UMKC Leon E. Bloch Law Library

General Library Catalogs
- MERLIN
  - Description: Search the library catalogs of the four University of Missouri campuses. Besides searching the entire University of Missouri System, you may limit your search to just this library, this campus, or the law school in Columbia.
- MOBIUS
  - Description: Search over seventy Missouri academic libraries, including the law libraries at Washington University and St. Louis.
- WorldCat (UMKC Only)
  - Description: Search OCLC WorldCat, the world's largest catalog with over 10,000 libraries. This version is for UMKC only. The advantage of this version (over the free version) is that it permits you to request items through interlibrary loan services.
- WorldCat (Free Web Version)
  - Description: Search the free version OCLC WorldCat, the world's largest catalog with over 10,000 libraries. This version detects your geographic proximity and will indicate where items are in libraries close to your location.
- IndexMaster
  - Description: IndexMaster is designed to help find secondary legal titles. It does what ordinary catalogs do not do by providing searchable access to indexes and tables of contents for thousands of legal titles, including looseleafs on treatises. It is a great resource for finding a title on a specific subject. However, it does not provide access to the text itself.
Historical Materials Catalogs
- All British Library Catalogs
  - Description: Resource page for linking to catalogs at all of the major British libraries, museums, and archives.
- English Short Title Catalog (ESTC)
  - Description: ESTC covers material printed from 1473-1800 in the British Isles, Colonial America, USA (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages, and items printed elsewhere wholly or partly in English. It is a union catalogue of holdings in the British Library and more than 2,000 other libraries worldwide. Many of the items listed in ESTC may be available in full-text in Early English Books Online or Eighteenth Century Collection Online.
- Library of Congress
  - Description: The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 138 million items, including more than 32 million books and other print materials, 2.9 million recordings, 12.5 million photographs, 5.3 million maps, 5.5 million pieces of sheet music and 61 million manuscripts. Wile the Library of Congress does not lend items out, it is an essential resource for in-depth, historical research.
- Oxford Libraries Information System
  - Description: Excellent resource for in-depth research, and especially useful to plan research for those attending the law school's Oxford summer program.
Full Text Subscriptions
- Early English Books Online
  - Description: EBBO is the source for the earliest Anglo-American law books. It contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the English Civil War. Because database text is not fully searchable, you will need to use subject, keyword, and title fields to locate items. More...
- Eighteenth Century Collection Online
  - Description: ECCO is a comprehensive digital database of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm. Approximately 138,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 (including over 10,000 law titles). Additional titles are still being added to the collection. When complete, the service will allow full-text searching of 26 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. More...
- HeinOnline Legal Classics and Other Libraries
  - Description: The HeinOnline Legal Classics Library offers more than 1,200 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, including Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo and Edward Coke. In addition to many "classics", this collection includes rare items that are found in only a handful of libraries around the world. The collection focuses on constitutional law, political science, and other classic topics.
  - Other important historical databases on HeinOnline, include: Code of Federal Regulations, English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865), European Center for Minority Issues, Federal Register Library, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, Foreign Relations of the United States, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Philip C. Jessup Library, Session Laws Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Supreme Court Library, and the World Trials Library. More...
- LLMC Digital Library Collection
  - Description: A consortium database, supported by law libraries, consisting of thousand of law titles, including government, international, and foreign titles.
- Making of the Modern Law
  - Description: MOML is a database of legal treatises comprising over 21,000 works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law, with 14,900 titles from the nineteenth century and 7,100 titles from the years 1900 to 1926. It covers nearly every aspect of law, encompassing a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature, some very rare. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. The collection is of interest to scholars and patrons interested in domestic and international law, legal history, business and economics, politics and government, national defense, criminology, religion, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice. More...
- NetLibrary Ebooks
  - Description:Online Ebook service with over 7,000 titles and 163 law subject titles.
Books on the Web
- Google Book Search
  - Description: Biggest full-text book repository, in PDF, but only works out of copyright are usually available in full text)
- Project Gutenberg
  - Description: (Full-text classic, out-of-copyright works, but in digital, non-image, formats only).
Legal Publishers
- AcqWeb's Director of Law Publishers & Vendors
  - Description: Exhaustive directory of law and other publishers.
- Bowker's Books in Printer
  - Description: Subscription online service tracking all books in and out of print in North America. The service includes publisher and pricing information.
- CRIV Legal Publishers List
  - Description: Directory of legal publishers, grouped according to their parent publishing companies.

Catalog & Inter-Library Loan Systems

Concentric rings with MERLIN (4 UM schools) in the Center, MOBIUS (70 Mo. libaries) next, and WorldCat (10,000 libraries) last.

Several overlapping inter-library loan (ILL) systems are available to UMKC students, faculty and staff.

Users should start with MERLIN (center blue ring), representing the University of Missouri's collective library system, and then work their way outward to MOBIUS (yellow ring), representing university and college libraries in Missouri, and then finally, to WorldCat(orange ring).

MERLIN provides the longest loans, the quickest response, and is the least costly for the University system. The next best lending system is MOBIUS, and finally WorldCat.

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