Electronic Resources

19th Century Masterfile
The library subscribes to Series I in the 19th Century Masterfile database. Series I includes periodical indices covering nearly all of the periodicals of the late eighteenth through early twentieth century. It includes over 1 million citations. Of particular interest in this database is the Jones and Chipman Index to Periodical Literature, 1786-1922.
Coverage: 1786 to 1922
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

ABI / INFORM Complete
Four business, economics, finance and company research databases provided through ProQuest. ABI/INFORM Dateline covers local and regional business publications. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources (1985- current). ABI/INFORM Global covers nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals, access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal. (1971 - current). ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry covers trade and industry periodicals and newsletters (1971 - current). Hoover's Company Records provides current profiles of more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.
Coverage: Varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
A nationally recognized reference and notification service in the field of professional responsibility. The Lawyers' Manual has three components: Current Reports, Reference Manual, and Ethics Opinions. Current Reports is a topically indexed guide to new opinions as they are issued by courts and disciplinary agencies, and reports on trends in professional responsibility; Reference Manual thoroughly analyzes all subjects that come under the umbrella topic of legal ethics; Ethics Opinions contains full texts of recent ABA ethics opinions and a national collection of digests of state and local ethics opinions on matters of professional responsibility.
Coverage: 1986 to Present
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACLS Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1,700 books in the humanities. These are works of major importance, from 250 publishers, that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. (See title list.) Humanities E- Book is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality recommended and reviewed by scholars.

Biotechnology Law Report
Covers " ..the evolving body of law and government regulation concerning biotechnology, particularly in the industries in which new products from these technologies are developing the most rapidly: pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture, food processing, energy, mineral recovery, and waste treatment. All legal aspects are rapidly reported, and critical and often hard-to-obtain documents are reproduced."
Coverage: 2/2000 to present
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

BNA Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report
Weekly summary, analysis news and case reports of federal, state, and international competition and deceptive trade practices law. Covers significant judicial, legislative, administrative, and enforcement actions from US and around the world.
Coverage: February 8, 1996 to Present
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

BNA Criminal Law Reporter
Weekly summary, analysis news and case reports of significant criminal law decisions in theU.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, federal district courts, principal courts of the states, and the Court of Military Appeals. Coverage includes actions and proposals by the Justice Department, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and other federal agencies, significant federal criminal legislation, appointments to federal offices, and upcoming conferences, courses, and seminars.
Coverage: August 7, 1996 to Present
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

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BNA Family Law Reporter
The Current guide to federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues in Family Law. Includes court cases, legislative and regulatory news, and other developments in key areas of family law. Covers state and federal issues. Published weekly every Tuesday.
Coverage: 8/6/1996 to present
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

BNA International Trade Reporter
Comprehensive, current information on developments affecting the trade and international business policies of the U.S. and major U.S. trading partners. Covers latest news and trends in U.S. trade policy, including regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments, activities of the International Trade Commission, Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce, World Trade Organization, and European Union. Service includes opinions of the U.S. Court of International Trade, International Trade Administration, and International Trade Commission.
Coverage: January 14, 1996 to present
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

BNA Labor Relations Reporter/Labor & Employment Law Library
Comprehensive coverage of cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of the field: fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration. Coverage includes analysis, guidance and primary source material. Decisions include full text judicial opinions, rulings and memoranda. Update service includes current reports providing news and developments.
Coverage: Varies
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

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BNA Securities Regulation and Law Report
Weekly summaries and analyses of legislative and regulatory proposals and actions from the of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, industry, courts, and Congress.
Coverage: February 2, 1996 to Present
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

BNA Tax Management Portfolios
Complete coverage of a specific tax topics (analysis, working papers, and bibliography) and links to primary tax sources (1994- ). Also includes BNA's Tax Management Weekly Report
Coverage: varies
Access: requires ID & password.

BNA Weekly Email Updates
Hastings students, staff and faculty can login to this page to receive weekly email updates directly from BNA. The following weekly BNA Updates are available:

• ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual: Current Reports
• ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct: Current Reports
• Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report
• Criminal Law Reporter
• Family Law Reporter®
• International Trade Reporter
• Labor & Employment Law Library: Individual Employment Rights Cases
• Labor & Employment Law Library: Analysis/News & Background
• Labor & Employment Law Library: Arbitration Decisions
• Labor & Employment Law Library: Disabilities Cases
• Labor & Employment Law Library: Fair Employment Cases
• Labor & Employment Law Library: Labor Cases
• Labor & Employment Law Library: NLRB Decisions
• Labor & Employment Law Library

How to login: Go to the BNA E-mail Preference Login Webpage. You can select updates from one of two lists, "BNA news services" and "BNA reference libraries." After you click on either of these lists you will be asked for your email address. The first time you login you will be required to register your email address and name, and then you can select the weekly email updates you wish to receive. To change or cancel your selections, simply revisit this login page and change your selections. For help with the sign-up process, call the BNA Customer Contact Center (1-800-372-1033, open Monday through Friday, 5:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time).
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

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CALI
Internet version of the CALI Library of Lessons, a collection of over one hundred interactive, computer-based lessons covering twenty seven legal education subject areas. The lessons are written by law faculty and librarians and are regularly reviewed and revised.
Coverage: current
Access: requires ID & password (obtain Hastings CALI registration code here.)

