Databases
Passwords for databases that require them are available through the Law Library TWEN site. The Law Library TWEN site is available to Pace Law School students, staff, and faculty only. Email reference@law.pace.edu or call 914-422-4208 with questions. Additional databases are available through other Pace University libraries. Trial subscriptions to new databases are also available here.
ABA /BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct - Reports and opinions beginning with August 2000.
Available only on campus.
ABI-Inform - Abstracts and citations for 1,000+ business journals from 1971 to the present, with full text of 500 journals beginning with 1991.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Academic Search Premier - Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
AccessUN - Access to abstracts and full text of current and retrospective UN documents and treaties.
Available only on campus.
Arbitration Law Online - Access to treatises in the area of international arbitration and ADR.
Click here for password.
AudioCaseFiles - Offers downloadable MP3 files of courts opinions as well as streaming trial video. Search by course or casebook to find audio materials from 1L classes and upper level subjects. You must use your law school email address to register at http://www.audiocasefiles.com/register.
BNA Environment & Safety Library - Offers access to information needed to understand and comply with federal and state environment and safety laws and regulations. Also includes full text of environment and safety laws and regulations in Canada and Mexico; the full text of European Union directives and regulations; the complete text of thousands of legal decisions made by federal, state, and administrative courts; and thousands of interactive forms, guidance documents, agency memoranda, and international treaties and agreements.
Available on campus only.
BNA Databases - Includes all BNA databases in a wide variety of practice areas, including bankruptcy, health, environmental, corporate, labor, intellectual property, energy, securities and tax. Click here for on campus access.
Business Source Premier - Provides full text for over 2,710 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
CALI lessons - Computer-based exercises keyed to the law school curriculum.
Click here for authorization code.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications - Bibliographic access to U.S. Government information products and links to online resources. 1976-
No password required.
CCH Tax Library - Tax materials including reporters, the Internal Revenue Code and NY State tax analysis. Access limited to non-commercial use by Pace Law School students and faculty.
IntelliConnect is the new CCH platform. It is available only on campus, and the first time you use it you will need to create your own user name and password. A user guide is available.
Chronicle of Higher Education - Premier source of information for faculty & administrators.
Click here for password.
CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a database of scholarship in international affairs. Coverage begins with 1991, and includes working papers, conference proceedings, occasional papers, and policy briefs.
Available only on campus.
CISG (United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods) - Pace database on the CISG and International Commercial Law. The CISG is the uniform international sales law of countries that account for two-thirds of all world trade.
No password required.
Criminal Justice Abstracts - Journals, books, dissertations, reports, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. 1968-
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) - Weekly index of articles from current law reviews, with links to full text. Viewing full text may require using your Lexis or Westlaw password.
Available only on campus.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - Offer links to sites with free full text of various journals, including some law reviews.
Free, no password required.
EarthTrends - Environmental information portal from the World Resources Institute.
Free, but requires one time registration.
Environmental Law Reporter - Court opinions, news, analyses, policies & decisions, pleadings, environmental statutes & treaties.
Click here for password.
Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Legislation - Comprehensive guide to foreign law by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores. Available on campus only.
HeinOnLine - Full text of selected law reviews; also available are Code of Federal Regulations; English Reports; Full Reprint (1220-1865); European Center for Minority Issues; Federal Register Library; Foreign & International Law Resources Database; Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS); Harvard Research in International Law; Kluwer Law International Journal Library; Legal Classics; Manual of Patent Examining Procedure; National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; National Moot Court Competition; New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs; Philip C. Jessup Library; Session Laws Library; Subject Compilations of State Laws; Treaties and Agreements Library; United Nations Law Collection; United States Code; U.S. Attorney General Opinions; U.S. Congressional Documents; U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals; U.S. Federal Legislative History Library; U.S. Presidential Library; U.S. Statutes at Large; U.S. Supreme Court Library; World Trials Library.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) - Multilingual index to articles published worldwide. Covers public and private international law, and comparative and municipal law of countries other than the U.S.
