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Academic One File (Gale)
General reference source for full-text articles.

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

Alexander Hamilton Papers
The Library holds the world's largest collection of Hamilton papers-approximately 12,000 items concentrated from 1777 until Hamilton's death in 1804, including letters, legal papers and drafts of speeches and writings, among other items. Now, for the first time, these original documents-many in Hamilton's own hand-will be available for researchers, students or the generally curious anywhere in the world to explore on the Website.
American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1899
Provides free access to in-depth full text government documents of political, military, and governmental activities related to American Indians and Alaskan Natives.

American Periodicals Collection
Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940.
America's Historical Newspapers
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.

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Barry University A-Z Databases (master list)

Barry University School of Law Digital Commons
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
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.

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CALI
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.

Barry Law students, faculty, and staff may register for free CALI accounts. Contact a reference librarian at LawReferenceLibrarians@barry.edu to get the authorization code.

Carbon Dioxide Removal Law: An Annotated Bibliography of Legal Materials Related to Carbon Dioxide Removal and Carbon Sequestration and Use
Provides public access to the most comprehensive information to date on legal issues related to carbon dioxide removal, utilization, storage, and transportation.
Children's Bureau
Provides free public access to a variety of resources and information about new federal legislation, regulations, and Children's Bureau policies to improve the welfare of children and families.
Civil Rights and Social Justice (HeinOnline)
HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans. Containing hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, this database allows users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time, as well as how these legal protections can go further still. A varied collection of books on many civil rights topics and a list of prominent civil rights organizations help take the research beyond HeinOnline.
Collection James A. Garfield Papers
The Library of Congress Digital Collections Website offers papers of James A. Garfield (1831-1881), 20th President of the United States, army officer, lawyer, and educator. Includes are diaries, family and official correspondence, speeches, articles, notes, memoranda, law cases, college notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, newspapers, etc. relating chiefly to Garfield's Civil War military service in addition to Ohio and national politics and the Fitz-John Porter court-martial.
Constitution Annotated: Analysis and Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution
Constitution Annotated provides a comprehensive overview of how the Constitution has been interpreted over time; includes discussions of the Supreme Court's latest opinions.
COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present (HeinOnline)
Compiling federal government reports and publications on the various ways COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, this database is organized into the following areas of impact: Economics, Global, Health, and Society.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
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.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Consisting of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken.

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Fastcase
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.

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
Provides access to the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities.
Films on Demand
Web-based digital video delivery service.
Florida Jury Verdict Review and Analysis
A monthly review of Florida and federal civil jury verdicts with professional analysis and commentary.
Please contact your reference librarians at LawReferenceLibrarians@barry.edu to request a PDF of a current issue.

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

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Gale Databases
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).

Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources enhances the research experience for students and researchers by broadening their discovery of primary source documents through the use of multiple search options and research tools.

Search across Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture (1790-1920), Nineteenth Century Collections Online, and The Making of Modern Law databases.
Gavel-to-Gavel: The Watergate Scandal and Public Television
Provides access to all the coverage, a highlights reel, cartoons, an episode guide and an essay to give valuable insight into the Watergate Scandal and a unique chain of events in American political history. Includes are primary digitized materials of the oral interviews from the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings and the 1974 House impeachment hearings for cogent analysis and its historical implications.
GSA: U.S. General Services Administration
Provides free public access to federal policy in the areas of federal procurement, real property management, information resources management, and diversified operations, such as buildings management, telecommunications, consumer information distribution, child care in the federal workplace.
Gun Regulation and Legislation in America (HeinOnline)
This new HeinOnline collection brings together more than 500 titles dealing with this difficult and important topic. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Links to nearly 500 scholarly articles, an extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided.

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HeinOnline
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.
History of International Law (HeinOnline)
A collection of over 700 titles discussing various international law topics.
History of Supreme Court Nominations (HeinOnline)
Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1977 – Present.