CCH Business & Finance
Current and retrospective information on Securities (incl. Federal Securities Law Reporter), Banking, Capital Changes, Trade Regulation,  Government Contracts,  Public Utilities, Information Technology,  Federal Energy Guidelines, Transportation Law, Products Liability and Safety.
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

CCH Human Resources
A research portal to CCH publications on Labor and Employment Law, Human Resources Managment, Health Care Compliance, Food and Drug Law, Pensions, Benefits, Payroll, Safety/OSHA, and Global Employment Law.
Coverage: varies.
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Current and retrospective primary and secondary sources for Federal and State Taxation (incl. Standard Federal Tax Reporter, and CCH Federal Tax Service).
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

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CEB OnLAW
Searchable online resource for California practice guides, reporters, and Action Guides published by CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar). This database currently covers 90 publications and includes links to case law, statutes and forms.
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

Columbia International Affairs Online
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.
Coverage: 1991- present
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
CRS works exclusively for members and committees of the United States Congress. An arm of the Library of Congress, the agency is renowned for its non-partisanship and its in-depth analysis of issues. CRS Reports provide valuable insight into how Congress makes decisions and are excellent sources for determining historical and current legal frameworks on domestic and international issues.
Coverage: Full-text CRS Reports and Issue Briefs from January 2003 to present. (Also includes an index to CRS Reports issued since 1995.) Updated weekly.
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories
Full text of constitutions for the world's dependencies and territories. Authoritative translations into English are provided and original language is included when available. Introductory and comparative notes examine recent amendments and highlight pertinent historical, political and economic information. This database can be combined with the Constitutions of the Countries of the World database. [Please click the "logoff" button when you have finished searching this database.]
Access: restricted to users on campus

Constitutions of the Countries of the World
Full text of current and historical constitutions for 192 countries. Authoritative translations into English are provided and original language is included when available. This database can be combined with the Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories database. [Please click the "logoff" button when you have finished searching this database.]
Access: restricted to users on campus

Current Index to Legal Periodicals
The Current Index to Legal Periodicals provides topical access to over 500 legal publications, organized within 100 relevant subject headings. The CILP contains complete tables of contents of all the journals indexed, with all citations in Bluebook form and links to articles via Lexis and Westlaw (account passwords are required to view full text of the articles)
Coverage: 01/1999 - present
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

Environmental Law Reporter
An environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, energy, health/safety, and land use law research tool containing original source documents, editorial summaries, and expert analysis on state, federal, and international issues. ELR consists of twelve components: News & Analysis; ELR UPDATE; Litigation; Federal Laws and Regulations; Administrative Materials; Indexes; State Materials; International Materials; Health and Safety Materials; Guidance & Policy Collection; Briefs & Pleadings; and Online Seminars.
Coverage: News, Analysis and Litigation (1971- current), other coverage varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

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FirstSearch
Online access to over 70 databases, including: WorldCat-- holdings of the much of the world's library collections, millions of records in over 400 languages; Electronic Collections Online (ECO)-- access to journals published on the Internet; ArticleFirst-- Index to journal articles (1990- present); NetFirst-- subject index to useful web sites.
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

Foreign Law Guide
A comprehensive index and research guide to current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world.
Coverage: Current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

HeinOnline
Searchable, online collections:
• Law reviews and legal periodicals [including numerous international law reviews]
... PLUS ...
• English Reports (1220-1865)
• European Center for Minority Issues
• Federal Register (vols 1-70, 1936-current)
• Foreign & International Law Resources Database
• Foreign Relations of the United States
• Legal Classics
• Phillip C. Jessup Library
• Session Laws Library
• Subject Compilations of State Laws
• Treaty collections: TIAS, UST, ILM, Bevans, Malloy, Miller & KAV
• U.N. Law Collection
• U.S. Attorney General Opinions
• U.S. Code (1925-2006 edition)
• U.S. Presidential Documents
• U.S. Reports (1754-2002) and US Reports Slip Opinions (2002 to date)
• U.S. Statutes at Large
• U.S. Supreme Court Library
• World Trials Library
Coverage: ranges from 1754 - current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. HSDL features - SeekOnce: a meta-search engine which enables searching across more than 50 article databases, quick link reference page, "On the Homefront News and Reports" with links to newly released reports, breaking news stories, and a calendar of up-coming homeland security related conferences and events. "Ask a Librarian" email reference.

