Law Library :: Electronic Databases :: University of Memphis

Electronic Databases Available on the Internet by our Subscription	Description
CILP	Current Index to Legal Periodicals is prepared weekly by the University of Washington Law Library and indexes current articles from over 500 law reviews and other selected legal journals.
CCH	Our subscription to the CCH Internet Tax Network includes Federal, State, Financial and Estate, and International Law areas.
CALI	Computer Assisted Legal Instruction includes a collection of over 100 computer-based lessons covering twenty seven legal education subject areas.
ELR	Environmental Law Institute subscription to Environmental Law Report, Update, News and Analysis, State News and Analysis, International News and Analysis, and Health and Safety News and Analysis.
Hein Online	Hein-On-Line is an ever expanding, comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals. It provides exact page images of legal journals from their inception and continues to the most current volume. Search and browse features are included. Great source for archived articles. Find out more on their homepage.
TAM	Tennessee Attorney's Memo Online including the latest issue and a searchable archive of the current year, can be accessed from computers within the law building. We maintain a locally stored archive here.
Legaltrac	LegalTrac on the InfoTrac Web offers indexing for all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general interest publications. LegalTrac also includes selective full text.
LEXIS	Web based access to Lexis.
WESTLAW	Web based access to Westlaw.
Electronic Databases Free and Available on the Internet	Description
AALL Spectrum	Published monthly except Jan. and Aug. by the American Association of Law Libraries
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 4th. ed.	Dictionary.
Census	Census Department, searchable for population and housing.
EDGAR	Securities Exchange Commission, searchable 10-K reports and filings.
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics	Surveys law and economic literature with a review of literature and bibliography.
ERIC	Education database searchable 1989 to current.
GPO Access	Official page for the Government Printing Office. Includes text of Bills 1993-, Public Laws 1995-, Congressional Record 1994-, Congressional Reports 1995-, Federal Register 1994-, Code of Federal Regulations, and the United States Code.
Infoplease.com	Encyclopedia, dictionary, and almanac type information.
The Law Library Journal	The official journal of the American Association of law Libraries, published quarterly.
The Library of Congress Catalog	Searchable holdings of the Library of Congress Card Catalog.
Martindale.com	Lawyer locator to find a lawyer by name, location, area of practice, firm, corporations, agencies of the U.S. government, or law school faculty.
Medline	PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in Medline and PreMedline and other related databases with links to participating online journals.
Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications	Monthly Catalog index to U.S. government publications, 1994-.
NCJRS Abstracts Database	National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts database contains summaries of publications from over 140,000 sources going as far back as the early 1970's.
NTIS	National Technical Information Service is the U.S. government's central source for distribution of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information.
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus	Includes over 35,000 synonyms.
Thomas	Library of Congress database of congressional information, 1973- including bills, public laws, and the Congressional Record.
West's Legal Directory	West's Legal Directory of attorneys searchable by name, location, and practice area.
World Factbook 2001	U.S. government's complete geographical handbook of country profiles including population, ethnicity, political, geographical, and economic data.