Research Databases

The following are research databases provided through Mercer Law Library subscription. Access on and off campus is freely available to the Mercer Law School community.

Remote Access: You may be prompted to enter your Mercer student ID number to access a database off-campus. Example: your name goes in the first box, and the second box is for the 8 digit student ID number found on the front of your BearCard. See image below:














BNA-ALL - Arranged by Subject or Alphabetically by Title
(How to Cite BNA Publications - user guide, prepared by BNA’s reference
librarians, offers Bluebook citations for the majority of BNA publications. Includes examples.)



CALI Lessons
Includes over 675 tutorials in 33 areas of law. To access CALI for the first time, you must register using Mercer's authorization code (please contact a reference librarian) and create your own password. To do this, go to www.cali.org. Click on "Not a registered user yet? Click here" on the right hand side of screen. During the registration process, you will create your own password. Once registered, enter your email and your password and click on "Login."




CIS Lexis Congressional

Congressional Universe includes Congressional publications, legislative history, and legislative tracking materials.





 

CQ Researcher Online

CQ Researcher Online provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of today's most important and controversial topics, including social, economic, political and environmental issues.



Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)

The CILP database provides topical access to the most recent issues of over 500 current legal publications. Citations are grouped by legal subject or by journal tables of contents, and includes links to the full-text on LexisNexis and Westlaw. The latest issue of CILP is available every Friday, and is 4-6 days earlier than other commercial legal periodical indexes. Please contact a reference librarian for the login and password.





Galileo

Galileo provides access to hundreds of academically-oriented databases. (Members of the law school community, only, may obtain a password for off-campus access to the licensed databases on Galileo. See a reference librarian for assistance.)


ebrary - Collection of over 30,000 electronic books. On campus use only.

Environmental Law Reporter - Court opinions, news, analyses, policies & decisions, pleadings, environmental statutes & treaties.

Fulton County Daily Report - Current reports plus an archive back to January 2002.

HeinOnline

HeinOnline provides digitized images of full text law reviews and legal journals (over 800 thus far), with an emphasis on pre-1980 materials not available elsewhere online. Click here for tips on searching for law review articles by subject, country or U.S. State. Coverage also includes digitized images of the following:

Federal Register (vol. 1, 1936 -)
Code of Federal Regulations Coverage: 1938-2009 ( There were no CFR supplements published for 1942 and 1948.)
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (vol. 1, 1965-)-
Treaties and Agreements Library
Foreign Relations of the United States
Foreign and International Law Resources
European Center for Minority Issues
U.S. Supreme Court Library
U.S. Attorney General Opinions
U.S. Presidential Library
Legal Classics Library
Federal Legislative History Collection
State Session Laws
Statutes at Large (1789-2006)
English Reports
American Law Institute
Philip C. Jessup Library
National Moot Court Competition
Subject Compilation of State Laws
U.S. Federal Agency Library
World Trials Library
Association of American Law Schools
United States Code
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Laws

HeinOnline continues to expand. If a Mercer student is accessing HeinOnline remotely, the student must enter his/her last name, first name, and the 8 digit student ID number on the front of the Bearcard.

To print, choose the "Download PDF" - it may take several minutes before it begins printing. The larger the file, the longer the wait.

Tip - Shortcut to printing more than one document at a time.

If you are having trouble saving the PDF files that you have downloaded, click here for instructions (1/09).


IndexMaster

IndexMaster searches the Table of Contents and indexes of current legal treatises.





JSTOR

JSTOR is an archival, full text source for scholarly journals in 15 disciplines. Please note: JSTOR does not provide current issues but extensive, if not complete, back files of the journal contents. The specific coverage is listed for each title. The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 117 titles. The Arts & Sciences II Collection is home to 125 titles. Collection III will have 120 titles by 2007, and Collection IV will include 100 titles by 2008.





LLMC Digital

LLMC Digital is a collection of digitized images of full-text historical and current materials from the U.S. federal and state legislative, executive and judicial branches as well as Canadian materials. It consists primarily of legal material, and includes publications such as the U.S. Statutes at Large, Civil Rights Commission Reports, and U.S. Supreme Court Reports. Also includes an extensive collection of military law materials.


Oxford English Dictionary - The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language since 1150. OED is an historical dictionary, and its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English. In dictionaries of current English, in which only present day definitions are covered, the most common meanings are described first. For each word in the OED, both online and in print, the various groupings of meanings are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence. Thus, it traces the usage of words through quotations from a wide range international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Search tip: When you have the entry for a word, at the top of the page there are buttons for pronunciation, spellings, etymology, quotations and date charts.

RIA CheckPoint



Full-text tax and accounting materials. Includes the complete federal tax code, regulations, committee reports, and rulings. Also contains the Federal Tax Coordinator, U.S. Tax Reporter, Federal Tax Handbook, a news/current awareness section, as well as state tax cases, rulings, and legislation.





Tarver's A-Z eJournal Locator


The "A-Z eJournal Locator" on Mercer University Tarver Library's website is a single source online locator which finds all the inter-disciplinary journals available through the University Library's various databases.





Web of Science

An index of more than 8,000 science, social sciences, arts, and humanities journals, with complete bibliographic data, abstracts, and cited references. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded.





Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals

Indexes articles from over 1,000 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic are also covered. Full text coverage for over 326 selected periodicals back to 1994 is included. Check the "Journal Directory" for extent of coverage of a particular title. Also, more than 1400 books are indexed annually. Researchers can search the ILP Retrospective 1908-1981 and the ILP Full-Text 1982 - present at the same time or separately.



WorldCat

WorldCat is a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat is part of the database offerings in GALILEO, Georgia's Virtual Libraries.

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