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17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

The Burney Collection, sourced from the British Library, is an archive of newspapers and news pamphlets (approximately 1,270 titles) gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (b. 1757-d. 1817). See title list. This is the most comprehensive collection of early English newspapers but there are also some Irish and Scottish papers, and a handful of papers from the American colonies.

19th Century British Pamphlets (JSTOR)

Database of digitized pamphlets that are primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. Contains: Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, LSE Selected Pamphlets.

19th Century Masterfile

19th Century Masterfile features Poole's Index to Periodical Literature as its centerpiece, with a number of other indexes to the contents of nineteenth-century journals, newspapers, and books such as Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922), Palmer's Index to the Times (London) (1880-1890) and other indices.

AALS Directory of Law Teachers

The AALS Directory of Law Teachers was first published in 1922 by the Association of American Law Schools. Each annual publication contains biographical notes on full-time faculty of all member law schools, as well as brief information about each school. Law teachers are also listed by subject taught. The full run of directories back to 1922 is accessible through HeinOnline.

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (BNA)

Authoritative source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct, legal ethics and professional responsibility. Includes Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions from the ABA and state bar associations.

Abbreviations and Acronyms Research Guide
This guide was created for students seeking to decipher legal and general abbreviations and acronyms. While not comprehensive, it provides a listing of current and relevant materials available on abbreviations and acronyms.

ABI/Inform Complete (Proquest)

Provides abstracts and some full-text articles from over 2,800 business and management publications, with varying coverage dating back to 1918. Includes many titles from outside the U.S. Also contains complete articles for over 600 of the more important sources covering finance, management, marketing, accounting, business conditions and other business topics.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

Provides full text for thousands of publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Over 8,200 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which approximately 3,600 are peer-reviewed.

Access World News

Also known as NewsBank, this resourse provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of over 700 newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post .

AccessUN

Index to United Nations documents (1946 – present) including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and UN Treaty Series citations. Also includes full–text of several thousand UN documents and publications.

Accounting Policy and Practice Report (BNA)

Accounting Policy and Practice Report provides "experts’ insights and guidance on emerging, evolving, and complex issues relating to accounting rules and principles, financial statements and disclosures, management control and analysis, auditing principles and standards, and accounting practice and responsibility."

Accounting Policy and Practice Series (BNA)

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The Accounting Policy & Practice Series helps you keep abreast of ongoing and emerging issues and assists in analyzing pronouncements and other actions by major accounting and auditing standard setters.

Accounting Research Guide
This research guide describes resources in the Georgetown Law Library and on the Internet for researching U.S. and international accounting standards. This guide features a chart for locating a known accounting standard by citation.

ACM Digital Library

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Guide allows users to search and browse a substantive bibliographic database from the key publishers in computing including books, journals, proceedings and theses. Through the ACM Digital Library users can search, browse and read the complete text of articles published by ACM since its inception, including proceedings of all ACM subgroup meetings.

Acts of the U.K. Parliament

Acts of the U.K. Parliament provides links to the full text of all United Kingdom Parliament Public General Acts and all Local Acts as they were originally enacted. As an exception The European Communities Act 1972 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 are also available.

Administrative Law Research Guide
Federal administrative law comes from the President, agencies of the Executive Branch, and independent regulatory agencies. This guide describes the most important federal administrative materials and indicates where they are located in print or on the web. Guidance on how to use the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations is provided.

Administrative Law Research Tutorial

Administrative Law Treatise Finder

ADR and Mediation Research Guide
This guide was created for students conducting introductory research in the area of alternative dispute resolution in lieu of pursuing litigation. ADR emerged in the 1970's and is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as "a procedure for settling dispute by means other than litigation, such as arbitration and mediation." This guide will identify the major print and online resources available in the Georgetown Law Library on ADR, arbitration, mediation and negotiation.

ADR and Mediation Treatise Finder

African American Biographical Database

The African American Biographical Database includes biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not found in any other reference source. The database contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person.

Agency, Partnership, and LLC Treatise Finder

Alabama Resources

Alaska Resources

ALM Legal Intelligence

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ALM Legal Intelligence offers detailed business information and competitive intelligence about the legal industry. Covering rankings and surveys, such as attorney counts, billing, branch offices, corporate representation and capital markets work, corporate legal departments, hiring practices, diversity and pro bono -- ALM Legal Intelligence is designed so that legal industry professionals can assess competitors, identify client opportunities, and benchmark performance of law firms throughout the world. Detailed law firm reports provide excellent competitive intelligence for the interviewee.

ALM Legal Intelligence Tutorial

Alt-Press Watch

Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses since the 1970s. Coverage focuses on government, religion, pop culture and local, national and international issues.

Alternative Investment Law Report (BNA)

Alternative Investment Law Report covers the regulatory, legal and legislative developments affecting hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative investment vehicles.

America: History and Life

This is the leading index for researching U.S. and Canadian history. Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from pre–historic times to the present. Covers 1800 journals in many languages and includes citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations. Coverage: 1954 – present.

