Government Information & Legal Research
On the Data, Demographics, and Statistics Page, you may have noticed a lot of government related resources. Government agencies are excellent sources for information! This page is for a more comprehensive list of resources for government and legal research, all in one convenient place!
Librarian's Pick: Databases for Law, Regulation & Policy
Get started with these helpful databases when researching laws, policies, and regulations
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FindLaw This link opens in a new window
FindLaw provides a set of legal resources for legal professionals, corporate counsel, law students, businesses, and consumers. These resources include Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, and community-oriented tools, such as a secure document management utility, e-mail newsletters, and message boards.
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HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Digitized legal journals, reviews, U.S. government documents, regulations, laws, and treaties.
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Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Covers law, business, and news related information. Includes more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, law journals, legal forms, newspaper articles, public records, company information, and other information resources.
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PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts to articles in business and the social sciences. Emphasis on international coverage of public policy, government, international relations and current economic, political and social thought. The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. As well as journals, WPSA also indexes books, book chapters, reviews of books and other media, and dissertations.
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PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
PolicyMap utilizes GIS and US data indicators to provide detailed maps, tables and charts of the nation. PolicyMap’s data indicators are accessible through the main menu and including demographics, income and spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, and health. Data can be viewed on the census tract level in many cases, as well as city, county, zip, state, US congressional district, school district, state house and state senate districts.