Most databases are accessible at the law library and the law school only. Some require passwords, some require registration, some allow remote access via the Law Library web page with your UH username and password or UH ID number, and some are freely available on the Internet.
The following are descriptions of selected databases to help you select which database to use in your research. More databases are available on the Law Library web page at http://library.law.hawaii.edu/refres/electronic_db/; topical links can be found at http://library.law.hawaii.edu/refres/topical_links/index.php.

American State Papers (remote access by UH username & password)

Legislative and executive documents from 1789-1838. Searchable and browsable.

The Berkeley Electronic Press (remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

The Berkeley Electronic Press publishes high quality peer-reviewed journals, as well as working papers, institutional repository materials, and a wealth of other scholarly information. Titles include the following: Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Global Jurist, International Commentary on Evidence, Journals of Legal Scholarship, Issues in Legal Scholarship, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, Review of Law & Economics.

CALI (law faculty and students only; requires registration of username & password)

Get the authorization code to register online by emailing uhlawref@hawaii.edu or contact the IT/Reference Librarian at berkey@hawaii.edu.

The CALI Library of Lessons is a collection of over 180 Internet and computer-based lessons covering 27 legal education subject areas. The lessons are designed to augment traditional law school instruction and can be used as supplemental study material. The lessons are written by law faculty and librarians and are regularly reviewed and revised. The format of the individual lessons varies according to the educational objectives of the author. Some authors use the setting of a simulated trial to provide students with an opportunity to test their understanding of an area of law. Other lessons drill students through a series of questions requiring them to identify relevant issues and apply recently learned concepts.

CCH Research Network (remote access by UH username & password; law faculty should contact berkey@hawaii.edu)

This is the Web version of the CCH Federal Tax Service. It includes sections on state income taxes, sales/property tax, and financial and estate planning. Federal Tax Archives are available for all years since 1978; State Tax Archives are available for all years since 1994. It allows the user to customize document, display and research history options. It also has a tax thesaurus and a citator for cases and rulings.
NOTE: Only 35 users allowed at one time. If you cannot login, try again later.

CILP (Current Index to Legal Periodicals) & SmartCILP (email delivery)
The electronic version of CILP is sent by email to all interested faculty members. SmartCILP is a personalized email delivery of selected topics, subject headings and journals. Where available, links are provided to full text articles that can be found on Westlaw or LexisNexis. Contact Swee at berkey@hawaii.edu or call 956-5581 for help in setting up SmartCILP. Alternatively, you may create a SmartCILP profile yourself by going to http://depts.washington.edu/scilp/scilp3.cgi To do this, you must get the authorization code from Swee. If you have problems setting up the profile, please contact Swee. A sample of a SmartCILP page may be seen at http://lib.law.washington.edu/cilp/sample.html.


Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) (access at law library only)

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes 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.


E-Portal (remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

Instead of searching individual databases, E-Portal allows you to search a range of digital resources for specific publications (including e-journals, e-books.) It provides access to full-text articles available in periodicals found in databases that the law library subscribes to. You may browse alphabetically the titles of publications and online databases where these publications may be found. You may search by title and subject. After you find the title of the journal you want, you will see a list of databases that index that particular journal. Clicking on one of the links will take you to the database where the article may be found. It will not search for periodical content.

Environmental Law Reporter (remote access by UH username & password)

This is an environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, energy, health/safety, and land use law research tool containing original source documents, editorial summaries, and expert analysis on state, federal, and international issues. It has United States, state and international laws, regulations, cases, policies and news, guidance and policy documents, treaties, latest Congressional and Agency developments.

GPO Access (free database)

This database has the following: legislative histories beginning with the 98th Congress (1983-84), text of all published bill versions beginning with the 103rd Congress (1993-94), limited no. of Congressional hearings, beginning with the 105th congress (1997-1998). Searchable databases include House and Senate Reports, beginning with the 104th Congress (1995-1996), Senate, House and Treaty documents beginning with the 104th Congress (1995-1996), limited number of Committee Prints, beginning with the 105th Congress and full text of the Congressional Record beginning with 1994. Also available are the weekly compilation of Presidential Documents, (statements, messages and other presidential materials) 1993 – present, public papers of the President, from 1992, and
a searchable full text of the Congressional Record Index beginning with 1983.

