Please note that off-campus use for many of these resources requires that you enter your GMU email username and password. Some databases, such as Loislaw, LexisNexis & Westlaw, are available to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff only.
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The Law Library shares a catalog with the other GMU libraries as well as access to hundreds of electronic journals, indexes, and databases.
For descriptions of these databases, see the list below.
Below is a selective list of law-related databases and materials. If you would like to browse or search the complete list of databases offered through the university libraries, see the search tools above.
Provided by the GMU Law Library; access may be limited to GMU Law School students, faculty, and staff.
Provided by VIVA. 
Restricted access: Off-Campus use requires GMU e-mail username and password.Note about restricted access: Many of these databases are governed by license agreements which limit use to the George Mason University Community of students, faculty, staff, and on-site users of George Mason University Libraries facilities. Each user has the responsibility of using these resources only for individual, educational and non-commercial purposes. The systematic downloading, distribution, or permanent retention of significant portions of these databases may be a violation of said licenses or copyright law. Particular resources may have additional requirements for access or restrictions on use.
For questions, see the Law Library Reference Office, Room 141.
(BePress). This series began publication in late 2000 and includes full-text journals in law, economics, political science, health and medicine, and science and technology. Legal titles include Global Jurist and The Journals of Legal Scholarship. This publisher also provides access to working papers, preprints, and newsletters. 
This database holds the full-text articles of over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects covered range across Medicine, Science, Social Science and the Humanities. There are over 70 economics journals and a smaller number of journals on law and criminology.
BNA databases cover a wide range of legal subjects, including: business law, criminal law, environmental law, labor law, intellectual property, professional ethics, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Law Library subscribes to all BNA databases, many of which provide daily or weekly email alerts. View a list of all available databases. A collection of over one hundred interactive, computer-based lessons designed to augment traditional law school instruction. Access is limited to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff. To obtain the password to download CALI lessons, contact the Law Library Reference Office, Room 141. Over 125 specialized journals from renowned research societies in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Coverage varies by journal title, with the earliest materials starting in 1997. Contains the current, full-text of a number of CCH services in the following subject areas: Securities, Exchanges and SROs, Corporate Governance, Investment Management, Mergers& Acquisitions, International Business, Banking, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Intellectual Property & Information Technology, Products, Liability and Safety, Government Contracts, Federal Energy Guidelines, and Transportation Law. Contains the current, full-text of a number of CCH services in the following subject areas: Human Resources Management, Payroll Benefits, Pensions, Labor and Employment Law, Safety/OSHA, Health Care Reimbursement (Medicare and Medicaid), Health Care Compliance, and Food, Drugs, & Devices. Contains tax news as well as federal and state tax information. Included are tax codes, regulations, court cases, rulings, legislative documents, treaties, IRS publications, as well as CCH explanations and analyses.
Note: each time you enter the CCH site, you will be required to enter an email address in order to access this service; you also must log-off before you can access the other CCH Library. Contains the full text of the constitutions of 187 countries in English. To access, go to the Oceana site and click on the link on the left: "Connect via IP Access." Use from off-campus is available to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff only and requires that the user "Login Using Password." Please see the Reference Office for username and password. 1991-present. Offers in-depth analysis of major issues in the news. 1983-present. Provides comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Congress, including bill status, votes, and Committee and Floor action. 1473-1700. This collection contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Abstracts, 1969-present, Updated monthly. Indexes and abstracts 400 journals as well as working papers, dissertations and books. Produced by the Journal of Economic Literature. [FirstSearch] 1701-1800. A digital collection of over 9,000 legal treatises published in the British Empire and covering a critical era in the development of Anglo-American law and legal practice. British common law, which served as the underlying basis for the laws of the British Colonies in the Americas and elsewhere, was undergoing a crucial transformation. Reflecting this change were the many works published that summarized the laws, explained the court system, dramatized past and pending cases, guided newly minted as well as old and wizened attorneys, and theorized and commented on the application of legal standards. Over 8,000 sources (coverage varies). Delivers articles from more than 4,000 Reuters and Dow Jones journalists worldwide - just minutes after the news appears in real-time services. Factiva provides access to more than 900 non-English sources. (Note: This service replaces Dow Jones Interactive) A constantly growing collection of legal periodicals that currently includes over 1200 full-text journals. Also includes CFR, English Reports, Federal Register, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, Legal Classics, State Session Laws, Treaties and Agreements, U.S. Congressional Documents, U.S. Federal Agency decisions, U.S. Federal Legiuslative Histories, and Virginia Briefs. 