Finding Aids:

Law Library E-Journal Finder
Provides a quick search form or an alphabetical list for finding the online location of legal and interdisciplinary journals, periodicals, and newspapers collected by the Law Library and other GW libraries. From the list, authorized users may click through to search or retrieve the full-text content of the publication or to review its tables of contents by issue (if available).

Gelman Library Find GW E-Journals
Presents an A-Z list and search interface, enabling a researcher to find journals of interest covered by periodical databases, by title or other criteria.

Databases: 

Current Index to Legal Periodicals 
CILP provides timely topical access to over 500 legal publications by indexing their contents 4-6 weeks before commercial legal periodical indexes (Index to Legal Periodicals, LegalTrac) do the same. It contains complete tables of contents of all journals indexed and the articles are separately organized by 100 relevant subject headings. Access is restricted to the Law School computer network.

HeinOnline
Retrospective coverage of law journals with scans of articles presented in PDF; continually enhanced to include more recent volumes and more journal titles.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide. Coverage 1985-present.

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
Online equivalent to Index to Legal Periodicals  print annuals from 1981 - current. The coverage for this resource includes indexing from 1981 +, abstracting from 1990 +, and select full text from 1994 +. With the new full text version of this online product the researcher can now retrieve the full text of over 200 select periodicals going as far back as 1994.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
Online equivalent to Index to Legal Periodicals  print annuals from 1908-1981.  Complete index of over 750 publications [540,000 + indexed items] that allows the researcher to search the content of more than 60 years worth of law with one online search form. The index includes law journals, annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or topic. Additionally, the researcher can click for the citation to the full text in other databases to which the library subscribes including HeinOnline.

IngentaConnect
Unrestricted resource that contains citations to research articles from over 25,000 scholarly and popular journals in a variety of disciplines. Coverage varies by title. Full text is available for select journal titles that the Law Library and Gelman Library subscribe to in print. The Law Library does not participate in the Ingenta document delivery service.

LegalTrac
An index to articles in law reviews, law journals and legal newspapers (1980 - Present). Includes U.S., British Commonwealth and E.U law-related topics.

Select GW Gelman Library Databases:

ABI/INFORM Complete
Full-text journal/newspaper articles and wire stories relating to U.S. and international business, economics, and finance.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
Academic journals in social science, humanities, education, and biological/chemical/physical sciences.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a not for profit organization whose goal is to maintain continued access to scholarly journals across a broad range of disciplines. JSTOR offers high-resolution scanned images of journal issues and pages. This is not a current issue database and there is a 1-5 year gap between the most recent issue and coverage in JSTOR.

New York Times Historical
This database offers full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times for 1851-1999. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files.

ProQuest Research Library Plus
General scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, and trade publications.

Washington Post Historical
This database offers full-text and full-image articles for the Washington Post for 1877-1987. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files.