http://www.cabells.com/

Anyone interested in publishing in a business field such as Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management or Marketing will want to use Cabell’s. An author can search for journals that might publish an article in one of these fields. Search for information about journal by topic, journal name, acceptance rate, type of review process, publisher and other fields. Cabell’s also provides an author with information about what is needed to submit an article to a journal, such as how many copies of the manuscript are needed and other publication guidelines.

The Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook is a venerable publication with a long history of providing in depth information on every country and territory across the globe. Recently, the CIA announced the end of the print Factbook, and on June 8, 2009, the CIA unveiled its upgraded online version of the publication.

While the original online version was merely an online representation of the print edition, the online version is now updated at least every two weeks. Country-specific data is updated and enhanced, and falls within the following categories: Introduction; Geography; People; Government; Economy; Communications; Transportation; Military; and Transnational Issues. New to the enhanced version: in each country’s profile, ranked categories show that country’s rank within the category, with a link to the rankings list.

Regional maps have also been enhanced and photographs have been added for over 100 of the 266 entries.

CIA World Factbook is a free resource available on the Internet at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html.

HeinOnline Selden Society Publications is a good place to look for the history of early English law back to the 13th century. The Selden Society is a learned society organized as a British charitable organization for the purpose of publishing English legal history materials. This database contains official publications from the Selden Society, including manuscripts, digests, yearbooks, and encyclopedias. It also includes links to law review articles discussing the development of English history, over 125 English legal history classics, and early English cases and statutes.

The database includes PDF images from the Selden Society Annual Series Vols. 1-117 (1887-2000), the Supplementary Series Vols. 1-13 (1965-2000), the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society, English Reports (1220-1865) and Statutes of the Realm (1235-1713). The publications include modern English translations for the Yearbooks and other early documents written in Law French.

Look for HeinOnline’s Selden Society Publications on the library’s electronic database list, http://library.kentlaw.edu/eresources/index.htm. It is available off campus and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

Country Statistics from UNdata links to the official statistics web sites for almost 60 countries. The list is available on the right side of the main UNdata page at http://data.un.org/. The national statistics pages are not necessarily available in English, but many are, although sometimes the English version is less complete. 

Links to major UN statistical databases are also available in a list to the left. News about newly released statistics is featured. Click on “More” to find country profiles and an advanced search template. 

This is a free resource, available at http://data.un.org/.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is an online database that updates this important text by the same title. There are currently over 700 entries in the encyclopedia, which can be accessed either by searching (quick or advanced) or browsing. Browsing is allowed by entry title, author, or subject, with 29 subjects included thus far. Many articles also contain extensive bibliographies for further research and more in-depth treatment. The encyclopedia entries are also hyperlinked whenever another entry is mentioned. There are entries for various international organizations; concepts in international law; important treaties; disputed territories; conflicts; important international cases; and more.

A list of all published and planned articles is available at http://www.mpepil.com/pdf/full_article_list.pdf and is thirty-one pages long. The encyclopedia is published by Oxford University Press.

Look for the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law on the library’s electronic database list, http://library.kentlaw.edu/eresources/index.htm. It is available off campus and on the Downtown, Main, and Rice campuses.

The Flare Index to Treaties is a recent project of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). The Institute is based at the University of London. The Index includes only those treaties which the project considered significant and which have three or more parties. Bilateral treaties, even if significant, are not included.

This is a searchable database of basic information on over 1,500 of the most significant multilateral treaties from 1856 to the present, with details of where the full text of each treaty may be obtained in paper and, if available, electronic form on the Internet. It is searchable by key words, and by the date and place the treaty was concluded.

The selection was based mainly on entries in Multilateral Treaties: index and current status, (available at the Library Reference Desk). International Legal Materials and a number of other treaty resources were also consulted. IALS hopes to porvide annual updates to the Index.

Flare Index to Treaties is a free resource that can be found at http://193.62.18.232/dbtw-wpd/textbase/treatysearch.htm.

