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• CQ Electronic Library
  Full-text of the CQ Weekly and The CQ Researcher, as well as the CQ Congress Collection. From the Congressional Quarterly. CQ Weekly Report: 1983 to current. CQ Researcher: 1991 to current.
  

  

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  The CQ Weekly is an excellent resource for Congress-watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. A user may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles by words, dates, subjects or other criteria. The Web service also provides users with access to some CQ Weekly articles prior to when they are available in print. More congressional offices choose the CQ Weekly over any other publication to help them keep pace with what is happening on Capitol Hill.

  The CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin research on current topics. Covers current and controversial issues with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria.

  The 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. A wealth of data with nonbiased commentary is organized under 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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• EconLit through EbscoHOST
  Indexes the international literature on economics. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. 1969-current.
  

  

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  Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database covers the international literature on economics since 1969 and provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, of journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings, collected essay volumes and full text book reviews. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. Subjects:

  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Industry
  • Statistics

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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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• Issues & Controversies
  Summarizes current issues and controversies in political, economic, social and scientific topics. 1995-current.

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  • Facts on File

  

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  Includes chronologies, editorial cartoons, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information.

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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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• LLMC Digital
  Digitized legal works and U.S. government documents from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
  

  

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  Also known as Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC). Includes the laws of the U.S. 1789-1796; Index to the Federal Statutes 1874-1931, cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals, and reports and other documents from federal departments, agencies, and commissions.

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• NCJRS Abstracts Database
  Covers all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice. From the National Criminal Justice Reference System. 1972-current.
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