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Index of Unpublished Decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals
This Index contains links to more than 1,500 unpublished BIA decisions selected for their potential to assist noncitizens in removal proceedings. It is updated on a monthly basis with recently issued decisions. Please contact your reference librarians at LawReferenceLibrarians@barry.edu for full access to the index using your school email.
Indigenous Digital Archive (IDA) Treaties Explorer
While treaties between Indigenous peoples and the United States affect virtually every area in the USA, there is as yet no official list of all the treaties. The US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them for the first time with key historic works that provide context to the agreements made and the histories of our shared lands.

IngentaConnect
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
Intellectual Property Law Collection (HeinOnline)
A large database of legislative histories, regulatory, statutory and case law, treatises, articles and other materials on the various subjects of intellectual property.

International Law Institute
The International Law Institute (ILI) is a leading authority and global provider of technical assistance to find practical solutions and training in international law, international economics and other aspects of international relations. ILI also provides technical expertise to developing nations in drafting of laws and designing of their economic and government policies.

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JOAL: Journal of Open Access to Law
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.

John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection
These newly released documents are now available to the public. HeinOnline has organized and indexed this material to make it easy to navigate and use. Also included in this collection are books, hearings, other related works, and scholarly articles on this topic.

JSTOR
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.

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Kanopy
Video streaming platform with over 30,000 award-winning documentaries, foreign and indie films, training films, classic movies and more.

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LawArXiv
Searchable database provides free public access to legal repository and open access to legal scholarship as well as archives for legal research.

LexisNexis
LexisNexis is one of the major online resources for accessing primary legal materials, news, secondary sources and other information.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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.

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Mental Illness Policy Org.: Unbiased Information for Policymakers + Media
Provides open access to unbiased and easy-to-access information for the media and policy makers about the care and treatment of people with serious and persistent mental illness.

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National Survey of State Laws (HeinOnline)
A collection of state laws organized by broad categories (business/consumer, criminal, education, employment, family, general civil, real estate, and tax) and narrower topics.
New York Legal Research Library (HeinOnline)
Includes various case reporters, session laws, journals, and books about the law of New York.
New York Times (NYTimes.com)
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 OUR NETWORK. Login with your Barry credentials and register with your Barry e-mail. Then you can access it from any network or location.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
This database has two parts. The first is titled “Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange.” The second is “British Politics and Society.”

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

NOMOS: American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
NOMOS is the annual yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. The ASPLP was begun in 1955 by Carl Friedrich to bring together a group of political scientists, philosophers and law scholars interested in exploring legal and political philosophy outside of their home disciplines. The main activity of the society is its annual meeting held on a topic chosen in advance by the ASPLP membership, at which three papers (one from each of the participating disciplines) are presented. The society publishes these papers, along with formal commentary and invited additional essays, in the NOMOS volumes.

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)
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: Law Collection
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.
Oxford Online Journals
Search over 300 full text journals published by Oxford University Press covering all subject areas. Coverage goes back to 1996.

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Procertas LTA
The Legal Technology Assessment (LTA) is a competence-based learning platform focused on core technologies for delivering legal services. The training modules and assessments place users in legal scenarios and ask them to perform common tasks in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF.

Students will receive a welcome email from Procertas in their Barry inbox, which includes a link to active your account. If you have not received a welcome email, please contact lawacq@barry.edu for assistance.

ProQuest Central
General reference source for full-text scholarly articles.
ProQuest Congressional
ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress.
ProQuest History Vault
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.
ProQuest Legislative Insight
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.
ProQuest U.S. Newsstream
Exclusive access to 85 full-text newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times.

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Regulations.gov: Your Voice in Federal Decision-Making
Regulations.gov is a multi-agency website and designed to encourage public involvement and citizen input. The Website acts as an internet portal and document repository where citizens can view and comment on federal regulations and other agency actions that affect their daily lives.

Religion and the Law (HeinOnline)
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.

