Politics of the Administrative Process

Political Science 254

A Selective Guide to WWW Resources for Administrative Law Information and Documents

Commercial Products for use by the Lehigh Community:

The Lehigh University Libraries make available a variety of commercial Web databases and products which supplement the many free resources on the World Wide Web. Their value added features are particularly useful to Lehigh Students doing research in Administrative Law.

A premier resource is LEXIS/NEXIS ACADEMIC  UNIVERSE which provides access to the full text of Federal Court Decisions, Federal Regulations and the United States Code. Lexis/Nexis ACADEMIC UNIVERSE also allows for searching and retrieving the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines and legal publications such as law reviews.

Another useful commercial web product which makes available excellent searching capabilities for the  Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations as well as the United States Code is CONGRESSIONAL UNIVERSE.

Freely available Web Resources:

LOCATING WEB PAGES FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES-

The Federal Web Locator (  http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html), produced by Villanova University's Center for Information on Law and Policy is a useful starting point for finding an executive agency's web presence.

Official Federal Government Web Sites: Executive Branch. Library of Congress Internet Resources Page.( http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html)

NON-COMMERCIAL SOURCES FOR LOCATING LEGAL INFORMATION ON THE WWW-

Cornell University. Legal Information Institute: ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/)

GLIN/Law Library of Congress: ( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/worldlaw.html) The Global Legal Information Network's Guide to Law Online.

FINDLAW  : (http://www.findlaw.com/info/link/searchlcbl.html)

GPO Access. U.S. Government Printing Office Databases (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dbsearch.html) 

Notes for Lehigh University Computing Site web users working with Adobe Acrobat or PDF Files:

Some web sites provide PDF (portable document file) versions of the text of documents and materials. It is necessary to have an Adobe Acrobat viewer installed on your computer to view or download these files. Users at Lehigh Computing sites may find that the Adobe Acrobat viewer is instantly invoked at the computer they are using. Other users will have to "Winstall" this viewer. To do this :

-minimize all your open programs and from the initial main desktop screen click on the Winstall icon

- in the "available applications" window highlight "Acrobat Reader 4.0"

- click on the "Install" button on the upper left of the window. This should install the Acrobat Viewer.

- reopen your Netscape browser

- the next time you choose to view a PDF file with your browser, the Adobe Acrobat Viewer will be automatically invoked and display your document. 

Guide created by Roseann Bowerman,
Social Sciences Librarian
Lehigh University
x 83053
updated: 9/99