Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 of those titles, in the social sciences, live sciences, engineering, medicine, religion and theology, and more.
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Covers the legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789 to 1838.
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Provides citations to journal articles in the social sciences, humanities, business, science, technology, and medicine.
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Covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature in architecture and design.
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Provides access to institutional repositories of academic scholarship, including recent working papers and pre-prints, for dozens of law schools including Chicago-Kent.
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Large collection of open-access, peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine.
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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.
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Contains indexing, abstracts, and full text for more than 2,100 business periodicals.
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Provides over 900 interactive lessons written by law faculty and librarians to assist students learning legal concepts. Registration required - please ask for Chicago-Kent's school access code at the service desk in the library.
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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.
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Higher education news, information, and job listings. If you are unable to access an article via this link, please contact refreq@kentlaw.iit.edu.
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Provides citations and abstracts to articles in Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities. Coverage is in Spanish. Portuguese, French, and English.
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Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for hundreds of journals in communications and mass media.
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Contains materials related to Federal legislation, both current and older, with links to full-text documents (including committee reports, Congressional Record, etc.) where available.
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Contains over 400,000 documents and reports of the United States governmentfrom the 15th through 103rd Congresses, including congressional reports and journals, executive branch documents, and treaties.
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DocketBird is an extensive repository of federal court cases and documents starting from about 2015. A simple interface enables you to find cases and search for documents. To get DocketBird sign-in credentials, contact the library at refreq@kentlaw.iit.edu. Chicago-Kent community only.
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Provides access to full text economic literature in over 600 journals, plus dissertations, working papers, and book chapters.
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Includes public company, mutual fund, and variable insurance fund public filings with the SEC.
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Includes original documents -- books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more -- chronicling the development of law in the British Empire from 1701 -1800.
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Includes research reports about education topics from 1966-present.
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Includes information about finding print and online legal sources from nearly every country. (Please note: we are experiencing access issues with Chrome off-campus. Try right-clicking your mouse and open link in incognito window.)
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Includes encyclopedia entries for arts, business, environment, history, religion, science and technology, as well as general reference topics. A good place to get a basic overview of a topic.
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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.
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The official system of record for authenticated, online documents from all three branches of the federal government. Includes Statutes at Large, the US Code (1994- ), the Code of Federal Regulations (1996- ), the Federal Register (1936- ), Congressional hearings (104th Congress, 1995-1996- ) and bills (103rd Congress, 1993-1994- ), presidential papers, and many other resources.
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Provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information resources, including Federal agency online resources and materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries from July 1976 to present.
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Provides access to full-text consumer health magazines, current health-related pamphlets, and health reference books covering a large selection of health-related topics.
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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.
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HeinOnline is a searchable full-text, image-based collection of retrospective legal materials divided into separate libraries. An excellent source for over 2900 law reviews and journals, historical federal government and state constitutions, primary laws, and documents. Special collections include "Civil Rights and Social Justice" and "Women and the Law." Documents can be printed, downloaded, and saved as PDF files.
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Contains Restatements, including drafts, final versions, and new editions, as well as other publications from ALI.
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Contains Clinical Law Review and the Journal of Legal Education. Search the AALS Directory of Law Teachers, AALS Handbook, or the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting.
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Contains more than 140 titles featuring nearly all state Bar Journals (including the Illinois Bar Journal), select publications from the American Bar Association, and City Bar Journals.
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Contains all historical and current volumes of the CFR.
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Contains the entire reprint of the English Reports from 1220-1865.
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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).
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Contains the entire Federal Register from 1935 to present, as well as other historical administrative publications.
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Includes the publications of the American Society of International Law along with prominent Yearbooks from around the world, including the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series, U.S. Law Digests, and international tribunals/judicial decisions.
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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.
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Features the complete series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Contains hundreds of law reviews, both current and historical, from each publication's first volume.
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Contains early English and American legal treatises.
