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The electronic resources listed below are subject to license restrictions on who may use the resources, and where and under what circumstances they may be used. Authorized users are listed after each resource.

"Available to SIUC Campus Users" means, generally, that anyone using a computer connected to the SIUC campus network has access. If you are affiliated with SIUC, you should be able to access these campus-wide resources from off-campus using your SIUC VPN.

"Available to SIU Law Users Only" means, generally, that anyone using a computer connected to the law school network, including members of the SIU Law faculty or staff and SIU Law School students using their Law VPN to access the law school's wireless network, has access. Members of the SIU Law faculty or staff and SIU Law School students should also be able to access these law-school resources from off-campus using their Law VPN. In some cases a login name and password is required and can be obtained by SIU Law Users from a reference librarian; SIU Law Users who have forgotten their Westlaw or LexisNexis login or password should contact their Westlaw or LexisNexis campus representative.

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The following list is arranged alphabetically by the resource name and publisher. Switch to Subscription Electronic Resources list arranged by authorized user. Morris Library has more electronic journals and databases.

Electronic Resources to Which the SIU Law Library Subscribes

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

American Medical News—Law faculty and students may obtain user name and password from a reference librarian. (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

BNA Databases (listed by subject): The law library subscribes to more than 100 BNA databases (also avilable here in an alphabetical listing).Law faculty and students may obtain user name and password from a reference librarian. (Available to SIU Law Users Only). Sign up for BNA email summaries.

CALI: Computer Assisted Legal Instruction—Registration required. Law faculty and students may obtain registration codes from a reference librarian. (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

Chronicle of Higher Education, including (Available to SIUC Campus Users).

Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) (Available to SIU Law Users Only; Available in PDF, Word, ASCII, and HTML format).
SIU Law Faculty and Staff Only: Create or Change SmartCILP Profile.

Environmental Law Reporter—Law faculty and students may obtain user name and password from a reference librarian. (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

Fastcase (Available to SIU Law Users Only)

FIRSTSEARCH, Authorization number and Password required. View all available databases. (Available to SIU Law Users Only).
FIRSTSEARCH, no password required. 14 databases (State Grant—Available to SIUC Campus Users).

Health Affairs—The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

HeinOnline—includes full-text Law Journals, European Center for Minority Issues publications, Federal Register, Legal Classics, Treaties and Agreements, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Reports and other U.S. Supreme Court information. Many of these collections include documents too old to be available online anywhere else (Available to SIUC Campus Users).

Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) SmartBooks (Available to SIUC Campus Users).

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, from WilsonWeb (Available to SIU Law Users Only). Works better with Internet Explorer.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908–1981, from WilsonWeb (Available to SIU Law Users Only). Works better with Internet Explorer..

LegalTrac: Indexes legal periodicals, with some full text. Works better with Internet Explorer. (Available to SIUC Campus Users). See Using LegalTrac to Find Legal Articles.

LexisNexis Congressional (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

LexisNexis State Capital (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

Loislaw—Registration required. Law faculty and students may obtain registration codes from a reference librarian. (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

Making of Modern Law (MOML): Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

National Tax Journal—online archive of articles. Law faculty and students may obtain user name and password from a reference librarian. (Available to SIU Law Users Only).

NewsBank InfoWeb—includes AccessUN, Access World News, and other hot topics and special reports. (State Grant—Available to SIUC Campus Users).

OCLC FIRSTSEARCH, Authorization number and Password required. View all available databases. (Available to SIU Law Users Only).
OCLC FIRSTSEARCH, no password required. 14 databases (State Grant—Available to SIUC Campus Users).

Shepard's Citation Services: Available only from Public Terminals in the Law Library; not available from this website.

WilsonWeb, databases include Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (Available to SIU Law Users Only). Works better with Internet Explorer. See Using WilsonWeb to Find Legal Articles.

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