Introduction

This research guide is designed to help students, faculty, and other members of the Law Center community in research beyond traditional legal research. In many instances, scholarly and practical legal research calls upon a researcher to broaden their scope into looking beyond traditional legal research tools. This guide is designed to help users find those resources. The websites and resources listed in this guide are available to all GULC students, faculty and staff. Note: for off-campus access to many of these resources and databases, users must log into the library system through My Library Account.

Many of the non-legal databases included in this guide contain abstracts of articles, not the full-text. The library has a growing collection of non-legal books and some non-legal journals indexed in these databases; however, many articles or reports will not be available at the Law Library. In order to find the articles indexed, you may want to visit Lauinger Library on the Main Campus or the Library of Congress. Books and articles not available at the Law Library can also be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Social Sciences

Journal and Periodical Databases:

You can search for interdisciplinary databases, periodical titles, and even individual articles within the Library's collection using the GULLiver Encore catalog. Results are retrieved and displayed based on their relevance to the keywords you enter. On any results page, click "Articles" in the top left corner to pull up related articles from Library databases.

Also helpful on interdisciplinary topics are the Lauinger Library's guides to Resources by Subject. These pages direct you to particular resources in various academic disciplines, including some databases that are not included in the Law Library's catalog (accessible for free through the Main Campus Library catalog; Georgetown NetID may be required).

Comprehensive/General Databases:

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO): Provides full text for 4,486 publications (3,718 peer-reviewed) covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Tutorial
• Science Direct: Searchable full text collection of academic journals, encyclopedias and textbooks from limited number of publishers.
• JSTOR: Searchable full text collection of backfiles of core scholarly journals. Many journals go back to the 1800s. Many social science journals are available.
• Periodicals Index Online: A database that allows users to search for older periodical literature, from 1789-1995. Tutorial
• ProQuest Research Library: Searchable indexes and abstracts for more than 1800 general publications including social science subjects. Contains the full text of articles for many of the periodicals. Tutorial
• Project Muse: Searchable database of complete articles from the John Hopkins University Press's more than 40 scholoarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• Social Science Citation Index: This is an international, multidisciplinary index to the literature of the social, behavioral, and related sciences produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (Available on Westlaw as database SOCSCIRCH)
• Social Sciences Full Text: Indexes articles concerning anthropology, ethnic studies, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies and women's studies and other disciplines. Indexes over 350 English language journals from 1983 to present (Available on Westlaw as database SS-ABS).

History Databases:

• America: History and Life: Extensive index of scholarship in American history.
• Historical Abstracts: Includes abstracts of articles covering world history from 1450 to present day.

Public Policy Databases:

• PAIS International: A searchable database of periodicals and books from the U.S. and other countries.
• PolicyFile: Indexes research and publication abstracts from public policy think tanks, university research programs and publishers, with coverage from 1990. Links to organizational home pages and full text documents, where available.

Individual Journal Titles:

To determine whether or not the library has access to a particular journal title in electronic format, use the E-Journal Finder. If you can't find a title there, it may only be available in print -- search by the publication's title in the Law Library's GULLiver catalog and in Main Campus' GEORGE catalog.

Online Research Guides:

Subjects in Government, Law, Politics & International Affairs, from Lauinger Library.
History, from Lauinger Library.
Subjects in Social Sciences, from Lauinger Library.

Economics

See also the Lauinger Library's Business and Economics Resources Guide. For a more in depth discussion on research on the subject of law and economics, please see the law library's Statistical and Empirical Legal Studies Research Guide.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

A Dictionary of Economics, John Black (e-book available to GULC)
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, edited by Peter Newman [K487.E3 N48 2002]

Books and Treatises:

To find books and treatises in the Georgetown Law Library on the subject of economics, please search GULLiver, the online catalog. Search subject headings using the terms ECONOMICS or LAW AND ECONOMICS. The call number HB represents many economic titles.

