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  BNA Labor and Employment Law Library Authentication Required 
    Coverage: varies by publication. Updated: monthly.
Provides explanations of complex federal and state laws, regulations governing employment, as well as cases, rulings, awards and opinions from U.S. courts and administrative agencies.
Note: This resource is for UW-L student, faculty, and staff use only. A username and password are required for access, please contact the Reference Desk (608-785-8508) for assistance.
  Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database (BiblioLine)Authentication Required 
Resource Temporarily Unavailable This database has been discontinued.

    Coverage: 1965 to present. Updated: semi-annually.
Indexes a variety of print sources (books, journals, government reports, conference papers and more) on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and well-being of children.
  Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (ProQuest) Authentication Required 
    1981-present
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support on topics such as criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 240 titles, with more than 80 available in full-text.
  LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) Authentication Required Brought to you by the University of Wisconsin System 
Over 5,600 full text sources.
News: 350 newspapers, 400 magazines/journals, 600 newsletters, broadcast transcripts, campus news, wire services.
Business: news, accounting literature, company information, directories.
Legal Research: secondary literature, case law, codes & regulations, tax law, international legal materials, patent research, career information.
- Guides: Finding a Case, Tax Research
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts U.S. Government Resource Resource Guide
    1970 - present
The NCJRS Abstracts Database covers Federal, State, and local government reports; books; research reports; journal articles; and unpublished research.  Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime. 1995 to present usually includes links to full-text.

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  Crime in the United States U.S. Government Resource Resource Guide
    1995 - present
Contains the FBI's "Uniform Crime Reports."  Compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies.  Arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data are also included.
  United States Reports U.S. Government Resource Resource Guide
    1991 - present
The opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Location: Govt Documents, Federal (basement) JU 6.8:1952-present
  Wisconsin Supreme Court Opinions Wisconsin Government Resource Resource Guide
    1995 - present
The opinions of the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin.

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    Featured Reference Books @ Murphy Library

  Black’s Law Dictionary
    8th ed., 2004
  Deskbook Encyclopedia of American School Law
    2007
  Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
    3 volumes, 2005
  Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
     2nd ed, 6 volumes, 2000
  Encyclopedia of World Constitutions
    3 volumes, 2007
  Federal Employment Laws: A Desk Reference
    2002
  Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court
    4th ed, 2 volumes, 2004
  Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia
    2nd ed., 2 volumes, 2001
  Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
     11th ed., 2003
  Native Americans and the Law: A Dictionary
    2000
  Official Guide to ABA Approved law Schools
    2006
  Oxford Companion to American Law
    2002
  Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law
    2nd ed., 2004
  Patent, Copyright, & Trademark
    4th ed., 2001
  The American Dictionary of Criminal Justice
    3rd ed., 2005
  The Best 117 Law Schools
    2004
  The College Student and the Courts
    quarterly loose-leaf
  The Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs to Know
    9th ed., 2006
  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century
    2 volumes. 2003.
  The Labor Law Source Book: Texts of Federal Labor Laws
    2003
  The Law of Higher Education
    4th ed., 2 volumes, 2006
  U.S. Laws, Acts, and Treaties
    3 volumes, 2003
  USA Immigration & Orientation
    4th ed. rev., 2001
  West’s Encyclopedia of American Law
     2nd ed., 13 volumes, 2005

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    Laws & Legislation

  BNA Tax Management Library (BNA) Authentication Required 
    Updated: Monthly.
Includes BNA's U.S. Income Portfolios Library (more info) with more than 160 portfolios examining topics of federal taxation, and BNA's State Tax Portfolios Library (more info) with more than 60 portfolios examining topics of state taxation. Also includes practice tools, primary sources, news and developments, and journals and special reports.
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Access to this resource is brought to you in part by the Russ and Vera Smith Fund.
  CCH IntelliConnect (formally called CCH Tax Research NetWork) Authentication Required 
Federal, State, and Financial & Estate taxation information.
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    Websites (free, public sites)

  Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)
  Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
A public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
  Law Library of Congress
  Legal Information Web sites
A directory listing of related sites.
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
  Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
  U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ)
  Wisconsin Dept. of Justice
  Wisconsin State Law Library

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  Case Law Using LexisNexis Academic (pdf)
  Citation Guides
  Legal Citations (pdf)
  Scholarly v. Popular Journals



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