Barry Law Library A-Z Research Databases: Home

General reference source for full-text articles.

is an excellent resource for immigration law practice and research, with primary and secondary sources provided by AILA, the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

A critical source for researching significant maritime decisions rendered by United States (federal and state) courts.

Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940.

Search and browse American newspapers published from 1780-1789 and 1790-1799, as well as Readex Early American Newspapers Series 1, to chronicle the evolution of American culture and daily life from the 18th Century to the recent past.

Searches the following Gale historical research databases: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, all four Making of Modern Law databases, and Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture: 1790-1920.

An online institutional repository of scholarly publications by Barry Law faculty, a growing collection of articles from the Barry Law Review, the Barry Environmental and Earth Law Journal, and the Barry Child and Family Law Journal, and a collection of additional information about the School of Law.

Bloomberg Law is a relatively new and very robust legal research database specializing in transactional law resources, forms, treatises, legal and business news, federal court dockets, all the former subject-specific databases that were once available through BNA Online, and more. Barry Law students, faculty, and staff may create their own accounts using their Barry e-mail addresses.

CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction) publishes over 150 computer-based tutorials in over 20 different legal subject areas. The lessons use a variety of formats and methods for teaching doctrine, analysis and critical thinking skills.

An archive comprising more than 2 million pages, containing manuscripts, books, broadsheets, and periodicals, focusing on the most rapid period of evolution for crime and its associated legal/penal systems.

Fastcase is a legal research database that provides access to primary law from all jurisdictions in the United States, as well as a variety of legal treatises in the Loislaw Libraries collection. The Florida Bar is one of several bar associations which provide access to Fastcase as part of their bar membership benefits, but now Barry Law students have access before they become bar members.

Three separate titles which combined provide weekly updates of decisions for federal, state and local courts in Florida.

Includes current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions throughout the world, organized by country, subject, and materials indexed.

Includes access to many databases, some provided by the Law Library and some by the Barry Main Library. The law-related titles include the Making of Modern Law collections (also listed separately on this page).

Used for searching law review articles and has early historic British, Scottish U.S and tribal laws. A good source for finding treaties and otherwise hard-to-find laws, and the best source for law review and law journal articles.

A collection of over 700 titles discussing various international law topics.

Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1977 – Present.

A collection of articles on various academic and professional research topics from over 11,000 resources. It is an excellent resource for identifying research on your topic. HOWEVER, there is a fee for each full -text article you download, so check with a Reference Librarian first, to see if they can help you find it elsewhere

A large database of legislative histories, regulatory, statutory and case law, treatises, articles and other materials on the various subjects of intellectual property.

An open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal of international scope. Its purpose is to promote international research on the topic of open access to law.

Provides an archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the life sciences.

LexisNexis is one of the major online resources for accessing primary legal materials, news, secondary sources and other information.

Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

A collection of state laws organized by broad categories (business/consumer, criminal, education, employment, family, general civil, real estate, and tax) and narrower topics.

Includes various case reporters, session laws, journals, and books about the law of New York.

School of Law students, faculty, and staff now have full access to NYTimes.com without needing their own subscriptions. However, YOU MUST REGISTER WHILE ON THE BARRY LAW CAMPUS AND ON OUR NETWORK. Go to NYTimes.com/grouppass and register with your Barry e-mail. Then you can access it from any network or location.

This is a full text database of newspaper articles from papers from all 50 states which were in print during the 1800s.

Covers today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. Provides overviews of topics, court cases, and pro/con viewpoints.

Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks areas across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.
Oxford Handbooks Online is guided by a world-class Editorial Board that bring together the world’s leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a range of major topics. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
Barry University currently has access to the Law Collection.

Search over 300 full text journals published by Oxford University Press covering all subject areas. Coverage goes back to 1996.

General reference source for full-text scholarly articles.

ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress.

ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.

A Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.

Exclusive access to 85 full-text newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times.

Contains hundreds of unique titles and nearly one million pages, including books, periodicals, and bibliographies. This collection provides a research platform for the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. The collection also includes the Christian Legal Society publications, an assortment of Canon Law, and rare historical bibles.

A collection of reference and other titles for law librarians. It includes series such as the Legal Research Guide Series and AALL Publication Series, as well as legal dictionaries, bibliographies and more.

Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research, SSRN is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, particularly legal scholarship. Barry students, faculty, and staff may register with this site for free, and faculty may submit their articles for publication.

This CQ Press product provides historical and statistical information regarding the United States Supreme Court as well as information on past and present Justices.

Available through HeinOnline, this database focuses on the exchange of goods and services between the United States and other countries. It includes legislative histories, statutes, articles, government publications and more.

Westlaw is one of the premier online legal research services, providing a broad collection of primary and secondary resources, as well as news, business and public records information.

Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks areas across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.
Oxford Handbooks Online is guided by a world-class Editorial Board that bring together the world’s leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a range of major topics. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
Barry University currently has access to the Law Collection.