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Westlaw (For paralegal majors in legal research classes)

Vendor: 
Thomson Reuters
Full Text: 
Yes
Peer Review: 
No

Westlaw is a legal database that provides the full text for both federal and state: codes, court rules, cases (published and many unpublished), attorney general opinions, regulations and agency decisions. It also includes summaries and headnotes of decisions, as well as West's key-note classification for each case, indexing cases by subject and allowing for pulling up of other cases on the same subject.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

Westlaw via Westmate

Online legal research service, providing legal resources (U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information), legal news, business and public records information.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

ProQuest Central

Vendor: 
ProQuest
Full Text: 
Yes
Peer Review: 
Yes

ProQuest covers 160 subjects including business, education, health, humanities, law, literature, nursing, news, psychology, science, social sciences, technology, and women's studies. It includes over 880 full text U.S., Canadian and international newspapers, 30,000 full text dissertations, 9,000 market reports spanning Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

ProQuest Research Library (PQ Central)

Vendor: 
ProQuest
Full Text: 
Yes
Peer Review: 
Yes

ProQuest Research Library includes articles from journals, magazines and newspapers with information on a broad range of general reference subjects.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

SIRS Government Reporter

The main database delivers thousands of full-text documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, business and industry. Includes current and historic government documents, landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions (1989- present), National Archives documents, information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and country profiles. For searching help, click on ?Tips? under ?Help? on the top right of the opening screen.

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TOPICSearch

Vendor: 
INCOLSA

Explore social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms, over 78,000 full text documents, selected full text articles for nearly 100 U.S. newspapers, 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information, includes an online dictionary.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

Lexis.com (On campus only - request login by library staff)

Lexis.com is a database for DU paralegal students in research classes only. It is a legal database that provides the fulll text, case summaries and headnotes of decisions from the federal and state courts published and some unpublished. Includes Shepard's citation checking.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

MasterFILE Premier (full text periodicals)

Vendor: 
INCOLSA

Full text from over 2,000 general reference, business, health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

MeL (Michigan electronic Library)

Vendor: 
MeL (Michigan electronic Library)
Full Text: 
Yes
Peer Review: 
Yes

Resources purchased by the State of Michigan for Michigan residents only.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.

EBSCO e-book Collection (formerly NetLibrary)

Vendor: 
EBSCO
Full Text: 
Yes
Peer Review: 
No

Formerly NetLibrary.

You must be enrolled in the current semester and logged in to access the tutorials & databases.
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