Reference
Credo Reference

Subjects: Reference

Provides full-text online versions of general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.

DigitalGeorgetown

Subjects: Reference

DigitalGeorgetown provides public access to digitized resources from the Law Library’s collection, including rare books, manuscript and other special collections, the Law Center Archives, digital material from library partners, and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Subjects: e-Book Collection, Reference

Provides online, full text access to Gale subject encyclopedias and dictionaries.Includes Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History; Encyclopaedia Judaica; Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy; Encyclopedia of American Industries; Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Bioethics; Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security; Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology; Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World; Encyclopedia of Population; Encyclopedia of Religion; Encyclopedia of Sociology; Encyclopedia of the American Constitution; Environmental Encyclopedia; Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America; Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology; New Catholic Encyclopedia; New Catholic Encyclopedia Jubilee Volume; New Dictionary of the History of Ideas; St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; and West's Encyclopedia of American Law.

Gale Virtual Reference Library / Law Library

Subjects: e-Book Collection, Race and Ethnicity, Reference

The reference e-books in the Law Library's Virtual Reference Library includes a number of books, including the American Law Yearbook, 2005-onward; Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary, 2006-2007; Contemporary Black Biography, 2006-2007; National Survey of State Laws, 2005; and Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans, 2007. These reference books are searchable simultaneously through the same search interface.

Georgetown Law Dataverse

Subjects: Reference

The Georgetown Law Dataverse is a repository of datasets, statistical information, and other data used by Georgetown Law faculty, academic centers and institutes, and legal journals in conducting empirical scholarship.

Google Scholar

Subjects: Library Tools, Reference

Google Scholar searches across many disciplines and sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Full-text resources found in Google Scholar can display Full Text @Georgetown Law or Find Full Text @ GU in your search results to alert you that the resource may be available in a database. To set Google Scholar to display links to full-text access by default: Log in to Google Scholar with your Georgetown NetID > click Settings > Library Links > Type [Georgetown] into the search box. Select the affiliations for Georgetown University Law Library and Georgetown University and click Save. Remember that you must be logged in from off-campus to view the full text.

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

Subjects: Journals and Journal Indexes, Reference

LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. It is EBSCO Publishing's intention to provide free access to LISTA on a continual basis.

Martindale

Subjects: Directories, Reference

Martindale.com contains biographical information on practicing attorneys and brief profiles of U.S. and international law firms

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Subjects: Biography, History, Legal History, Reference

"The ODNB an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. It excludes living persons. It has themed entries (e.g. Roman Britain) and groups of subjects with a common attribute (e.g. Archbishops of Canterbury). The database contains 10,000 images. The print edition is in the Williams Law Library's Reference collection."

Oxford English Dictionary

Subjects: Reference

"Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries, OED Online offers unparalleled access to the greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced."

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Subjects: Education, Reference

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses with Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

RefWorks

Subjects: Library Tools, Reference

RefWorks is a research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and bibliographies.

Ulrichsweb

Subjects: Directories, Reference

Ulrichsweb is a source of detailed information on serials published throughout the world. It covers more than 900 subject areas and provides data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage and full-text database coverage.

Uniworld Online

Subjects: Business, Directories, Reference

Uniworld Online provides contact information for multinational firms, including location of domestic and foreign subsidiaries, revenue, and number of employees. Includes data from 2016-present.tes."

WorldCat.org

Subjects: Library Tools, Reference

Over 100 million records for books and other materials in over 60,000 libraries. Items found in WorldCat may be requested through InterLibrary & Consortium Loan services.