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. 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 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 more than 100 BNA databases, accessible here by subject area.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.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP). 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.

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

Health Affairs—The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere.

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.

LexisNexis Congressional.

LexisNexis State Capital.

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.

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. Works better with Internet Explorer. See Using WilsonWeb to Find Legal Articles.