Library Indexes, Abstracts and Full-Text Databases

Content Pages from Law Reviews and Legal Journals
Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas publishes a free keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications received by their library in the past three months.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals(CILP)
CILP provides current contents service for more than 500 U.S.-published law journals.  Contents are organized topically into more than 100 subject headings.  Faculty may sign up for email alert service called 'SmartCILP."  Article titles and citations are delivered to your e-mail address on a weekly basis.  You may also sign up to receive a PDF copy of the weekly printout of the full CILP.  Contact Tom Keefe at xt 551 for a log-in code and instructions that will allow you to set up a SmartCILP service.

EBSCOhost Research Databases
ECSCO offers a variety of social science and business sources that may not be accessible through LexisNexis or Westlaw. 

Findarticles.com
FindArticles.com is a vast free archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 popular magazines and journals.

Hein Online*
Hein Online provides full-text retrospective coverage of many law reviews and legal journals. 

LegalTrac
Online version of Current Law Index. Searchable index of legal periodicals back to 1980.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Social Science Research Network is a repository of scholarship in the social sciences, including law.  The Network provides an e-mail alert service for upcoming journal articles, seminar papers and "pre-press" draft journal articles.  For information on registering to receive updates on new additions in areas of your choice, contact Tom Keefe at xt 551