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Statutes and Regulations
- Code of Federal Regulations (HeinOnline)Comprehensive set in PDF Format of the Code of Federal Regulations. Covers 1938 to present.
- Federal Register Library (HeinOnline)The HeinOnline collection of page-images of the complete Federal Register from 1936 to present. Also includes the Code of Federal Regulations (1936-), United States Government Manual (1935-2011), Administrative Procedure Act (1944-1946), Federal Register Indexes (1936-), Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1965-2009), Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (2009-), and Code of Emergency Federal Regulations (1965).
- GovInfo (formerly FDsys)Online portal and preservation system for information produced by the federal government, providing free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. Collections include current and historical Federal Register, United States Code, court opinions, Congressional hearings, Presidential documents, and much more.
- LLMC DigitalLLMC provides access to digital images from over 7,500 titles of historic legal literature and government documents. Keyword searchable.
- Making of Modern Law: Primary SourcesIncludes early U.S. state codes, municipal codes, constitutional conventions and compilations, legal dictionaries, and other documents from the United States and published records of the thirteen British colonies. Fully searchable digital images of original published works.
- ProQuest CongressionalContains materials pertaining to the U.S. Congress including the complete U.S. Congressional Serial Set, bills, laws, hearing transcripts, committee reports, documents, and the Congressional Record. Includes digital images of many bills and resolutions
- ProQuest Legislative InsightProQuest Legislative Insight is a federal legislative history service comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. Each history includes the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.
- ProQuest Regulatory InsightFederal regulatory histories from 1936 to the present. Organized by statute and executive order. Also includes a research tool to facilitate regulatory research organized by agency (Agency View).
- Session Laws Library (HeinOnline)This HeinOnline collection contains images of the official bound session laws of all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, from inception to date. The session laws for all states are current within 60 days of printed publication. Also includes Acts of the Parliaments of Australia (1901-2011) and of Canada (1792-2011) and the Official Gazette of the Bahamas (1968-1996).
- Subject Compilations of State Laws (HeinOnline)Identifies and describes over 20,000 multiple-state law surveys in hundreds of different sources. Includes links to items otherwise included in HeinOnline.
- U.S. Statutes at Large (HeinOnline)Complete page-image set of the Statutes at Large. Includes browsing and searching options.
- United States Code (HeinOnline)Page-images of all editions of the United States Code (from 1925-1926 through 2006) as well as a large collection of federal statutory compilations predating the United States Code.
- United States CodeThe United States Code from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel.