Includes full text of ABA ethics opinions as well as summaries of state ethics opinions.  Also includes full text of the manual, which covers in-depth topics such as confidentiality, conflicts of interest, lawyer-client relationship, fees, malpractice, and attorney discipline. 

See also:  Professional Responsibility or take a BNA virtual tour.

Students and faculty:  For off-campus access, click here. 

Links to full text of U.S. IP laws and regulations.  Also includes U.S. Patent Quarterly cases.  IP-related news stories are added daily.  Topical indexes provide access to all content in the entire database. 

See Also: BNA Intellectual Property training materials or take a BNA virtual tour.

Students and faculty:  For off-campus access, click here. 

Cases, statutes, regulations, news, and other tools related to labor and employment law.  Also has the full text of BNA's specialty treatises and practice guides on fair employment law, wage & hour law, collective bargaining, disabilities, and EEOC compliance.  Topical indexes provide access to all content in the entire database. 

See also: Training materials or take a BNA virtual tour.

Students and faculty:  For off-campus access, click here.

Titles in this BNA package include:

• Accounting Policy & Practice Report
• Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report
• Bankruptcy Law Reporter
• Criminal Law Reporter
• Electronic Commerce & Law Report
• Employment Discrimination Report
• Environment Reporter
• Family Law Reporter 
• Health Law Reporter
• International Trade Reporter
• Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal
• Securities Regulation and Law Report
• Tax Management Weekly Report
• Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report
• United States Law Week
• White Collar Crime Report

See also: Training materials or take a BNA virtual tour.

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Offers practitioners a comprehensive array of analysis, news, source documents, and practice tools covering federal, international, state tax issues, and financial accounting. Includes full-text access to Accounting Policy & Practice Portfolios, Estates, Gifts and Trusts Portfolios, Foreign Income Portfolios, IRS Practice Advisor, International Guides, North American Tax Handbook, Payroll Administration Guide, State Portfolios, Tax Practice Series, U.S. Income Portfolios, and U.S. Tax Overview.

See also: BNA Tax and Accounting Center training materials or take a BNA virtual tour.

Students and faculty:  For off-campus access, click here. 

CALI is a consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer-mediated legal instruction. CALI offers over 600 interactive computer tutorials in 32 different legal subject areas.

Download a list of CALI lessons with printable handouts.

Students and Faculty:  For access to CALI, please contact the library reference desk (704-971-8573).  Click here for off-campus access.

The IntelliConnect Platform gives access to extensive resources, including:

CCH Tax Library
Extensive tax resource, providing information on federal, international, state, and local taxation, financial and estate planning, wealth management, pensions and payroll, and tax tools (calculators, practice aids, tables, and quick-answer charts).

CCH Business & Finance Research Network
Extensive business and finance resource, providing information on securities, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, international business, banking, antitrust, products liability, government contracts, transportation law, and intellectual property/computer/internet law.

CCH Health & Human Resources Library
Extensive human resources database, providing information on HR management, payroll, benefits, pensions, labor & employment law, safety, health care compliance, and food/drugs/devices. Interactive forms are also available.

Kluwer Arbitration
A fully-searchable database with materials in the field of international commercial arbitration.

See also: Training materials or take a virtual tour.

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

The fifteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style includes features online, such as:

• Updated material to reflect current style, technology, and professional practice
• New coverage of journals and electronic publications
• Comprehensive new chapter on American English grammar and usage by Bryan A. Garner (author of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage)
• Reorganized and updated chapters on documentation, including guidance on citing electronic sources
• New diagrams of the editing and production processes for both books and journals, keyed to chapter discussions
• Descriptive headings on all numbered paragraphs for ease of reference.

Students and faculty:  For off-campus access, click here.

Weekly publication covering all aspects of colleges and universities. Offers news and analysis, job listings, first-person essays, book reviews, and career advice.

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Electronic collection of news and magazine articles, books, maps, pictures, audio/video files, transcripts, and more. Browse the titles in each publication type or search by keyword across all publications. Topics include business, current events, arts and literature, social sciences, government and law, and technology.

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Weekly e-mail summaries of key labor & employment cases.  Includes access to an electronic case law database.

Students and faculty:  For access, please contact the library reference desk (704-971-8573). Click here for off-campus access.

Legal database that contains the full text of legal documents in several collections. The Law Journal Library contains PDF articles from most major law reviews and law journals. Approximately 650 law journals and reviews are included, beginning with the inception date of each publication. The Federal Register and various international treaties are also available.

See also:  Heinonline "How-To" Videos, How to Research a Seminar Paper, Research and Scholarship:  A Faculty Guide, Finding Journal and Law Review Articles, Researching Federal Administrative Law

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Digital archive of over 200 scholarly journals in economics, business, anthropology, education, political science, history, and other non-legal fields.  Articles are in PDF. 