Harvard Law School Interactive Video Library
(CD-ROM collection – use in computer lab only)

This CD-ROM collection teaches a wide range of skills such as negotiation techniques and styles, trial tactics, cross-examination, client interviewing techniques, client consultation, deposition, and post trial motions. These are taught in the context of torts, civil procedure, jurisdiction, evidence, contracts, criminal law and other topics. It requires special software to run the program. Only five PCs in the Computer Lab may be used to play the CDs. You may charge out these CDs and headphones at the Circulation Desk.

Hawaii Labor & Industrial Relations: The Appeals Board Index (access by username & password only; contact berkey@hawaii.edu)

The Appeals Board Index is a cumulative alphabetical and topical index of decisions issued by the State of Hawaii, Labor & Industrial Relations Appeals Board. It includes the following and all lists link to a summary of the case and to the actual decision in cases decided after 1/1/2002. Decisions are sorted in various ways eg. by date, governing statute, type of injury, employer, claimant, expert’s name, etc.

Internet Guide for the Legal Researcher (access by password only; contact berkey@hawaii.edu)

Basic reference sources for lawyers, law librarians, legal researchers and information professionals. Access to the Internet resources covered within the Guide, as well as expanding on them. It will also provide a quick and easy way to notify users of new or revamped web sites and URL changes before they are more thoroughly explored within the Updates to the Third Edition. Provides links (and annotations) to legal portals, indexes, federal and state resources, international resources, reference resources, subject area research links.

HeinOnline (remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

This is a web-based subscription service that allows you to browse or search libraries containing older law reviews and other legal materials in image-based format. It has over 1000 law reviews, Statutes at Large, federal legislative history library, Federal Register, official Supreme Court reports and slip opinions, executive orders and proclamations, attorney general opinions, treaties and agreements, legal classics, and Jessup International Moot Court papers.


IndexMaster (remote access with UHM username and ID #/barcode)
IndexMaster is a compilation of the indices and/or tables of content of over 8,000 legal titles from over 65 legal publishers. Searchable by keyword, topic, title, author or publisher, the index and table of contents will provide the researcher with the content necessary for locating on-point titles on specific topics.

LawMemo (law faculty & students only; registration required – contact berkey@hawaii.edu)

Once you are subscribed to this service, you get the following:
1) Employment Law Memo: 3 emails a week with summaries of court decisions from federal and state appellate courts
2) NLRB Law Memo: weekly emails with summaries of NLRB decisions and Advice Memos
3) Arbitration Law Memo: monthly emails with summaries of collective bargaining and individual contract cases
4) Caselaw Database: online access to summaries from past issues of Employment Law Memo with access to full text decisions.

LegalTrac (remote access available with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

This is the online version of Current Law Index. It indexes articles from over 1,300 legal periodicals including legal newspapers from 1980 to the present. Abstracts and some full-text articles may be retrieved and sent directly to your email. It may be accessed through any of the Law Library’s PCs in the Reference area or at the Library’s website.

LexisNexis and Westlaw (by individual password only)

LexisNexis and Westlaw are available to all law students and faculty, including adjunct faculty, visiting professors and visiting scholars. The computer lab has 20 computers that can access both services. Print jobs are sent to two printers provided by each vendor. The Electronic Learning Center (Room 117) has 14 computers available and one LexisNexis printer. The Faculty Lounge has both Westlaw and LexisNexis printers.

Access:
LexisNexis: http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool
Westlaw: http://lawschool.westlaw.com

Passwords: Faculty may obtain their passwords from the IT/Reference Librarian (956-5581 or berkey@hawaii.edu).

