of the NIH. One of the centers is the National Library of Medicine. (NIH)
- National Library of Medicine
- There are four metasearch engines: NLM site search, NLM Gateway, TOXNET and Entrez. There are also pages organized for different types of searcher: Public, Health Care Professional, Researcher, Librarian or Publisher.
- Entrez: The Life sciences Search Engine
- NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) cross-database search page.
- LOCATORplus
- NLM's web-based online catalog. Allows user to search by author, subject, title, conference name, keyword, and many other specific fields for books, journals, audiovisuals, manuscripts, and other items. Hotlinks to online journals are available from many records. Direct access to a variety of other resources is available from LOCATORplus including MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, Images of the History of Medicine, TOXNET, HSTAT, and other U.S. medical library catalogs.
- MEDLINEplus
- MEDLINEplus includes information from MEDLINE, links to self-help groups, access to National Institute of Health consumer-related organizations, clearinghouses, health-related organizations, and Clinical Trials . MEDLINE can be searched directly using NLH's Web-based product, PubMed.
- NLM Databases and Electronic Resources
- Links to each of the NLM databases.
- NLM Gateway
- Search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LocatorPlus, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Genetics Home Reference, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, and HSDB.
- PubMed - Provides free access to MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE with links to participating on-line journals. PubMed also has a clinical query form with built-in search filters for diagnosis, etiology, therapy, and prognosis and provides access to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences.
- GoPubMed
- An alternative interface into the PubMed database. (Transinsight)
- ReleMed
- An alternative interface into the PubMed database. It searches 17 million articles indexed in MEDLINE. (Intelligent Search Technologies)
- ToxNet
- Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
- Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator
- Find a drug abuse treatment program or alcohol abuse treatment program with the Facility Locator sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Newspapers and
Magazines
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)
- Over a period of approximately 20 years the National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP) will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 from all the states and U.S. territories . This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress and will be freely accessible via the Internet. The site currently allows you to view newspaper pages from 1880 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia and to find information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present. (LC and NEH)
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Links to other Print News Archives. Includes links to Historical Archives. (JournalismNet)
Google has also launched a Newspaper Digitization Project. In partnership with a number of North American newspapers, ProQuest and Heritage, Google has begun digitizing printed newspapers, making them both searchable and browsable exactly as they appeared in print, including photographs, headlines, articles and advertisements. Google says you can search the Google News Archive or use the timeline feature after searching Google News. Not every search will trigger this new content, but you can start by trying queries like [Titanic located]. Scanned stories will appear alongside already-digitized material from publications like the New York Times as well as from archive aggregators, and are marked “Google News Archive.” (Google)
Find Articles.comArchive of articles published in more than 1000 publications dating from 1998 that can be read and printed. Some can be printed at no cost but many are now fee-based. You can limit a search to just the free articles. View by topic or by magazine name. (LookSmart and Gale)
News
and Newspapers Online
Lists hundreds of
news resources from around the world in a variety of languages that offer
free access to current, general interest, full-text news. Search by country
or state or get an alphabetical list by selecting Just
The Sites. (U. of North Carolina Library)
NewsDirectory.com
This site appears to be down. We will leave it on for awhile to see if it comes back up. Search for newspapers
and magazines by title. There are subpages for Newspapers
by country and Magazines
by subject.
When looking for information about current cases or news of interest to
the courts, use the individual state subpages or a special site for papers
in the largest metro areas. These sites may have different newspapers
listed than the Newslink site, so check both if you do not find the paper
you are looking for.
Newslink
Allows search by
type of magazine, country of origin, or specific magazine title. There
is also a sub-page for Newspapers
which includes foreign, U.S. and campus newspapers.
NewsVoyager:
A Gateway to Your Local Newspaper
Type in your city
and state to locate a newpaper. (Newspaper Assn. of America)
Radio-LocatorComprehensive radio station search engine linking to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2,500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world. (Theodric Technologies LLC)
SmallTownPapers: Newspaper ArchiveChoose from over 250 small town newspapers. Browse and search scanned newspaper archive from 1865 to the current edition. (SmallTownPapers)
U.S. News Archives on the WebVolunteers from Special Libraries Association maintain these pages of links to U.S. news archives available on the Web. Searching is free, but charges will generally apply to retrieve the articles. (News Division - SLA) Google also provides a Google News Archive Search which can automatically create timelines.