Available on campus only.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective - Index of law reviews, journals, and newsletters from 1908-1981. Includes links to articles in Hein Online via WilsonLink.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Inside EPA - Includes EPA Weekly Report. Available on campus only or via VPN client software that can be downloaded here.
InterAm Database - Laws of Latin American and Caribbean countries, includes some English translations.
Click here for password.
International Law in Domestic Courts - Covers important public international law issues being decided in domestic courts around the world. Includes translations of key passages of non-English judgments that appear alongside the full text of the judgments in the original language.
Available only on campus.
JSTOR - Full text of scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Kluwer Arbitration Service - Kluwer Arbitration offers a fully-searchable database of materials in the field of International Commercial Arbitration.
This is the new CCH platform. It is available only on campus, and the first time you use it you will need to create your own user name and password. After you log in, on the left click Browse > Practice Tools > International Business > Kluwer Arbitration. A user guide is available.
LawTrio - Searchable database containing Legal Looseleafs in Print, Legal Newsletters in Print, and the Directory of Law-Related CD-ROMs.
Available on campus only.
Legal Dockets Online - Compilation of free and paid legal dockets available online.
Click here for password.
LegalTrac - Index of law reviews, journals, and newsletters beginning with 1980.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
LexisNexis - Case law, statutes, Shepard's, secondary sources, and news.
Access with personal password.
LexisNexis Congressional - Congressional reports, bill tracking, and legislative history beginning with 1789.
Available only on campus.
LLMC Digital - LLMC provides access to digitized court reports, treatises, administrative decisions and reports, legislative materials, U.S. federal and state law, international law and foreign law.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Loislaw - Case law, statutes, administrative law, and tables of content from Aspen treatises. Register using the authorization code.
Click here for authorization code.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 Includes primary documents contained within the Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises collections. Allows full-text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more — all separated into 99 subject areas.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 Allows full-text searching of books about constitutionally important and historically notorious trials from the U.S., U.K., and the world. Important historical cases include Dred Scott, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial and Amistad. Useful for historical research into a wide variety of legal and sociological issues, including sex, gender, class, marriage, and divorce.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal user name and password.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law - Comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law.
Available on campus only.
MEDLINE/PubMed - Bibliographic citations and abstracts for 4,000+ journals in the life sciences. Some links to full text. 1966-
No password required.
NATO Review -Published by the Secretary General of NATO, and available in many languages, including English, French, German, and Spanish.
No password required.
New York Ethics Opinions Online - Select NY Ethics Opinions from the menu.
Available only on campus.
New York Law Journal Digest-Annotator - Digest of cases and index of substantive articles appearing in the New York Law Journal
Click here for password.
New York Times (Historical) - Searchable full text of the New York Times, 1851-2005.
Access remotely using your Pace Portal username and password.
OGEL--Global Energy Law Portal - OGEL focuses on recent develop- ments in the area of oil, gas, and energy law. OGEL Newsletter is published every 2 months.
Click here for password.
OpenURL Server - Enter the name of a journal and find out which databases are likely to hold the full text. Some databases will require passwords, and some of the resources will not be available because the resources it looks at are based on those at Washington & Lee Law School.
No password required.
Oxford English Dictionary - Includes etymologies, definitions, and quotations.
Available on campus only.
PACER - PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) provides access to case and docket information for Federal Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy courts.
Email your research request to reference@law.pace.edu
Public Documents Masterfile - Comprehensive electronic guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication, in a single searchable database.
Available only on campus.
RIA Tax Library - Federal and state tax research materials.
Click here for password.
United Kingdom Statute Law Database - Contains primary legislation (main laws passed by UK legislative bodies) and secondary (or subordinate) legislation (made under authority contained in primary legislation).
Free, no password required.
United Nations Treaty Collection - Access to the UN Treaty Series, and multilateral treaties.
Free, no password required.
Westlaw - Case law, statutes, key numbers, secondary sources, and news.
Access with personal password.
Worldcat - Records of books, audiotapes, videotapes, and databases cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