Repository of Historical Gun Laws
A searchable database of gun laws from the Middle Ages to 1776 in England and from the Colonial Era to the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. It is intended as a resource for scholars and practitioners interested in historical laws concerning firearms and other similar weapons. It may be updated to include additional statutes to bring the scope of the Repository closer to the present, fill in the English regulatory history, and add newly discovered historical statutes and ordinances.

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Spinelli's Law Library Reference Shelf (HeinOnline)
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.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
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.

Stanford Clearinghouse on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Research
Provides a hub for research on diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and many disparate fields, including law, psychology, sociology, critical theory, public policy, education, clinical education, and social work.
State Constitutions Illustrated (Hein Online)
A collection of the constitutions of the 50 states of the United States, together with related documents and resources. Containing the text of every constitution that has been in force for every state with the original, consolidated and current texts and an extensive collection of documents from before statehood, State Constitutions Illustrated provides comprehensive coverage and allows researchers to compare multiple editions from multiple sources.

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

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U.S. Code (Library of Congress Digital Collections)
Provides access to archived versions of the United States Code. This collection contains editions of the United States Code dating back to the 1925-1926 edition and is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects into 50 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives.

U.S. International Trade Library (HeinOnline)
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.

U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library (HeinOnline)
Organized around the four affected presidents, this collection brings together a variety of documents both contemporaneous and asynchronous to each president’s impeachment, presenting both a snapshot of the political climate as each played out and the long view history has taken of past proceedings. Congressional Research Service reports round out a general discussion of presidential impeachment, and a curated list of scholarly articles, external links, and a bibliography provide avenues for further research on this topic. This library will continue to grow as we add new material, particularly as it becomes available for the current proceedings against Donald Trump.
U.S. Presidential Library (HeinOnline)
This database includes messages and papers of the presidents, daily and weekly compilations of presidential documents, public papers of the presidents, documents relating to impeachment, Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and a host of other related works.

The database includes a new subcollection dedicated to explaining how the electoral college system works, the history of its formation, debates around its efficiency, as well as efforts to reform and even abolish it.
United Nations Digital Library
The platform provides global access to UN-produced materials in digital format and a major service for the long-term preservation of the Organization's collective memory. Content is organized into collections by UN body, agency, and type of document.
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Provides free public access to a variety of international agreements, treaties, conventions, and United Nations General Assembly resolutions as well as rules and regulations of international organizations in addition to promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.

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We March on Celebrating: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage
"We March On Celebrating" highlights the struggle of diverse activists who fought to secure voting rights for all American women. The research guide provides legal background of the suffrage movement.

Westlaw
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.

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New and Trial Databases

NOMOS: American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
NOMOS is the annual yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. The ASPLP was begun in 1955 by Carl Friedrich to bring together a group of political scientists, philosophers and law scholars interested in exploring legal and political philosophy outside of their home disciplines. The main activity of the society is its annual meeting held on a topic chosen in advance by the ASPLP membership, at which three papers (one from each of the participating disciplines) are presented. The society publishes these papers, along with formal commentary and invited additional essays, in the NOMOS volumes.
U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library (HeinOnline)
Organized around the four affected presidents, this collection brings together a variety of documents both contemporaneous and asynchronous to each president’s impeachment, presenting both a snapshot of the political climate as each played out and the long view history has taken of past proceedings. Congressional Research Service reports round out a general discussion of presidential impeachment, and a curated list of scholarly articles, external links, and a bibliography provide avenues for further research on this topic. This library will continue to grow as we add new material, particularly as it becomes available for the current proceedings against Donald Trump.
U.S. Presidential Library (HeinOnline)
This database includes messages and papers of the presidents, daily and weekly compilations of presidential documents, public papers of the presidents, documents relating to impeachment, Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and a host of other related works.

The database includes a new subcollection dedicated to explaining how the electoral college system works, the history of its formation, debates around its efficiency, as well as efforts to reform and even abolish it.

Watch this space for any new and trial databases.

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