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Research Databases
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- Bloomberg
- Lexis
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- CWRU login needed
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If a title is available both electronically and in print, click the icon to access the electronic version.
Research Databases
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If researching off-campus, you will need to connect to the CWRU network via VPN.
Key to Icons
- Bloomberg
- Lexis
- Westlaw
- Individual password required
- CWRU login needed
- CWRU Law access only
- VPN required for off-campus access
If a title is available both electronically and in print, click the icon to access the electronic version.
Research Databases
Browse the full list of databases:
Or search for a specific database:
If researching off-campus, you will need to connect to the CWRU network via VPN.
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Journals & Newsletters
- Annual Review of Resource Economics
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Provides authoritative critical reviews evaluating the most significant research developments in resource economics, focusing on agricultural economics, environmental economics, renewable resources, and exhaustible resources.
- American Society of International Law (ASIL)
The Electronic Resource Guide, often called the ERG, has been published online by ASIL since 1997. Systematically updated and continuously expanded, the ERG is designed to be used by students, teachers, practitioners, and researchers as a self-guided tour of relevant, quality, up-to-date online resources covering important areas of international law. The ERG also serves as a ready-made teaching tool at graduate and undergraduate levels.
- Bloomberg Law (B-LAW)
Bloomberg Law is a CALR platform that integrates cases, statutes, regulations, sample transactional documents, and a citator service with Bloombergs corporate news and analysis of financial markets. Known for U.S. Law Week. Also includes selected Wiley treatises and other selected publishers' treatises. Selected Federal filings from PACER are available. Users can set-up personal e-mail alerts. Getting Started resources appear on the main screen - Chronicle of Higher Education
A daily source of news, information, and employment postings for college and university faculty members and administrators.
- Current Index of Legal Periodicals
An index the most recent issues of primarily American law journals by subject heading allows for easy access to nearly 650 legal publications organized within 104 relevant subject headings. Also included are complete tables of contents from all journals indexed, as well as Bluebook citations.
- CQ Weekly
A weekly news magazine featuring in-depth reporting on public policy, politics, congressional legislation, and elections extending back to 1983, including: a complete wrap-up of news on Congress, the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and all roll-call votes. - E&E News
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E&E News is a news organization focusing on energy and the environment. E&E News five publicationsE&E Daily, Climatewire, Energywire, Greenwire and E&E News PMprovide daily updates and reporting on environmental and energy policy topics.
- The Energy Journal
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The official bi-monthly journal of the International Association for Energy Economics. The journal was founded in 1980 to promote the advancement and dissemination of new knowledge concerning energy and related topics. - Environment & Energy NewsWhere environmental law articles and news are now published on Bloomberg Law.
- Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy
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Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy publishes rigorous, careful, and nonpartisan research with high policy impact in environmental and energy economics. The journal focuses on the effective and efficient management of environmental and energy challenges. Research papers offer new evidence on the intended and unintended consequences, the market and nonmarket effects, and the incentive and distributional impacts of policy initiatives and market developments. (Published by the National Bureau of Economic Research)
- Environmental Law Reporter (ELR)
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The Environmental Law Reporter, a publication of the Environmental Law Institute, provides the most-often cited analysis of environmental, sustainability, natural resources, energy, toxic tort, and land use law and policy. It includes several newsletters; a News and Analysis journal; and new and selected full-text state, federal, and international legal documents.
- Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
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JAERE publishes papers that are devoted to environmental and natural resource issues. The journal's principal mission is to provide a forum for the scholarly exchange of ideas in the intersection of human behavior and the natural environment. Focusing on original, full-length research papers that offer substantial new insights for scholars of environmental and resource economics, JAERE presents a range of articles that are relevant for public policy, using approaches that are theoretical, empirical, or both.
- Lexology
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Lexology delivers the most comprehensive source of international legal updates, analysis and insights for law firms and in-house counsel.
CWRU law users must set up an individual password for themselves. - Preview of United States Supreme Court CasesPresents essays written by scholars about selected cases pending but not yet argued before the United States Supreme Court. These essays provide expert discussion of background and analysis of cases that the Court will eventually decide. Includes coverage of cases extending back to the 1973-1974 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- United States Law WeekUnited States Law Week (U.S.L.W.) is a Bloomberg newsletter known for its quick notification and summary and analysis of U.S. Supreme Court, Federal court and agency opinions, and federal statutory news.
