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American Jurisprudence, 2d Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Included in Westlaw Campus Research. Covers state and federal law. To search American Jurisprudence, go to the "Law" section of Westlaw Campus Research. Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research.
Credo Reference: Legal Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of 8 legal reference books, including the Dictionary of Conflict Resolution, Dictionary of Law, Encyclopedia of the European Union, Great American Court Cases, World of Criminal Justice, and more. You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Gale Vitual Reference Library: Legal Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of West's Encyclopedia of American Law (2nd ed.) and other electronic, legal titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection. You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
LearningExpress Library Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides practice tests and tutorials. Includes practice tests for graduate school entrance exams (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT), EMS (EMT-Basic Practice Test, Paramedic Practice Test), Firefighting, Law Enforcement, Real Estate, Teaching (CBEST, PPST: Praxis 1), TOEFL, and U.S. Citizenship, among others. Also includes tutorials on job hunting, interviewing, math skills, reading skills, and writing skills.
Reference Universe Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.

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American State Papers Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1789-1838) Contains the fully-searchable text of early American Congressional and Executive Department documents. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: The Davidson College Library also has a complete set of the American State Papers in print form.
Annual Reviews Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
ebrary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Environment Abstracts Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1975 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to environmental issues, impacts, laws, policies, and technologies, including biodiversity, energy, land use, pollution, population studies, resource management, sustainable development, and more. Covers over 950 journals.
Index Islamicus Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion.
JSTOR Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
LexisNexis Congressional Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1789 to present) Indexes congressional documents. Includes the full text of: The Congressional Record (1789 to present) Published and unpublished committee hearings (1824-2003), with selected transcripts from 2004 to present Committee reports (1990 to present) Selected committee prints (1993-2004) House & Senate documents (1995 to present) Bill texts and tracking (1989 to present) Public laws (1988 to present) U.S. Code Code of Federal Regulations (1981 to present) Federal Register (1980 to present) Biographical information & voting records (1988 to present) Roll Call (1989 to present) Only available to Davidson College faculty, staff, and students.
PAIS International Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1915 to present) Contains citations, with brief abstracts, to articles in over 800 English-language journals in public affairs. Also indexes government documents, pamphlets, directories, agency reports, and some books. Covers government, public administration, public policy, court decisions, political science, and international relations.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey London, 1674 to 1834 Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1674-1834) Provides the full text of the proceedings of over 100,000 trials along with original page images and background information on trial procedures, verdicts, and the types of crimes tried. The Old Bailey was the central criminal court for the City of London and the County of Middlesex.
ResearchNow from the bepress Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of 36 peer-reviewed journals published by the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) as well as working papers, preprints, and other "grey literature" from a number of institutional repositories. Bepress publishes journals in the fields of Business, Economics, Law, Marketing, Medicine, Political Science, and Public Affairs.
Social Sciences Abstracts Full Text & Social Sciences Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of anthropology, communication, corrections, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and related subjects. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet Off-Campus access available; no password required.	From the Library of Congress. Provides the full text of major legislation, including bills (1989/90 to present), public laws (1973 to present), the Annals of Congress, Congressional Record and Congressional Record Index (1989/90 to present), roll call votes, and Congressional Committee reports (1995/96 to present). Also provides bill summary and status information from 1973 to the present and the full text of important historical documents.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1817-1980) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. history, including cultural, economic, ethnic, military, political, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: this digital collection is not yet complete; if you need documents from twentieth-century volumes that have not yet been digitized, please ask a librarian for assistance. The Davidson College Library has print and microfiche versions of many Serial Set volumes.
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patent Databases Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1790 to present) Provides page images for all U.S. patents from 1790 onwards as well as the full text of U.S. patents issued from 1976 to the present and the full-text of U.S. patent applications from 15 March 2001 to the present. For patents before 1976, you can only search by patent number or patent classification. Note: When you have located a patent and want to view the actual page images, click on the "Images" button that appears at the top of the screen. You may need to download a free plug-in to view the page images.
U.S. Supreme Court Reports. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	Contains the full text of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, 1754 to the present, as well as numerous legal and political documents.
WorldCat Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.