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Law &
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A guide to locating law &
regulatory information in print and on the web. For additional assistance, contact
the HSL Reference Dept. at 280-5138 or refdesk@creighton.edu.
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Contents
General Law & Regulation Resources
U. S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
- Contains links to all three branches of government & related sites
- Provides search engines to assist in locating government information much of which is
full-text. Has links to Monthly Catalog of Government Publications & Electronic
Government Information by Title
- Monthly Catalog indexes documents available from the U.S. Government
- Electronic Government Information by Title allows search & access to
electronic publications
- Links to federal laws, regulations, Supreme Court Decisions
- Allows access to Congressional information including bills, hearings, laws, reports,
etc....
- www.access.gpo.gov/#info
Creighton University Law Library Web Page
CIS Annual
- Print copy available at Klutznick Law Library & Reinert Alumni Library
- Covers laws passed by Congress with abstracts & Public Law no.
- Includes additional volumes with detailed indexing & legislative history
Sources for Federal Laws & Regulations
Government Printing Office - Site Content web page
Library of Congress - thomas legislative information site
- Links to LC's "thomas" legislative research site
- Public laws, bills, and other Congressional documents
- thomas.loc.gov/
Sources of Federal Regulations
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Source of State Laws (or Statutes) &
Agency
Regulations
Law Libraries
- Print copies available at the Klutznick Law Library or any academic law library.
- Check library catalog for holding information
- Electronic access to a number of good web sites is supplied through the Klutznick Law
Library web page section under Comprehensive Legal Internet Sites including Cornell
Law School and Washburn University's Law School or go directly to:
Internet Access
State Legislatures
- Most state legislatures offer electronic search & retrieval of state statutes
on its home page
- Access to other States' pages is available through Nebraska Online (the State of
Nebraska's home page)
- http://www.state.ne.us/otherstates.phtml
Nebraska Unicameral (Nebraska Legislature)
Governmental Agencies & Offices
Federal Agencies, Departments, & Offices
- Government Printing Office
Klutznick Law Library
State Agencies, Departments & Offices
Source of Resource Indexes
Electronic indexes for journals, newspaper, media, and other
information on legal issues relating to health care & medicine
- Academic Universe (LegalTrac)
- Indexes journals, newspapers, & other sources of information
- Contains full-text of many documents
- Select Academic Universe then Legal Research from the HSL's Databases Page
- HSL's Databases Page (http://newadonis.creighton.edu/hsl/Databases.html)
- CINAHL
- EBSCOHOST
- Journals index that covers both popular & scholarly titles
- Contains the full-text of some articles.
- Select EBSCOHOST from the HSL's
Databases
page
- eLibrary (formerly Electric Library)
- Indexes journals, newspapers, radio, television, & other sources of information
- Contain full-text of documents
- Select eLibrary from the HSL's
Databases
page
- HeinOnline
- Indexes law journals
- Federal Register full-text & indes
- Full-text & indexes U.S. Reports (U.S. Supreme Court
Cases) back to 1754
- Full-text & indexes U.S. Treaties and International Agreements
- Select HSL's
Databases then HeinOnline
- LegalTrac (Academic Universe)
- Indexes legal journals & newspapers
- accessible only on-campus
- Select LegalTrac from the HSL's
Databases
page then Legal Research in LegalTrac
- MEDLINE
- Wilson Web
- Indexes legal journals
- Select HSL's
Databases then "Legal" from the Area: box in Wilson
Web
Additional databases available at the Kluznick Law
Library on campus.
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