Research Guides: Student Resources: Advocacy Research

Scholarly Source Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete from EBSCO offers academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos covering virtually every discipline from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Credo Reference
Get background information to start your research on nearly any topic, from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. Search general and subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries (including bilingual and biographical dictionaries), thesauri, and books of quotations.
JSTOR
JSTOR contains the full backfiles of journals from their first issue up to the most recent 2 - 6 years. Current or recent articles are not available. U.S. articles published before 1923 are freely available regardless of subscription. CBU subscribes to JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection. Much of ARTStor is now included in JSTOR.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni™ (formerly LexisNexis Academic) features more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

American Immigration Lawyers Association - Infonet Research Library
Find white papers, legislation, immigration news, and other sources pertinent to the work and advocacy of the AILA. Includes a list of valuable web sources.
Digital Commons Network: Immigration Law
"The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work." This links to the section specifically on Immigration Law, but feel free to explore the rich possibilities of the DCN.