Subscription Electronic Resources

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.

"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.

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

Available to SIUC Campus Users

Available to SIU Law Users Only

Chronicle of Higher Education, including .

FIRSTSEARCH databases, no password required (State Grant).

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.

Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) SmartBooks.

Law Library Microform Consortium-Digital—see description for LLMC-Digital.

LegalTrac—indexes legal periodicals, with some full text. Works better with Internet Explorer. See Using LegalTrac to Find Legal Articles.

LLMC-Digital—includes selected legal and law-related materials from U.S. Federal, U.S. States, Anglo-American, and Foreign jurisdictions. A growing collection of materials not available online anywhere else.

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

OCLC FIRSTSEARCH databases, no password required (State Grant).

Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) Electronic Library (State Grant).

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct.

American Medical News—Law faculty and students may obtain user name and password from a reference librarian.

Antitrust databases, from BNA.

BNA DATABASES The law library subscribes to over 100 BNA databases (alphabetical list). SIU Law Faculty, Staff, and Students Only: Sign up for BNA email summaries.

The following links will take you to lists of BNA databases by subject:

Banking databases, from BNA.

Bankruptcy databases, from BNA.

CALI: Computer Assisted Legal Instruction—Registration required. Law faculty and students may obtain registration codes from a reference librarian.

Congressional, from LexisNexis.

Corporate databases, from BNA.

Corporate Responsibility and Securities databases, from BNA.

Criminal Law databases, from BNA.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP).
SIU Law Faculty and Staff Only: Create or Change SmartCILP Profile.

Employee Benefits databases, from BNA.

Employment and Labor databases, from BNA.

Environment and Safety databases, from BNA.

Environmental Law Reporter—Law faculty and students may obtain user name and password from a reference librarian.

Ethics databases, from BNA.

Family Law databases, from BNA.

FIRSTSEARCH, Authorization number and Password required. Click to see list of available databases.

Health Affairs—The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere.

Health Care databases, from BNA.

Homeland Security databases, from BNA.

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, from WilsonWeb. Works better with Internet Explorer.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981, from WilsonWeb. Works better with Internet Explorer.

Labor Relations Reporter/Labor and Employment Law Library, from BNA. For help in using this database, go to Labor and Employment Law Library Quick Start Guide (PDF).

Intellectual Property databases, from BNA.

International databases, from BNA.

International Tax databases, from BNA.

Labor and Employment databases, from BNA.

LexisNexis Congressional.

LexisNexis State Capital.

Litigation databases, from BNA.

National Tax Journal—online archive of articles. Law faculty and students may obtain user name and password from a reference librarian.

OCLC FIRSTSEARCH, Authorization number and Password required. Click to see list of available databases.

Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, from BNA.

Product Liability databases, from BNA.

Safety and Environment databases, from BNA.

Securities and Corporate Responsibility databases, from BNA.

Shepard's Citation Services (Available only from Law Library Public Terminals).

State Capital, from LexisNexis.

Supreme Court Today, from BNA.

Tax databases, from BNA.

Trade and Commerce databases, from BNA.

U.S. Law Week, from BNA.

WilsonWeb, databases include Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective. Works better with Internet Explorer. See Using WilsonWeb to Find Legal Articles.