Below is a listing of subscription databases relevant to the study of law.  For a full listing of UMKC databases, visit the MERLIN Articles and Databases page. UMKC students, faculty, and staff may access the University Libraries’ databases, online journals, and e-books from off campus (off campus access). Guests must visit one of the UMKC libraries to access most of these databases.

Bloomberg Law
Includes Bloomberg BNA as well as its own flagship law services platform that competes with Lexis and Westlaw

Environment & Energy
E&E Publishing is the leading source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets.  E&E's five daily online publications are "must-reads" by people who track and influence energy, environmental and climate policy

HeinOnline
Provides full access to complete runs of more than 500 law journals. It also includes the Federal Register, treaties and related publications, U.S. Supreme Court materials, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and International materials

LexisNexis for Law Schools (limited access)
Lexis Nexis Academic covers worldwide news sources, broadcast transcripts, foreign language publications, business and company information and data, law reviews and legal sources and biographical sources

ProQuest Congressional
Full text and abstracts for historical and current congressional publications. Includes legislative histories; biographies; committee assignments; voting records; financial data; and full text of hearing transcripts, committee reports, bills, Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations

ProQuest E-Books
The ProQuest E-book collection consists of 14,940 law related titles which provides authoritative content from scholarly sources such as University Presses and other top legal publishers.  E-books are available on any mobile device and can be downloaded for offline access

Westlaw (limited access)
Flagship service that provides the full text of court decisions, statutory provisions, administrative materials, law review articles, Supreme Court briefs, and other legal and business materials
     TWEN (Westlaw)   

WorldCat (FirstSearch) 
(Check with a librarian before requesting materials).  Records (citations) of materials from 60,000 worldwide libraries from 112 countries. Dates of materials range from centuries to recent items--a span of thousands of years! WorldCat includes records for books, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books and music, electronic books, sheet music, genealogical references, cultural artifacts, digital objects, Web sites and much more