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Westlaw Campus Research

Due to budget cuts to state-funded library resources, access to Westlaw is no longer available to the University of Connecticut libraries. LexisNexis provides comparable news and legal content.
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Due to budget cuts to state-funded library resources, access to Westlaw is no longer available to the University of Connecticut libraries. LexisNexis provides comparable news and legal content.
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LexisNexis Legal
Primary source materials such as federal and state case law, statutes and codes, federal regulations, international legal materials, and patents. Secondary sources include legal news and law review articles. 1980s-current.
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Also includes the Martindale-Hubbell Directory of lawyers and law firms and a Law School Directory. See also LexisNexis News and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within the database include:
- Law reviews and legal news
- Federal and state case law (search by case number or topic)
- Topical law
- Federal Code
- Federal Regulations
- State Codes
- Canadian Legislative Materials
- European Union Law (CELEX)
- Patents
- Tax law
- Martindale-Hubbell lawyer directory
- Law school directory
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Hein Online
Full-text of law reviews, federal documents, and Supreme Court materials. Much material is pre-1980 and some dates back to the 1800s. See details for coverage.
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Pages appear as they would in the original hardcopy including all charts, graphs and photographs. Current issues of journals may not be available due to licensing restrictions. Hein call this a 'moving wall' and these journals are added when the next issues are published. Articles also may be retrieved using the standard legal citation format. Includes:
- Law reviews
- Federal Register Library and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- The Treaties and Agreements Library
- The U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library
- The U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library
- The U.S. Presidential Library
- The U.S. Statutes at Large Library
- The U.S. Supreme Court Library
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CQ Congress Collection
Provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. From the Congressional Quarterly. current.
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Data is organized in four sections:
- Public Policy Legislation presents legislative information and analysis under 23 broad topics such as agriculture, civil rights, national security, and transportation and hundreds of subtopics.
- Members of Congress includes biographical, political, and electoral data about every member of Congress since the 97th Congress (additional Congresses will be added periodically). It also includes links to each member's "CQ Key Votes" voting record and data on how various interest groups rate the members. An advanced member search allows the user to search for members by various demographic fields.
- CQ Key Votes organizes, by Congress and topic, the preferred data for scholarly research. Each individual "CQ Key Vote" is presented with a description of the vote along with the vote outcome by political party and includes links to the roll call vote, the full text of the legislation, and a state delegation vote map. It also provides the ability to conduct advanced vote analysis by various demographic fields.
- The Legislative Branch provides encyclopedic information, statistical data, legislative analysis, and Supreme Court case summaries relating to the structure and powers of Congress including committee information and its relationships with other branches of government and the media.
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Making of Modern Law

Covers domestic and international law, legal history, national defense, criminology, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice and more. Over 21,000 U.S. and U.K. legal treatises from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 1800-1926.
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Includes casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. Covers domestic and international law, legal history, business and economics, politics and government, national defense, criminology, religion, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice.
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Permitted Uses: Authorized Users may typically display, download, print, and copy a reasonable portion (generally one or two articles or one book chapter) of the Licensed Electronic Resource.

Restrictions: Systematic downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information or using software such as scripts, agents, or robots, to retrieve information is generally prohibited.