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ARTE Campus This link opens in a new window
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How to access: Click on "Log In" then select "American University of Paris" :
For the login and password please contact library@aup.edu (for AUP current students, faculty and staff only).
Aurora Metro Books This link opens in a new window
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With over 125 plays, the Aurora Metro Books collection offers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by black and Asian writers.
Cobaz This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) ISO ISO Documents
Find International and French standards
Constellate This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) JSTOR Constellate
Constellate enables you to easily and confidently incorporate text analysis into your curriculum. Whether you're new to the practice or a seasoned pro, our user-friendly software and pedagogical approach will meet your educational needs.
COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present This link opens in a new window
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"Compiling together publications on the various ways COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, from testing
issues, to stimulus payments, to the quest for a vaccine, this database organizes content on COVID-19 into the
following areas of focus: Economic Impact, Global Impact, Health Care Impact, and Societal Impact, with an
expanding selection of scholarly articles and links to take your learning beyond HeinOnline."
Criminal Justice & Criminology This link opens in a new window
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"HeinOnline’s Criminal Justice & Criminology database offers a historical overview of these two ever-changing disciplines and their various expressions in American and English law over time. Collecting Bureau of Justice statistics, memoirs of retired Scotland Yard investigators, congressional hearings, rare or hard-to-find accounts of prison life in days long past, and much more, this collection explores how criminal justice has changed in America, and the effect criminology has had on those changes."
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
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eHRAF World Cultures database contains information on present and past aspects of cultural and social life for a worldwide sample of societies
English Reports This link opens in a new window
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"HeinOnline’s English Reports database delivers exact page images of the original bound reprint edition of The English Reports, a collection of judgments of the higher English Courts between 1220 and 1866. The full reprint edition contains more than 100,000 cases along with a two-volume index of cases and citations as recorded as they appear in the original reports. Also included in the database are the Statutes of the Realm (the authoritative collection of Acts of the Parliament of England from 1235-1713), pre-1865 law reports for England and Wales."
Foreign & International Law Resources Database This link opens in a new window
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"Researchers are able to easily search or browse online through the treasures of some of the world’s best international law titles, from the in-depth coverage of publications of the American Society of International Law and prominent yearbooks from around the world to the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series and the publications of dozens of other highly-respected publishers. Altogether, this library contains more than 1,400 titles and 2.8 million pages"
Foreign Relations of the United States This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) FRUS
"The Foreign Relations of the United States database presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. It is comprised of more than 3,200 volumes containing invaluable information beginning with Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 and continuing to the administration of Ronald Reagan in 1988."
Gale OneFile Science This link opens in a new window
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More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered; updated daily, this collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry.
Global Plants This link opens in a new window
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"Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration."
HeinOnline Academic Global This link opens in a new window
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History of International Law This link opens in a new window
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"This database includes information dating back to 1690 on the history of international law subjects such as War & Peace, the Nuremberg Trials, Law of the Sea, International Arbitration, Hague Conferences and Conventions and much more!"
Immigration Law & Policy in the U.S. This link opens in a new window
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"This comprehensive database is a compilation of the most important historical documents and legislation related to immigration in the United States, as well as current hearings, debates, and recent developments in immigration law. It also includes BIA Precedent Decisions, legislative histories, law and policy titles, extradition titles, scholarly articles, an extensive bibliography, and other related works."
Law Academy Project This link opens in a new window
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"Discover the history of legal education in America through the works of the Law Academy, one of the earliest educational institutions in the United States for law-related education, established in 1821 in Philadelphia, PA. This database gathers the Academy's pamphlets and pairs them with biographical highlights of the author and a summary of its contents."
Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window
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"more than 3,200 law and law-related periodicals featuring subjects such as criminal justice, political science, technology, human rights, and more. Coverage for all journals is from inception and goes through the most currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers."
Law Library of Congress Reports This link opens in a new window
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"The Law Library of Congress produces reports on foreign, comparative, and international law in response to requests from Members of Congress, Congressional staff and committees, the federal courts, executive branch agencies, and others. Selected reports are provided for the public for reference purposes only and do not constitute legal advice. The information provided reflects research undertaken as of the date of writing, which has not updated unless specifically noted. There are currently over 3,000 legal reports available online. Current and historical reports are released periodically."
