Research Links

General Law Sites

• American Law Sources On-Line 
• Catalaw 
• Findlaw 
• Hieros Gamos 
• Law.com 
• Lexis (password required)
• Westlaw (password required)

Ohio Information

• Codes, Laws & Constitution of Ohio 
• Court Rules of Ohio 
• Legislative Service Commission 
• Ohio Legislature 
• Ohio State Bar Association 
• State Government Front Page 
• Supreme Court of Ohio 

Columbus, Ohio

• City of Columbus 
• Columbus Bar Association 
• Columbus City Code 
• Columbus Metropolitan Library 
• Upper Arlington Public Library 

Laws of Other States

• LII's American Legal Ethics Library 
• Findlaw : State Resources 
• LexisNexis Municipal Codes 
• State and Local Gov. on the Net 

Federal Government

• Bureau of Labor Statistics 
• Census Data 
• Executive Branch 
• USA.gov 
• GPO Access : Official Federal Government Information 
• Internal Revenue Service 
• Judicial Branch 
• Legislative Branch 
• Library of Congress 
• State Department 
• Supreme Court 
• Tax Court 
• Thomas : Federal Legislative Information on the Internet 

International Law & Materials

• Governments on the WWW 
• Human Rights Watch 
• International Governmental Organizations 
• GlobalCourts (Links to Supreme Court Decisions of 100+ countries) 
• Legal Research on International Law Issues using the Internet 
• United Nations Home Page 
• United Nations InfoNation 
• World Factbook 2008 

Special Interest Legal Sites

• American Bar Association 
• Bar/Bri Bar Review 
• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations 
• Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) 
• Jurist - The Law Professors' Network 
• Legal Information Institute's Directory of Legal Academia 
• CRIV Publishers' List : Corporate Affiliations of Legal Publishers 
• State and Federal Court Rules, Forms & Dockets (LLRX) 

Search Engines and Indexes

• Altavista 
• Dogpile*
• Excite 
• Go 
• Google*
• Hotbot 
• iTools 
• Lawcrawler 
• Librarians' Index to the Internet*
• LookSmart 
• Lycos*
• Live Search 
• Yahoo 

Other Reference Sources

• ALA RUSA Outstanding Reference Sources 
• Amdocs  
• Internet History Sourcebooks  (Fordham U.) 
• IPL Reference resources 
• Refdesk.com 
• Re-quest.net 
• Statistical Resources on the Web  (U. Mich.) 
• UCSD Reference Shelf 
• Yahoo Reference 
• Yourdictionary.com 
• USPS Zipcodes 

* These sites have proven to be especially useful.  This judgment reflects only the experience of the Director of the Law Library and is provided to help those unfamiliar with internet search engines.  It is not to be taken as an endorsement by Capital University or its law school. 

All of the links on this page have been provided as a convenience to the users of this site.  None of the research links listed on this page has been created or is controlled by Capital University or its law school. Capital University and its law school are not responsible for the content of any linked site, or the content of any link contained within any linked site.