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Provides a finding aid designed to direct researchers to electronic and print sources that compare multiple jurisdictions on over 250 subjects.
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Contains winning records and briefs from National Moot Court competitions.
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An electronic version of Rich Leiter's National Survey of State Laws enabling users to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws for a variety of topics including current and controversial legal topics.
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Contains materials from the Jessup competition as well as publications from the International Law Students Association.
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Provides brief overviews of state histories from colonization to statehood. It also identifies a wide range of both readily available and hard-to-find materials from each state. Sources include state codes, journals, digests, reports, surveys, and much more. Sources link to available documents whenever possible.
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Contains the entire Selden Society collection of early English legal history.
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Contains current and historical session laws for U.S. states and territories, as well as Canada and Australia.
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Includes access to the State Attorney General Reports & Opinions for all fifty states, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It also includes access to the Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice and the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States.
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Contains the constitutions of all 50 states of the United States, together with related documents and resources. Containing the text of every constitution that has been in force for every state with the original, consolidated, and current texts and an extensive collection of documents from before statehood, State Constitutions Illustrated provides comprehensive coverage and allows researchers to compare multiple editions from multiple sources.
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Provides a digital version of Hein’s State Report Checklist along with linking to the full text of historical state reports. This provides researchers with a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to published court reports and how they interrelate with the National Reporter System.
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Includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states dating from 1717.
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Contains subject-heading searching state laws allowing comparative searching across jurisdictions.
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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.
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Contains the compiled opinions of the U.S. Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice, and Opinions of the Confederate Attorneys General (1861-1865).
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Contains current and historical editions of the U.S. Code.
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Contains all of the Congressional Record and its predecessor publications, U.S. Statutes at Large, American State Papers, and Public Papers of the Presidents.
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Records in this series include House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, and the American State Papers. Indexed from inception to date and containing comprehensive full-text coverage from 1978-date.
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Features the official case law of some of the United States' most important U.S. Federal Agencies such as: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Contains compiled legislative histories, as well as finding aids for others not included.
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Contains the Weekly (now Daily) Compilation of Presidential Documents and Public Papers of the Presidents, as well as other sources of presidential documents.
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Contains U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789, including the Revised Statutes of 1873-1874.
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Contains bound volumes of U.S. Reports, as well as Preliminary Prints and slip opinions; rules of the court; and books and articles about the Court.
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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.
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Brings together books, biographies, and periodicals showing the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.
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Contains current and historical, mostly translated, constitutions from around the world, as well as secondary sources relating to them.
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Contains transcripts and documents from hundreds of famous trials, and includes secondary sources about the trials and the lawyers.
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Statistics and analysis covering such topics as population, labor, economics, and government. Available in HTML, PDF, and Excel.
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Find items not available at IIT from 75+ academic libraries in Illinois. You'll need your student bar code number (on your ID card) to request books. Be sure to specify the Conviser Law Center to pick up your books.
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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.
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Electronic access to unofficial version of the Illinois Administrative Code.
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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.
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Electronic version of the Illinois Register, 1977-78, 1988-2001, produced once per week by the Secretary of State, hosted by the Internet Archive.
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Electronic version of the Illinois Register, 2002-current, produced once per week by the Secretary of State.
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Find articles on foreign and international law from periodicals worldwide in all languages. Topics covered include comparative law and legal systems, public and private international law, and transnational commercial law.
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Find articles from law journals, law reviews, bar association journals, books, and other legal publications. Provides links to full text.
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Find older law review and journal articles. Also includes annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.
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Find articles in hundreds of authoritative journals focusing on such topics as business, law, education, public policy, social science, fine arts, and many others. Best starting point for finding older scholarly articles.
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Provides in-depth coverage of legal news across dozens of practice areas and industries. Also includes reports from over 10,000 companies, law firms, and industries. A great resource for news or for researching law firms and attorneys. Includes IP-related job postings. Create a personalized login to access case-tracking and alerts.