US
Newspaper List
Lists newspapers
by state, as well as radio stations, college newspapers, TV stations,
and state magazines. (US Newspaper List)
Major Newspapers
- New York Times
- Free access to New York Times website for all readers. Search the complete backfile of the New York Times. Archives from 1981 to present are free back to 1987. From 1851 to 1980, your may search the Article Archive, and articles in the public domain from 1851-1922 are free. (NYT)
Movie and Theater Reviews
- Metacritic
- Searchable database of individual reviews of film, video/DVD, television, music, books and games. (CNet)
- New York Times Movie Reviews
- New York Times Movie Reviews
- Browse or search 15,000 New York Times movie reviews. Included in the free review archive are all films reviewed since 1960, reviews of all Best Picture Academy Award winners, as well as The New York Times guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. (NYT)
- New York Times Theater Reviews
- Free access to theater reviews back to 1996 plus selected other reviews back to 1905. browse by title, year, critic or award. (NYT)
News Archive Search
- Google News Archive Search
- Easy way to search and explore historical archives. Results can be retrieved as either a listing of articles or a timeline which shows selected results from relevant time periods. (Google News)
Quotations
- Bartleby.com
Quotations
- Includes the 1919
edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Also searchable on Bartleby's
are: Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, Columbia World of Quotations,
and Respectfully Quoted. Provides links to other references sources available
at Bartleby.com, such as biograpies or collections of a quoted author's
works. (Bartleby.com)
- Phrase
Finder
- Meanings and origins
of phrases, sayings, cliches and quotes. browse the A-Z Index or scan
with our search engine. (Phrase Finder)
- Quotations
Home Page
- Database of over
26,000 quotes, searchable by author or subject. (QuotationsPage.com)
- Quote Finder
- Type in text and receive list of results. (Google Blogoscoped)
- The
Works of the Bard
- Includes the complete
text of plays and poetry as well as a search function. (James Farrow)
- Yahoo!
Quotations Page
- Directory to quotation
pages and resource sites on the WWW from the Yahoo! search service. Follow
the links to archives as obscure as the List of Quotations About Libraries
and Librarians.
Reference Mega-Sites
- Bartleby.com
- Gathers online sources
in the areas of Reference, Verse, Fiction and Nonfiction. Search individual
titles, or in groups, for instance, search Bartlett's Quotations, or search
All Quotations. (Bartleby.com)
- Best of History Web Sites
- Annotated links to over 1000 history web sites. (BOHWS)
- E-Ref Electronic Reference
- A collection of online reference tools appropriate for the undergraduate student. Organized by LC
Classification system. (Bloomsburg U.)
- Illinois Clicks!
- Citizens' Library of Illinois Comprehensive Knowledge Service -- an information portal created and maintained by librarians statewide. (Funding awarded by Illinois State Library)
- Internet
Public Library Ready Reference Collection
- Searchable ready-reference
collection linked to a more comprehensive reference page. The collection
is not intended to be a comprehensive hotlist to all sites on every subject,
but rather an annotated collection, chosen to help answer specific questions
quickly and efficiently. Sources are selected by experienced librarians
according to ease of use, quality and quantity of information, frequency
of updating, and authoritativeness. The site also includes an
Online Literary Criticism Collection. (IPL)
- iTools: Quick access to the best Internet tools
- The "best" tools include Search, Language, Research, Financial, Map, Internet networking and People Finders. (iTools)
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet - Websites You Can Trust
- This site is maintained
by librarians. All sites are selected by librarians. Lists subject categories
and also has a browseable alphabetical list of subjects. Quality information,
classified, annotated and signed. (lii.org)
- Refdesk.com
- Tremendous range
of resources. Among many categories, this site includes a Facts Encyclopedia
(7500 sources organized by subject) and Facts at a Glance (A-Z list of
useful sites available from the left-hand side of the page). (Bob Drudge)
- Scout
Report Archives
- Searchable and browseable
database to over nine years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific
Scout Reports. It contains critical annotations of carefully selected
Internet sites and mailing lists. (Internet Scout Project)
- Virtual Reference Shelf
- Selected web resources compiled by the Library of Congress. (Library of Congress)
- Web
Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources
- This is an online
companion to a book of the same name. Click on the chapters to get to
the resources. (Nick Tomaiuolo)
Public Records Mega-Sites
- Free Public Record Sites
- Free government and important non-government sites. (brB Publications)
- Introduction to Public Records Research: People Finder Guide
- Annotates sources of public records, which are government records that you may access, and public information, which is personal or private information that has become public because you disclosed it or volunteered it. (Virtual Chase)
- Public
Record Finder
- Free public records.
