Research Links - Consortium and Subscription Sites
Most of the sites listed below are only
available to faculty, students, and staff
of the Roger Williams University School of Law. These sites control
access either by requiring a password or
by using IP numbers. Password
assistance can be obtained from a reference
librarian. Access to an IP controlled site
from a Law School computer workstation does
not require any additional action by the
user. For off-campus access to an
IP controlled site, click here for instructions.
CALI - Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction - This web site provides students at member schools with access to over 800 computer-based lessons, tutorials, and games in 33 subject areas. (Password required)
CCH Intelliconnect - This service provides access to the electronic version of CCH's vast tax research network of federal, state, and financial & estate tax services including access to the Internal Revenue Code and the federal tax regulations).The service also includes collections on: Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Banking; Commodities and Derivatives; Corporate Governance; Exchanges and SROs; Federal Energy Guidelines; Government Contracts; Insurance Coverage Litigation; Intellectual Property, Computer & Internet Law; International Business; Investment Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Products Liability & Safety; Securities; and, Transportation Law. (IP)
Constitutions of the Countries of the World - This service provides access to authoritative English translations of the constitutions by scholars familiar with the legal systems and languages of the foreign jurisdictions they cover. (IP)
Current Index to Legal Periodicals - This index to selected legal periodicals is prepared by the University of Washington, School of Law Library. It serves as an update to Index to Legal Periodicals and Books. (IP)
Foreign Law Guide - This service is a guide to foreign law research, providing accurate, authoritative and current information in this area. (IP)
HeinOnline - This service provides access to a vast array of law reviews, treatises in the "Legal Classics" collection, American Law Institute materials, foreign and international law materials, federal executive, legislative, and administrative materials, treaty collections, and state session laws. Materials are available in an image-based system which allows viewing and printing articles with the original print formating. (IP)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals - The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is produced by The American Association of Law Libraries and provides access to worldwide legal literature covering all forms of foreign law, including comparative law and legal systems. (IP)
JSTOR - The JSTOR archives include full-text access to scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other valuable materials. (IP)
Justis - This service provides access to U.K. Statutes (1235-present) and Statutory Instruments (1949-present). (IP)
Legal Resource Index (LegalTrac/InfoTrac) - Legal periodical index providing access to indexing for over 800 law reviews, legal journals, and legal newspapers and citations to law-related articles from over 1000 non-law journals and periodicals. (IP)
LexisNexis Congressional - The LexisNexis Universe service provides access to legislative and regulatory information and indexes, including the Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969, CIS Index, 1970-, full text of congressional reports, documents, prints, bills, the Congressional Record, Statutes at Large, public laws, United States Code Service, Federal Register, and the Code of Federal Regulations; bill tracking reports; biographical and financial information on members of Congress; member voting records; committee information; and the "Inside Washington" articles on legislative activies. Also available in the publications section of this source is the LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection containing Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Congressional Committee Prints. (IP)
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (Gale) - This full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises for the period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries covers a watershed period of legal development. The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works on British Commonwealth and American law. It provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of legal history and allows a vast segment of the literature of law to be quickly searched via keyword access by faculty members and students. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. (IP)
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly - This site provides faculty and students searchable access to the archives for all articles and case digests since 1993. (Password required to search archived material)
NELLCO - New England Law Library Consortium - The NELLCO web site provides resource sharing between its member ABA accredited law schools, private non-profit, and governmental libraries throughout the New England region and provides access to cooperatively purchased databases. Parts of the NELLCO site are available to anyone, but access to some of the material is restricted.
Project Muse - MUSE provides access to a comprehensive selection of full-text prestigious humanities and social sciences journals which support a diverse array of research needs. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many leading university presses and scholarly societies. (IP)
United Nations Treaty Collection - This collection includes: the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General; Depositary Notifications (CNs); Certified True Copies (CTCs) of multilateral treaties; the United Nations Treaty Series; the League of Nations Treaty Series; texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties; and, the United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index. (IP)