Periodical Databases:

• ABI/Inform: Indexes "1,000 premier worlwide business periodicals" concerning economics, finance, taxation, etc. The full text of articles is often available (also available on Westlaw as database ABI-Inform)
• Econlit: This is a major source for scholarly articles and books concerning economics (also available on Westlaw as database ECONLIT).
• EIU: Economist Intelligence Unit: Associated with The Economist magazine, a searchable full-text collection of 117 country information reports, economic indicators, and forecasts.
• National Bureau of Economic Research: a database that provides access to the most recent working papers in economics.

Individual Journal Titles:

To determine whether or not the library has access to a particular journal title in electronic format, use the E-Journal Finder .

Finding Data and Statistics in Economics:

See the Law Library's Statistical and Empirical Legal Studies Guide for additional resources in statistics and data research.

• SourceOECD: This is the online publications portal for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Contains over 1,500 books, 20 journals and newsletters, 10 statistical periodicals, reference works, and 600 interactive statistical data tables in over 25 database products published since 1998.
• International Financial Statistics (IFS): This database is part of the IMF eLibrary, and includes exchange rates, inflation and deflation, government finance, balance of payments, money and banking, and national income accounts.
• Links to Stat-USA File Sources: Provided by the Cornell University Management Library, this collection of links covers the content of the former Stat-USA Internet database, a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.

Ethnic Studies

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

• Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations GN496.C37 1994
• Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups E184.A1 H35 1980
• The African-American Almanac E185 .P55
• Africana: the Enyclopedia of the African and African American Experience DT14 .A37 2005
• Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage E185 .A455 2000
• Statistical Record of Black America E185.5 S83
• The Asian-American Almanac E184.O6 A824 1995
• Statistical Record of Asian Americans E184.O6 S75
• The Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States E184.S75 H557 2003
• Hispanic Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook E184.S75 H5655
• Statistical Record of Hispanic Americans E184.S75 .S72
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes E77.G15 1998
• Statistical Record of Native North Americans E98 .P76 S73

Periodical Databases:

• Bibliography of Asian Studies: References western-language books, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all parts of Asia. Allows browsing by subject, journal title, or by country/region or search by topic. Covers the social sciences as well as the humanities.
• Central and Eastern European Online Library: Online archive of articles from 125 Central and Eastern European scholarly journals. Includes articles in English and about two dozen other European languages.
• Ethnic Newswatch: Full text database of the newspapers and journals of theethnic, minority and native presses from the U.S. and other countries. Includes articles, editorials, columns, and reviews providing a diversity of perspectives.
• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI): Bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world, from 1970-present.
• International Index to Black Periodicals: Current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Full text coverage of over 20 core black studies periodicals from 1998 - present.
• RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies: From 1966-present. Selective bibliography of research articles relevant to the field of Judaica. Material is compiled from several thousand English, Hebrew, Yiddish and European language sources. Much of the material reflects the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.

Individual Journal Titles:

To determine whether or not the library has access to a particular journal title in electronic format, use the E-Journal Finder.

Psychology

Books:

To find books on psychology in the Law Library's holdings, search GULLiver, the online catalog. Try "Subject" searches including the term PSYCHOLOGY and other terms related to your research, for example:

• Cognitive psychology
• Psychology -- witnesses
• Law -- psychological aspects
• Psychology -- pathological

You can also search the Library's entire collection using the GULLiver Encore catalog, which retrieves results based on their relevance to the search terms you enter (relevance based on keywords including title, author, subjects, tables of contents, and other information specific to each item). Some sample Encore searches:

• Cognitive psychology
• Jury psychology
• Freud
• Personality types

Periodical Databases:

• PsycINFO: The primary index to the literature of psychology and its related fields. Since 1887 covers journal articles, and since 1987, books and book chapters. International in scope, topics include psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Individual Journal Titles:

To determine whether or not the library has access to a particular journal title in electronic format, use the E-Journal Finder.

Web Research Guides:

• Selected Resources for Psychology: Guide available from the Lauinger Library