(Public Record Finder.com)
- Researching Individuals on the Internet
- Law Librarian Carol Bannen offers resources for conducting research on individuals. (Wisconsin Lawyer)
- Search
Systems
- Links to free public
record databases. Allows search by state. (Pacific Information Resources)
Science
- Calculus on the Web
- This site is organized like a book would be. Another site that links to resources in calculus is calculus.org: The Calculus Page organized by UC Davis and Williams College. (Temple U. and National Science Foundation)
- Chemical Information - ChemIDplus
- Access to ChemIDplus, a database of 370,000 chemical records, including over 177,000 with structures. Locator links allow immediate searching of other databases for information about a given chemical. (National Library of Medicine)
- Daubert
on the Web
- Admissibility of
expert scientific testimony. (Peter Nordberg)
- NIOSH
Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
- The pocket guide
includes chemical names, synonyms, physical description of the chemical
agent and recommended exposure limits. (CDC)
- NIST Chemistry WebBook
- This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.(NIST)
- Periodic
Table of Elements
- Click the element's
square on the main page to get its basic chemical properties and a brief
description. (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Purplemath: Practical Algebra
- Clear explanations if you need to understand a concept in algebra. (Elizabeth Stapel)
- Science Accelerator
- Searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information. (OSTI, US DOE)
- Science.gov: USA.gov for Science
- Gateway to authoritative selected government science information. (USA.gov)
- Substance
Registry System
- Query for substances
by common identifiers, names, or alternate identifiers. Provides information
on substances and how they are represented in EPA regulations.(EPA)
- WebMath - Solve Your Math Problems Today
- Fill-in-forms where you can type in your problem, for general math, geometry, trigonometry and calculus. (Webmath)
- Where
to Find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet
- Comprehensive and
well-organized guide to MSDS sites on the Internet compiled by Interactive
Learning Paradigms, Inc. and chemist Robert Toreki. (ILPI)
Shipping
- DHL
- Tracking sub-page.
- Federal
Express
- Tracking sub-page.
- United
Parcel Service
- Tracking sub-page.
- United
States Postal Service Express Mail
- Tracking sub-page.
Speeches
- American
Rhetoric
- This site is maintained
by Michael Eidenmuller, Professor of Communications at the University
of Texas. It provides free access to a databank of thousands of audio
and video files of key American speeches, speeches from films, political
addresses, interviews and sermons from the Twentieth and Twenty-First
Centuries. (American Rhetoric)
- CNN
Transcripts
- CNN posts transcripts
of its news shows from the previous 10 days. Users can search by day or
program category. Some shows have transcripts going back more than a year.
(CNN)
- Graduation
Speeches
- Yahoo Directory.
(Yahoo)
- NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
- Search for NewsHour video for programs broadcast after February 7, 2000. (PBS)
- NPR Audio Archives
- Search for the audio of a story you heard on NPR. Transcripts for Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday and Weekend Edition Sunday are available back to Sept. 1, 1990. Day to Day transcripts are available from July 28, 2003. Talk of the Nation transcripts date from Nov. 11, 1996. The Tavis Smiley Show transcripts are available from October 1, 2002. Some transcripts are free, others involve a charge. (NPR)
- Speeches
& Transcripts
- Maintained by librarian
Jane Kessler. (SUNY at Albany)
Standards
- Building
Codes
- (Thelen, Reid &
Priest)
- Bulk Access to Codes
Click on the bulk.resource link or the archive link to be taken to public safety codes and administrative codes from many states. There are building codes, fire codes, plumbing codes, electrical codes, mechanical codes and others. (Public.resource.org)
Financial
Accounting Standards Board
Includes full text,
summaries and status of FASB Statements.(FASB)
Links
to Standards Organizations
(Michael Leshner,
P.E.)