American Association for Cancer Research Journals

Includes all journals published by American Association for Cancer Research, as well as podcasts of annual meetings, reports and other material.

American Banker

Daily newspaper for professionals in the banking and financial services industries, providing news, data, research, and analysis of issues. Coverage includes large and small financial institutions, investment products and insurance, technology and electronic commerce, regulators, and markets. Includes full access to the daily American Banker with links to primary sources, a searchable archive of American Banker content, intraday news updates, and access to third-party information resources.

American Chemical Society Journals

This databse currently covers over 30 magazines and peer-reviewed journals published or co-published by the publications division of the American Chemical Society.

American Institute of Physics Journals

Provides users access to abstracts and full text of articles from journals published by the American Institute of Physics.

American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)

This HeinOnline database contains the Restatements of the Law (including superseded and draft versions), proceedings of ALI annual meetings, annual reports and other special publications published by the American Law Institute(ALI). It also includes the Uniform Commercial Code, with drafts and superseded versions, as well as ALI-ABA periodicals and material from the Statement of Essential Human Rights archive.

American Legal History Treatise Finder

American Mathematical Society Journals

Includes all journals published by American Mathematical Society.

American Meteorological Society Journals Online

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Weather and Forecasting, Journal of Climate, Journal of Hydrometeorology, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society are abstracted and articles are available in full text.

American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 (ProQuest)

American Periodicals Series Online contains digital images of historically significant American periodicals from 1740 to 1900, including literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and popular magazines. All typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts appear exactly as originally published.

American Physical Society Journals

Includes Physical Review A, B, C, D, and E ; Physical Review Letters; Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams and Reviews of Modern Physics and PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive).

American Society for Microbiology Journals

Full-text articles from the following ASM titles: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Eukaryotic Cell, Infection and Immunity, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Journal of Virology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. Covers the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Journals

Includes all journals published by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

Americans With Disabilities Act Manual (BNA)

A reference resource on the Americans with Disabilities Act, providing analysis, guidance and primary source material. Also provides current awareness in this area of law.

Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT)

AALT contains documents from medieval and early modern England from the National Archives in London. Documents are "digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives."

Animal Law Research Guide
This guide will assist in researching issues in Animal Law, Animal Rights and Animal Welfare using resources available to Georgetown University Law Center students and faculty. Animal Law topics include domestic animals, farm animals, marine mammals, wildlife, animal experimentation, and endangered species.

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews publishes analytic reviews in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research.

AnthroSource Journals

The AnthroSource Journals database, developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), provides access to AAA publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly along with a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals.

Antitrust and Trade Law Treatise Finder

Antitrust and Trade Regulation Daily (BNA)

Follows developments from Congress, the White House, and state attorneys general and agencies affecting restrictive trade practice law. Coverage of judicial developments includes cases before the Supreme Court and other federal courts, as well as orders and rulings of the Federal Trade Commission. Coverage: 1991 – present.

Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report (BNA)

Federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law. Coverage: 1996 – present.

Antitrust Law Research Guide (U.S.)
This guide was created for students conducting introductory research in the area of antitrust law and trade regulation. This guide provides a listing of the more important, current and relevant primary and secondary materials available in this subject area.

Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970

Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 is a fully searchable database of primary source documents from the British National Archives that chronicle the politics, wars, administration, and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Topics covered include the background to the establishment of the State of Israel, Black September, the Border wars of the 1950s, the British capture of Jerusalem, the Cold War in the Middle East, the formation of the United Arab Republic, Jewish terror groups, and milestones in the Palestine-Zionist tension and their impact on British policy leading to the Partition of 1948.

Archive Finder (ArchivesUSA)

Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland). ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,500 repositories and more than 161,000 collections of primary source material across the United States. NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces on microfiche the finding aids to thousands of archive and manuscript collections in libraries and record offices, museums and private collections throughout the UK and Ireland. Used together in Archive Finder, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.

Arizona Resources

Arkansas Resources

Armed Conflict Database

Armed Conflict Database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, including information on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons, weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, and timelines. Users can generate reports, download data, and browse through year-by-year analysis and fact sheets online.

Arms Control Research Guide
This guide is intended as a starting point for research in the law of arms control at Georgetown Law Library. It highlights the leading treaties in this area and identifies major international organizations and think tanks which analyze the developing arms technology and illegal trafficking of arms. Links to both primary and secondary materials, in print and electronic formats are provided.

Art Law Research Guide
This guide provides an introduction to notable resources for conducting art law research available at Georgetown. Given the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of the field, this guide is selective and focuses on general sources on art law rather than sources on specific subjects, such as copyright or the First Amendment.

Articles for Legal and Non-Legal Research
This guide links researchers to online resources for electronic access to both legal and non legal scholarly journal articles. Some resources provide only bibliographic information for each article, but many provide access to the full-text of the entire journal article.

