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Research Tools

·        General Information

·        Internet Research Pages

·        Digital Collections Available to UC users

·        LexisNexis and Westlaw

·        Law Library Digital Collection

General Information

·        Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library Research Guide Series

·        Other law libraries in the Southern California area - locations, hours, phone numbers, and access policies.

·        Legal bookstores and more in the Los Angeles area.

·        UCLA BookZone

·        List of Legal Aid Services in California - produced by the L.A. County Law Library.  This page lists Legal Aid offices by city and by special interest topics.  It also provides links to their web pages when available.

·        Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library General Guide (in Acrobat PDF format)--Library Guide for the General Public

Internet Research Pages

·        Searching the Internet

·        Federal Law

·        California Law

·        Other Laws (includes Uniform and Model Laws, Other States Laws & Municipal Laws)

·        General Law-related Sites

·        International Business Transactions

Digital Collections available to UC Users

• California Digital Library Collections & Services--The California Digital Library (CDL) is a "tenth" library for the entire University of California System.  The CDL makes a wide variety of electronic resources, including electronic journals and periodical databases, available to the UC community.
• UCLA Library Collections & Internet Resources--The UCLA Library System also provides access to a growing collection of digital resources including electronic journals and other full-text titles, in addition to general reference works (dictionaries, indexes, etc.).  Many of these are available only to UCLA users, which means they are available at computers on campus or to home users with a UCLA IP address (e.g., users who dial in to LawNet, BruinOnline or some other campus network will have access from home). Some examples of useful resources on these pages are listed below:
  • America:  History and Life/ Historical Abstracts
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts  (includes Sociological Abstracts)
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Historical Newspapers Online (includes New York and London Times)
  • LexisNexis Congressional
  • LexisNexis Statistical
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • Periodicals Contents Index (includes articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences)
  • Web of Science (includes Social Sciences Citation Index)

LexisNexis and Westlaw

The Law Library subscribes to the two major computerized legal research systems, Westlaw and LexisNexis, which are available at no charge to UCLA Law Students.  Students will need to obtain personal passwords in order to use LexisNexis and Westlaw. These services are available only to the UCLA Law School community and may be used only for academic purposes.  The Law Library cannot provide access for other UCLA users or the general public to these systems.

The Library System does maintain a subscription to LexisNexis Academic, which is a special academic version of LexisNexis that is available to the general UCLA community.

LexisNexis offers limited searching on their system for non-subscribers who pay with a credit card.  Check their web site at http://www.lexis-nexis.com for more information.   Westlaw offers a document retrieval service for non-subscribers who pay with a credit card.  Check their web site at http://westlaw.com for more information.

Law Library Digital Collection

The Law Library subscribes to a number of CD-ROM databases and Internet resources, such as periodical and treaty indexes and an index to Congressional publications.  Currently available resources are listed below.  CD-ROM databases are available from the public computers in the Reference Reading Room; Internet resources are available to users with UCLA Law School IP Addresses.
 

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Last modified: 07/22/06