SIC
Manual
Replaced by NAICS
system on January 1, 1997. You may also do a Standard
Industrial Classification Search by keyword or by 4-digit SIC to get
descriptive information. (OHSA)
North
American Industry Classification System
NAICS replaced the
SIC system on January 1, 1997. 1997
NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables. (NAICS)
Standards
Cross References
Also lists alphabetically
by Standards. (Webstart
Communications)
Standards Incorporated by Reference (SIBR) DatabaseIncludes the voluntary consensus standards, government unique standards, private industry standards, and international standards referenced in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and those used by U.S. Federal Government Agencies in their procurement activities. In this database, Regulatory Standards Incorporated by Reference are sometimes referred to as as R-SIBR and Procurement Standards Incorporated by Reference as P-SIBR. This database is continually being updated as the CFR changes, procurement policy, requirements, and standards change, and new standards are incorporated. To begin using the SIBR Database select a Quick Link, either one of the Procurement, Regulatory, or Help tabs. (NIST)
Statistics
Collections of Statistics
- Data.gov
- A priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama's administration. To increase the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government, Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov. (USA.gov)
- FedStats
- Links to the statistics
available from over 100 federal agencies. Also see MapStats
to locate a profile for your state, county, federal judicial district,
or congressional district. (Fedstats)
- NationMaster
- A massive data source providing a way to graphically compare nations. Users can build charts that measure and compare countries on a wide range of information, everything from "Most Taxed" to "Cotton Production." There are thousands of statistics, compiled from sources including the CIA World Factbook, the World Health Organization, UNESCO, the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. All statistics on this site are cited. Using the forms on the site you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics. (Rapid Intelligence)
- Official
Statistics on the Web
- Links to statistical
information on individual countries. (Univeristy of Auckland)
- Statistical
Resources on the Web
- Comprehensive set
of links to statistics arranged by subject. (U. of Michigan)
Court Statistics
- U.S.
Court Statistics
- Statistical reports.
(AOUS)
- Scotusblog Super StatPack - OT07 Term Recap
- Among other information these statistics include a visual representation of each decision, with the majority justices in color and the dissenters grayed out. This is presented at the end of each term. (ScotusBlog)
- U.S.
Bankruptcy Court Statistics
- (AOUS)
Criminal Justice Statistics
- Bureau
of Justice Statistics
- (BJS)
- Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- Includes
Uniform Crime Reports. (FBI)
- Federal
Justice Statistics Resource Center
- The FJSRC maintains
the Bureau of Justice Statistics Federal Justice Statistics Program database,
which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in
each stage of the federal criminal justice system. Useful site because you can manipulate the date yourself online, and choose the years you want in order to produce results for several years of statistics. You can search for statistics related to USCA title and sections numbers. Some data may come from Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. (Urban Institute)
- National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data
- Information clearinghouse
for all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, with over 550 up-to-date
criminal justice data collections. (ICPSR)
- National
Criminal Justice Reference Service
- (NCJRS)
- Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics
- Data about all aspects
of criminal justice in the United States presented in over 600 tables
from more than 100 sources. 31st edition of Sourcebook, published in 2003.
(Albany U.)
General Statistics
- American
FactFinder
- American FactFinder
is a data access and dissemination system that will find and retrieve
social, economic or housing characteristics information from some of the
Census Bureau's largest data sets. Tools help you create tables and generate
maps illustrating data and statistics. Other sections allow research into
industry and business facts and economic census data. (Bureau of the Census)
- Business Data and Statistics
- Collection of resources providing free access to business and economic statistics collected by the U.S. Government. (Small Business Administration)
- Bureau
of the Census
- Also see the U.
of Michigan's CensusScope, an
easy-to-use tool for examining demographic trends.
