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Databases for Legal & Law-Related Research

Legal Research

ABA Bloomberg Law BNA
Fast Case FindLaw HeinOnline
Index to Legal Periodicals Legal Dictionary LegalTrac (FCLA)
LexisNexis LexisNexis (Academic) LII
Municode* PACER Proquest Congressional
Thomas USA.gov U.S. Law Week
Westlaw UF Legal Research Guides UF Research Gateway (Find a Database)

Foreign & Comparative Law Research

Foreign Law Guide (Reynolds & Flores) GlobaLex Global Legal Information Network
HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated vLex Global Westlaw China
World Law Guide World Legal Information Institute

International Law Research

EISIL HeinOnline Treaties & Agreements Library IBFD Tax Research Platform
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Kluwer Arbitration OECD iLibrary
UNBISnet UN Treaty Collection

Academic & Law-Related Research

SSRN NBER EconPapers
EcoAmericas National Wetland Newsletter* Consumer Law Center
Wolters Kluwer Corporate Counsel Profiler Centre for Economic Policy Research: Discussion Papers World Trade Online*
CALI Lessons* CQ Press Electronic Library Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
WorldCat  UF Law Scholarship Repository

Historical Collections

American Memory American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography HeinOnline Legal Classics
LLMC Digital Making of Modern Law–Legal Treatises Making of Modern Law–Primary Sources
Making of Modern Law–Trials:1600-1926 Making of Modern Law–U.S. Supreme Court Briefs: 1832-1978

Newspaper & News Collections

Chronicling America Florida Law Weekly* Google News
LexisNexis News & Business ProQuest Historical Newspapers Westlaw Business & News

Tax Research

CCH IntelliConnect Checkpoint IBFD Tax Research Platform
OECD iLibrary Tax Analysts BNA Tax Management Library
Tax Direct (United Kingdom)

Databases for Statistical & Data-Related Research

Data Repositories & Portals

American FactFinder CESSDA Data.gov
Eurostat ICPSR OECD Statistics

Census, Population & Demographic Data

2010 Census American Community Survey American FactFinder
Census Bureau Eurostat United Nations Demographic Yearbook

Economic, Monetary, Country & Regional Data

Budget–U.S. Government BEA CBO
Census Bureau–Economic Programs Doing Business Economic Indicators
Eurostat FRASER FRED
IRS Tax Stats World Databank

Government, Voting & Polling Data

Afrobarometer American National Election Studies Arab Barometer
Census Bureau–Voting & Registration Eurobarometer FEC
Latinobarómetro Pew Research Center U.S. Congress Votes Database
World Values Survey

International Relations & Human Rights Data

AidData CIRI Correlates of War Project
Database of Political Institutions 2010 Freedom House Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Polity IV Project Quality of Government (QOG) Institute Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Judicial Workload, Jury Verdicts & Crime Data

Bureau of Justice Statistics Death Penalty Information Center Federal Judiciary Statistics
Federal Sentencing Statistics LexisNexis Jury Verdicts & Settlements National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
National Criminal Justice Reference Service National Institute of Justice NCSC Court Statistics Project
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Supreme Court Database Uniform Crime Reports
Westlaw Jury Verdicts & Settlements What’s It Worth?

Labor, Health, Education & Family Data

Bureau of Labor Statistics Childinfo CDC Wonder
EdStats EEOC EPA Data Finder
FastStats Global Health Observatory Immigration Statistics
LABORSTA National Center for Education Statistics National Center for Health Statistics
Social Security Administration StateHealthFacts.org


Principal Federal Statistical Agencies

Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Justice Statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics Census Bureau Economic Research Service–USDA
Energy Information Administration Environmental Protection Agency Internal Revenue Service
National Agricultural Statistics Service National Center for Education Statistics National Center for Health Statistics
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Office of Management and Budget Social Security Administration
OECD iLibrary

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