Research Databases
Alphabetical List of Research Databases
For direct access to ResearchPort, which provides access to databases both on- and off-campus, go to the Research Port website.
ABI/INFORM: Business-related journals via UMI Proquest Direct. Some full text available.
ACADEMIC SEARCH/EBSCO: Provides abstracts and indexing for over 7,000 journals. Full text of articles for over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications.
BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS LAW & ECONOMICS JOURNALS: Includes the Global Jurist Titles, and the Journals of Legal Scholarship (Issues in Legal Scholarship and Theoretical Inquiries in Law), as well as a number of economics titles.
BNA: An asterisk beside the Product Name indicates that e-mail summaries of the highlights and table of contents accompany the product.
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER: Provides full-text for nearly 8200 serials, with full-text for some back to 1965.
CCH GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS REPORTER: Provides access to government contracts statutes, cases, FAR System and other Regulations, and other government contracts documents.
CIAO (COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ONLINE): Provides a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers and research projects from university research institutes, NGOs, foundations, and conference proceedings.
CLEARINGHOUSE REVIEW: Journal Published by the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
On Campus
Off Campus (click on the Clearinghouse Review tab if you come to a page with a 404 error message)
CONGRESSIONAL UNIVERSE (LEXIS-NEXIS): Provides access to Congressional level publications, policy documents and the US Statutes at Large.
Electronic Journals: Electronic versions of some of the Law Library's print subscriptions.
On-campus access only.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE: Full text and interactive version.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER: Contains state, federal, and international materials pertaining to environmental law.
ERIC: Index of articles related to education.
FOREIGN LAW GUIDE: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World (Click on Subscriber login)
HEIN ONLINE: A retrospective collection of over 500 law reviews, with over 200,000 articles. Full-text is available, in graphical image format.
INDEX TO FOREIGN LEGAL PERIODICALS: Indexes foreign legal journals and newspapers.
INDEX TO LEGAL PERIODICALS FULL-TEXT: Indexes legal journals and newspapers, and includes the full-text of some articles.
INDEX TO LEGAL PERIODICALS RETROSPECTIVE: Covers the period from 1918 - 1980, with indexing for over 500 law reviews and journals.
INDEXMASTER: This database allows you to you to view the actual index and/or table of contents of over 10,000 legal titles.
On Campus access only.
JSTOR: The Law Library subscribes to the Arts and Sciences I & II collections. Arts and Sciences I offers 119 journal titles in the humanities and social sciences, including core journals in economics, history, political science and sociology. Arts and Sciences II adds depth to the subject areas contained in A & S I and offers titles in new areas such as archaeology and classics. A & S II contains 124 titles.
LEGALTRAC: Indexes legal journals and newspapers.
MEDLINE (First Search): Index of articles relating to medicine.
MASTERFILE PREMIER Indexes over 27,000 periodicals (and full-text searching for 1,800 periodicals) on general interest topics such as health, business and culture.
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER COLLECTION: The collection includes the full text of the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
NETLIBRARY: A general collection of electronic texts (requires registration to “check-out” the titles); for a list of the the Law Library's Civil Rights titles: Civil Rights E-book Collection
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, together with the 1993 and 1997 three-volume Additions Series.
RIA CHECKPOINT: Provides both analytical and primary source information relating to tax law. (For off-campus access, you must click the “off-campus” button and register for an ID and password from a computer terminal on-campus.)
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOG (Via the web.)
WORLDCAT: The WorldCat database is the OCLC Online Union Catalog. It contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world.