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Designed for law students, the Aspen Learning Library is a digital study aid collection with full-text search, note-taking, and highlighting capabilities, audio recordings, and digital media. Series include: Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, Emanuels, Casenote Legal Briefs, and more.
Designed for law students, the Lexis Nexis Digital Library Study Aids Collection contains more than 160 study aids covering subjects across the law school curriculum and beyond. Includes the "Understanding" series of hornbooks, the “Skills and Values” series, the “Mastering” series, and the “Q&A” series in eBook format. Creating a user account will allow favorites, bookmarks, highlighting, etc.
Designed for law students, this database provides access to more than 500 study aids from West Academic Publishing, including Nutshells, Concepts & Insights, the Law Stories series, Hornbooks, Gilbert's Law Summaries, and other series. Creating an optional account allows users to add favorites, notes, highlights, and to download titles for offline access.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Extensive collection of global and comparative law journals, reference works (Handbooks, Encyclopedias, etc.) and monographs from Edward Elgar Publishing. DRM-free, no download limits or reading software required. The Law Library subscribes to the following:
Subject Collections:
Essentials Collections:
Full-text access to 58 leading titles, published by Edward Elgar, focusing on environmental law and related subjects, including international energy law, climate change, international water law and environmental treaties.
Includes access to nearly 60 titles published by Edward Elgar. Includes groundbreaking studies and reviews on a wide range of topics in European Law, including the institutional and legislative framework of the EU and key policy areas such as EU labor law, EU competition law, and EU consumer law.
Includes full-text access to over 60 handbooks and recent scholarly titles from Edward Elgar Publishing, including Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law (2021), Handbook on Forced Migration (2023), Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice (2022), Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law (2023), Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights (2022), and International Human Rights Law and Diplomacy (2021).
The Law Library subscribes to both the Human Rights Subject Collection and the Essentials in Human Rights Collection. To find available subscribed and open access resources, use the search filters on the left of the Elgar Online screen. Both collections are also indexed in Primo - the RU Libraries catalog.
Full-text access to over 60 intellectual property-related titles published by Edward Elgar offering in-depth research and doctrinal analysis. Includes monographs, and reference works such as commentaries, handbooks, dictionaries, research reviews and companions. Covers a range of issues and topics including, copyright, trade marks, patents, designs, geographical indications, trade secrets, and international IP agreements, and international IP organizations.
Elgar Online include monographs, handbooks, dictionaries, research reviews, companions and encyclopedia. The Law Library subscribes to multiple collections, including the Legal Theory & Philosophy Subject Collection.
