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ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT LIBRARY - ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

I. The following sources are available to any user within the Justice Building (no password is needed) :

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, 2d EDITION /Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst, Eds. (ThomsonGale, c.2000) -- This E-BOOK version of a six-volume edition of the 1987 Dartmouth Medal-winner includes all of the material from the original four-volume set and 1992 Supplement, as well as updated original articles and new articles covering concepts and court cases since 1992. Appendices include a case index and primary documents.

FIRSTSEARCH (OCLC/Arkansas State Library) -- An online reference search tool that delivers quality content from WorldCat and dozens of quality, respected databases of bibliographic and full-text content. Features include: access to more than 68 million records via WorldCat; library ownership information in WorldCat linked to most FirstSearch databases; access to millions of full-text, full-image articles from thousands of serials.

HEINONLINE (William S. Hein & Co., Inc.) -- Fully searchable, comprehensive, image-based (.PDF format) collections, including: Law Journals Library (including ABA and international titles); Federal Register Library (1936 to date); Legal Classics Library (550 titles); Treatises and Agreements Library; U. S. Attorney General Opinions Library; U. S. Presidential Library [message and papers of the Presidents, inaugural addresses, weekly compilation of presidential documents, economic reports of the president (1947 to date), hearings before (and report of) the Presidential Commission on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, presidential executive orders]; U.S Statutes at Large Library ; U.S. Supreme Court Library. Excellent retrospective source which includes graphics, diagrams, charts, as appeared in original print document. NEW: U. S. Congressional Documents Collection (added 2007). Brief instructional videos for each library are available online at: http://heinonline.org/front/front-video.

NATIONAL SURVEY OF STATE LAWS, 5th EDITION/Richard A. Leiter, Ed. (ThomsonGale, c.2005) -- This E-BOOK version of a reference guide that provides quick, state-by-state comparisons of current state laws -- how they differ and how they're similar -- for a range of relevant subjects from abortion to employment discrimination, child custody to interest rates. The guide is divided into general legal categories to offer complete coverage and easy access to issues of current relevance and concern related to consumer, family, criminal, real estate, employment and other fields of law. Each law is described in general terms and is followed by detailed charts of each state's laws. Entries are then referenced to a specific code or statute to enable the reader to access the detailed text of the law elsewhere.

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY (Oxford University Press) -- The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. Its features include a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. As a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e., the senses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry.

THE MAKING OF MODERN LAW, 1800-1926 (ThomsonGale) -- Making of Modern Law comprises over 21,000 fully searchable works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law, with 14,900 titles from the nineteenth century and 7,100 titles from the years 1800 to 1926. It covers nearly every aspect of law, encompassing a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature, some very rare. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. The database offers a fully searchable, digital version of many of Harvard Law School Special Collections’ Anglo-American treatises from the 19th and 20th centuries. Other contributing libraries included Yale, York University in Toronto, and Columbia University. The .PDF document format includes full text, illustrations, tables, full content of the title.

WEST'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LAW, 2d EDITION/Jeffrey Lehman and Shirelle Phelps, Eds. (ThomsonGale, c. 2005) -- Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

II. The following sources are available to any user within the Arkansas Supreme Court Library (ask Librarian for password) :

ABA/BNA LAWYERS MANUAL ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT (BNA) -- Source for news and guidance on attorney conduct and legal ethics. The Manual is organized into four main sections: the Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions, together with associated indexes and other quick reference tools and finding aids.

LEXIS-NEXIS/STATE-FEDERAL-INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH (LexisNexis) -- State and federal primary law databases (e.g., cases, codes, rules); Shepards Citations Online (all jurisdictions); international case law (selected: includes England, Wales, Irish, Northern Ireland, Australia, Scotland, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore); Arkansas Bar Association treatises: Arkansas Domestic Relations Handbook, Arkansas Form Book, Arkansas Probate Law Practice Handbook, Arkansas Trial Notebook, Handling Appeals in Arkansas, Standards for Examination of Real Estate Titles in Arkansas); Arkansas Listings: Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (coverage from October 1984 to date, with incomplete coverage 1992-93, currency: within 3 days of publication); Matthew Bender treatises: Larson's Workers Compensation Law, Corbin on Contracts, Appleman on Insurance, Powell on Real Property.

LOISLAW/STATE & FEDERAL LEGAL RESEARCH (Wolters Kluwer) -- Primary law databases (state and federal case law, statutes and acts, administrative decisions, rules and regulations, court rules).

PACER (Administrative Office of the U. S. Courts) -- The federal judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to United States district, bankruptcy, and appellate court records.