- Census
Finder: A Directory of Free Census Records
- This is an ongoing
project. (brenda Hay)
- Consumer
Price Index
- (BLS)
- State
and County QuickFacts
- Frequently requested
Census information at the national, state and county level. (Bureau of
the Census)
- Statistical
Abstract
- 1995-Current editions.
Contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions
in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The
Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau,
other Federal agencies, and private organizations. Print in PDF format.
(Bureau of the Census)
International Statistics
- Guide to Selected Population Resources on Government Web Sites
- This guide contains links to selected population and related data maintained on government web sites from various countries around the world. The pages chosen for this guide include only those that appear on official government sites, in most cases, from censuses or national surveys. (Princeton U.)
- International
Statistics
- Links to international
and foreign statistics. (Indiana U. Libraries)
- UNData - A World of Information
- Search and download from UN statistical databases. (United Nations Statistics Division)
Life Expectancy Tables
- Life
Expectancy Tables
- View or download
tables for life expectancy at single age, by race and sex and life expectancy
at birth, by race and sex. (NCHS)
State Statistics
- City Data.com
- Collection of data from numerous sources about many U.S. cities and towns. Included are city photos, maps, satellite photos, statistics, geographical data, weather, schools, education, crime and more. (City-Data.com)
- County
and City Data Books
- This site is based
on the County and City Data Books and allows you to create your own data
sets and access state, county, city and place statistics for all 50 states.
(U. of Virginia)
- State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
- More than 1,500 data items for the United States and individual states, counties and metropolitan areas from a variety of sources. (Bureau of the Census)
- StateMaster.com
- Compiles information from various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. StateMaster.com takes the data and provides visualization technology like pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots. There are also thousands of map and flag images, state profiles, and correlations. Examples of popular stats include:Illegal Immigrants, Current Gas Prices, and Oil Consumption. (StateMaster.com)
- Illinois Data
- Current and historical demographic and economic statistics. (Northern Illinois Business and Industry Center)
- Illinois Statistics: Find State of Illinois Statistics
- Comprehensive compilation of links to Illinois Statistics. (U. of Illinois at Springfield Brookens Library)
- Indiana Business Research Center
- Links to data about Indiana's economy. (IU)
- Indiana State Statistical Agency Websites
- (Purdue U. Libraries)
- Stats Indiana
- Indiana statistics of population, economy, workforce as well as county profiles. A web service of the Indiana Business Research Center at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Statistics supplied by state agencies.(IU)
- Wisconsin Statistics
- Links to broad range of statistics sources, including Wisconsin specific sites. (Wisconsin State Law Library)
Travel Arrangements
General Travel Information
- Airport
Ground Transportation Association, Inc.
- Use the pop-up button
to select a state and find airport ground transportation in the city of
your choice. (AGTA)
- Airline
Toll-Free Numbers and Websites
- Links to airline
websites. (Thavery)
- Airline Web Sites
- Links to airlines worldwide. (Skytrax)
- Airport Web Sites
- Links to airports worldwide. (Skytrax)
- Airport Wireless Internet Access Guide
- Guide to airport wireless connections in the USA - for pay and free. (TravelPost.com)
- Amtrak
- Includes on-line
travel planner, schedules and reservations.
- ATM Locations Overseas
- Master Card/Cirrus ATM locator and Visa/Plus ATM locator. (1vacation.com)
- Baggage Allowance
- List of airlines that have instituted a fee for a checked bag with the 1st bag fee and exceptions. (GSA)
- FAA Flight Delay Information - Air Traffic Control System Command Center
- (FAA)
- FedRooms.com
- Rates that are at or below per diem. (GSA)
- Greyhound
Bus
- Fares and schedules.
- GSA Travel
- U.S. per diem rates by location, including updates and privately owned vehicle mileage reimbursement rates which effective January 1, 2009, changed to 55 cents per mile. (GSA)
- Mapping.com's List of Worldwide Airport Codes
- Scroll down to the search box. (Mapping.com)
- Mapquest
- Maps and driving
directions.
- Megab
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