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Vermont Law School Library has sponsored campus-wide access to WashingtonPost.com for all students, staff, and faculty.
To enjoy unlimited access, Go to The Washington Post – VLS site and enter your VLS login credentials if prompted.
Access includes current news coverage from The Post’s expert reporting and analysis from Washington and around the world.
For a more customized experience, you may Sign In from the upper-right corner of the website. On the login screen, enter your VLS email address and password when prompted.
(First-time users: Click the “Sign Up” link at the bottom of the login screen to create an account. Use your VLS credentials, then verify your account using the link provided in an automatic email from The Washington Post.)
New York Times - Online
VLS Library has an academic subscription to NYTimes.com for all students, faculty, and staff. This includes unlimited articles access.
To activate a NYTimes.com Pass please follow these steps:
1. Go to http://nytimesineducation.com/access-nyt/vermont-law-school-south-royalton-vt/
2. Create a free NYTimes.com account using your VLS email (vermontlaw.edu) address.
3. You have successfully claimed a Pass when you see the Start Your Access screen.
4. Now you can enjoy full access to NYTimes.com, INYT.com and NYT mobile apps just by logging into your NYTimes.com account from any location, on or off campus.
5. Download your NYT apps by visiting nytimes.com/mobile
After a year, you'll need to renew your account periodically by redoing the activation steps and confirming your association with the Vermont Law School community.
Databases A-Z
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Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This database includes the renowned AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. This database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources covering such topics as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses.
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Agriculture Gale OneFile: Agriculture provides access to journals covering agriculture and its related fields. Researchers can access current and authoritative periodical content that spans the industry—from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.
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AILA Link An online research database created and maintained by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and designed specifically for legal professionals who need quick access to reliable and up-to-date immigration law information and guidance. AILALink provides fully searchable access to the resources essential for practicing immigration law.
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Animal Studies: Law, Welfare and Rights With titles from the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Animal Welfare Institute, this collection aims to establish the foundational laws pertaining to animals and follow the evolution of these rights throughout the years. It includes philosophical books dating back to the 1800s, videos, periodicals, brochures, and more.
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Business Insights: Essentials (Gale) Business Insights: Essentials combines all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center with a new interface designed around the research goals and workflows of your diverse business research community. Easily find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports.
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Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.
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ClimateWire ClimateWire is designed to bring readers unmatched coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society. Climate issues have become so pervasive, and our clients' interest in climate change has become so intense, that developing ClimateWire became an inevitable means to expand and enhance E&E's already top-tier coverage of this critical issue area.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
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Congress and the Courts This library, featuring William H. Manz's Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, brings together materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and structure of Article III Courts and provides all relevant documents prepared by various Congresses relating to the purpose, formation, organization, and restructuring of the federal government. Also included are Federal Judicial Center Publications, Periodicals, Links to Scholarly Articles, CFR Title 28 - Judicial Administration, Other Related Works, and much more.
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Ebook Central A collection of thousands of online full-text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas. All are listed in JULIEN, but they can be searched full-text through the Ebook Central site.
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EcoAméricas EcoAméricas covers development and the environment in Latin America for an international audience of NGOs, agencies, and businesses in a monthly publication. Includes a guide to the environmental agencies of 24 Latin American countries.. The search engine allows searching back to 1998.
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Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law is a 12 volumes reference work, providing comprehensive coverage on environmental subjects such as water, energy and climate change – that reflect some of the most pressing issues facing us today. Each volume probes the key elements of law, the essential concepts, and the latest research through concise, structured entries written by international experts. Each entry includes an extensive bibliography as a starting point for further reading. Currently, 3 volumes titled I. Climate Change II. Decision Making in Environmental Law III. Biodiversity and Nature Protection Law are available. More volumes are adding and will be available soon.
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EnergyWire EnergyWire provides readers deep, broad and insightful coverage on the business and political issues surrounding the rapidly expanding unconventional energy industry in the United States and around the world.
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Environment & Energy Daily Designed for policy players who need to know what’s happening to their issues on Capitol Hill. From federal agency appropriations to comprehensive energy legislation, E&E Daily is the place insiders go to track their environmental and energy issues in Congress.
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Environmental Law Reporter The Environmental Law Reporter® is an essential online research tool edited by attorneys that provides the most-often cited analysis of environmental, sustainability, natural resources, energy, toxic tort, and land use law and policy.