- IP Watch
Intellectual Property Watch, a non-profit independent news service, reports on the interests and behind-the-scenes dynamics that influence the design and implementation of international intellectual property policies. - World Trade Online
World Trade Online is an online news service for subscribers to Inside U.S. Trade. Inside U.S. Trade and two online news services cover U.S. trade policy developments in Washington, among trading partners, and around the world. - War Crimes Prosecution Watch
A bi-weekly e-newsletter that collects official documents and articles from major news sources that detail and analyze salient issues pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world.
Newspapers & Periodicals
- Columbus Dispatch
Newspaper for the capital city of Ohio, which allows registered users to access five article per month.
- Economist
Offers opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. Includes articles from the print edition (US & British copies) and web-only content. Also includes a searchable online archive dating back to June 1997. - Flipster
Access The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Yorker, and more via the Cuyahoga County Public Library. Register for a library card here.
- Mideastwire.com
Provides translations of the Arabic and Persian media including top newspapers and some satellite TV. Coverage of opinions, business news, political and society/cultural pieces. Each brief also contains precisely translated quotes, statistics and context. Includes a searchable database of over 50,000 archived items. - NewsBank - All News and Newspaper Resources
Access to subscribed collections and historical archives. - New York Times
With a Kelvin Smith Library-provided NYTimes.com pass, you have full access to the extensive breaking news, world news, and multimedia of The New York Times. Enjoy full access to NYTimes.com, INYT.com, and NYT mobile apps from any device. Once activated from within the CWRU network, a NYTimes.com pass can be used from any location until expiration documented upon enrollment confirmation (typically one year). - Wall Street Journal Current (Factiva)
Go directly to the WSJ by clicking the NEWS PAGES tab on the left top menu bar. Or, use the search box at the top of any page. This searches all 17,000 sources, including The Wall Street Journal, for the past 12 months.
Current Awareness
- Intelliconnect
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Federal and State Tax: news, journals & newsletters, Tools & Smart Charts, plus primary sources, federal tax editorial content, IRS FAQs, and more. Home page features Today’s News; robust Help function in top banner. - Lexis Legal News Hub
Provides up-to-the-minute, award-winning journalism from Law360 and Law360 Pulse. Can choose from over 70 coverage areas spanning the practice of law and the business of law. Current articles are fully searchable. Additional Info - Reuters Legal News
A free service from Thomson Reuters offering industry-leading coverage of legal news, including deep practice area and business of law reporting. Additionally, it includes legal insights and analysis from Westlaw, Practical Law, Peer Monitor and the Thomson Reuters Institute. Users can take control of their news experience by choosing practice areas and topics they are most interested in reading via a new set of features called My View. - SmartCILPSmartCILP is a current awareness tool for legal scholars, providing tailored alerts delivered via email as a personalized supplement to the weekly CILP issue. After setting up a SmartCILP profile, individuals will begin to receive a weekly notification that lists the most recent material available within their chosen subjects or journals. All SmartCILP notifications include direct full-text linking to HeinOnline's Law Journal Library.
- Westlaw Today
Westlaw Today provides exclusive news and analysis from Reuters with 150 years of journalistic expertise, full access to all areas of coverage monitored by a team of attorneys and legal editors, Editorially-curated alerts to get breaking news, follow your practice area, and track companies. Additional Info
- Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies (SSRN)
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The Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies journal contains abstracts and papers from Case Western Reserve University School of Laws faculty members. Offers an email service which, as a registered user, provides the latest research delivered in an email abstracting journal. In addition, you will have free access to the full text of Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies through the SSRN eLibrary.
- SSRN - Five Research NetworksSSRN Site Subscriptions help researchers stay current on early-stage research trends by providing customized email alerts of new research based on the researcher’s needs and areas of interest. The law library subscribes to five SSRN Research Networks. Each network has a limited number of user licenses. The following are the names of the research networks along with the number of licenses in use over the total number of licenses available for each network: Economics Research Network (3/10), Financial Economics Research Network (10/10), Legal Scholarship Network (16/20) Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (7/10), and Political Science Research Network (2/10).