WALL STREET JOURNAL (Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) -- Comprehensive coverage of global business and financial news, including all of the regular columns and features from the print edition of The Wall Street Journal. Continuously refreshed web pages include up-to-date markets and news coverage as well as special content written exclusively for the online edition. Subscription includes coverage of global financial markets; research and charting capabilities; current and historical stock quotes; 90-day archived news. The Online Journal's six main sections are: News, Technology, Markets, Personal Journal, Opinion and Weekend & Leisure.

WESTLAW/PUBLIC USER SUBSCRIPTION (ThomsonWest) -- Federal and state primary law; American Law Reports; American Jurisprudence 2d; Business & News U.S. & International Libraries; WestlawPRO Primary Law Library; State Insurance Administrative Materials by Jurisdiction; Journal and Law Reviews; West Legal Directory; State Corporate Records; Additional Jury Verdicts & Miscellaneous; Public Utilities Reports Plus; All Forms Library.

III. The following sources are available via desktop access to selected court staff only (personal password required):

ABA/BNA LAWYERS MANUAL ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT (BNA) -- Available to staff attorneys of the Office of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct. See summary above.

LEXIS-NEXIS/STATE--FEDERAL--INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH (LexisNexis) -- Available to Arkansas Supreme Court judges and law clerks, and selected other Arkansas Supreme Court staff persons. See summary above.

LEXIS-NEXIS/SHEPARDS CITATIONS ONLINE (LexisNexis) --Available to Arkansas Court of Appeals judges and law clerks, and selected other Arkansas Court of Appeals staff persons.

LOISLAW/ARKANSAS LIBRARY (Wolters Kluwer) -- Arkansas primary law, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court Reports, United States Code, United States Supreme Court Rules, federal district court opinions. Available to Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals judges and law clerks.

WESTLAW/STAFF USER SUBSCRIPTION (ThomsonWest) --Primary law (all state & federal); selected treatises and secondary legal materials (journals, law reviews, texts and treatises, CLE materials, jury verdicts & settlement summaries), including, but are not limited to, American Jurisprudence Trials, Corpus Juris Secundum; Practising Law Institute materials; Restatements of the Law; Federal Practice and Procedure; American Jurisprudence 2d, American Jurisprudence Trials, American Law Reports and Causes of Action; Arkansas Law of Damages; Handbook of Personal Injury Forms and Litigation Materials; Trial Handbook for Arkansas Lawyers; Bennett’s Guide to Jury Selection; Arkansas Civil Model Jury Instructions. Arkansas public records databases; Asset Locator - Arkansas; Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals briefs database (beginning 2001). Available to Arkansas Supreme Court and Arkansas Court of Appeals judges and law clerks, and other selected Justice Building staff.

IV. The following sources are available from any location to cardholders of the Central Arkansas Library System and the Arkansas State Library, respectively -- a library card ID number from CALS or ASL, respectively, is required for access and is freely available:

Arkansas State Library -- Online Databases/Remote Log-In. Databases include:

LEGAL COLLECTION (EbscoHost) -- Full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals.

THOMSON GALE LEGAL FORMS (ThomsonGale) -- Arkansas legal forms.

LEGAL TRAC (ThomsonGale) -- Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac® is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. Scope: 1980 to September 2007

LEXIS-NEXIS/CONGRESSIONAL (LexisNexis) -- Abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.

LEXIS-NEXIS/GOVERNMENT PERIODICALS INDEX (LexisNexis) -- Indexing of full-text government publications from 170 current federal publications that may be accessed by subject and author. Iincludes retrospective coverage through 1988 of over 70 additional federal publications of major research, reference, and general interest value. Updated quarterly with approximately 2500 additional articles from federal departments and agencies responsible for business, agriculture, national security, the environment and natural resources, health and safety, food and nutrition, transportation, and more.

LEXIS-NEXIS/STATE CAPITAL (LexisNexis) -- Documents from all 50 state capitals, including bills, laws, constitutions, regulations, legislature membership, and newspapers (includes selected coverage for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette).

Other databases include, but are not limited to:: Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia; Newspaper Source; ERIC; GPO Monthly Catalog; Medline; World Almanacs; Encyclopedia Americana; Multimedia Encyclopedia

Central Arkansas Library System -- Research Databases. Topics covered include: Automotive; Books/Book Reviews; Business/Finance; Directories; Education/Jobs and Careers/ Encyclopedias/Dictionaries; Genealogy; Grants/Nonprofits; Health/Medicine; History/Geography; Literature; Periodicals Indexes

 

Updated: August 18, 2008