PLS 2000: Introduction to Legal Research & Writing

Congress.gov provides federal legislative information from the U.S. Congress and related agencies.

Searches scholarly resources such as abstracts, journal articles, and reprints from many publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and other sources from a wide variety of disciplines. Links to resources available to current SLU students, faculty, and staff display next to the references when on campus.

Provides free online access to more than a million official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government, including the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations and much more. Coverage years vary by title. Govinfo is the replacement system for FDSys, which will no longer be available as of December 2018.

Includes indexing and some full-text of Congressional hearings, bills and reports as well as the full-text of Congressional Research Service Reports from 2004-present.

Includes indexing and some full-text of Congressional hearings, bills and reports as well as the full-text of Congressional Research Service Reports from 2004-present.

Contains 15 years of historical and financial information as reported by the companies for over 15,000 U.S. public companies traded on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX stock exchanges as well as historical and financial information for approximately 17,000 non-United States-based companies from over 100 countries.

This is the new interface and design for LexisNexis Academic. The primary source for current and historical court cases and for State and United States' statutes, codes, and regulations. Also includes law review articles, legal reference sources, Shepards citations, as well as national news and company information.

Courtesy of the Law Library, LLMC Digital Collections consist of digitized law materials from the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Branches of the U.S. government, military law, some state law, and some common law abroad. The focus tends to be historical, but contains supplementary information its difficulty to find elsewhere.

1929-2016. Provides comprehensive legislative histories consisting of "fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. Each history includes the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints." (text from site 4/25/2016)

1936-2016 when complete. Includes content from the Federal register and Code of Federal Regulations, along with regulatory histories associated with public laws, executive orders, and agencies.