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Environmental Studies and Policy Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy answers inquiries about environmental concerns with coverage journals and reference content from Delmar and diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.
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Environment Complete This resource offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and applicable areas of environment studies. This valuable database contains full text articles for hundreds of journals and monographs dating back over 100 years.
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Fastcase Fastcase’s libraries include primary law from all 50 states, as well as deep federal coverage going back to 1 U.S. 1, 1 F.2d 1, 1 F.Supp. 1, and 1 B.R. 1. The Fastcase collection includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. Fastcase also provides access to a newspaper archive, legal forms, and a one-stop PACER search of federal filings through their content partners.
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Foreign & International Law Resources FILRD includes the publications of the American Society of International Law along with prominent Yearbooks from around the world, including the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series.It also includes U.S. Law Digests, International Tribunals/Judicial Decisions and more.
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Foreign Law Guide An essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources in one virtual destination.
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Foreign Relations of the United States This series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. It is comprised of more than 500 books beginning with Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 and continuing to the administration of Ronald Reagan in 1988. The database also contains related books and Code of Federal Regulations title 22 (Foreign Relations) in its entirety.
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Gale Academic OneFile Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology. Most of the journals are in full text, available in HTML and PDF formats.
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Gale Criminal Justice Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice informs the research process for researchers who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism; training for paralegal service; preparing for a career in homeland security; delving into forensic science; investigating crime scenes; developing policy; going to court; writing sociological reports; and much more.
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Gale EBooks A collection of sixteen titles multivolume reference ebooks within the areas of: Business, Environment, History, Medicine, Multicultural Studie, Science, and Social Science.
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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Gale In Context: Science Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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General OneFile (Gale) Gale General OneFile provides access to an unprecedented number of general reference magazines and key serials in a single resource. This database is useful to users conducting general reference queries, business searches, and current event research. The addition of a browse-by-subject feature allows users to easily view content of interest on the most popular and most-searched topics within several distinct categories, including news, current events, health, and computers and technology.
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GreenFILE GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Greenwire The one-stop source for those who need to stay on top of all of today’s major environmental and energy action. With an average of more than 25 stories a day, Greenwire covers the complete spectrum, from electricity industry restructuring to Clean Air Act litigation to public lands management.
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Health and Wellness (Gale) Gale Health and Wellness offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more
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HeinOnline Bar Journals This database contains more than 140 titles featuring nearly all state Bar Journals, select publications from the American Bar Association, and City Bar Journals.
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HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice HeinOnline’s Civil Rights database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans. Containing hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislations, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, this database allows users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time, as well as how these legal protections can go further still. A curated list of scholarly articles, a varied collection of books on many civil rights topics, and a list of prominent civil rights organizations help take the research beyond HeinOnline.
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HeinOnline Gun Regulation & Legislation This HeinOnline collection brings together more than 500 titles dealing with this difficult and important topic. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Links to nearly 500 scholarly articles,* an extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided. Research the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject.
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HeinOnline Law Journal Library Contains more than 2,300 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Search by article title, author, subject, state or country published, full text, and narrow by date.
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History of Supreme Court Nominations This library features the complete print series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Browse by Justice option allows you to see relevant works related to that Justice, including links to articles, a bibliography of other works, and links to Scholarly Articles.
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InsideEPA Includes daily news, the "Weeks Top Stories", "Hot Documents" and a database of special reports, policy papers, comments, draft and final regulations, court decisions, legislation, state proceedings, etc. Searchable archive back to 1998.
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JSTOR A large and eclectic collection of full-text non-law journals in a number of subject areas that support research in environmental law including Ecology, Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Populations Studies, Sociology, Statistics, etc. Includes, for example, Ecology back to 1920, and the Journal of Ecology back to 1913.
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Kanopy An online film streaming service. The collection includes documentaries and films on Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Nature & Technology, Ethnicity & Identity, and Environmental Sciences. All Kanopy films include Public Performance Rights for group and individual viewers, as long as it is not for commercial benefit.
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Law360 Law360 has more than 40 practice area, industry, and state sections that cover litigation, legislation and regulation, corporate deals, major personnel moves, and legal industry news and trends. It includes sections on Energy and Environmental.
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Law in Eastern Europe (Book Series) This series of more than 60 titles showcases the development, enactment, and impact of the rule of law in Eastern Europe. Per the agreement with the publisher, there is a 2 volume delay.