Asian Business and Reference

Covers Asian business and financial information from more than 75 key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek and many more. Coverage: 1971 – present.

Asian Legal Sources Research Guide
This guide focuses on Asian legal sources generally with a special emphasis on China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. The Wolff Library collects Asian materials that are primarily in English, and this guide focuses solely on English-language materials.

Asylum Case Research Guide
This guide was originally developed for clinic students researching asylum cases and has useful information for tracking country human rights conditions.

ATLA Religion Database

The ATLA Religion Database, produced by the American Theological Library Association, is a compilation of three print indexes: Religion Index One: Periodicals (RIO(R)), Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (RIT(R)), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBBR(R)). Covering such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues, the ATLA Religion Database contains over one million bibliographic records representing article citations from 650 journals, essay citations from 14,000 multi-author works, and book review citations. The indexing period is from 1949 to the present.

ATLA Serials

ATLA Serials is a full text collection of over 50 religion and theology journals. The collection's over 50,000 articles (and many more books reviews) address topics in the following fields: Archaeology, Bible, Ecumenism, Ethics, Missions, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy, Religion, Society, and Theology.

Audio Case Files

The AudioCaseFiles web site contains downloadable MP3 files of court opinions. This service provides recordings of most of the opinions that appear in many law school first year course casebooks. The company is in the process of adding cases that are in 2L and 3L casebooks. The cases have been edited by this company and may not be exactly the same as those in the casebooks. At the web site, CREATE AN ACCOUNT and register your law.georgetown.edu email address. You should receive a confirmation email within 15-20 minutes. Your account will be set to 'unlimited' status, which means you will be able to download any case that ACF offers, without charge.

AustLit: Australian Literature Resource

Resources cover Australian literature, pop culture, history and criticisms available through the National Library of Australia.

Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT)

APAFT provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities, with a focus on Australasian sources of information. Coverage: Full text: 1995- ; Index: 1978-.

Avalon Project

The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government from ancient civilizations through the 21st century. Major documents collections include The American Constitution: A Documentary Record, The Federalist Papers, American Diplomacy: Bilateral Treaties 1778-1999, and American Diplomacy: Multilateral Treaties 1864-1999, original state constitutions and much more.

Aviation Law Research Guide
This guide is intended to facilitate research on aviation law at the Georgetown Law Library. It includes both primary and secondary materials, in print and electronic formats, including access to decisions by the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.

B. E. Issues in Legal Scholarship

Web based journal that offers academic analyses of law and law related subjects, based upon on-line peer reviewed symposia.

B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Articles employ microeconomics to analyze issues in business, consumer behavior, and public policy. Special collections include education, tax policy, law & economics.

B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics

Articles have an emphasis on both theoretical and applied macroeconomics, including business cycle research, economic growth, and monetary economics, as well as topics drawn from the substantial areas of overlap between macroeconomics and international economics, labor economics, finance, development economics, political economy, public economics, and econometric theory.

B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

Articles relate to all areas of economic theory, both applied theory and “pure” theory, including game theory, decision theory, theory of economic mechanisms, contract theory, industrial organization, law and economics and public finance.

Baltimore Sun Historical Newspapers (Proquest)

Full-text searchable database providing PDF images of articles from the Baltimore Sun from 1837 to 1985.

Banking Daily (BNA)

Provides information and analysis on developments affecting financial institutions and financial investments, relating to regulatory policy, state and federal legislation, and state and federal judiciaries. Coverage: 1991 – present.

Banking Law Research Guide
This guide was created for students conducting introductory research in the area of banking law, including coverage of the Financial Crisis in 2008 and the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Key print and electronic resources are identified.

Banking Law Treatise Finder

Banking Report (BNA)

The latest news and analysis of banking legislation, regulatory policy, litigation, and investment at state and federal levels, from Capitol Hill to key financial centers around the world. Coverage: 1982 – present.

Bankruptcy Law Daily (BNA)

Identifies breaking developments in state and federal bankruptcy law. Coverage: 1990 – present.

Bankruptcy Law Reporter (BNA)

Provides in-depth coverage of issues in state and federal bankruptcy law, including filings, motions, and decisions, new and proposed legislation, and revisions to bankruptcy rules and forms. Coverage: 1998 – present.

Bankruptcy Law Research Guide
This research guide is intended as a starting point for research in U.S. bankruptcy law. The guide includes both primary and secondary sources, in both print and electronic formats. Since bankruptcy law in the United States is a specific responsibility of the Congress and the federal government, this guide concerns itself with federal law only, and does not address state debtor-creditor laws.

Bankruptcy Law Treatise Finder

Bar Exam Resources
The Georgetown Law Library has a collection of resources on the bar exam and best practices for preparing for the bar exam. This guide will highlight these resources and provide access to selected web based resources on the bar exam. Additionally, links to local bar associations are provided.

Bar Journals Collection (HeinOnline)

HeinOnline’s Bar Journals Library includes more than 50 bar journals searchable by article title, author, description, date, or full text. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers.

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