The Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute has launched Recollection: A Civil Rights Legal Archive. This digital archive is a collection of “legal case files, legislative advocacy materials, reports and publications, correspondence, photographs, videos, administrative and fundraising materials, documentation of LDF’s sustained efforts in community organizing and social science research, and oral history interviews.”

This is a valuable collection of primary materials for civil rights researchers, and we encourage you to check it out.

We have subscribed to a digital collection of study guides published by LexisNexis. These titles include the popular Understanding and Questions & Answers study guide series, as well as many legal treatises published by Lexis.

Please note that if you used the trial access to the library over the spring and summer, you will need to sign up again under our permanent subscription.

You can access the collection through your browser here (use your email address as the user name). Please see this handy guide for information on getting started with the Library. You can also download an app for offline reading.

If you have questions, please contact law-library@uic.edu or our Lexis consultant, Shelley Duncan, at shelley.duncan@lexisnexis.com.

West Academic provides access to their eBooks starting the week before classes start through the first two weeks of classes of the fall semester. To gain access, students can visit eproducts.westacademic.com and create an account (please type the url if you’re unable to click or copy and paste). More detailed instructions are available here.

Looking for a law review article, an old federal statute, or a historical treaty? You can find all of these and considerably more in HeinOnline. HeinOnline is a database that is best known for its collection of law reviews and journals—to access a specific journal, click on the catalog tab above the search bar and enter the name of the journal you’re looking for.

As you can see in the image below, HeinOnline also provides access to a wide range of other primary and secondary legal material, including U.S. federal materials, practice area-specific resources, and cross disciplinary resources on topics such as women and the law and slavery in the U.S.A. and abroad. There is a series of helpful videos on Hein’s YouTube page, and if you have questions about using HeinOnline, please visit the reference desk, call us at 312-427-2737 x729, or send us a message using the “Ask a Librarian” function on the library homepage (available M-Th, 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays, 10:00-4:00 during the fall and spring semesters).