Researching the Law in the United States for LLM Students

This page provides an overview of some of the non-legal research resources available to you through the Stanford libraries. Because of the myriad types of sources available, these are only a sampling of what's available. We encourage you to contact the reference librarians (reference@law.stanford.edu) if you have specific research questions or are looking for specific types of sources not covered on this page.

The major databases for non-legal research include:

• EBSCO
  • Includes a broad variety of historical, humanities, and social science articles, as well as music, information sciences, and more. Browse the list of databases for the full list of resources.
• Gale
  • Historical archives of several major newspapers; the Gale Directory Library; and the Women's Studies Archive are just a few of the resources available through Gale.
• Graduate School of Business Business Databases
• JSTOR
  • Collection of academic journal articles, books and some primary sources. Best for social science research.
• ProQuest
  • Similar to Gale in its breadth of resources; includes business resources, environmental science, historical newspapers, and sociology resources, among many others.
• Sage Journals
  • Portfolio of hundrerds of journals spanning criminology, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology
• Taylor and Francis
  • Great sources of articles related to law from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Please also see the Secondary Sources: Legal Research section of this guide for information about using Searchworks, Articles+, and Google Scholar (all of which include both legal and non-legal secondary sources).