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Congressional Research Service Index
Indexes major studies of the Legislative Ref. Service, the
Congressional Research Service, and major studies/issue briefs of the
Congressional Research Service. (CD-ROM available at the Ekstrom
Government Publications Dept.)
Indexes a vast amount of information published by and about Congress: hearing transcripts and submitted testimony; committee reports; bills and public laws; selected committee prints; congressional documents; Congressional Record; Federal Register; current Code of Federal Regulations; and current U.S. code. Some full-text. (Lexis-Nexis)
Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. (CSA)
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
GPO Monthly Catalog
Index to U.S. government publications.
HeinOnline is a collection of the full-text of the full run of selected legal journal titles. (William S. Hein)
"The Left Index is a[n] ... index to the contents of periodicals of the left. Journals selected for inclusion in the index have a Marxist, radical or left perspective..."
LegalTrac
Index to over 750 Law journals and newspapers. (Available at
the Law Library)
Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports);
Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and
Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)
Derived from two essential reference collections for historical and more contemporary legal studies-the Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, published by Thomson GaleŽ imprint Primary Source MicrofilmT-The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works. It provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of legal history and allows a vast segment of the literature of law to be quickly searched via keyword access by faculty members and students. With full-text search capabilities, researchers can conduct precise searches and comparative research in every area of law. (Thomson Gale)
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. (CSA)

Nineteenth Century Masterfile, Series I
Searchable index to magazine and journal articles originally indexed in:

- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
- Steade's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902)
- Jones & Chapman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)
- Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899)
- Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899)
Index to journal articles, books, and government publications on public affairs from 1972 to the present. (CSA)

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

Indexing to journal articles in over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals published by Elsevier. Full-text access to articles in journals to which U of L subscribes to the print version. 
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

Provides information about one state, all 50 states, or any combination of states; bills and laws, constitutions, regulations, legislature membership, newspapers of record. Also includes abstracts from the Martindale-HubellŽ State Law Digest, as well as public policy analysis from State Capitol Journal and the NCSL Legisbrief published by the National Conference of State Legislatures. (Lexis-Nexis) 
