Librarians' Top Picks
- Legal LexisNexisExtensive legal database that includes federal and state cases and statutes, law reviews and journals; Shepard's citation links between cases, and much more.
- Legal CollectionIndexes and provides full-text articles published in more than 250 respected law journals. 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, and the environment. Also includes documents and case studies.
- Sociological AbstractsProvides abstracts for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers in sociology and behavioral sciences including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.
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- Philosopher's IndexIndexes and provides abstracts from books and journals covering philosophy and related fields. Topics covered include ethics, aesthetics, logic, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics as well as the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
- Communication & Mass Media CompleteProvides research in communication and mass media studies and in closely-related fields of study. A unique feature of the database is the inclusion of Author Profiles, providing biographical, bibliographic, and contact information for the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched-for authors in the database.
Local Resources
- Oregon Legal ResearchWelcome to the Oregon Legal Research gateway powered by Oregon public law librarians and their Access to Justice partners. Our goal is to promote justice by providing all Oregonians with access to legal information and legal research assistance.
Reference-type Resources
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd ed. The online edition of the 13-volume, 2004 publication. Covers important legal issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more.
- Oxford Reference Online: PremiumProvides full-text for reference books on many disciplines, including for law. Content ranges from dictionaries with concise legal definitions or guides to legal Latin to rich encyclopedic essays on topics of law, legal systems, and court cases. Other topics covered besides law include business, politics, philosophy, history, sciences, and more.
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