1908-Present, updated monthly, 620 periodicals covered. Articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. This includes full text of some journals as well as a restrospective index going back to 1908. InfoTrac OneFile includes articles from LegalTrac. A cluster of databases including: Books in Print; Computer Database; Expanded Academic ASAP; General BusinessFile; Associations Unlimited; and InfoTrac OneFile. coverage varies. The complete text (full backruns) of core scholarly journals in Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Sociology. LegalTrac is part of the InfoTrac database. It offers indexing for all major law reviews, seven legal newspapers, law specialty publications, and bar association journals. A full-text online legal research system available to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff for educational research purposes. Includes the full text of judicial opinions, statutory material, administrative regulations and decisions, and other legal and nonlegal resource materials. For more information, contact the Law Library Reference Office, Room 141. Contains Congressional publications, Bills, Hearings, Testimony, Legislative research information, and much more. Online access to the full text of the Law Library Microform Consortium collection of legal and government documents material. Collection includes historical U.S. primary documents from the executive, judicial and legislative branches. In addition there are selected Canadian legal materials. The historical collection is constantly growing. Publishes case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and D.C. plus the 18 most important Federal law libraries. Available to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff only. To start your subscription, contact the Law Library Reference Office, Room 141. Legal Treatises 1800-1926. Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to legal history. Over 100 periodical titles in the fields of the humanities, social studies and the sciences. Full text is generally available for the past several years, though abstracts of articles date back additional years. Full-text pdf of the Atlanta Constitution 1868-1939, Boston Globe 1872-1924, Chicago Defender 1905-1975, Chicago Tribune 1849-1986, Christian Science Monitor 1908-1994, Los Angeles Times 1881-1986, New York Times 1851-2004, Wall Street Journal 1889-1990 and Washington Post 1877-1991. Covers more than 1,800 periodicals on a wide variety of topics, plus current coverage of articles from newspapers. Contains a substantial collection of primary tax materials, including tax legislation and IRS materials. In addition, RIA Checkpoint provides full-text access to several journals from WG&L and RIA, as well as current news about tax legislation and caselaw. (Elsevier). Provides online access to over 600 journals published by Elsevier and its partners. Journals are available for most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences. Abstracts, 1980-present, over 2.8 million articles. A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts for over 60% of the articles, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. [Web of Science - ISI] Access to state government information including state bills and laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, newspapers of record, articles about legislative issues affecting the states, and legislature membership.[CIS] Abstracts 1973-present Full text docs offered in GIF, PDF, XLS and CSV formats. Find all statistics issued by the US government since 1973; 1000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources and approximately 2000 titles from international agencies. Includes Statistical Abstract of the US. Many GMU Law School faculty use TWEN (The West Education Network) to post class materials and to host web-based discussions in their classes. Access is limited to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff. For password information, contact the Reference Office, Room 141. 1832-1978. Features a fully searchable database of approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases from the generation before the American Civil War to the decade of the Vietnam War and Watergate. Document types include Appellant's Brief, Appellee's Brief, Oral Transcript, Petition, Petition for Rehearing, Petition for Writ of Certiorari, among other sources VIVA is a consortium of state and private academic libraries in Virginia that provides online library resources to its students and faculty including access to almost 200 databases, 10,000 full-text journals and newspapers, and more than 750,000 additional full-text materials. A full-text online legal research system available to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff for educational research purposes. Includes the full text of judicial opinions, statutory material, administrative regulations and decisions, and other legal and nonlegal resource materials. For more information, contact the Law Library Reference Office, Room 141. The World Arbitration Reporter (WAR) is an integrated reference work containing international treaties and national legislation from more than 135 countries as well as annotated rules of procedure of international and national arbitral institutions. WAR provides not only introductions to all source materials that describe the context in which they originated, but also detailed analytical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies and indexes. Acess is limited to GMU Law School students, faculty and staff only. Please see the Reference Office, Room 141, for username and password. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.Use the boxes below to check if a full-text, electronic copy of a journal is available. When possible, the link will take you directly to the journal title. 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