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- HeinOnline
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Law journals, Supreme Court opinions, and more. 
- HeinOnline provides full text access to an extensive collection of law journals, the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations (through 1983), Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Statutes at Large, and U.S. Treaties. It also includes a full text database of selected legislative histories. Heinonline contains complete runs of the law journals and documents. Includes U.S. and international law journals as well as criminal justice journals.
- Coverage Dates: Varies by title
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Languages: English
- Database Provider: hein
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- Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
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Indexes legal periodicals and books, 1982 to present.
- The Index to Legal Periodicals & Books indexes nearly 1000 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Covers almost 300 law reviews as well as about 1400 monographs annually. International coverage includes periodicals from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Coverage Dates: 1982-present, dependent on title.
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Languages: English
- Database Provider: wilson
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=inde-uga1
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- Index to Legal Periodicals & Books and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
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Indexes legal periodicals and other publications from the early 20th century to the present.
- Index to Legal Periodicals & Books and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective indexes legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. For the period 1982-present, it indexes nearly 1000 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Covers almost 300 law reviews as well as about 1400 monographs annually. Indexes over 750 legal periodicals for the period 1908-1982. Additional retrospective years of coverage will be added in the future.
- Coverage Dates: Varies by title.
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Languages: English
- Database Provider: wilson
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=indo-uga1
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- LexisNexis Academic
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Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
- LexisNexis Academic contains approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English, other languages, and translations of international papers), legal news, general interest magazines, medical journals, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications (such as the federal case law, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Testimony, etc.), law reviews, and reference works (such as the Forbes Annual Directory, the Official Guide/American Marketplace and the US Global Trade Outlook).
If you wish to search for articles published in only a specific publication, click on 'Sources' in the black bar at the top of the screen. Search for the publication, click on 'Find Title', then choose "Search This Title" next to the publication you want to search. This will paste the name of the publication into the search screen, and will ensure that you are searching the correct section of LexisNexis.
- Coverage Dates: Dates of coverage vary by publication
- Updated: Varies by publication (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually)
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- Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Database Provider: lexis_nexis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zxau
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- CQ Supreme Court Collection
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Supreme Court information, documents, data and analysis.
- CQ Supreme Court Collection offers summary and analysis of Supreme Court decisions and the corresponding justices' roles, opinions, and voting blocs. Also provides biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution. Gives summaries and analysis of more than four thousand major decisions from throughout the Supreme Court's history, including all cases in which the Burger and Rehnquist Courts (October 1969 to the present) issued a written opinion. Links to the full text of the cases is also provided.
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: CQ Press
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=cqsp-uga1
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- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
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Articles on all aspects of constitutional law.
- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution covers all aspects of constitutional law including issues, court cases, and biographies of people who have had an impact on the legal framework of the government of the United States. This resource corresponds to the 2nd edition (2000) of the print encyclopedia.
- Coverage Dates: 2nd edition (2000)
- Database Provider: Gale
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=enc2-uga1
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- Georgia Administrative Rules and Regulations
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Database of the rules and regulations governing the conduct of business in the state.
- Georgia Administrative Rules and Regulations is a database of the rules and regulations governing the conduct of business in the state. The database may be searched by keyword and chapter, section, or rule numbers. Only selective chapters have been done.
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: georgianet
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=znar
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- Georgia Code
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Database of Georgia laws now in force.
- The Georgia Code, hosted by LexisNexis, is the compilation of the laws of the state of Georgia that are currently in force. The database is searchable by keyword and by code number. Database provider: Georgia General Assembly.
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: gen_assy
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zncd
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- Georgia Legislative Documents
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Includes the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, 1799-1999.
The Georgia Legislative Documents database currently contains the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia for the years 1799-1999, with a few gaps. The Acts are the actual text of the laws and resolutions as they were voted upon by the General Assembly. The text as published in the Acts is different from the text published in the Georgia Code.
Georgia Laws, 2000-present are digitized in the Georgia Government Publications database.
- Database Provider: dlg
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zlgl
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- Legal Collection
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Articles from law journals, documents, and case studies, including peer-reviewed publications.
- Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for more than 250 law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more.
- Coverage Dates: 1965 onwards.
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zble
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- LLMC Digital (Law Library Microform Consortium)
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Legal literature from government and private publications.
- The LLMC Digital (Law Library Microform Consortium)database provides page image access to the digitized portion of the large and growing collection of historical legal materials preserved on microfilm by the LLMC. Includes government publications from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government as well as privately published series and treatises. Also includes materials covering jurisdictions other than the United States.
- Coverage Dates: Varies by title.