Need a copy of your birth certificate and don’t know where to get one? Interested in reading the President’s budget documents for 2010? Want to know if the government has any tips on how to prevent identity theft? The answers to all of these questions, and much more, can be found on USA.gov, the government’s official portal. This resource brings together various government websites; even if you don’t know which agency has the information you need, USA.gov will direct you to the right place.

USA.gov has separate sections that contain resources for citizens, for businesses and nonprofits, for government employees, and for visitors to the United States. Within each section, you can pick the topic that interests you and find lots of government information. The website also links users to websites where you can “get it done online,” whether you want to renew your driver’s license, replace vital records, file wage reports for your employees, or find a U.S. Embassy in another country. It also provides a directory of government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as links to tribal governments.

People who want to keep up-to-date can subscribe to several RSS feeds. The feeds include the Gov Gab blog, news and features updates and answers to popular government questions from USA.gov, and money, health, and consumer news from Pueblo.

USA.gov is a free resource that can be found at http://www.usa.gov.

Recently, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) replaced their prior database of company filings (EDGAR) with a new database, IDEA (for the prior Featured Resource entry on EDGAR, go here). The IDEA web site includes a user’s guide for IDEA. Please note that despite the switch from EDGAR to IDEA, at this time there are still numerous references to EDGAR on the SEC’s Website.

In IDEA (Interactive Data Electronic Applications), users will find the mandatory documents that publicly-traded companies must file with the SEC, including Current Reports (Form 8-K), Quarterly Reports (Form 10-Q) and Annual Reports (Form 10-K). Exhibits attached to the filings are also included. While documents are available in HTML, as opposed to PDF, they are still rendered in a format that approximates the actual filing in appearance. Company filings are available back to 1994. Documents are searchable by company name or stock ticker symbol, and also by industry classification, and geographic location. Full-text searching, in both basic and advanced modes, is available for documents from the prior four years.

A feature new to IDEA is the ability to subscribe to a filing company’s RSS feed, using an RSS Reader (such as Google Reader). By doing so, the user will be alerted each time the subscribed-to company files a new document with the SEC.

IDEA , like EDGAR before it, is a free resource and is available at http://idea.sec.gov/.

It’s 3 a.m….you just realized you need an article to finish your big project that is due tomorrow morning, and the Library is CLOSED. What do you do?

Don’t worry–the A-Z Journals list can help you find the article that you need! The A-Z Journals list is an electronic resource that allows researchers to find specific journal titles in most of the databases to which the Library currently provides access. Law students should note that LexisNexis currently is not covered by the list.

Say you need an article in the Harvard Business Review. Simply go to the A-Z Journals list and type “Harvard Business Review” in the box and click the “Go” button. The results list will show you that HBR is available full-text in the EBSCO Business Source Premier database from 1922. Click on the journal title, and a pop-up box allows you to enter the citation information. Simply enter the information you have and click the “Go” button, and you’ll be sent to the article you requested. If you don’t have any citation information, just click the “Go” button, and you’ll be sent to the journal’s available tables of contents so that you can scroll through each issue or conduct a search within the database.

The A-Z Journals list only searches for the exact search word/phrase you type and does not automatically truncate or provide spelling alternatives. However, you can use a * wildcard if you are unsure of a word (use “child*” for child, child’s, children, etc.). You can also choose “Starts With” or “Contains” to narrow or broaden your results.

If you have a topic, but not a specific journal, you can also try the A-Z Journals list’s “Category” tab to help you locate a specific title that may be useful. Simply choose a broad category (”Law”) and choose a narrow category (”Banking law”) and hit the “Go” button. Any relevant journals will appear below.  Some researchers will also find the “Locate” tab useful if they only have an ISSN or publisher.

The A-Z Journal List is available at the Downtown Campus and by remote access.  You can link to it from the Library’s E-Resources page.