See also:  JSTOR Online Tutorials, How to Research a Seminar Paper, Research and Scholarship:  A Faculty  Guide, Finding Journal and Law Review Articles,

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Index of articles from over 800 legal periodicals. Also includes law-related articles from more than 1,000 business and general interest periodicals. Coverage begins in 1980.

See also:   Finding Journal and Law Review Articles, Newspapers and Magazines at CharlotteLaw

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Need training materials?  Click here.

Library members: Access to Lexis is on-site only. No password is needed.

Full text of U.S. bills, hearings, reports, committee prints, legislative histories, and the Statutes at Large series. Includes information about current members of Congress and congressional committees, as well as back issues of The Hill (1995- ) and The Washington Post (1977- ). Also includes the U.S. Serial Set, which contains over 325,000 full text Congressional documents from 1789 to 1969.

See also:  LexisNexis Congressional Training Materials, LexisNexis Congressional Wiki, CRDC (Congressional Research Digital Collection) White Paper, Hearings White Paper, Congressional Record White Paper, An Insider's View of the U.S. Serial Set, Researching the Legislative History of a U.S. Law, Federal Legislative History Coverage Chart

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

LLMC, which stands for Law Library Microform Consortium, is a non-profit consortium of libraries that offers full text electronic access to over 1,000 historical titles.

See also:  Training Materials, LLMC Help Videos, How to Research a Seminar Paper, Research and Scholarship:  A Faculty Guide, Finding Journal and Law Review Articles

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Database of federal and state case law, statutes, and regulations. Loislaw is a low-cost alternative to Westlaw and LexisNexis. Access is limited to faculty, students, and staff.

Students and faculty:  For access to Loislaw, please contact the library reference desk (704-971-8573). Click here for off-campus access.

Contains the full text (PDF images) of over 22,000 U.S. and English legal treatises published from 1800 to 1926. Click here for a complete title list. Many of the titles are not available in any other electronic format.

Need training materials?  Click here. 

See also:  How to Research a Seminar Paper, Research and Scholarship:  A Faculty Guide, Finding Journal and Law Review Articles

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Special full-text web access for CharlotteLaw students and faculty.

See also:   Finding Journal and Law Review Articles, Newspapers and Magazines at CharlotteLaw , Finding the Law in North Carolina

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access. In order to access full-text articles and other subscriber-only pages, please email the Reference Desk for log-in information.

The most prestigious, most authoritative dictionary in the English language.  Defines and traces the history of over 500,000 words from across the English-speaking world.  Contains over 2.5 million quotations illustrating modern and historical uses of words, some dating back to the Middle Ages. 

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Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Covers legal history from ancient to modern times.  Over 1,000 articles on ancient Greek and Roman law, medieval Roman law, Chinese law, Islamic law, English and U.S. law, and the laws of Africa, Asia, and other regions. 

See also:  How to Research a Seminar Paper

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Abstracts of over 2,500 Oxford University Press titles in numerous disciplines, including economics, finance, history, business management, literature, music, neuroscience, and more.  Full-text access to certain law-related titles.  Browse by title, author, or subject.  Advanced search features also available.

See also:  How to Research a Seminar Paper, Research and Scholarship:  A Faculty Guide

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Database of popular and scholarly articles. Includes more than 3,200 titles--over 2,500 in full text--from 1971 forward. The articles cover a broad range of subjects, including arts, business, education, health, humanities, military, law, international issues, psychology, natural and social sciences, and women's issues.

Need training materials?  Click here.

See also:   Finding Journal and Law Review Articles, Newspapers and Magazines at CharlotteLaw

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

The Supreme Court Database is the definitive source for researchers, students, journalists, and citizens interested in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1953 and 2008 terms. Examples include the identity of the court whose decision the Supreme Court reviewed, the parties to the suit, the legal provisions considered in the case, and the votes of the Justices.

See also:  The downloadable Code Book for searching the Supreme Court Database.

Students and faculty:  For off-campus access, click here.

Contains the full text of over 200,000 records and briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court from 1832 to 1978.

Need training materials?  Click here.

See also:  Researching U.S. Constitutional Law, Appellate Brief Writing

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

Contains the texts of over 158,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties and subsequent treaty actions in their original language(s), along with a translation into English and French, as appropriate. From the main page, click on the Quick Links drop-down box and then select United Nations Treaty Series.

Need training materials?  Click here.

Students and faculty:  Click here for off-campus access.

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Library members: Access to Westlaw is on-site only. No password is needed.