Find the best Law Library databases for your research. Unless otherwise noted, databases are available University-Wide. More databases are available on the University Libraries web page: https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/az.php
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What will you find on CanLII
Legal Decisions
The CanLII.org website provides access to court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories. CanLII.org also contains decisions from many federal and provincial administrative tribunals.
When CanLII was established in 2001, it started by publishing current cases, which courts and tribunals sent us as they were written. For most Canadian courts and tribunals, our collection is generally complete for cases decided after 2001.
We have also completed several projects to add historical cases, that is pre-2001 cases, with the goal of offering a comprehensive resource for jurisprudence for access to Canadian law. See this page to learn about recent additions of historical cases.
For a list of our databases with details of their scope, please see this page.
Legislation
CanLII provides access to consolidated statutes and regulations as well as annual statutes for all jurisdictions in Canada. Each jurisdiction has a dedicated page detailing the specific coverage available for it.
Commentary
CanLII provides access to various types of secondary law materials, from law books, journals, articles, reports, and other resources. These materials are available electronically in CanLII.org’s Commentary section. Click here to browse this material.
Finally, our companion website, CanLII Connects, hosts a database of case commentary and case summaries by the legal community. This commentary is linked to and based on the caselaw on CanLII.org.
Explore over 5,000 meticulously annotated historical and contemporary articles on law librarianship, crafted by expert editors over three decades.
This is a 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov.
This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use.
We’ve built this project on our long-standing commitment to preserving government records and making public information available to everyone. Libraries play an essential role in safeguarding the integrity of digital information. By preserving detailed metadata and establishing digital signatures for authenticity and provenance, we make it easier for researchers and the public to cite and access the information they need over time.
In addition to the data collection, we are releasing open source software and documentation for replicating our work and creating similar repositories. With these tools, we aim not only to preserve knowledge ourselves but also to empower others to save and access the data that matters to them.
This guide lists acronyms and abbreviations commonly used by the United States federal government. Each acronym is defined and links to the home page (or best alternative) of the identified entity.
While the U.S. Government Manual provided the initial foundation of GovSpeak, this expanded list includes thousands of acronyms not included in that publication; most have been discovered by manual reviews of department websites.
Grant Watch is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025. We currently are tracking terminations of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Our data on terminated NIH and NSF grants are collected from submissions from affected researchers as well as government websites and databases. We encourage researchers, program officers, and grant administrators to submit information via the forms here (NIH) and here (NSF) to help us keep our data up to date.
Grant Watch is a project of Noam Ross, Scott Delaney, Anthony Barente, and Emma Mairson, with input and support from additional volunteers.
Journal Abbreviation Sources is a registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations or other types of abbreviated publication titles (e.g., conference proceedings titles).
Selected OPACs that offer abbreviated title searching have also been included. In addition, All That JAS includes select lists and directories that provide access to the unabbreviated titles of serial publications.
All That JAS originally compiled by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011.
LLMC is a nonprofit library consortium which provides access to global historic and legal documents through our database. As a nonprofit organization, we focus on the preservation and digitization of at-risk materials, ensuring their longevity and accessibility. Our collection spans jurisdictions, historical periods, and legal systems, offering a rich collection and resources for historians, researchers, attorneys, and scholars.
Library of historical assets of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI).
The Unified Voice of Indian Country
Since 1944 NCAI has served as the unified voice for American Indian and Alaska Native Issues.
Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.
NCAI, a non-profit organization, advocates for a bright future for generations to come by taking the lead to gain consensus on a constructive and promising vision for Indian Country. The organization’s policy issues and initiatives are driven by the consensus of our diverse membership, which consists of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, tribal citizens, individuals, and Native and non-Native organizations.
For nearly seven decades since its founding, NCAI has remained true to the original purpose of the organization: to be the unified voice of tribal nations. As outlined in the NCAI Constitution, our purpose is to serve as a forum for unified policy development among tribal governments in order to: (1) protect and advance tribal governance and treaty rights; (2) promote the economic development and health and welfare in Indian and Alaska Native communities; and (3) educate the public toward a better understanding of Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
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The Unified Voice of Indian Country
Since 1944 NCAI has served as the unified voice for American Indian and Alaska Native Issues.
Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.
NCAI, a non-profit organization, advocates for a bright future for generations to come by taking the lead to gain consensus on a constructive and promising vision for Indian Country. The organization’s policy issues and initiatives are driven by the consensus of our diverse membership, which consists of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, tribal citizens, individuals, and Native and non-Native organizations.
For nearly seven decades since its founding, NCAI has remained true to the original purpose of the organization: to be the unified voice of tribal nations. As outlined in the NCAI Constitution, our purpose is to serve as a forum for unified policy development among tribal governments in order to: (1) protect and advance tribal governance and treaty rights; (2) promote the economic development and health and welfare in Indian and Alaska Native communities; and (3) educate the public toward a better understanding of Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
Hundreds of current and historical texts from the National Defense University Press, which cover a variety of topics related to defense and national security.
The National Indian Law Library (NILL) of the Native American Rights Fund is a law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law. NILL maintains a unique and valuable collection of Indian law resources and assists people with their Indian law-related research needs. You can find some of our most popular resources below.
With credibility built over more than 50 years of service, NARF has become a respected consultant to policy makers and others engaged in drafting legislation. As a consensus builder, NARF works with religious, civil rights, and other Native American organizations to shape the laws that will help assure the civil and religious rights of all Native Americans. NARF attorneys, many of whom are tribal citizens, use their understanding of Indian legal issues to assist tribes in negotiating with individuals, companies, and governmental agencies.
The Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources digital collection represents the authentic partnerships that were formed in 2019 between the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources (NNDWR) and the University of Arizona’s Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, and James E. Rogers College of Law; and, beginning in 2022, the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC). In response to the Navajo Nation’s formal directive and priorities for their NNDWR Library, these dedicated partners have collaborated to ensure that the rich history and vibrant stories of the Navajo Nation are preserved for and made available to current and future generations of Indigenous and non-indigenous people, communities, groups, educational institutions, agencies, and organizations.
Digitization is ongoing and this collection will continue to grow. Resources will span the years 1938-2009 and comprise portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the southwestern United States. The specified segment includes reports, serials, government documents, research, data, policies, assessments, histories, and fold-out maps.
Topics include:
The creators of these works include NNDWR, members of the Navajo Nation, state and federal agencies, consultants, engineers, universities, researchers, hydrologists, and conservationists.
This project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.
The Tracking Gov Info Project is a crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified government information and resources. Although the news media have widely reported the current U.S. administration’s removal and modification of federal websites and information, it can be challenging to understand and analyze the scope of the problem without a central list tracking what has disappeared. The goal of the Tracking Gov Info Project is to compile a comprehensive list of government websites, documents, articles, reports, etc. that have been removed or modified by the current administration. Anyone who encounters a missing resource can enter it using our submission form. Entries can be viewed publicly on the spreadsheet.
The Tribal Court Clearinghouse is a comprehensive website established in June 1997 to serve as a resource for American Indian and Alaska Native Nations, American Indian and Alaska Native people, tribal justice systems, victims services providers, tribal service providers, and others involved in the improvement of justice in Indian country. It is one of the most comprehensive websites on tribal justice system issues, and includes a wealth of tribal, state, and federal resources. The Clearinghouse website contains extensive resources on tribal, state, and federal law along with extensive Indian country subject-matter resources, a training events calendar, and resources from all Tribal Law and Policy Institute webinars.
We seek to facilitate the sharing of resources so that Native nations and tribal justice systems have access to cost effective resources which can be adapted to meet the individual needs of their communities. As such, we are proud to offer free digital copies of TLPI publications, work product created through various grants and partnerships since 1996.
TLPI has a long tradition of collaborating with other non-profits, governments, communities, and Native organizations. [W]e are pleased to offer the work product of our collaborative efforts in a sub category within each subject page.