ONLINE
LEGAL RESEARCH
ONLINE LEGAL RESEARCH
WESTLAW & LEXIS are available to students who are in the second semester of their first year or farther along. Passwords can be obtained after a training session with a Westlaw representative. Please ask at the reserve desk for more information.
LEGAL DATABASES
- Westlaw – Requires training and password.
- Lexis – Requires training and password.
LAW JOURNALS
LEGAL SEARCH/PORTALS
- Findlaw – Access to comprehensive practice, state, federal and international materials (codes, caselaw, forms, directories, services and more).
- LawGuru – Members answer questions submitted by searchers. Pay for faster service and for forms.
- Jurist – U. of Pittsburgh legal news service. Provides news, commentary, docs, videos and more.
- Cornell LII – Go to for primary federal, state, and international law, including statutes, codes, rules, resources, bulletins, treaties, encyclopedias, and information on popular topics. Provided by the Legal Information Institute.
- Internet Legal Research Group– Indexes to national statutes, law reviews, legal practice areas, legal forms and more. Provides law school course outlines and free legal forms.
- Hieros Gamos – Information on U.S. and international governments, including executive, legislative, and judicial materials, plus a marketplace to find experts, law firms, employment, online legal publications, and legal associations.
- Meta-Index of U.S. Legal Resources – Runs searches through legal indexes court opinions by jurisdiction.
- Attorney directory from Martindale – Find lawyers, firms, and jobs.
SEARCH ENGINES
VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESKS
QUICK FACT LOOKUP
- itools – Provides search, language translations, currency conversions, maps, networking & web tools.
- HotSheet – Volunteers edit topics on the web they know something about. Many categories . Can search within search results. Search in many languages.
- Dictionaries on the Web– Links organized alphabetically by language.
SEARCH PORTALS
MASS. RESOURCES
- Mass. Reports – Decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court since 2001. Includes advance sheets and slip opinions.
- Mass. Court System - Links to courts.
- Mass. Lawyers Weekly – Weekly newspaper includes notice of court opinions federal and state plus administrative rules, covers unpublished decisions and articles on the practice of law.
- Commonwealth of Mass.– Links to the executive departments, legislature and judiciary, local and federal government.
- Mass. State Law Library – Search online catalog from 1970 on, state documents online, may need password or library card for some database options.
- Mass. Trial Court Law Library – Portal to general laws, Code of Mass Regulations, court rules, fees, executive orders, Mass. courts, state agency opinions, municipal bylaws. Access Hein Online, Nolo Law Books, Retrieve Law with a library card .
- Mass. Gen. Laws – General laws plus session laws.
- Code of Mass. Regs.– Trial Court Law Library access to all regulations published on the web.
META SEARCH ENGINES
- Dogpile – Searches Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. Includes news, images, yellow and white pages.
- MetaCrawler - Searches Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.
LISTS AND NEWSGROUPS
- Google Groups – Provides lists of discussion groups.
- TileNet – Provides a reference guide to email, newsletters, and discussion lists by name, description, and domain.
GENERAL SUBJECT CATALOG
Yahoo! – Portal to various popular areas of interest; e.g. movies, people search sports.
- WWW Virtual Library – Expert volunteers put together links for particular topics. International in scope. Limited law related topics, including admiralty, arbitration, digital rights, forensic toxicology are included.
- About.com – Links to help in solving everyday problems.
Open Directory Project – Directory of the Web created and maintained by volunteer editors also powers the Directory of other search engines. If search term is not in the Directory, the site produces a list of alternative search engines to try.
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