To search all of the free internet sites listed on these pages, use the search box below:
* = Requires Miami Law log-in
Business & Corporate Information
- A.M. Best Company (Insurance Companies) (registration required)
- Better Business Bureau
- Bloomberg (business news)
- Company Information Guide (Virtual Chase) (list of useful business web sites)
- Corporate Information (very basic company information)
- Florida Company Records
- globalEdge (Michigan State University - International Business Resources)
- Hoover's Online (basic company and industry information)
- NASDAQ (has operational information, manual, companies listed, and more)
- *National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series - Abstracts and full-text of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Working Paper Series available on the web.
- New York Stock Exchange (includes rules and interpretations
- SEC Filings & Forms (Edgar) (text of public company filings)
- Stock Exchanges Worldwide (links to exchanges from around the globe)
- Universal Currency Converter (interactive foreign exchange calculator)
General Reference
- Miami-Dade Public Library (gives access to the catalog for the public library; with a Miami-Dade library card, users can also search electronic databases)
- Refdesk.com (browse or search general reference material from an atomic clock to the Old Farmer's Almanac, also provides a searchable dictionary)
- Yahoo (as one of the first web search tools, Yahoo has categorized many of the general use material on the web. For true reference material, try the Reference section)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (4500 open-access, scholarly journals)
- Open Access Magazines (Google's archive of general interest magazines)
- Project Gutenberg (Books, audio-books and other material in the public domain)
Statistics
- American Community Survey (Census Bureau) (age, race, income, and much more)
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (statistics related to crime, victimization, court system)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (information on employment, earnings, inflation, spending, etc.)
- Court Statistics Project (Nat'l Center for State Courts) (state caseload and other statistics)
- Economic Research Service (USDA)(farm, commodities and exports on state and county level)
- Federal Court Statistics (U.S. Courts) (numbers on caseload, filing, judgeships, and other topics)
- FederalStats (central point for governmental statistics, list by topic or agency)
- Florida Health Finder (statistics in Researchers section, also has health and facility information)
- Florida State Court Statistics (trial court statistics)
- Florida Statistics (U. of Florida) (some general Florida statistics - See instead
- National Center for Education Statistics (education-related numbers)
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (collation of criminal justice statistics)
- Statistical Abstract (collation of general statistics, gathered primarily by federal government)
- Statistical Resources on the Web (Univ.of Michigan) (large list of statistical web sites)
- U.S. Census State & County QuickFacts (state-level, general information)
- U.S. Census Statistics (population, economic, housing, and much more)
News
Websites of the Month
- Famous Trials (detailed information on famous trials, including the Salem Witchcraft Trials, the Leopold & Loeb Trial, the Amistad Trials and many more)
- Oyez (access to the full text of major constitutional law decisions, recorded oral arguments of many recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more)
- American Memory (hosted by the Library of Congress, this site includes historical documents, photographs, films, sheet music, oral histories, recorded speeches and more. See also the Florida Memory Project.)
- Florida Courts (web site for the Florida Court system, which provides information from the Supreme Court (e.g. opinions, court rules, calendars), the District Courts of Appeal and the Circuit Courts.)
- Department of Homeland Security (information about Homeland Security and information about the creation of the new department itself. Also see Ready.gov for suggestions on preparing for threats to security.)
- Regulations.gov (lists federal rules currently open for comment and provides a web-based comment form)
- Avalon Project (important 18th - 21st century documents)
- sunEthics (links to Florida, other states, and federal ethics documents)
- Florida Department of Children & Families (electronic forms and publications as well as information on each program in this department, from adoption to domestic violence)
- Election Law at Moritz (devoted to election law topics, from voting equipment to campaign finance)
- Findlaw (state and federal cases and codes, legal news and analysis and more)
- EUR-Lex (database for European Union legal documents, include decisions, treaties, legislation, the Official Journal, and more)
- Bar Exam Preparation Guide (lists useful web sites, study guides and articles to help get ready for the bar. It also has previous Florida essay exams, a list of subjects tested on the multistate and Florida bars, and more.)
- State Court Structure Charts (provides colorful charts outlining the court structure for each state)
- CARICOM (web site for the Caribbean Community)
- LLSDC Legislative Source Book (provides information on compiling legislative histories)
- Florida Family Law Court Forms (self-help site for family law)
- Florida Constitution (compilation of documents related to the Florida Constitution)
- UK Statute Law Database (Acts and Statutes from the United Kingdom)
- GovTrack (users can track current federal legislation)
- The Robing Room (gives lawyers the opportunity to anonymously rate the judges)
Legal News
- Abstract Appeal (blog on Florida and 11th Circuit legal news)
- The American Lawyer (articles on lawyers and the legal community)
- beSpacific (blog on law and technology news)
- ChessLaw (lists law-related blogs)
- CNN-Law (current law-related news)
- C-SPAN (government and political news)
- How Appealing (blog on federal court happenings)
- Jurist (legal news and commentary on legal issues by law faculty)
- Law.com (magazine on law and business of law)
- Lawyers Weekly USA
- McClurg's Legal Humor Headquarters legal news from the lighter side
- The National Law Journal
Law Reviews
- Directory of Open Access Journals - Listing of law journals that provide open access to their articles. Also provides a list of journals for other subjects from the main page
- *Hein Online - Hein Online has four major library collections: the Law Journal Library (including older issues of journals), the Federal Register Library (1936-1990), the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. All of these libraries are image-based and fully-searchable, meaning that they provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared.
- *Legal Scholarship Network Each LSN journal issue contains abstracts of recent working or accepted papers and comes in the form of indiviudally delivered e-mail messages. (To sign-up for the e-mail service, click on "Subscribe to Networks and Journals)
- Santa Clara Journal of International Law first published in March 2003 as an entirely electronic international law journal.
- University Law Review Project
- USC Legal Journals on the Web
Finding People, Places, Experts
Librarians' Resources
- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
- AALL
- Amazon
- Catalogers' Reference Shelf
- *Haworth Press Library Journals Online The Acquisitions Librarian, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Collection Management, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Information Supply, Journal of Internet Cataloging, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Library & Archival Security, Public Services Quarterly, Technical Services Quarterly, The Serials Librarian
- *Indexmaster provides the index and table of contents from recently published legal treatises
- Innovative Law Users Group
- InterDok - Directory of proceedings
- Legal Publishers' List
- Library of Congress
- Miami-Dade County Law Library Access to the library catalog and descriptions of services provided by this library.
- Miami-Dade Public Library
- National and Major Libraries of the World (IFLA)
- OCLC (Online Computer LibraryCenter)
- PubList
- Regional Alliance for Preservation
- SEALL
- SFALL