Provides access to over 528 million current and archived articles from thousands of global and U.S. news sources. Each source includes coverage of local and regional news, including companies,
Bloomberg Law: Latest News
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Factiva
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Source for global news, and business, financial, and company information, providing access to thousands of newspapers and other publications.
Law360
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News articles report on major litigation developments in 20 specialized practice areas as well as developments from state, federal, and international legislatures. Articles link to court dockets and key documents; company and firm links direct the user to pages containing major developments involving the organization. "Track Law Firms and Companies" allows the user to search or browse by law firm or company.
Lexis: News
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Westlaw: News
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Selected Newspapers:
Note: All GW students, faculty, and staff have free, full online access to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. For additional information, see "Digital News Subscriptions."
Financial Times
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Contains articles from this leading British business newspaper going back eight years. NOTE: FT.com will require you to set up an account with your gwu.edu email address. Must use GWU VPN for off-campus access.
National Law Journal
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New York Times
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Wall Street Journal
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Washington Post
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Legal Articles Index Databases
LegalTrac
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Not all articles are available in full text. Copy the citation and locate the article in HeinOnline, Westlaw or Lexis.
Legal Source
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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar indexes scholarly publications in a variety of fields. To get links from Google Scholar to GW Libraries full text, even when off campus, go to Google Scholar > Settings > Library Links and add GW libraries.
Legal Articles Databases
HeinOnline: Law Journal Library: Advanced Search
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Use the Keyword Search Builder and Venn Diagram Search
Bloomberg Law: Law Reviews & Journals
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Lexis +: Advanced Search: Law Reviews & Journals
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Westlaw: Advanced Search: Law Reviews & Journals
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Working Papers
bepress: Digital Commons Network: Law
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Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.
Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
LawArXiv
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(No longer updated). A free, open-access online platform for publishing and preserving pre- and post-print legal scholarship; owned and maintained by Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA), Mid-American Law Library Consortium (MALLCO), NELLCO Law Library Consortium, Inc. (NELLCO) and Cornell Law Library.
SSRN: Social Science Research Network
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Composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, making available scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.
Practice Centers
Communications
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Provides cases, statutes, regulations, forms, news and secondary sources.
Cybersecurity & Privacy
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This Wolters Kluwer VitalLaw (f/n/a Cheetah) practice center provides primary and secondary materials, comparison charts, practice tools and news.
Data Privacy & Cyberlaw
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Provides cases, statutes & regulations, secondary sources, forms and checklists.
Privacy & Data Security (Practical Law)
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Provides practice notes, standard documents, standard clauses, checklists, & more.
Privacy & Data Security Law Resource Center
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Search for cases, pleadings, news, policy and legal analysis on the following: Data Security & Breach Notification, Government Action, Global Data Protection, and more.
Tech & Telecom
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Has four separate practice areas: Communications Law, Data Privacy & Security Law, Tech & Internet Law, and Media Law
Government Reports
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports
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Search by topic or by agency
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
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Some reports are also available in HeinOnline: Databases > U.S. Congressional Documents > Congressional Research Service Reports
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports
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Congressional Documents
Bills
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Hearings
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House & Senate Reports
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Public Laws
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Compiled Legislative Histories
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Statistics Databases
Data and Statistics Research Guide
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Prepared by the Gelman Library's Data Librarian, this guide offers search strategies and links to multiple data and statistic resources.
MarketResearch.com
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Provides market research reports and industry analysis, including on Telecommunications & Wireless, e.g., "Smart Machines in Enterprise and Industrial IoT Market Outlook and Forecasts 2021 – 2028"
ProQuest Statistical Insight
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ProQuest Statistical Insight provides access to statistics on a wide variety of topics produced by Federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental and international organizations.
Statista
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Statistics and Studies from more than 18,000 Sources. Aggregates statistics and data sets from a variety of international free and proprietary sources, including industry and marketing. Data sets can be displayed in multiple graphical formats. Bluebook citations are generated.
Create a 50-state survey on topics in the following areas: banking & consumer finance, healthcare, blue sky/securities, labor & employment, corporate & tax, patents, data security & privacy.
"Provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States. Users are able to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws."
Identifies "thousands of articles, books, government documents, looseleaf services, court opinions and Internet sites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects."
"Comparison of states' treatment of topical issues, linked to governing provisions on Lexis and prefaced by an examination of federal context and state themes."
"Provides access to state and federal regulations, covering topics such as records retention, rules for sweepstakes, and privacy and protection of personal finance information, and numerous others."
"Provides access to state and federal statutes, covering topics of law such as garnishment, attachment and judgment execution requirements, durable powers of attorney, cancellation and nonrenewal of insurance policies and premiums, and numerous others."
Jurisdictional comparison tool. "Build and customize your own charts from scratch. Quickly discover, review and compare information across multiple jurisdictions."