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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Index of articles and book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports. Coverage includes international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth. Updated quarterly.
Coverage: 1985 - present
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
A bibliographic database that cites articles from more than 760 legal periodicals and indexes some 2000 law books. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications.
Coverage: 1981 - present
Hastings Law Library has added access to the Legal Periodicals Retro database, which indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Coverage: 1908-1981
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

International Law in Domestic Courts
International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) is a case reporting service that covers the most important public international law issues being decided today in domestic courts around the world. ILDC is regularly updated and currently includes international law cases from over 60 jurisdictions. Each case features expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language, and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

iSinoLaw
Comprehensive source of current legal information of People Republic of China. Includes authoritative English translations of statutes, judicial interpretations, cases, arbitration awards and other legal matters. Secondary sources and weekly updates and news available on various subjects.
Coverage: current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

LawInfoChina
Searchable database of laws, regulations, annotated statutes, cases, legal news and full text articles from major Chinese law journals. Comprehensive English translations of statutes, regulations & articles. Some information may be available only in Chinese, such as additional notes, links and full-text Chinese journal articles.
Coverage: current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

Lawtel
Index to current United Kingdom and European Union Articles, and Electronic collection of UK and EU practice materials, case law, proposed and adopted legislation, treaties, commission reports and notices. Also includes searchable database of UK barristers and chambers, and guides to UK practice in Human Rights, Local Government, Personal Injury, Civil Procedure and Employment Law.
Coverage: current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

Legal Scholarship Network
A searchable database of abstracts of working papers as well as articles accepted for publication. Many links to full text of articles not available on line elsewhere. The goal of Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information related to law to legal, economics, and business scholars and practitioners throughout the world. LSN is a division of Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Coverage: current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

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LEGALTRAC
A bibliographic database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

LexisNexis
Coverage: varies
Access: requires ID & password

LexisNexis Congressional
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative histories, indexes and full text of congressional publications from Congressional Information Service, Inc.
Coverage: 1789 - present; full text digital Serial Set 1789-1969
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff.

LLMC Digital
A searchable collection of archival legal literature, case reports, statutes and documents.
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

LOISLAW
Loislaw provides access for Hastings students and faculty to comprehensive and easy-to-use law and law-related products and services, including state and federal case reports and statutes.
Coverage: varies
Access: special access code required for first time registration -- check with reference desk

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Making of Modern Law
Searchable digital collection of 19th and 20th century American and British legal treatises compiled largely from Harvard Law School Library’s Special Collections. Materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.
Coverage: 1800-1926
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

New England Journal of Medicine
The full text of the Journal is available beginning with the first issue of 1993. In addition, the database for searches includes the citations for all articles published since 1990.
Coverage: current
Access: requires ID & password

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ProQuest Psychology Journals
ProQuest Psychology Journals covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including
genetics, psychology of business and economics, addiction, linguistics, neurology, social welfare, and more.
Coverage: 1992- current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty

ProQuest Research Library
A large collection of journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general reference subjects such as business, political science, art, literature and psychology.
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty

PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from over 50 top psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycARTICLES includes over 39,000 full-text articles spanning a wide range of subjects from general psychology to specialized areas within psychology. In addition, PsycARTICLES includes all charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements. Users can link from PsycINFO abstract and indexing to the image content in PsycARTICLES.
Coverage: 1985-current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty

PsycBOOKS
A searchable full-text database of scholarly books dating back to 1806 from the
American Psychological Association and other distinguished publishers. The database includes classic
psychology resources as well as the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Coverage: 1806-current
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty

PsycINFO
PsycINFO® is published by the American Psychological Association (APA), covers all psychology disciplines, plus related articles from education, business, medicine, nursing, law, and social work. It provides abstracting and indexing for nearly 2,000 key psychology titles, with coverage dating from the 1800s. Updated weekly, PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of articles from journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports.
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty

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RIA Checkpoint
Current and retrospective primary and secondary sources for Federal and State Taxation.
Coverage: varies
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff

Treaties and International Agreements OnLine
Comprehensive, searchable full text database of 11,000+ US Treaties and International Agreements and 1500 bilateral tax treaties where the US is not a party.
Coverage: 1783 to the present
Access: restricted to users on campus

United Nations Treaty Series
This subscription database offers full-text searching of over 50,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties, and includes other UNTS databases as well. The texts of treaties and subsequent actions are in their authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and French, as appropriate.
Coverage: 1946 to March 2003
Access: free access

United States Law Week
Weekly analyses, summaries and case reports for federal and state court and administrative cases. US Law Week selectively summarizes cases that establish new precedents, address new statutes, contribute to emerging legal doctrines, tackle current controversies, or further splits in the Circuits.
Coverage: June 24, 1997 to Present
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

U. S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs (1832-1978)
Full text searchable database of US Supreme Cosurt Briefs includes both argued and cert denied cases.
Coverage: 1832 - 1978
Access: Restricted to users on campus, Hastings Students, Faculty and Staff

VERSUSLAW
Webased service that provides Internet access to court opinions from the US Supreme Court, all Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals and all state appellate courts.
Coverage: varies
Access: Free to Students, Faculty and Library Staff. Requires registration (click on law student)

WESTLAW
Coverage: varies
Access: requires ID & password

WorldTradeLaw.net
WorldTradeLaw.net provides access to primary source documents related to international trade law, including a full-text search engine for GATT/WTO decisions. It also provides analyses of certain trade law issues through the "Dispute Settlement Commentary" subscription service. This Commentary includes summary and analysis of all new WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports within 1-3 weeks after they are circulated to the WTO Members.
Coverage: analyses of all past reports/arbitrations back to the establishment of the WTO
Access: restricted to Hastings students, faculty, and staff