- Updated: Ongoing
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: llmc
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=llmc-uga1
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- The Making of Modern Law
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U.S. and British legal treatises published 1800 - 1926
- The Making of Modern Law provides page image access to approximately 15,000 American and British law treatises published during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This resource also includes works in languages other than English.
- Coverage Dates: 1800 - 1926
- Updated: Ongoing
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: gale
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=makg-uga1
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- The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
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English language accounts of trials in the United States, Britain, Ireland and Canada.
- The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 provides the full text of thousands of accounts of trials printed in books and pamphlets. The database covers trials in the United States, Britain, Ireland and Canada plus a few English language accounts of trials from other jurisdictions such as France. Popular accounts are included in addition to published trial transcripts and other associated documents. Excluded are works about "trials" as a subject. The sources used in this database come principally from the Harvard and Yale law libraries as well as the Library of the Association of Bar of the City of New York and the British Library. In addition to their great importance for the study of law, government, and history the trial accounts are valuable for the incidental social and cultural detail revealed in their pages.
- Coverage Dates: 1600 - 1926
- Updated: Ongoing
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Gale
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=makf-uga1
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- The Making of the Modern World
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Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850.
- The Making of the Modern World replaces the The Making of the Modern Economy. It provides full text page image access to more than 61,000 historical works of economic and business literature contained in the Goldsmiths' Library (University of London) and the Kress Library of Economic Literature (Harvard University) and other sources. The database comprises primarily works published between 1450 and 1850 but also a few works published after 1850 and includes many works in French and other European languages. Treatises cover commerce, finance, history, politics, social conditions, trade and transport and focus variously on Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Spain and other countries.
- Coverage Dates: 1450 - 1850 and beyond
- Updated: Ongoing
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: gale
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=mako-uga1
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- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Covers the fields of law enforcement and criminal justice from 1970 to the present.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts provides information thoroughly covering the fields of law enforcement and criminal justice. The database contains summaries of more than 200,000 publications including books, government reports (federal, state, and local), research reports, and unpublished research. It also includes content from 189 journals, including 12 with core coverage. The collection features both U.S. and international publications. Topics covered include corrections, courts, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims. NCJRSA is sponsored by the Department of Justice and the Executive Office of the President.
- Coverage Dates: 1970-
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- Languages: All documents covered are either written in English or have an English-language summary
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=naok-uga1
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- ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional)
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Coverage of U.S. Congress; hearings, prints, reports, bills, Congressional Record, CRS Reports, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations
- ProQuest Congressional provides extensive historical indexing of Congressional documents. It also provides the full text of recent hearing transcripts, committee reports, bills, bill tracking reports, the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code, and public laws, as well as the complete historical archives of CRS (Congressional Research Service) reports and Committee Prints. Additional coverage includes biographical profiles of congressmen and senators, committee assignments, voting records and financial data.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: proquest
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xcun-uga1
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- U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1994)
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Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Congress from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994).
- The U.S. Congressional Serial Set consists of the all the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994), including some post-1816 content published in the American State Papers (a retrospective collection of materials originating from 1789 through 1838 but published in the second quarter of the 19th century). During much of the 19th century, especially in the pre-Civil War era, the Serial Set also included key Executive Department publications that were published only or primarily in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. The Serial Set constitutes a rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history, including approximately 52,000 maps.
- Coverage Dates: 1789-1994
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Readex/NewsBank
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=usco-uga1
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- U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
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Legal documents associated with Supreme Court cases.
- U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 provides full text of records, briefs, petitions and other legal documents associated with Supreme Court cases. Gives legal citations in Supreme Court Reporter and Lawyers' Edition formats. Part of The Making of Modern Law databases.
- Coverage Dates: 1832-1978
- Updated: Ongoing
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: gale
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=ussu-uga1
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Broader Databases
- Academic Search Complete
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Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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- Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Index to articles from diverse humanities subject areas.
- Humanities International Complete is a database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 2,200 journals and contains more than 2.71 million records. Formerly the American Humanities Index, this database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international publications. Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
- Coverage Dates: 1909-present
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- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=hump-uga1
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- Index Islamicus (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Index to journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim World, from 1906 to the present.
- Index Islamicus The Index Islamicus online database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. Browsable indexes are available for the following fields: author, descriptors, journal name, personal name, publication type, and review author.
- Coverage Dates: 1882-present
- Updated: Quarterly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=indm-uga1
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- JSTOR
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.
- JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.
- Coverage Dates: 1800s- (dates vary)
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Database Provider: jstor
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xjst-uga1
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- Web of Science (at Web of Knowledge)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Provides access to the combined Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
