The law library website’s databases link is the place to find the best database for your search. On that page, the A-Z lists are a comprehensive list of what is available to you.
Ask one of our reference librarians if you don't know which database to start with for your research.
If you need to do any legislative history research, or otherwise find legislative material, the ProQuest databases are excellent. Legislative history can be a little tricky the first few times you have to deal with it, so don’t hesitate to ask a librarian for help.
The Government Printing Office (GPO) is an incredibly useful website. Government laws and many other publications are available on this site.
More obscure documents created by Federal agencies may be most easily found using the advanced search features of Google. Limit the search to .gov domains and .pdf documents.
The “Filters” drop down menu gives you various search options, such as Jurisdiction, Category (type of resource), Practice Area and Topic, Recent and Favorite and Advanced Search.
Advanced search gives you a guide to selecting appropriate connectors for precise searching. If you already know the connectors you need to run a particular search, you can always just type them in the search box without first selecting the advanced search filter.
Like Lexis, you can use terms and connectors searching by putting the appropriate terms and connectors in the search box. Or, you can click on “advanced” just to the right of the “SEARCH” button.
Back at the home screen, you will see tabs below the search box that will allow you to select various filters for your search. These include specific resource types (e.g. law review articles) practice areas, and jurisdictions.
The home page provides many options for finding information.
Alternatively, for a more precise search select the “Practice Centers” tab for a search in a specific field of law, or click on the “Search and Browse” tab.
At the “Search and Browse” tab, click “All legal content” to begin a search of legal materials on Bloomberg Law.
All three platforms have date restrictions, the ability to save to folders and share folder content, and allow you to create alerts for the resources/searches that yielded useful results.