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Recommended Online Resources (library use only)

BNA Tax Management Portfolios

BNA's Tax and Accounting Center includes Federal Tax Portfolios on U.S. Income and on Estates, Gifts, and Trusts; International Tax Portfolios on Foreign Income; and State Tax Portfolios. More BNA databases.

CCH Internet Research Network (formerly Business & Finance Library)

Provides access to news, analysis, and official documents in the areas of Securities; Exchanges and SROs; Corporate Governance; Investment Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; International Business; Banking; Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Insurance Coverage Litigation; Products Liability and Safety; Government Contracts; Intellectual Property, Computer & Internet Law; Federal Energy Guidelines; Transportation Law; Commodities and Derivatives. See also the CCH Tax Research NetWork.

HeinOnline

An image-based (PDF) collection of legal periodicals from the 19th century to the present. The Law Journal Library is organized into several libraries, including American Bar Association Journals, Core U.S./Most Cited Law Journals, Criminal Justice Journals, International & Non-U.S. Law Journals, Intellectual Property Library, and Most-Cited Law Journals. Search the entire Law Journal Library or one of the smaller collections. You can also retrieve articles by citation or title.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective

Indexes legal periodicals from 1908 to 1981.

LegalTrac

LegalTrac is a searchable electronic index of legal periodicals dating back to 1980. It is not a full-text database. Most of the information contained in LegalTrac consists of article citations from major law reviews, bar association journals, and legal newspapers.

LexisNexis Academic

This database contains the text of state and federal laws and cases. Users can also access federal regulations, law review articles, and some international materials, as well as business, medical, and reference information. Documents can be printed at the library for $0.08/page, emailed, or saved to a removable drive.

LexisNexis Congressional

Includes Congressional Indexes for 1789-1969; U.S. legislative information including hearing transcripts (1988+); committee reports (1989+); bills and bill tracking reports (1989+); selected committee prints (1995+); congressional documents (1995+); Congressional Record (1985+); Federal Register (1980+); Current Code of Federal Regulations; Current U.S. Code; Public laws (1988+); National Journal and Congress Daily.

Shepards

An online citator used to update case law and statutory research. It allows a researcher to locate legal materials that have discussed or cited a particular case or statute of interest. Most importantly, Shepards helps determine whether a given source is still a valid law. Documents can be printed at the library for $0.08/page or emailed.

Westlaw Patron Access

Westlaw provides access to federal and state cases, statutes, and administrative codes as well as law reviews, AmJur, ALR, Restatements, selected treatises, Arizona practice materials, docket information for Arizona courts, and its citator, KeyCite. Documents can be printed at the library for $0.08/page.