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GOVERNMENT & LAW
Court Cases, State & Federal Code, Regulations, Legal News, Military & Intelligence

Database

Subject

Coverage

Description

Source

Academic Onefile General

 1980-

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Updated daily. (Contains material formerly found in Expanded Academic ASAP and InfoTrac OneFile.)

Gale

Academic Search Premier General

 1984-

Provides full text from 4500 serials, including over 3600 peer-reviewed titles. Contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more.

EBSCO

CCH Tax Research Business, Accounting

1994-

Provides tax news as well as federal and state tax information. Includes tax codes, regulations, court cases, rulings, legislative documents, treaties, and IRS publications, as well as CCH explanation and analysis.

CCH

Government

 

The CQ Encyclopedia of American Government is a comprehensive overview of the American Government system. Offers over 1100 searchable topics covering the three branches of government. Usage info.: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

CQ

CQ Researcher Plus Archive Current Events

1923-

CQ Researcher Plus Archive contains more than 3,000 reports and analysis of issues in the news. CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published 44 times a year.

CQ

HeinOnline Political Science

Varies

HeinOnline PoliSci Basic offers the full-text of 50 influential legal journals, along with all U.S. treaties and agreements and the U.S. Presidential Library.

Hein

Sciences

1995-

* Please note that not all articles in this database are free.*
Highwire Press is a database of over 300 academic science journals. Many journals available in Highwire provide free access to full text of some articles. Click here to see the list of free full-text HighWire journalsNote: If you find a citation for an article that is not free, be sure to check for the journal at CBU here: E-Journals (Find Journals) or request it via InterLibrary Loan.

WWW

JSTOR General

Varies up to most recent 2-5 years

JSTOR offers complete backfiles of core journals in various subjects: economics, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science and many more. Full-text coverage begins at the first issue of each journal and usually ends within five years of the present. Current and recently published issues are not available in JSTOR.  We have access to: Arts & Sciences I (title list); Arts & Sciences II (title list), and Arts & Sciences IV (title list).

JSTOR

LexisNexis Academic News, Legal, Business

Varies

LexisNexis Academic primarily covers three areas: news, business, and legal research. Includes top news, general news topics, and foreign language news sources. Business covers company industry and market news, company financial information, accounting, auditing, and tax information. Legal Research covers law reviews, federal case law, U.S. Code, and state legal research. LexisNexis also includes general medical and health topics and medical abstracts.

Lexis-
Nexis

Military & Government Collection Military & Government

1990-

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

EBSCO

Military & Intelligence Database Military & Government

Varies

Offers over 10 million articles (80% full-text) from more than 500 titles and basic reference materials. The content in this database is also part of Academic One File. 

Gale

NetLibrary General  E-Books NetLibrary offers more than 56,000 e-Book titles in all subject areas. Includes scholarly reference and professional works from leading university, academic, and professional publishers.

OCLC