• *BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report - electronic version of print publication
• *BNA Intellectual Property Library - U.S.P.Q., IP case law reporter & IP news
• *BNA International Trade Reporter
• *BNA Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal - electronic version of print weekly IP newsletter
• *CCH Copyright Law Report  (Now on CCH's new IntelliConnect platform. If already registered - please work past the anticipated exception error)  - electronic version of print looseleaf primary source, commentary & news
• *CCH IP Library  (Now on CCH's new IntelliConnect platform. If already registered - please work past the anticipated exception error)  - electronic version of print looseleaf primary source, commentary & news
• *CCH Trademark Law Guide  (Now on CCH's new IntelliConnect platform. If already registered - please work past the anticipated exception error)  - electronic version of print looseleaf primary source, commentary & news
• *Electronic Commerce & Law Report (License)
• *Global IP Law Service (formerly IP InstaLaw) - comprehensive foreign & international IP laws
• *Intellectual Property Library (must be connected to the Pierce Law network) (License)
• IP Mall Website - award winning web site from Pierce Law devoted to intellectual property law.
• *Kluwer Arbitration (Click on International Business tab)
• Managing Intellectual Property (password required)
• *Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal (License)
• World Trademark Law Report (password required) - comprehensive news source on foreign & international trademark law & business

JOURNALS & PERIODICALS

Research Guide

• Using Law Reviews Research Guide

Full-Text Databases - start here when you have a citation

• *Hein Online - a robust database of legal journals with early editions available
• *JSTOR - business with depth in economics & scienceincluding biology, math, physical sciences & engineering journals.
• Pierce Law Journal Holdings ("Serials Solutions" - online, full-text journal articles, A-Z by title) - an alpha listing of all journal titles held by the library with click through access to full text where available
• *LexisNexis Academic - news, business, medical, legal and reference literature

Full-Text Stand Alone Journal

• CLE Journal (password required)

Indexes - start here when you need to find a journal or periodical

• *Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) - updating tool for articles with the ability to monitor areas of interest
• *Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
• *LegalTrac
• *U.S. Government Periodicals Index - an index to periodicals published by the U.S. government

Federal Government

Research Guides

• Administrative Law Research Guide
• Using Statutes Research Guide

Finding Aids

• FD Sys
• Google Uncle Sam
• *Government Periodical Index (LexisNexis)
• GPO Access
• Regulations.gov

Executive

• Code of Federal Regulations (Searchable)
• Code of Federal Regulations (Searchable) (Cornel - LII)
• Executive Agencies (Library of Congress)
• *Hein Online - U.S. Attorney General opinions; U.S. Presidential library
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
• The White House

Legislature

• *Hein Online - Federal Register from 1936 - present; fed. legislative history library; U.S. Statutes at Large
• *LexisNexis Congressional - federal legislative history information, full-text, searchable U.S. Congressional documents including bills, committee hearings, reports & debates.
• Thomas (Library of Congress) - a robust site containing legislative information
• U.S. Code (Searchable) (Cornel - LII)
• U.S. Code (Searchable)

Judiciary

• Search all Circuit Courts of Appeals (Cornell - LII)
• Federal Courts Finder (Emory Law)
• *Hein Online - U.S. Supreme Court Library.
• Journal of Supreme Court History (password required)
• Supreme Court Collection (Cornel - LII)
• Oyez (Supreme Court Multimedia)
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - Opinions
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - Opinions (Search - Findlaw)
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - Opinions (Search - Emory)
• U.S. District Court - District of NH
• U.S. District Court - District of NH - Information, Directions, etc.
• U.S. District Court - District of NH - Opinions

Courts

Federal Appeals Courts

• Circuit Courts of Appeals (Search - Cornel LII)
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - Opinions
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - Opinions (Search - Findlaw)
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - Opinions (Search - Emory)

Federal District Court (NH)

• U.S. District Court - District of NH
• U.S. District Court - District of NH - Information, Directions, etc.
• U.S. District Court - District of NH - Opinions

Bankruptcy Court - NH

• U.S. Bankruptcy Court - District of New Hampshire
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court - District of New Hampshire - Opinions
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court - District of New Hampshire - Rules and Forms