LexisNexis Congressional (remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

This database provides indexing and abstracting of the CIS/Index to publications of the United States Congress from 1970 forward. It has links to hearing transcripts and testimony, committee reports, legislation, bill tracking reports, selected committee prints, Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code, Statutes at Large, and other congressional documents. Most publications are searchable by keyword or by citation, in addition to other terms, such as witness or bill sponsor.

LexisNexis Statistical (remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

LexisNexis Statistical enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade and business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Instead of wading through large documents, go directly to the statistics you need by conducting searches based on the data contained in the tables, assigned subject descriptors, or bibliographic information. Every table is linked to an abstract, which in turn contains a link to the full-text source document.

LLMC Digital (remote access with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

This database has cases, administrative decisions, index to US laws enacted between 1874 – 1931, State judicial materials, Tax Court and Board of Tax Appeals decisions, Hawaii legislative history materials, military law materials, Congressional Record from 1990-2002, Executive journal from 1954.-2001, Native American-related documents, British Empire documents, foreign jurisdictional materials, and some general reference publications. Some publications are available online; a substantial number are only available in microfiche format.

Loislaw (law faculty & students only; remote access available after registration of username and password)

Get the access code to register online by emailing uhlawref@hawaii.edu or contact the IT/Reference Librarian at berkey@hawaii.edu
Loislaw includes statutes, administrative code, court rules and cases for state and federal jurisdictions as well as current awareness services for new opinions or other documents. Full-text Aspen treatises cover a variety of practice areas such as bankruptcy, elder law, corporate law, family law, and general litigation and practice materials from selected states. They provide direct hyperlinks to primary source material. Case citations are hyperlinked to the Loislaw case databases. Individual treatise databases also have a table of contents and search templates.

Aspen Treatises on Loislaw (law faculty & students only; remote access available after registration of username and password)
Get the access code to register online by emailing uhlawref@hawaii.edu or contact the IT/Reference Librarian at berkey@hawaii.edu
The Treatise collection is full-text and covers such topics as partnerships, construction, elder law, employment, insurance and family law, drunk driving, business practice, bankruptcy, litigation, evidence, estate planning, licensing agreements, personal injury, and real estate. They provide direct hyperlinks to primary source material. Case citations are hyperlinked to the Loislaw case databases

RIA CheckPoint (remote access by UH username & password; law faculty should contact berkey@hawaii.edu)

This is a tax and financial research database that has full text Tax Court cases, Internal Revenue Code and regulations, tax treaties, administrative materials, tax journals, tax news, analyses of federal tax legislation, US Tax Reporter and Federal Tax Coordinator. It also has a citatory for cases and rulings. Users may customize rsearch and display preferences.
NOTE: Access is limited to 35 simultaneous users.

Thomas (free database)
It has the following: status and legislative histories of bills for the 109th Congress, links to searchable databases for bills beginning with the 93rd Congress (1973-74), full text bills from 109th Congress, with links to pages for 101st Congress (1989-90) to the present. Searchable databases include committee reports for the 109th Congress, with links to earlier Congresses beginning with the 104th Congress, and Congressional Record from the 109th Congress with links to Congresses beginning with the 101st Congress (1989-90).

US Serial Set (remote access by UH username & password)

Selected House and Senate documents and reports from the 23rd, 25th, 27th, 30th-42nd, 45th, 49th-54th, 56th-61st, and 63rd-64th Congresses.

WilsonWeb (Index to Legal Periodicals & Books) (remote access available with UHM username and ID#/barcode)

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books is a bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship. . You can enter searches as single terms, phrases, or complex Boolean search strings, then display the retrieved records, and print, save, or email the results.
Subjects Covered
Administrative Law, Antitrust Legislation, Banking, Constitutional Law, Domestic Relations, Environmental Protection, Estate Planning, Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law, International Law, Labor Law, Landlord/Tenant Decisions, Malpractice Suits, Minorities, Multinational Corporations, Negligence, Non-Profit Corporations, Occupational Health & Safety, Politics, Probate, Products Liability, Public Law, Real Property, Securities, Tax Law, Trade Regulation