.Legal Studies Subject Guide: Recommended Databases

Indexes 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.

Indexes 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.

Provides 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.

Provides 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.