Other

• The National Center for State Courts

Research Guides

• Finding Cases
• Using Statutes

Databases

• *ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct - materials relevant to ethics & professional responsibility. Includes model rules, ethics opinions, topical guides & news reports. (License)
  • Watch a brief video (less than 3 minutes) on how to use this resource.
• *CCH Tax Research Network (Now on CCH's new IntelliConnect platform. If already registered - please work past the anticipated exception error) - electronic library of several tax looseleaf services giving tax primary authorities & CCH commentary relevant to income, financial & estate, special entities, international issues, & other tax areas.
• *ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collection Online - full-text search of legal texts published during the 18th Century.
• *The Economist Intelligence Unit - country by country reports on law and business
• *Kluwer Arbitration (Now on CCH's new IntelliConnect platform. If already registered - please work past the anticipated exception error)
• LexisNexis (password required)
• *LLMC - Digital Collections
• LSN (SSRN) - Legal Scholarship Network
• LSR (NELLCO) - Legal Scholarship Repository
• *Making of Modern Law - Legal treatises 1800-1926 - provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
• Mass. Lawyer's Weekly - focused on Massachusetts law & practice (password required)
• *U.S. Law Week (License) - online version of an industry standard for coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court. Includes case opinions, docket information, oral arguments schedule, news & session reviews.
• Westlaw (password required)
• World Arbitration and Mediation Report (password required)

International Law

Research Guides

• International Criminal Law
• International Law Research Guide
• Researching International Human Rights

Databases

• *Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - source for theory and research in international affairs.Find here a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. In addition, CIAO offers teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts and course packs of background readings for history and political science classes.
• *Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law - Authoritative encyclopedia of 1,700 articles written by scholars and practitioners from around the world.
• *Oxford Reports on International Law (formerly International Law in Domestic Courts) - domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions. The cases are full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.
• *International Trade Reporter (License) - weekly electronic news on U.S. trade & international business policies
• *Kluwer Arbitration (Click on International Business tab)
• *WorldTradeLaw.net - comprehensive database for all WTO reports & arbitration

Databases - Treaties & International Agreements

• *Hein Online - the treaties & agreement library offers a valuable resource for researchers
• *Treaties & International Agreements (Oceana) - most current source of all treaties & international agreements ratified by the U.S.
•  U.N. Treaty Collection - full-text database of all treaties & international agreements registered or filed & recorded with the U.N. Secretariat since 1946 - *most comprehensive treaty database*

Indexes - start here when you need to find a journal or periodical

• *Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

New Hampshire

Research Guide

• NH Legislative History Research Guide

Executive

• Agencies
• Attorney General
• Attorney General Opinions
• Governor

Legislature

• Revised Statutes Annotated (RSAs)
• Senate - Calendar and Journals
• Senate - Committees
• Senate - Members
• Senate - Rules
• Senate Introduction List

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Judiciary

• Administrative Office of the Courts
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs
• Superior Court
• Superior Court - Forms (Domestic Relations)
• Superior Court - Orders
• Supreme Court
• Supreme Court - Orders
• Supreme Court - Opinions

Other

• Bar Admittance
• Bar Association
• Bar Exam
• Bar News
• State Library

Historical Research

• 1629 Grant to Capt. John Mason
• 1635 Grant to John Wollaston, Esq.
• 1635 Grant to Mr. Mason
• 1635 Grant to Mr. Mason by the Name of Masonia
• 1635 Grant of NH to Mr. Mason by the Name of NH
• 1639 Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter
• 1641 Inhabitants upon the Piscataqua River for Government
• 1680 Commission of John Cutt
• 1776 Constitution of New Hampshire

Other

Research Guides

• Citations Research Guide
• Shepardizing in Print Research Guide

Finding Law Online

• LexisWeb
• Library of Congress: Guide to Law Online
• FindLaw
• State Resources (Findlaw)

Statistics

• STAT-USA (password required)
• U.S. Census Bureau

Other

• American Bar Association
• CALI Tutorials (password required)
• Legal Citation Site - Cornel LII site offers Blue Book and ALWD citation formats
• LexisNexis (password required)
• Martindale-Hubbell - look up attorneys and firms
• West, a division of The Thomson Company
• Westlaw (password required)

Librarian Tools

• *FirstSearch (Access restricted...see a librarian)
• *Law Trio (search site as "IP subscriber") - locate legal CD-ROMs, newsletters & looseleafs in print