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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.
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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 Lexis and Matthew Bender, among others. Accessed via individual password, with access limited to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff.
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Find articles related to library science, including classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management, and many other topics.
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A searchable, full-text, image-based collection of legal materials from the 18th century forward. Collections include federal and state laws, cases, historical treatises, government documents, and foreign law.
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Building codes and standards from Construction Specifications Institute, International Code Council, and National Fire Protection Association.
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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.
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Includes published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state and territorial codes, city charters and municipal codes, law dictionaries, and digests. The best resource, along with Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises, for researching American legal history.
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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.
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Find in-depth market research reports and industry reports covering the service industry, consumer goods, demographics, food & beverages, heavy industry, life sciences, technology & media, and the public sector. Prices are FYI only; authorized library users will not be charged. Not all reports are available through our subscription.
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Articles on medicine and related fields including clinical medicine, health services administration, nursing, and veterinary medicine.
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Provides detailed financial information, annual reports, subsidiary profiles, and executive profiles for more than 25,000 active and inactive companies.
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Includes current news about all branches of the military and government.
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Contains working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools.
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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 the link provided and your Chicago-Kent email address. Once the account has been created, you can access the resource from any network using your account credentials.
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Provides selected full text of national, international and regional newspapers. In addition, provides full-text television & radio news transcripts.
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Covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
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Includes comprehensive definitions and origins of English words.
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Provides individual papers presented at conferences, symposiums, congresses, expositions, workshops, and meetings worldwide.
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Provides scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Contains research published since 1940, with additional records dating back to 1902
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Provides multi-disciplinary public policy research from governmental, charitable, for-profit, and non-profit contributors.
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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.
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Provides lists of papers presented at worldwide conferences, professional meetings and symposia, and provides an overview of the activities at such meetings.
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Procertas teaches vital skills lawyers need for Word, Excel, and Acrobat using comprehensive tutorials and assessment tools. Learn Word's cross-referencing features, Excel's filtering tools, and more. Accessed via individual password, with access limited to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff.
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Provides articles for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers from a wide variety of education journals.
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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.
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Provides abstracts of dissertations and theses from universities in the United States and Canada. Includes full text access to many titles.
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Find dissertations and theses written by graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Provides full text of journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience.
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Provides access to international literature in psychology and disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Provides full text for regional U.S. and Canadian business publications. Includes Crain's newspapers.
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Provides text of Federal regulations that are open for public comment (i.e., proposed rules) and closed for comment (i.e., final rules), federal agency notices published in the Federal Register, and supporting materials, public comments, and federal agency guidance and adjudications.
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Provides encyclopedia articles from over 45 encyclopedias, primarily in the social sciences.
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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.
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Research and scholarly output of Chicago-Kent faculty as well as individual centers and departments.
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Provides full text articles from science, technology and medicine peer-reviewed journals.
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Shepardize via the Lexis Advance search box.
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Includes recent articles and working papers organized into over 20 broad topics, including law.
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Provides records and briefs from over 150,000 cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. Also contains more than 350,000 case documents, including appellant's and appellee's briefs, oral transcripts, and petitions for writ of certiorari.
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Contains treaties and related documents in the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) and League of Nations Treaty Series (LoN), including the Monthly Statement of Treaties and International Agreements, where treaties are listed prior to publication as registered treaties, as well as Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General. Treaties are available in full-text, usually in English, French, and any other official language for the treaty.
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Provides an annual overview of UN activities, including all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions.
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Includes international demographic, economic, and social indicator statistics.
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Online coverage of the popular business newspaper, including analysis tools and news from the past four years. Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff must create a personal login using kentlaw email.
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Offers easy online access to hundreds of study aids, treatises, and audio lectures to help you succeed in law school.
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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.
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Provides news and analysis on emerging trademark issues around the globe.
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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.
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Find dissertations, theses and published material based on theses.
