Databases

Search a comprehensive listiing of our databases at once. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Our academic package including statutes, cases, law journal articles, news, and more. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff.

Links to all the library subscriptions for BNA databases in a wide variety of subject areas. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Well known among the nation's lawyers as the most authoritative source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct and legal ethics, trust the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct to help you practice ethically.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Lawyers, business executives, and regulators across the nation turn to Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report for objective federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Bankruptcy Law Reporter provides regular, in-depth coverage of developments in state and federal bankruptcy law. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

For the professional edge in your day-to-day practice, rely on the most timely, objective reporting on significant developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law today. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Get national and global perspectives on the digital economy with objective, vital news of trends and developments, insights and legal expertise. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Featuring uniquely comprehensive and objective coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity, the Report spans all areas of EEO policy and practice. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

This multi-part environmental resource keeps you fully up to date on rapidly changing developments in courts, Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures, industry, and environmental organizations. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

The Library combines powerful, easy-to-use, continuously updated compliance tools with a research collection of federal and state laws, regulations, and documents.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

As the only nationally oriented family law information service available, the Reporter is your most reliable guide to important new federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Law firms and attorneys specializing in health law trust BNA to keep them up to date with the latest legal developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Do business around the world, armed with current information on laws, regulations, cases, and policy developments affecting U.S. trade, international business, and major U.S. trading partners, provided in this comprehensive multi-part resource. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Have a complete resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of the field: fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Count on BNA for uniquely objective, comprehensive news of the most important intellectual property cases, statutes, trends, and other key developments in all areas of the law. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Be alert to federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting, with objective coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, industry, courts, and Congress.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

An authoritative way to keep up with the most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Build your practice in a dynamic legal field with the most comprehensive collection of resources available on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law — cases, statutes, regulations, analytical materials, and more — all easily searchable. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Legal developments affecting the prosecution and defense of fraud and other white collar crimes are the focus of this compelling new notification service.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

CALI

More than 900 interactive lessons covering 35 legal subject areas. (South Texas College of Law students and faculty only, who should see the Reference Librarian for the authorization code.)

Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Lexis-Nexis (Available to all patrons on campus. South Texas College of Law students and faculty also may dial into our network.) Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 38 collections consisting of over 94,000 meticulously indexed documents, with more than 650,000 total pages. Each of these collections, compiled by top scholars and experts, exhaustively covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. Together, these collections offer unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time. Glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs are included. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

E-Journal Portal

Full-text electronic journals from various providers, searchable by title or subject. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Environmental Law Reporter

ELR includes state and federal environmental laws, regulations, administrative materials, and ELR Update. (In-library use only. The Reference Librarian must enter the authorization code for patrons.)

Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration – from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Fastcase’s libraries include primary law from all 50 states, as well as deep federal coverage going back to 1 U.S. 1, 1 F.2d 1, 1 F.Supp. 1, and 1 B.R. 1. The Fastcase collection includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions.

FirstSearch is a collection of article indexes. WorldCat is an electronic catalog of over 25,900 OCLC member libraries in 170 countries, consisting of more than One billion records. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the WorldAvailable only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

GreenFile

GreenFile GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement Online

Created by experts with international trade law practitioners in mind, the Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement Online offers instant access to a vast legal research database that includes: Updated summaries of 300+ WTO/GATT panel, Appellate Body, or arbitrator reports. Nine comprehensive indexes cross-referencing the reports by key word, article, country, subject, panelist, member, and more. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Hein Online

Hein Online provides full-text, retrospective access to legal journals, the Federal Register, treaties and agreements, U.S. Supreme Court materials, U.S. Attorney General materials, and classic legal monographs. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

History Vault (ProQuest)

ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

IFAR (International Foundation for Art Research)

IFAR offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981

Indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

InfoTrac: LegalTrac / OneFile

Use LegalTrac for law reviews, law journals, and legal newspapers; and InfoTrac OneFile for periodicals concerning business, economics, education, technology, environmental issues, health, politics, art, and humanities.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Inter-Am Database and
Inter-American Trade Report

For locating legal and trade information about countries in North and South America. (Password access by Reference Librarians only. Because some searches in the database may be costly, the Librarian will assist you in searching this database. Please consult a Reference Librarian.)

These volumes in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws answer these questions in a single resource. We currently have subscriptions to ONLY the following encyclopaedias: Civil Procedure, Commercial & Economic Law, Competition Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Corporations & Partnerships, Criminal Law, Cyber Law, Environmental Law, Family and Succession Law, IP Law, Labor Law, Medical Law, Property & Trust Law, Tort Law Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

In the pursuit or contemplation of international commercial activities, numerous questions of law arise. These volumes in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws answer these questions in a single resource. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

This set of volumes in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws presents a country-by-country survey of constitutional law throughout the world, and is also in the process of publishing, in one source, all of the constitutions of the world in English translations. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

This set in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws covers national and international environmental law. National monographs contain, besides a general introduction, a description of the country’s environmental legislation, an overview of the basic principles of environmental law, the historical background, the role of governmental institutions, and the sources of environmental law. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

With a focus on the UK and EU, JustCite is the only provider-neutral multi-source electronic citator on the market. It links to case law, legislation and articles from numerous third-party publishers, and shows how they relate to each other.

The information indexed on JustCite comes from a wide and ever expanding range of resources but can be broadly organised into the four categories of Cases, Legislation, European Union Information and Legal Journals & Support Materials. To Enter JustCite click on Continue to JustCIte on the search page. To Enter Justis click on Continue to Justis on the search page. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Justis is a full text online legal library of UK, Irish and EU case law dating back to 1163 and legislation from 1235. To Enter Justis click on Continue to Justis on the search page. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Legal Source

This database provides full-text coverage of the world's most respected scholarly law journals. It includes international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. International coverage includes periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publicationscreated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Lexis-Nexis

Our academic package including statutes, cases, law journal articles, news, and more. (A Lexis-Nexis password is required.) Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff.

LLMC, the Law Library Microform Consortium, is the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in digital format and in microform. This website links to catalogs of all LLMC holdings. (Available to all patrons on campus. South Texas College of Law students and faculty also may dial into our network.) Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Oxford Scholarship Online includes: Oxford Studies in European Law, Oxford Monographs in International Law, Oxford Monographs in Criminal Law and Justice, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford Monographs in Labour Law, Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History, Oxford Studies in International Economic Law, and the International Courts and Tribunals series, alongside many other works selected from their legal publishing. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Offering access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Practice Exams

Moved to Stanley. Click link to access.

This database provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publicationscreated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

Access PDF copies of the New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993) and the Washington Post (1877-1994). Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

RIA Checkpoint

Comprehensive federal and state tax information, including U.S. Tax Reporter, Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, WGL journals, and RIA editorial analysis. (Access restricted to South Texas College of Law students with individual passwords. Students may visit RIA Checkpoint Password for password information.)

United Nations Treaty Collection

United Nations treaties from 1946 to the present.

Verdect and Settlement Research. (Please see Referece Librarian for username and password)

vLex is a legal research mega-site providing thousands of primary and secondary law sources from dozens of publishers around the world

Our academic package including statutes, cases, law journal articles, news, and more. (A Westlaw password is required.) Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff.

FirstSearch is a collection of article indexes. WorldCat is an electronic catalog of over 25,900 OCLC member libraries in 170 countries, consisting of more than One billion records. Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.

World Politics Review is a daily online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs. Its original articles are written by a network of more than 400 contributors from around the world, including subject-matter experts from journalism, research organizations, academia, government and elsewhere.Available only to members of the South Texas College of Law faculty, students, and staff or patrons inside the library.