HeinOnline: Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) Alerts
CILP indexes material in 650+ [primarily U.S.] legal publications by subject headings. CILP subject headings include: Civil Rights, Generally; Constitutional Law, Generally; First Amendment, Second Amendment, etc.; and Supreme Court of the United States.
BLS students, faculty and administrators: To receive CILP email alerts about recently published articles on specific topics, click: Create New SmartCILP User. To access CILP from off-campus locations: implement the BLS proxy server instructions for one web browser.
Subscription tool to find published legal articles: LegalTrac
(Access LegalTrac on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.)
LegalTrac's Topic Finder - Enter a term like: constitutional law. LegalTrac states: "Clicking on a topic wheel or tile narrows your original search results to the documents also containing that subject or term."
LegalTrac's Subject Guide Search - Type: constitution or constitutional to obtain a menu of available subjects, including: constitutional history, constitutional interpretation, constitutional law and constitutional reform. Click a subject to view citations to articles.
Repositories that include pre-prints:
Includes legal working papers and unpublished/recently published legal articles.
Use Advanced Search to find articles by subject, keywords in abstract, author and title. Subjects include: Civil rights, Constitution, Constitutional law, First Amendment, Second Amendment, etc., and Supreme Court of the United States.
Law Commons is an open access repository of scholarly articles and other research. BrooklynWorks (Brooklyn Law School's scholarly repository) is part of this network. TIP: From the main page of Law Commons, view articles grouped by sub-discipline, such as:
Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons
SSRN (might require registration to access an article--registration is free)
Includes legal working papers, unpublished/recently published legal articles, and even pre-prints of some book chapters. Keywords include: Civil rights, Constitutional law, First Amendment, Second Amendment, etc. and Supreme Court of the United States.
Sources of published articles:
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library and Foreign and International Law Resources Database provide PDFs.
HeInOnline provides published legal articles (articles published in journals and in yearbooks).
(Access subscription HeinOnline databases on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the BLS proxy server instructions.)
Westlaw's Law Reviews & Journals and United Kingdom Journals
(Click links above and enter Westlaw user name and password.)
Lexis+ tab: International
Includes: Canada > All Canada Law Reviews and Journals and United Kingdom > All United Kingdom Law Reviews and Journals
(Click links above and enter Lexis+ user name and password.)
Google Scholar, bullet: Articles
If a BLS researcher does not plan to work on campus or in BLS housing: Before searching, implement the BLS proxy server instructions. Then, the BLS researcher will be able to access more full-text articles in Google Scholar search results.
Directory of Open Access Journals
World Legal Information Institute: Categories: Law Journals
This free "legal research facility" includes link Law Journals: "By Subject": [add subject or subjects]