Faculty Services:
Electronic Resources
Information on Electronic Resources
The Library subscribes to a wide variety of electronic resources on behalf of the Harvard Law School community. These include large, comprehensive legal databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw, indexes such as LegalTrac and ILP, and digital archives such as The Making of Modern Law, HeinOnline and JSTOR. The Library has compiled selective listings of electronic resources useful for legal, academic, historical and newspaper research:
Information on Data Resources
Data resources are of increasing importance to the legal researcher. The Library has compiled selective listings of data resources useful for legal research organized into six broad topical areas: Business & Corporate Finance; Census, Population & Demographic; Criminal Justice, Judicial Workload & Jury Verdicts; Economic, Monetary, Country & Regional; Government, Voting & Polling; and Labor, Workplace, Health & Education as well as a listing of Major Data Sites & Gateways:
Information on Catalogs
An extremely efficient and highly effective strategy when beginning a research project is to use a catalog to quickly locate potentially useful materials contained in a library's collection. The Library has compiled a selective listing of Harvard University catalogs as well as other useful catalogs of collections beyond Harvard:
Help with Electronic Resources
If you need help locating a particular electronic resource or have a question regarding its use, please feel free to use the Electronic Resources Help Request form to contact the appropriate reference librarian.