- Criminal Justice OneFile
- Comprehensive periodical content for researchers studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more.
- If you sign in with your St. Edwards email address, you will be able to see search history, which could be helpful if you are doing research projects.
- Search tools include topic finder, Subject Guide Search, and publication search.
- In the Topic Finder, you can input keywords and the database will generate a wheel of topics relating to those keywords.
- In the subject guide search you can search by subject as well as narrow your search to publication date, peer reviewed journals, and full text articles.
- In the publication search section you can search for specific publications as well as narrow your search by date, peer reviewed journals, type of publication, etc.
- Hein Online
- Database of legal resources, including laws, regulations, some trials and court reports.
- Coverage includes private and public international law, intellectual property and legal history.
- You can browse databases by category (i.e., Case Law, U.S. Federal Court, Special Collections, etc.).
- You can also browse databases by name.
- If you click on the i on the left side of the database name, you will be able to see brief descriptions of the database.
- If you click “advanced search” you can narrow down your search using Boolean Operators, Date, or Citation.
- Legal Information+
- Information on all areas of legal information, including full text articles from law journals, legal reference books, and legal forms.
- You can log in with your St. Edward’s Gmail if you want to be able to save articles to the database itself.
- You can search by keywords or you can click search options below the basic search bar for more options.
- For more information on how to search the database, click the question mark on the right hand side of the search bar.
- Texas Legal Forms
- Provides a wide selection of legal forms specific to Texas across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, premarital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.
- If you scroll down on the homepage you can browse forms by topic (topics include Minors, Appeals, Civil Procedure, etc).
- On the top left hand corner of the webpage, you can also look at Legal Definitions, Tax Forms, Attorney Directory, etc.