Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning at Virginia Tech conducts basic and applied research on national and international development, focusing on key forces shaping commmunity flourishing such as environment, demographics, technology, design, and transp
Overton tracks "gray literature": from white papers, policy briefs, and hearing transcripts from government agencies, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations. It also tracks and links between gray literature and scholarly publications that cite it.
SocINDEX indexes abstracts and full text of journal articles, books, conference papers, case studies, and surveys on all aspects of sociology. Author profiles are provided. You can do cited reference searches and limit to scholarly sources. 1895-present.
Published by the American Economic Association, EconLit provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, covering both economic theory and application. Also included are full-text book reviews and 40,000+ working papers in economics.
Business Source Complete is a citation, abstracts, and full-text database that indexes journals; books; financial data; reference works; conference proceedings; company, industry, investment, marketing, and country reports; SWOT analyses; and case studies. Full text is provides as HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1886-present; most content is 1980s-present.
The Military & Government Collection database indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journals, news sources, primary source documents, legislative acts and proclamations, and other publications covering all aspects of the military. Full text presented in HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1975-present.
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence indexes citations and full text from scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, and the structure of the armed forces. 1980-present.
The HeinOnline portal offers a large and wide-ranging collection of contemporary and historical legal materials, mainly from the US, including constitutions; statutes and legislative histories, treaties, judicial opinions, regulations and other administrative law, and topical collections of historical law/policy documents. Hein's collections of secondary sources (law reviews and books) address wider bodies of law and more countries than the primary-sources Tech subscribes to.
Less comprehensive than Worldwide Political Science Abstracts from ProQuest (Tech's principal database to the discipline), Political Science Complete indexes citations, abstracts, and full text of journal articles, conference papers, reference books, country reports, interviews and speeches, and book reviews on all aspects of political science.
Humanities International Complete indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journals, books and book reviews, art work and images, performances and reviews, literature and criticisms, poems and short stories, and conference proceedings. Full text is available as HTML and PDF; images are available in a variety of formats. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources.
Despite its formal name, the scope of OADTL is not limited to religious studies: its coverage is wide ranging, taking in the range of topics addressed by the world's religious traditions as well as those of interest to clergy as teachers, counselors, and activists. OADTL brings together freely available articles, books, government reports, working papers and the like, using the familiar OCLC WorldCat Discovery platform
Religion and Philosophy Collection indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journal articles, magazines, and book reviews in the field of world religions, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Full-text materials are available in HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1967-present.
The vLex: United States Core collection is a legal intelligence platform that provides statutes, regulations, and caselaw in full text. The default interface prioritizes searching for information by US or state jurisdiction; its browse option categorizes content types (cases, statutes [codes], regulations, filings, and many more), and you then select jurisdiction. For deeper historical coverage of statutess and regulations, see HeinOnline. VLex replaces the publisher's earlier platform, FastCase.
Key tool for legal research (notably state and US case law, current statutory and administrative codes and rulings -- see scope of coverage). Search by keyword or citation, and filter by jurisdiction or date. Permits directly searching HeinOnline for law reviews, and includes links from cases to articles cited in them. The publisher is replacing Fastcase with a newer product, v|Lex.
Paralleling reports of the Congressional Research Service, these legal research reports provide commentary and recommended resources on issues and events for members of the US Congress.. These reports are provided for reference purposes only and reflect research undertaken as of the date of writing; they have not been updated unless specifically noted. Historical reports can be found in the Publications of the Law Library of Congress.”
Important archive of historical legal and government documents from US and other jurisdictions: constitutions, codes, statutes, court reporters, treatises. Searchable. Displays original documents in full page image; reader interface resembles HathiTrust. Formerly Law Library Microfilm Collaborative.
In many countries, and sometimes in administrative regions within a country, an official gazette is the goverrnment's legal newspaper, which publishes the text of new laws, decrees, regulations, treaties, legal notices, and court decisions. This portal helps you
discover where in the US physical holdings exist (using the FOG database) to visit or request through ILLiad
access (in Digitized Official Gazettes) endangered government documentation from ten African and Persian Gulf nations .
Complements international legal contents in LLMC-Digital.
Free collection provides primary sources (statutes, regulations, US Supreme Court opinions), locators/directories to other legal resources around the world, and reference/background information about fields and topics in law.
Portal of Internet sources of interest to legal researchers covers virtually every jurisdiction in the world. Emphasizes sites offering the full texts of laws, regulations, and court decisions, along with commentary from lawyers writing primarily for other lawyers. .Also includes selected sites from governments and materials related to law and government that were written by or for lay persons.
The Global Legal Monitor is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. It is updated frequently and draws on information from official national legal publications and reliable press sources.
Old-fashioned but frequently updated directory to online information sources for International law research, comparative law research, and "foreign" (ie, country-level) law research.
In addition to its library of legal scholarship on all topics, Hein offers large and wide-ranging collections of historical and contemporary primary sources in public law, including legal and administrative codes, treaties, constitutions, organized thematically and by source.
Gale OneFile: LegalTrac indexes citations and some fuill text of law reviews and journals, legal newspapers, federal and state case law, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, and international law. 1980-present.
The Legal Collection indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text journal articles and case studies. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. Full text presented in HTML and PDF. 1965-present.
Legal Collection offers full text for more than 300 of the world’s best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment, and much more. Full-text journals contained in this database include: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
The Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective indexes citations to articles and summaries in annual surveys of laws and courts, legal journals, and legal yearbooks. 1908-1981.
Aims to be an exhaustive collection of current and historical US military legal document and resource needed by judge advocates, law school professors, and members of the general public interested in military law.
