LibGuides: LDST 390 and PLSC 379: Native Peoples and the U.S. Supreme Court: Research Resources

Finding Journal Articles

HeinOnline
Comprehensive collection of legal history, legal documents, and laws.

Full-text; 20th 21st Century, some 19th Century
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (Current and Retrospective)
Includes international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more.

Citations, abstracts, and full-text; indexing 1981 - present; select full-text 1994 - present
Political Science Complete
Provides full-text articles, papers and books relating to political science

Full-text; Major resource for scholarly research relating to political theory, political behavior, public policy, law, international relations, comparative politics and non-governmental organizations.
America: History & Life
Comprehensive index to journal articles and book reviews for United States and Canada history.

Historical coverage from America's Pre-Columbian period to the present.
Abstracts of articles, dissertations, and reviews of historical literature; 1954 - present
Academic Search Complete
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary resource containing a large number of peer-reviewed journals.

This is good place to start for most topics, including all sciences, religion, law, history, psychology, political science, criminal justice, literature, current events, sociology and communications.
Abstracts and full-text for most journal articles; Varies by title many from 1980s-present
Social Science Full Text
Broadest resource of scholarly research on human cultural, social, environmental and political behaviors

Covers a variety of social sciences including: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Minority Studies, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, and Sociology.; Full-text, abstracts, and citations; Full-text & abstracts: 1995 - present; Citations: 1907 - present

Finding Information:

OneSearch
A discovery tool that searches most of the University Libraries' collections, including books, journal articles, newspapers, dissertations, music, and video recordings.

Researching Supreme Court Decisions on Native nations or individuals

Gale In Context: U.S. History
Includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.
Gale eBooks
Collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Full-text; 1990s - present
SAGE Reference Online
Full-text encyclopedias and handbooks, primarily in the social sciences.

Full-text
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1973
Comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners.

1832-1973; Additional Information: Includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions.

Oyez
Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full-text Supreme Court opinions (through Justia).

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Full-text archives of six national papers of record and five historically Black papers.

Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, The Atlanta Constitution, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times with Index, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post; Full-text; Dates vary with each newspaper.

Legal and Government Resources

American Indian Law Collection
With more than 2,000 titles unique to this collection and more than 1.2 million total pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this library includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence
American Indian Treaties Portal
Indigenous Governance Database