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Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 of those titles, in the social sciences, live sciences, engineering, medicine, religion and theology, and more.
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Covers the legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789 to 1838.
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Provides citations to journal articles in the social sciences, humanities, business, science, technology, and medicine.
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Covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature in architecture and design.
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Provides access to institutional repositories of academic scholarship, including recent working papers and pre-prints, for dozens of law schools including Chicago-Kent.
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Large collection of open-access, peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine.
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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.
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Contains indexing, abstracts, and full text for more than 2,100 business periodicals.
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Provides over 900 interactive lessons written by law faculty and librarians to assist students learning legal concepts. Registration required - please ask for Chicago-Kent's school access code at the service desk in the library.
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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.
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Higher education news, information, and job listings. If you are unable to access an article via this link, please contact refreq@kentlaw.iit.edu.
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Provides citations and abstracts to articles in Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities. Coverage is in Spanish. Portuguese, French, and English.
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Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for hundreds of journals in communications and mass media.
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Contains materials related to Federal legislation, both current and older, with links to full-text documents (including committee reports, Congressional Record, etc.) where available.
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Contains over 400,000 documents and reports of the United States governmentfrom the 15th through 103rd Congresses, including congressional reports and journals, executive branch documents, and treaties.
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DocketBird is an extensive repository of federal court cases and documents starting from about 2015. A simple interface enables you to find cases and search for documents. To get DocketBird sign-in credentials, contact the library at refreq@kentlaw.iit.edu. Chicago-Kent community only.
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Provides access to full text economic literature in over 600 journals, plus dissertations, working papers, and book chapters.
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Includes public company, mutual fund, and variable insurance fund public filings with the SEC.
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Includes original documents -- books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more -- chronicling the development of law in the British Empire from 1701 -1800.
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Includes research reports about education topics from 1966-present.
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Includes information about finding print and online legal sources from nearly every country. (Please note: we are experiencing access issues with Chrome off-campus. Try right-clicking your mouse and open link in incognito window.)
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Includes encyclopedia entries for arts, business, environment, history, religion, science and technology, as well as general reference topics. A good place to get a basic overview of a topic.
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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.
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The official system of record for authenticated, online documents from all three branches of the federal government. Includes Statutes at Large, the US Code (1994- ), the Code of Federal Regulations (1996- ), the Federal Register (1936- ), Congressional hearings (104th Congress, 1995-1996- ) and bills (103rd Congress, 1993-1994- ), presidential papers, and many other resources.
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Provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information resources, including Federal agency online resources and materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries from July 1976 to present.
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Provides access to full-text consumer health magazines, current health-related pamphlets, and health reference books covering a large selection of health-related topics.
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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.
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HeinOnline is a searchable full-text, image-based collection of retrospective legal materials divided into separate libraries. An excellent source for over 2900 law reviews and journals, historical federal government and state constitutions, primary laws, and documents. Special collections include "Civil Rights and Social Justice" and "Women and the Law." Documents can be printed, downloaded, and saved as PDF files.
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Contains Restatements, including drafts, final versions, and new editions, as well as other publications from ALI.
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Contains Clinical Law Review and the Journal of Legal Education. Search the AALS Directory of Law Teachers, AALS Handbook, or the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting.
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Contains more than 140 titles featuring nearly all state Bar Journals (including the Illinois Bar Journal), select publications from the American Bar Association, and City Bar Journals.
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Contains all historical and current volumes of the CFR.
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Contains the entire reprint of the English Reports from 1220-1865.
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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).
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Contains the entire Federal Register from 1935 to present, as well as other historical administrative publications.
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Includes the publications of the American Society of International Law along with prominent Yearbooks from around the world, including the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series, U.S. Law Digests, and international tribunals/judicial decisions.
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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.
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Features the complete series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Contains hundreds of law reviews, both current and historical, from each publication's first volume.
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Contains early English and American legal treatises.
