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Legal Research

Academic Universe
Provides access to full-text news, legal, business and reference sources.

Legal Collection
Database contains full-text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

PAIS
Indexes and abstracts the world's public affairs literature. Fields covered include political science, international relations, economics, and other social sciences. Types of materials indexed include journal articles, books, government document, and statistical compilations.

SIRS Researcher (Social Issues Researcher)
Provides general full-text covering social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political and global issues.

Social Science Citation Index [ISI Web of Science]
Indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the database.

Laws And Legislation

Federal laws and legislation [Congressional Universe]
Search the full text of the United States Code, Public Laws, Statutes at Large, and CIS Legislative Histories.

U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations [FindLaw]
Provides links to the full text of the United States Code and the Code of Federal Regulations.

State laws
Includes statutes from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. From Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Ohio's laws, rules, & constitution
Includes the full text of the Ohio Revised Code; the Ohio Administrative Code; all enacted bills from 1995-present; and current and historical Ohio constitutions.

Ohio Legislation [Ohio Capitol Connection]
Full text of all bills introduced in the Ohio General Assembly, whether enacted into law or not. Select "legislation" from the menu on the left. Then select the session of the Assembly that you wish to search by bill number.

Ohio General Assembly
Provides free access to information resources available from the Ohio General Assembly including full text of legislation, calendars of activities, and links to the web sites for the House and the Senate.

Ohio Legislative Services Commission
Provides free access to bill analyses (when prepared for a bill) for legislation introduced in the Ohio House and Senate. Access is also available to some issue briefs which are prepared for General Assembly members.

Court Decisions

Federal and State court opinions
Includes decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal, U.S. District Courts, and various other specialized federal courts. From Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Federal Gov't Resources: Judicial Branch [FindLaw]
Provides links to various web sites containing the full text of court decisions from United States federal courts. Includes the U.S. Supreme Court, the Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the District Courts.

U.S. Supreme Court
This is the official Court site and includes information about the Court, along with docket, calendar and schedules, rules, opinions, orders, and bar admission.

U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, 1990 - present
Maintained at Cornell University's Legal Information Institute, along with a collection of 300+ historically important Supreme Court decisions.

U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, 1937-1975
Searchable database provided by GPO Access.

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinions
Allows simultaneous searching of the full text opinions from all 13 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. Maintained by Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.

Oyez Oyez Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database
This site provides access to audio files of the actual oral arguments for many of the cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition it provides the written opinion as well as transcripts for many of the oral arguments. Podcasts of audio collection via iTunes are also available. (Site requires Flash and Quicktime.)

Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals opinions
Summaries of and full text opinions from January 1995 - present. The Sixth Circuit includes Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. Maintained by FindLaw.

Ohio Supreme Court opinions
Full text opinions from the Supreme Court's Reporter of Decisions.

State Cases & Codes [FindLaw]
Organized by state. Provides links to state laws and court decisions from each state.

Law Reviews

Law reviews [Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe]
Includes the full text of scholarly legal articles from hundreds of law reviews.