Legal Classics Library This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) Legal Classics
"This database contains thousands of works from some of the greatest legal minds in history including Joseph Story, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, William Holdsworth, Henry Maine, Frederic William Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and many more! In addition to many classic treatises, this collection also includes rare items that are found in only a handful of libraries around the world."
Libby This link opens in a new window
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Leisure reading enjoy ebooks and audiobooks on many different topics. There are also some classics
Military and Government This link opens in a new window
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"This collection brings together thousands of diverse publications related to the history, glory, might, and daily nitty-gritty of administrating America's fighting forces. Content focuses on the function of the federal government in administrating the armed forces, the armed forces' structural changes over time, and the issues confronting service personnel both on and off the battlefield. Coverage is from the American Revolution on up to the present War on Terror, with selected titles from English military history to supplement understanding of the development of America's own military law."
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OpenBibArt This link opens in a new window
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"OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS)."
Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) ORE
The OREs will grow to be a network of digital, discipline-centered encyclopedias covering all the major areas of research across the humanities, social sciences, and science fields. New subject areas are selected based on market research, where such anchoring reference sources are needed most.
Oxford Very Short Introduction This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) VSI, Very Short Introduction
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"more than 60 publications from the prestigious Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law at Columbia Law School. It also contains Szladit's Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law, a 22-volume set including more than 200 years of coverage."
Proquest Research Companion This link opens in a new window
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"Research Companion is an information literacy and digital literacy tool. It helps students do more effective scholarly research."
Religion and the Law This link opens in a new window
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"This database provides a research platform for the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. The collection includes the Christian Legal Society publications, an assortment of Canon Law, books, periodicals, bibliographies, and rare historical bibles."
Rock's Backpages This link opens in a new window
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"The world's largest archive of music journalism, featuring over 50,000 articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, with a new edition every Friday."
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa This link opens in a new window
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"The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe."
U.S. International Trade This link opens in a new window
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"This database brings together current and historical content of U.S. international trade including USITC Publications Archive, legislative histories, CFR & U.S. Code Title 15 and Title 19, notable publications, scholarly articles, and much more!"
U.S. Supreme Court Library This link opens in a new window
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"This database includes complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes, as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court."
Understanding Great Works This link opens in a new window
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"Understanding Great Works is a research tool from JSTOR Labs that connects primary texts with with journal articles and book chapters on JSTOR that cite those texts. Building on a previous project, Understanding Shakespeare, this beta release of Understanding Great Works expands the scope of the tool to include ten key works of British literature, the King James Bible, and all Shakespeare plays and sonnets."
Understanding Shakespeare This link opens in a new window
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Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library . It’s a research tool that allows students, educators and scholars to use the text of Shakespeare’s plays to quickly navigate into the scholarship written about them—line by line. Users simply click next to any line of text in a play and relevant articles from the JSTOR archive immediately load.

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United Nations Law Collection This link opens in a new window
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"This database contains exact reproductions of major United Nations legal publications, including the complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series, the League of Nations Treaty Series, the Monthly Statement of Treaties & International Agreements, UNCITRAL Publications, UNIDIR Publications, the United Nations Legislative Series, and much more."
Women and the Law (Peggy) This link opens in a new window
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"Women and the Law (Peggy) is a collection that brings together books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law. It provides a convenient platform for users to research the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years."
World Constitutions Illustrated This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents and Resources
"This database enables legal scholars to research the constitutional and political development of every country in the world. It includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for all countries."
World Heritage Sites: Africa This link opens in a new window
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"World Heritage Sites: Africa links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. The materials in World Heritage Sites: Africa serve researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, Diaspora studies, folklore and literature, geography, and history, as well as those focused on geomatics, advanced visual and spatial technologies, historic preservation, and urban planning. "
World Treaty Library This link opens in a new window
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"This database brings together works from Rohn, Dumont, Wiktor, and Martens to create the richest collection of world treaties ever available, spanning from 1648 to the present. Also included are hundreds of related treaty publications, scholarly articles chosen by our editors, and a bibliography of related publications."
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