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Provides a finding aid designed to direct researchers to electronic and print sources that compare multiple jurisdictions on over 250 subjects.
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Contains winning records and briefs from National Moot Court competitions.
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An electronic version of Rich Leiter's National Survey of State Laws enabling users to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws for a variety of topics including current and controversial legal topics.
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Contains materials from the Jessup competition as well as publications from the International Law Students Association.
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Provides brief overviews of state histories from colonization to statehood. It also identifies a wide range of both readily available and hard-to-find materials from each state. Sources include state codes, journals, digests, reports, surveys, and much more. Sources link to available documents whenever possible.
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Contains the entire Selden Society collection of early English legal history.
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Contains current and historical session laws for U.S. states and territories, as well as Canada and Australia.
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Includes access to the State Attorney General Reports & Opinions for all fifty states, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It also includes access to the Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice and the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States.
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Contains the constitutions of all 50 states of the United States, together with related documents and resources. Containing the text of every constitution that has been in force for every state with the original, consolidated, and current texts and an extensive collection of documents from before statehood, State Constitutions Illustrated provides comprehensive coverage and allows researchers to compare multiple editions from multiple sources.
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Provides a digital version of Hein’s State Report Checklist along with linking to the full text of historical state reports. This provides researchers with a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to published court reports and how they interrelate with the National Reporter System.
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Includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states dating from 1717.
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Contains subject-heading searching state laws allowing comparative searching across jurisdictions.
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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.
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Contains the compiled opinions of the U.S. Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice, and Opinions of the Confederate Attorneys General (1861-1865).
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Contains current and historical editions of the U.S. Code.
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Contains all of the Congressional Record and its predecessor publications, U.S. Statutes at Large, American State Papers, and Public Papers of the Presidents.
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Records in this series include House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, and the American State Papers. Indexed from inception to date and containing comprehensive full-text coverage from 1978-date.
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Features the official case law of some of the United States' most important U.S. Federal Agencies such as: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Contains compiled legislative histories, as well as finding aids for others not included.
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Contains the Weekly (now Daily) Compilation of Presidential Documents and Public Papers of the Presidents, as well as other sources of presidential documents.
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Contains U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789, including the Revised Statutes of 1873-1874.
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Contains bound volumes of U.S. Reports, as well as Preliminary Prints and slip opinions; rules of the court; and books and articles about the Court.
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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.
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Brings together books, biographies, and periodicals showing the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.
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Contains current and historical, mostly translated, constitutions from around the world, as well as secondary sources relating to them.
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Contains transcripts and documents from hundreds of famous trials, and includes secondary sources about the trials and the lawyers.
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Statistics and analysis covering such topics as population, labor, economics, and government. Available in HTML, PDF, and Excel.
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Find items not available at IIT from 75+ academic libraries in Illinois. You'll need your student bar code number (on your ID card) to request books. Be sure to specify the Conviser Law Center to pick up your books.
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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.
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Electronic access to unofficial version of the Illinois Administrative Code.
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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.
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Electronic version of the Illinois Register, 1977-78, 1988-2001, produced once per week by the Secretary of State, hosted by the Internet Archive.
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Electronic version of the Illinois Register, 2002-current, produced once per week by the Secretary of State.
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Find articles on foreign and international law from periodicals worldwide in all languages. Topics covered include comparative law and legal systems, public and private international law, and transnational commercial law.
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Find articles from law journals, law reviews, bar association journals, books, and other legal publications. Provides links to full text.
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Find older law review and journal articles. Also includes annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.
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Find articles in hundreds of authoritative journals focusing on such topics as business, law, education, public policy, social science, fine arts, and many others. Best starting point for finding older scholarly articles.
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Provides in-depth coverage of legal news across dozens of practice areas and industries. Also includes reports from over 10,000 companies, law firms, and industries. A great resource for news or for researching law firms and attorneys. Includes IP-related job postings. Create a personalized login to access case-tracking and alerts.
