Library Guides: Legal Studies Research Guide: Scholarly Articles & Books

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VPN Client Installation
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Supplemental Databases

HeinOnline Academic Core Plus
Consult Law Journal Library from HeinOnline home page to find law review articles. Law review articles ALWAYS cite court cases and are valuable sources when looking at legal concepts and issues.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index (1914-current)
This database is concerned with current public policy issues and emphasizes factual and statistical information across the social sciences and government. It provides citations and abstractions for journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975-current)
The database provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

Find Articles & Books in Academic Databases & Catalogs

Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.
Library Search
This searches across the UCSC Library’s collections and beyond. Sign-in using your CruzID Gold in order to find: books, e-books, articles, journals, films, maps, and more.
Google Scholar
Database covering many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories. Use Eduroam (on campus), or the VPN (off-campus) to access full-text of UCSC subscribed content.
JSTOR
This database includes the full text of journals starting with their very first issue and eBooks and eChapters. Note, current issues are not available in JSTOR. Consult the journals list for information on years of coverage. For wider coverage of a topic, consult the database best suited to your discipline.
Project MUSE
Full text articles of 400+ peer-reviewed journals from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Periodicals Archive Online
Arts, humanities, and social sciences – full-text scholarly journal archives. The contents is indexed in Periodicals Index Online
WorldCat
A union catalog, it enables you to search the holdings of libraries across the country and internationally.
Catalogs generally contain: books, journal titles, sound recordings, movies, newspapers and so on.

Melvyl
Searches the catalogs of University of California libraries. Items may be requested for delivery.

eBooks in Law and Legal Studies

UCSC subscribes to several ebook packages that can be searched using either Cruzcat or Melvyl (above). Below are the packages that include economics and finance.

ebrary
Searchable and browsable electronic book collection. Includes university press titles in all subject areas.
Wiley Online Library
Database of journals, reference works, and books in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, arts, & humanities.
Springer LINK
Searchable full-text database of articles in over 400 journals, mostly in the sciences. Now includes over 20,000 ebooks.