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LawInfoChina(Chinese) Research Chinese Laws in Chinese language. Includes primary laws and law journals.
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LawInfoChina(English) This database provides users with English version of China laws & regulations, judicial cases, tax treaties, white papers, law journals and gazettes, as well as other China legal information such as legal news and legislative/regulatory updates.
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Lexis+ LexisNexis provides access to U.S. federal and state law sources as well as sources of international law and the laws of a growing number of other jurisdictions. Sources vary by jurisdiction, but may include constitutions, legislation, legislative history, statutory codes, regulations, regulatory materials, cases, case digests, citators, public records, law reviews, treatises, and general and legal news.
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NYTimes.com The NYTimes.com Pass provides each VLS student, faculty and staff member with a complimentary subscription to NYTimes.com and NYT mobile apps, as well as their international editions.
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Oxford Dictionaries Oxforddictionaries.com is your destination whenever you need language guidance: every time you need to know the meaning or pronunciation of a word, how to translate it into another language, or whether you’re using it correctly. It’s your first point of reference and your guide to the language of today.
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Proquest Congressional ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress.
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Proquest Criminal Justice Database Criminal Justice Database is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.
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Proquest Policy File Index Policy File Index is a unique resource for U.S. public policy research. Users are able to access timely, updated information from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
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Session Laws Library This library contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states as well as Canada, Australia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the D.C. Register. All states are current within 60 days of the printed publication, and all states are available back to inception!
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Slavery in American and the World: History, Culture & Law This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.
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Statista Statista includes ready-made statistical charts, graphs and tables on marketing, demographics, communication, technology, politics, health, leisure and public opinion polls. About 20 percent of the data in Statista comes from government sources like the World Bank and the U.S. Census. The rest comes from industry, marketing, and trade groups. The tables, charts and graphs can be downloaded as images or into Microsoft Powerpoint and Excel.
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Statistical Abstract of the U.S. This Statistical Abstract of the United States is the online version of the reference staple. It is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Online it is 1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets), both searchable and browsable. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.
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Subject Compilations of State Law This library features a database giving you access to more than 26,000 bibliographic records from Cheryl Nyberg's Subject Compilations Bibliography Series. Many records contain extensive annotations with links directly to articles and other documents residing in HeinOnline. In addition to a searchable database, HeinOnline also includes the exact replicas of the original bound volumes.
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TradeLawGuide TradeLawGuide (TLG) contains groundbreaking tools for researching questions of World Trade Organization (WTO) law. These tools are designed to facilitate fast, comprehensive and methodical research procedures. TLG uses a proprietary software that permits users to rapidly review thousands of pages of documents and be directed to pinpoint references to answer research inquiries. Time-consuming searches can now be conducted systematically and quickly, allowing researchers to research WTO law at a level of detail never before available.
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U.S. Congressional Documents This collection features the complete Congressional Record Bound version, as well as the daily version back to 1980. It also includes the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) Congressional Globe (1833-1873), and Congressional Hearings (1927-present), as well as other important congressional material. Using the Daily-to-Bound Locator Tool, you can quickly find a page in the Bound volume from the Daily edition.
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Urban Land Institute The Urban land Institute "initiates research that anticipates emerging land use trends and issues, proposing creative solutions based on that research". The web site includes news, articles, case studies and links on urban land issues such as civic engagement, public policy, smart growth, sustainable development, transportation, urban design, development and regeneration, international urban land. Some information is free.
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The Washington Post Unlimited digital access to WashingtonPost.com from the school’s network. Expert reporting and analysis from Washington and around the world, including award-winning investigative coverage and editorial commentary.
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West Academic Online Study Aids A comprehensive digital collection of study aids, treatises, audio lectures, and newly added audio books in the 500+ titles of the Study Aids Digital Collection.
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Westlaw China Provided by Thomson Reuters and based on Westlaw online legal database, Westlaw China offers Chinese and English contents on Laws and Regs, Articles, Current Awareness, Legal Topics, and more.
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Westlaw Edge Westlaw provides online access to U.S. federal and state law sources as well as sources of international law and the laws of a growing number of other jurisdictions. Sources vary by jurisdiction, but may include constitutions, legislation, legislative history, statutory codes, regulations, regulatory materials, cases, case digests, citators, public records, law reviews, treatises, and general and legal news.
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