Databases and Online Resources

The databases and online resources below contain information of interest to researchers of law and related subjects. Email lawref@wlu.edu with questions about access or use of these resources. For a more comprehensive listing of interdisciplinary databases available to the W&L community, please visit Leyburn Library’s A-Z Databases list.

Title	Description	Access
Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)	Weekly survey of 650 legal publications that organizes new articles under 104 different subject headings. Where available, article titles link through to the full text on HeinOnline. Personalized CILP alerts for particular topics or journal titles are available through creating a SmartCILP profile.
HeinOnline	Full-text PDF archive of law reviews and journals, Congressional documents, treaties, historical state and federal statutes, legal classics, appellate briefs, and other legal documents. Popular collections include: Law Journal Library American Law Institute Library Kluwer Law International Journal Library Session Laws Library U.S. Statutes at Large U.S. Supreme Court Library Virginia Supreme Court Records & Briefs World Trials Library W&L Law and University alumni may access the Law Library Journal collection and Fastcase primary law content through Hein's Alumni Access Program. Visit the W&L Friends of the Library page for more information.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals	A subject index to selected international and comparative law periodicals and collections of essays, from 1960 to present. Produced at the Berkeley Law Library, University of California for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Available via HeinOnline.