Library users have access to a variety of free resources at the workstations in Jenkins’ Reference Room. Included are Lexis, Westlaw, Fastcase, and palawlibrary.com.

When you don't have enough time to do your own search, we can do it for you! Jenkins subscribes to a number of fee-based databases, and our librarians can perform searches at a reasonable cost. For more information, contact the Reference Desk at 215.574.1505.

Free Electronic In-house Databases

Many of the following resources are also available to Jenkins' members from their home computers through Jenkins Member Online Services.

• America's News Magazines, NewsBank
  America's News Magazines offers full-text searching of over 25 magazines on the topics of Business, News, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Sports. Titles include Fortune, Money, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, and Popular Science. Years of coverage vary by title, but most date back over twenty years.

• America's Newspapers, NewsBank
  NewsBank offers full-text searching of over 800 newspapers from across the United States, including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News. Years of coverage vary by title, but most date back at least twenty years. This Internet service has an easy to use interface and is updated daily.

• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), HeinOnline *
  1938 - 1983

• Code of Federal Regulations - List of Sections Affected, HeinOnline *
  (located in the Federal Register Library)
  1949 - 2000

• Court Records & Briefs Index, Jenkins Law Library
  Search our index of Records & Briefs from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth, Superior and Supreme Courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

• English Reports (full reprint), HeinOnline *

• European Center for Minority Issues, HeinOnline *

• Fastcase
  Fastcase is available on four workstations in the Reference Room. This easy to use product allows case law searching for all 50 states and the federal jurisdictions.

• Federal Register, HeinOnline *
  Volume 1 (1936) - present

• Legal Periodicals
  Patrons can search for articles from more than 9000 legal and nonlegal publications using:
  • General OneFile (index and selected full text)
  • Law Journal Library, HeinOnline * (full text articles)
  • LegalTrac (index and selected full text)
  • WilsonWeb (index and selected full text)

• Legal Classics Library, HeinOnline *
  Contains some of the most momentous legal works ever written, such as Blackstone's Commentaries (1803), Cardozo's Growth of the Law (1924), and Story's first edition of Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833).

• Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, HeinOnline *
  • 1st - 8th ed.

• Lexis Patron Access
  Lexis Patron Access is available on five dedicated workstations in the Reference Room. Search:
  • All State & Federal cases and statutes
  • Levit's Pennsylvania Domestic Relations Forms
  • Shepard's Citations
  • Statutes and Statutory Instruments of England and Wales
  • And much more

• LLMC-Digital
  This in-house database provides access to archival materials from the executive, judicial and legislative branches of the Federal government. Particularly helpful for administrative decisions, such as the following:
  • Agriculture Department Decisions
  • Federal Power Commission Decisions
  • Foreign Claims Settlement Commission Decisions
  • And much more
  For a list of all titles currently available see JAC Plus.

• palawlibrary.com
  Visitors have complete access to: Pennsylvania state and local reported and unreported cases, PA D & C 3rd & 4th, state and county court rules, a news archive containing articles from The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly, suits filed, trial listings, and a wide range of other legal information.

• PA LegalForms, Thomson Gale
  Provides access to over 5700 fill-in ready forms on a range of topics.

• Pennsylvania Legislative Histories
  Librarian compiled histories available in PDF format or at the reference desk.

• State Session Laws, HeinOnline *
  Session Laws of all 50 U.S. States (as well as the Acts of the Parliament of Canada) from approximately 2003 to present.

• Treaties and Agreements Library, HeinOnline *
  • Guide to Treaties in Force 1982-2005
  • Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties (Kappler) 1902-1971
  • International Legal Materials starting from Volume 1(1962)
  • KAV Agreements starting from KAV 1
  • Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements (Malloy) 1776-1937
  • Treaties and International Act Series (TIAS) starting from TIAS 11060
  • Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Miller) 1776-1863
  • Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America (Bevans) 1776-1949
  • Treaties in Force (TIF) starting from 1932
  • United States Treaties and Other International Agreements Volume 1 (1950) - Volume 35 (1984)
  • and more.

• U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library, HeinOnline *
  • Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States Volume 1 (1791) - Volume 43 (1982)
  • Opinons of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice Volume 1 (1977) - Volume 20 (1996)

• U.S. Government Manual, HeinOnline *
  
  • 1935 - 2005

• U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, HeinOnline *
  A collection of full-text legislative histories on some of the most important and historically significant legislation of our time. Also available is the looseleaf publication Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories: A Bibliography of Government Documents, Periodical Articles and Books.

• U.S. Presidential Library, HeinOnline *
  Compilations of messages and papers, public papers, inaugural addresses, weekly compilation of documents, economic reports, etc.

• U.S. Statutes at Large, HeinOnline *
  • Volume 1 (1789-1799) - Vols. 117-118 (2003-2004)

• U.S. Supreme Court Library, HeinOnline *
  • U.S. Reports Volume 1 (1754) -
  • U.S. Reports Slip Opinions current
  • U.S. Reports Preliminary Prints current

• Westlaw Patron Access
  Westlaw Patron Access is available on three dedicated workstations in the Reference Room. Search:
  • All State & Federal cases and statutes
  • AmJur Library
  • Standard Pennsylvania Practice
  • Over 600 law reviews and bar journals
  • And much more

• World Trials Library, HeinOnline *
  Contains the American State Trials, Howell’s State Trials, Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Reports by State Trials, Sixty Famous Cases and the full trial collection from Cornell University Law Library.

Fee-based Electronic Databases

Our librarians can access additional resources for you on the following fee-based databases. For more information, contact the Reference Desk at 215-574-1505.