Research Tools

Legal Databases

BNA All
Over 100 subject specific reporters, some with additional commentary, on a wide range of legal topics. Law students, faculty, and staff can sign up for email updates as to specific resources.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Provides access to CCH’s federal and state tax libraries, and to recent tax news, analysis, cases, regulations and other primary source materials.

Communications Mosaic
Primary content, commentary, and news about communications law, policy, and regulation.

E&E Publishing (Greenwire, Land Letter, etc.)
Comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets.  Includes: ClimateWire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, E&ENews PM, E&ETV, Land Letter, Reports etc.

Energy Mosaic
Primary content, commentary, and news about North American energy law, policy, and regulation.

Environmental Law Reporter
Online version of the Environmental Law Reporter, containing news and analysis, topical updates, and guidance and policy directives.

Lexis
Mega-database containing cases, statutes, regulations, constitutions, forms, treatises, law reviews, leading newspapers and magazines, reference items, and international content.

LexisNexis Academic (for general use)
This resource has much of the same content as regular LexisNexis, but is available to all IUB students and those that come to the Law Library.  It is a mega-database that contains cases, statutes, regulations, constitutions, law reviews, and leading newspapers and magazines.

LoisLaw
Contains cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, bar publications, and other resources for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Making of Modern Law
This online database is derived from the Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections.  It contains close to 10 million pages and more than 21,800 titles.  In addition to treatises, the database includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters and speeches.

Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
Includes trials from America, England and the British Empire.  The database includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments reprinted or bound as separate publications; and official, separately published records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.

Making of the Modern World (Economics)
Materials on early economics, commerce, trade, transportation, industry, manufacturing, political systems and social history published from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century.

Securities Mosaic
Comprehensive disclosure and regulatory information for securities. Data covers six areas: disclosure, laws, rules, guidance, news, and compliance centers.

United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs (1832-1978)
Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.

Westlaw
Mega-database containing cases, statutes, regulations, constitutions, forms, treatises, law reviews, leading newspapers and magazines, reference items, and international content.