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WMU-Cooley Law School offers many electronic resources and databases to faculty, staff, students, alumni, and attorneys. There are some resources that you may not access. If you have any questions, or are seeking information contained within a source you cannot access, please contact 1-866-REF-DESK for assistance.

  • On campus, using WMU-Cooley PCs or network (including wireless), many of these databases do not require you to enter your name and student number or access code as they are IP-recognized for immedia te log in.
  • Off campus, to access the following databases, you are required to enter your full name and your student number or for faculty and staff, your access code.
     
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    Resources

    Description

    On Campus 

    Remote

    Bloomberg Law

    Full-text, searchable access to primary and secondary authority (including BNA titles) from all Federal and 50-State jurisdictions, as well as many of the corporate, financial, and practice resources long associated with Bloomberg.

    LIMITED - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    LIMITED - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password. Contact a reference librarian for details.
    Cali

    CALI is a non-profit consortium of law schools that provide over 1000 online lessons written by law professors for students  on numerous legal course topics. Informative and helpful podcasts, blogs,  articles and open source casebooks are also available from the CALI homepage.

    LIMITED to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via user created login. Authorization Code required to create a login.  Contact a reference librarian for details.

    LIMITED to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via user created login. Authorization Code required to create a login. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    Courtroom Cast

    Provides students and faculty with a next-generation legal learning platform by integrating text, audio, video, and rich media into an easily searchable and browsable database.

    LIMITED to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password.  Contact a reference librarian for details.

    LIMITED to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password.  Contact a reference librarian for details.

    EBSCO eBook Collection

    Access to many titles both legal and non legal.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.

    Fastcase

    Fastcase is a full-text legal research database that contains Federal and State primary sources as well as forms, newspapers, and court filings.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.

    FirstSearch

    Access to full-text articles via ArticleFirst and Legal Periodicals. This service also provides access to library catalogs providing information on which library holds a title.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Certain features and databases only available on WMU-Cooley's campus network.

    govinfo (GPO)

    Free electronic access to government information databases.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via any personal Internet connection, WMU-Cooley network, or Library PC.

    YES - Unrestricted Access. Available to any user via any Internet connection.

    GPO –
    Catalog of US government publications

    Indexes print and electronic government information products created by federal agencies.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via any personal Internet connection, WMU-Cooley network, or Library PC.

    YES - Unrestricted Access. Available to any user via any Internet connection.

    HeinOnline

    Provides full-text access to more than 2,200 law and law related law reviews and journals.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.

    ICLE

    Access ICLE's online law library of over 50 Michigan specific treatises and guides.

    LIMITED to WMU-Cooley Clinic students, Clinic faculty, and Clinic staff, as well as WMU-Cooley students and faculty in approved courses via password. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    LIMITED – Remote access available to WMU-Cooley Clinic students, Clinic faculty, and Clinic staff, as well as WMU-Cooley students and faculty in approved courses via password.

    Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)

    Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a multilingual subject index to articles and book reviews published in over 500 journals and law reviews worldwide. IFLP is a prominent source for identifying articles and book reviews on public international law, foreign and comparative law, and the laws of all foreign jurisdictions.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.

    Lexis

    Access to cases, statutes, law reviews, and other legal and non-legal materials.

    LIMITED to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    LIMITED - Available WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    LexisNexis Digital

    Lexis Nexis Digital Library provides access to authorative legal eBook content to browse, checkout, and download on a variety of major mobile devices and desktop platforms.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    LIMITED to students, faculty, and staff via WMU-Cooley network login.

    LLMC Digital

    Contains an extensive collection of digitized historical legal literature and government documents including Canadian Colonial legal titles and United States Federal Judicial, Administrative and Legislative documents.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.

    The Making of Modern Law

    This database enables researchers to conduct full text searches of nearly 10 million pages of legal history found in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century legal treatises.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.

    NCLC Digital Library

    The National Consumers Law Center Digital Library provides access to over 20 legal treatises in the area of consumer law. These treatises include pleadings, primary sources and practice aids.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    LIMITED to students, faculty, and staff via WMU-Cooley network login.

    PLI Discover Plus

    Online full-text access to Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) well-regarded treatises, course handbooks, legal forms and other content useful to legal, financial and accounting professionals.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.

    ProQuest Congressional

    Federal legislative history materials

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.
    ProView

    ProView provides ebook access to many of the treatises published by Thompson Reuters, including some textbooks.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    LIMITED - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password. Contact a reference librarian for details. 

    SSRN / Legal Scholarship Network (LSN)

    Working/forthcoming paper abstracts with full-text or contact-info. Part of searchable Social Science Research network (SSRN).

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in.
    Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Access to a variety of RIA tax products. It offers a wide range of tax resources, including federal and state tax laws, cases, regulations, legislation, treatises, articles, and related news. On Campus: Limited to WMU-Cooley students, faculty and staff via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network or individual password accounts YES - Available to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via Library sign-in or individual password accounts. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    Westlaw

    Access to cases, statutes, law reviews, and other legal and non-legal materials

    LIMITED to WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    LIMITED - Available WMU-Cooley students, faculty, and staff via password. Contact a reference librarian for details.

    WestlawNext Patron Access

    Full-text, searchable access to primary and secondary authority from all federal and 50-state jurisdictions, and some current awareness sources. Content limited to materials subscribed to by library, and may not include all materials available through standard law school Westlaw product. Users must agree to license before accessing content.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library OPAC terminals only. Users may be subject to time limits consistent with demand and the needs of individual library locations.

    NO - Access limited to Library OPAC terminals only.

    WorldCat Discovery

    Access to full-text articles via ArticleFirst and Legal Periodicals. This service also provides access to library catalogs providing information on which library holds a title.

    ALL LIBRARY USERS via Library PC or WMU-Cooley network.

    YES - Certain features and databases only available on WMU-Cooley's campus network.