Legal research databases are available to WVU Law students, faculty, and staff.
Most databases can be accessed automatically when connected to the law school wireless.
For off-campus use, databases require either WVU login information or custom usernames/passwords
(see below).
Aspen Learning Library
The Aspen Learning Library contains over 200 digital study aids, including Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, CrunchTime and many more. Audio and video study aids are also included.
Bloomberg Law
An online research service providing comprehensive legal content and practice-area insights with the addition of Bloomberg BNA and search and alert tools that are seamlessly integrated with Bloomberg’s world-class news and market and company information.
CALI
CALI (The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) provides interactive tutorials on over fifty different law school subjects.
HeinOnline
Touted as “A modern link to legal history,” HeinOnline contains multiple library collections, such as the Law Journal Library, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register Library, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and U.S. Supreme Court Library. Most of these libraries contain information from the inception of a legal resource, some dating back to the early 1200s. All images in HeinOnline represent the exact page image of the original materials, and multiple searching capabilities greatly enhance research.
Lexis+
An online legal research service providing comprehensive access to legal content including primary sources, secondary sources, and the Shepard’s citator.
LLMC-Digital
LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to preserving and making available legal titles and government documents.
ProQuest Congressional
This database provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information including
House and Senate reports and documents, hearings, committee prints, bills, laws,
legislative histories, and more.
ProQuest Legislative Insight
Legislative Insight makes available thoroughly researched compilations of federal legislative histories.
ProQuest Regulatory Insight
Regulatory Insight provides researchers with workflow solutions to facilitate research tasks associated with administrative law. As a companion to Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories beginning in 1936, organized by federal statute and Executive Order.
ProQuest Supreme Court Insight
Supreme Court Insight, 1933-to present, is a complete online collection of full opinions
from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, dockets, oral
arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case
is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial
process and is also retrievable on a document-by-document basis. Supreme Court
Insight is a companion product and offers links from case-specific records to Legislative
Insight and Regulatory Insight.
West Academic Study Aids Collection
The West Academic Study Aids Collection contains digital copies of many study aids
including
Black Letter Outlines,
Hornbooks, and
Nutshells. Audio and video study aids options are also included.
Westlaw
An online legal research service providing comprehensive access to legal content
including primary sources, secondary sources, and the KeyCite citator.
