Databases

Covers the legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789 to 1838.

Provides access to institutional repositories of academic scholarship, including recent working papers and pre-prints, for dozens of law schools including Chicago-Kent.

Comprehensive legal database, useful for researching current primary and secondary law, as well as some non-legal resources. Includes many electronic titles published in print by Bloomberg and BNA, among others. Accessed via individual password, with access limited to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff.

Includes scholarly works written and published by current Chicago-Kent faculty. Permits you to browse works by an individual or search across the entire collection, and to create customized RSS feeds and e-mail alerts.

Provides citations and abstracts to articles in Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities. Coverage is in Spanish. Portuguese, French, and English.

Contains materials related to Federal legislation, both current and older, with links to full-text documents (including committee reports, Congressional Record, etc.) where available.

Includes public company, mutual fund, and variable insurance fund public filings with the SEC.

Includes free access to US state appellate and supreme court cases (1950-), US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts (1923-) and US Supreme Court cases (1791-), and patents. Includes citations and abstracts to free and subscription scholarly and legal journals and automatically links to full text when available.

Provides scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers generic drug patient education sheets with many brand names.

Contains Restatements, including drafts, final versions, and new editions, as well as other publications from ALI.

Contains all historical and current volumes of the CFR.

Contains ECMI Reports, ECMI Working Papers, Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Minority Issues Mainstreaming, and Ombudsman Institutions and Minority Issues: A Guide to Good Practice (2005).

Contains the reprint and new analysis of The Harvard Research in International Law and a 2007 Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal. The Harvard Research participants wrote draft conventions on international law topics between 1929 and 1939.

Contains early English and American legal treatises.

Contains materials from the Jessup competition as well as publications from the International Law Students Association.

Contains current and historical session laws for U.S. states and territories, as well as Canada and Australia.

Contains U.N. treaties and treaty finding aids, International Court of Justice and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) documents, U.N. Yearbooks, and other sources.

Contains current and historical editions of the U.S. Code.

Contains compiled legislative histories, as well as finding aids for others not included.

Contains U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789, including the Revised Statutes of 1873-1874.

Contains official U.S. treaty sources, as well as prior unofficial sources of U.S. and foreign treaties, including the monthly publication International Legal Materials.

Contains transcripts and documents from hundreds of famous trials, and includes secondary sources about the trials and the lawyers.

Popular Illinois law guides geared toward practitioners published by the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Download chapters and forms, but not entire books. Access limited to Chicago-Kent College of Law faculty, staff and students. 

Documents from current and previous Illinois General Assemblies including: Bills, Votes, Public Acts, Committees, and Floor Debate Transcripts. Best place to start Illinois legislative history.

Electronic version of the Illinois Register, 2002-current, produced once per week by the Secretary of State. 

Find articles from law journals, law reviews, bar association journals, books, and other legal publications. Provides links to full text.

One of the best free collections of U.S. legal resources, including the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the U.S. Constitution, federal and state caselaw, and a topical index of state statutes.

Tens of thousands of legal treatises from the 19th century and early 20th century. Includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. Best starting point for researching legal history.

Mango is an online language-learning system that teaches conversation skills for several different languages. Create a profile that will track your progress, or simply use the "Start Learning" button to access the tutorials without registering.

Continually-updated encyclopedia covers such topics as foreign relations, human rights, and international organizations. Starting resource for international law research.

Provides detailed financial information, annual reports, subsidiary profiles, and executive profiles for more than 25,000 active and inactive companies.

Online edition of the daily newspaper, available only to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff. To access the library's subscription, first create an account using your Chicago-Kent email address. (Note: You must be connected to the Chicago-Kent network in the building to create your account. Once the account has been created, you can access the resource from any network using your account credentials.)

Provides scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Contains research published since 1940, with additional records dating back to 1902

Contains business and financial data on major privately-held companies. Combines financial analysis, editorials, and market research on family owned, private equity owned, and ventured-backed companies in the U.S. and some private international companies.

Provides articles for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers from a wide variety of education journals.

Contains extensive citations and full text for federal congressional materials including House and Senate documents and reports, Congressional Record, CRS reports, compiled legislative histories, and a complete collection of published and unpublished congressional hearings from 1824 to present. Also provides federal regulatory information from 1981 to date.

Find dissertations and theses written by graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology.

Provides access to scanned images of maps for most towns and cities in Illinois from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, useful in charting the development of cities and towns over many years.

Provides full text articles from science, technology and medicine peer-reviewed journals.

Includes recent articles and working papers organized into over 20 broad topics, including law.

Provides an annual overview of UN activities, including all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions.

Comprehensive legal database, useful for researching current primary and secondary law, as well as some non-legal resources. Includes many electronic titles published in print by ThomsonReuters and West Publishing, among others. Accessed via individual password, with access limited to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff.

Catalog for locating books, journals, documents, web resources, and other material in libraries throughout the United States and around the world. Use the ILL (Interlibrary Loan) button to request books that are not at IIT or in I-Share.