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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.
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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 Lexis and Matthew Bender, among others. Accessed via individual password, with access limited to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff.
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Find articles related to library science, including classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management, and many other topics.
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A searchable, full-text, image-based collection of legal materials from the 18th century forward. Collections include federal and state laws, cases, historical treatises, government documents, and foreign law.
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Building codes and standards from Construction Specifications Institute, International Code Council, and National Fire Protection Association.
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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.
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Includes published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state and territorial codes, city charters and municipal codes, law dictionaries, and digests. The best resource, along with Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises, for researching American legal history.
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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.
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Find in-depth market research reports and industry reports covering the service industry, consumer goods, demographics, food & beverages, heavy industry, life sciences, technology & media, and the public sector. Prices are FYI only; authorized library users will not be charged. Not all reports are available through our subscription.
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Articles on medicine and related fields including clinical medicine, health services administration, nursing, and veterinary medicine.
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Provides detailed financial information, annual reports, subsidiary profiles, and executive profiles for more than 25,000 active and inactive companies.
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Includes current news about all branches of the military and government.
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Contains working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools.
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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 the link provided and your Chicago-Kent email address. Once the account has been created, you can access the resource from any network using your account credentials.
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Provides selected full text of national, international and regional newspapers. In addition, provides full-text television & radio news transcripts.
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Covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
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Includes comprehensive definitions and origins of English words.
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Provides individual papers presented at conferences, symposiums, congresses, expositions, workshops, and meetings worldwide.
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Provides scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Contains research published since 1940, with additional records dating back to 1902
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Provides multi-disciplinary public policy research from governmental, charitable, for-profit, and non-profit contributors.
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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.
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Provides lists of papers presented at worldwide conferences, professional meetings and symposia, and provides an overview of the activities at such meetings.
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Procertas teaches vital skills lawyers need for Word, Excel, and Acrobat using comprehensive tutorials and assessment tools. Learn Word's cross-referencing features, Excel's filtering tools, and more. Accessed via individual password, with access limited to Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff.
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Provides articles for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers from a wide variety of education journals.
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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.
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Provides abstracts of dissertations and theses from universities in the United States and Canada. Includes full text access to many titles.
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Find dissertations and theses written by graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Provides full text of journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience.
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Provides access to international literature in psychology and disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Provides full text for regional U.S. and Canadian business publications. Includes Crain's newspapers.
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Provides text of Federal regulations that are open for public comment (i.e., proposed rules) and closed for comment (i.e., final rules), federal agency notices published in the Federal Register, and supporting materials, public comments, and federal agency guidance and adjudications.
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Provides encyclopedia articles from over 45 encyclopedias, primarily in the social sciences.
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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.
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Research and scholarly output of Chicago-Kent faculty as well as individual centers and departments.
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Provides full text articles from science, technology and medicine peer-reviewed journals.
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Shepardize via the Lexis Advance search box.
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Includes recent articles and working papers organized into over 20 broad topics, including law.
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Provides records and briefs from over 150,000 cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. Also contains more than 350,000 case documents, including appellant's and appellee's briefs, oral transcripts, and petitions for writ of certiorari.
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Contains treaties and related documents in the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) and League of Nations Treaty Series (LoN), including the Monthly Statement of Treaties and International Agreements, where treaties are listed prior to publication as registered treaties, as well as Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General. Treaties are available in full-text, usually in English, French, and any other official language for the treaty.
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Provides an annual overview of UN activities, including all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions.
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Includes international demographic, economic, and social indicator statistics.
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Online coverage of the popular business newspaper, including analysis tools and news from the past four years. Chicago-Kent students, faculty, and staff must create a personal login using kentlaw email.
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Offers easy online access to hundreds of study aids, treatises, and audio lectures to help you succeed in law school.
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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.
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Provides news and analysis on emerging trademark issues around the globe.
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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.
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Find dissertations, theses and published material based on theses.