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Most subscription content can be accessed from anywhere. Use the name and barcode number (for students, make sure you do not use your C number) from your Florida Coastal ID to log in from off-campus. For Faculty, contact a Reference Librarian if you need your access information. Exceptions and specific access instructions regarding specific databases are noted in red.
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BNA provides news, analysis, and legal and regulatory developments for the areas of antitrust and trade regulation, criminal law, environmental law, family law, labor and employment law, and securities regulation. Access to US Law Week is also available. Take a Quick Tour for a review of BNA features.
Print out the Quick Reference Card for handy reference.
Sign up for a brief instructor-led Webinar. The Webinar will walk you through all the key new features.
Click here for a web page with links to user’s guides, citation tips, research tips, and other useful material.
This is a subscription service available to students and faculty of Florida Coastal only. Use of this product is controlled by the BNA license agreement (terms of use page) and is subject to copyright and other laws protecting proprietary rights.
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Computer-mediated legal instruction (interactive lessons for most law school courses and great for exam preparation)
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The IntelliConnect Platform gives access to extensive resources, including: CCH Tax Library Extensive tax resource, providing information on federal, international, state, and local taxation, financial and estate planning, wealth management, pensions and payroll, and tax tools (calculators, practice aids, tables, and quick-answer charts). Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reporter Comprehensive coverage of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, its regulations and enforcement activity, along with related laws, cases, case annotations, and legislative history documents bolstered by expert explanations from partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Kluwer Arbitration A fully-searchable database with materials in the field of international commercial arbitration. Found under International Securities and Business. |
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| Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) |
CILP is produced by the law librarians and staff of the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library of the University of Washington. Our electronic subscription provides the Coastal Law community timely topical access to over 500 legal publications. Items published are organized within 100 relevant subject headings, and complete tables of contents of all journals indexed are included. For information on journals indexed in CILP, click here. For past issues, contact a reference librarian. You can send a message to refdesk@fcsl.edu. |
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Legal Multimedia source. Download audio versions of case opnions to your MP3 player and listen on the go. Watch real courtroom video on your computer. An initial registration under your school email is required for access to the site. Register here.
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| Election Law Journal | Leading journal for analysis of legal issues, as well as election reform and design, in the U. S. and other countries. |
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A legal research system providing access to a comprehensive 50-state and federal case law database. Select statutes, regulations, and administrative materials also available. Access to Fastcase is provided to Florida Bar members as a benefit of membership. Take the opportunity now to become familiar with it!
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OCLC FirstSearch provides access to over 70 databases which can be searched to find books, articles, and other materials; great for researching non-legal subjects.
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The Florida Law Weekly reports full text of the opinions of the Supreme Court of Florida and Florida's five district courts of appeal within days of filing – most Supreme Court decisions are published the day after filing, and District Court opinions are published within 7-10 days of filing. Via the website, services include:
Access to the Florida Law Weekly online is a subscription service available to students and faculty of Florida Coastal School of Law only.
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| Foreign Law Guide | This work endeavors to provide the lawyer or legal researcher with relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, indications of currentness of the legal materials listed, and, finally, selected references to secondary sources in English. |
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Searchable database of full-text legal journals; treaties and agreements; federal legislative histories; U.S. Statutes at Large; Federal Register; European Center for Minority Issues; Legal Classics; Phillip C. Jessup Library; U.S. Attorney General Opinions; U.S. Presidential Library; U.S. Supreme Court Library
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A fully-searchable database with materials in the field of international commercial arbitration.
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LegalTrac indexes approximately 875 titles, including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Also includes law-related articles from over 1,000 business and general interest titles. Some articles are available in full text.
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Comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research (incl. legislative history, bills, hearings (1824-2003), US Serial Set (1789-1969)).
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A digital collection of law books, including the nominative U.S. Supreme Court Reporters and state reporters, as well as other historical administrative and legal decisions.
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Electronic titles on business law, bankruptcy, elder law, employment law, environmental law, federal practice, immigration, insurance, intellectual property, personal injury, real estate, securities regulation, tax, and workers’ compensation. Includes state secondary sources for Florida, New York, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, and Texas. Read the Coastal Law Research Guide for tips on using Authority On-Demand.
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Full text searching of over 21,000 works from casebooks, form books, practice manuals, speeches, and more. Click here to see a list of titles included.
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| National Consumer Law Center | This website is a companion site to the National Consumer Law books in the library collection. The website provides forms, statutes, regulations, and other content on consumer law, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Act, material on student loans, bankruptcy, and other consumer law related subjects. |
| Covers legal history from ancient to modern times. Approximately 1000 articles explore the traditions of Ancient Greek Law, Ancient Roman Law, Medieval Roman Law, Chinese Law, English Common Law, Islamic Law, United States Law, and the laws of such other regions as Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Major categories of law explained in detail include private law (contract, tort, civil procedure), public law (statutory, criminal, etc.), and higher or constitutional law. | |
| The Law collection of Oxford Scholarship Online includes over 4600 titles on a wide variety of international legal topics. | |
| ProQuest | A multidisciplinary research source. Includes a collection of over 38000 scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, newspapers, transcripts, and more. Also contains over 2 million dissertations and theses. Click here to search some of the titles included. |
| ProQuest Congressional (Formerly LexisNexis Congressional) |
Comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research (includes legislative history, bills, hearings (1824-2003), US Serial Set (1789-1969, Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, and the Congressional Research Digital Collection).
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| ProQuest eLibrary | Over 2.500 full-text magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers. and multimedia sources covering thousands of interdisciplinary topics. Reference sources include dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, almanacs and atlases, as well as specific reference works covering Albert Einstein through World Political Leaders. |
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RIA's Checkpoint is a web-based tax and accounting research tool. Through Checkpoint, you can access the federal tax code and regulations, Treasury Department decisions and federal court decisions, and IRS Revenue Rulings. State, local, and international materials are also available. There are subject-specific practice areas if you are looking for estate planning, pension & benefits, or payroll information. The NEWS tab provides access to weekly updates on tax-related issues.
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Covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence. Includes the full text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 20,400 articles and up to 86 years of backfiles.
For more detailed information on each individual journal title, please visit the Homepage on the Sage Publications website. Click here for a brochure.
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Contains abstracts of over 149,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection currently containing over 118,500 downloadable full text documents. Coverage currently includes law, economics, and entrepreneurship collections.
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Court documents from 1832-1978, covering more than 100,000 Supreme Court cases.
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| Thompson Reuters Checkpoint |
Thompson Reuters Checkpoint is a web-based tax and accounting research tool. Through Checkpoint, you can access the federal tax code and regulations, Treasury Department decisions and federal court decisions, and IRS Revenue Rulings. State, local, and international materials are also available. There are subject-specific practice areas if you are looking for estate planning, pension & benefits, or payroll information. The NEWS tab provides access to weekly updates on tax-related issues.
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Online Legal Database
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Online Legal Database
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Suite of tools for case analysis, timeline graphing, transcript summaries, and outlining available to the Florida Coastal faculty, staff and students. Log in to LexisNexis to download software.
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