Useful Links
Consumer Resources
The official site to get your free annual credit reports.
Research used car values, new car prices and compare models.
Research the latest new car prices and used car book values.
Fact Checking Resources
Nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters.
A fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics.
Reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Provides free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials.
Health Resources
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
Legal Resources Online
American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center Journal
This free search engine searches the free full-text of over 400 online law reviews and law journals, as well as document repositories hosting academic papers and related publications such as Congressional Research Service reports.
Cornell Legal Information Institute
The LII publishes electronic versions of core materials in numerous areas of the law, primarily on the Web. They range from the Constitution to the U.S. Code, from Supreme Court decisions to the Code of Federal Regulations as well as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy Procedure, and Criminal Procedure.
The Cornell Legal Research Clinic invites legal research requests from local non-profit organizations and entrepreneurs, individuals, and legal service providers. Upper-level law students complete the research under the guidance of two attorney instructors.
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
The e-CFR is an editorial compilation of Code of Federal Regulations material and Federal Register amendments produced by the National Archives and Records Administration’s Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the Government Publishing Office.
FindLaw provides legal information, lawyer profiles and a community to help you make the best legal decisions.
Legal information on numerous legal topics and jurisdictions.
is an open access legal repository owned and maintained by members of the scholarly legal community.
Provides free legal aid to people with civil legal problems in western New York.
LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets
This site includes links to over 1,400 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword.
National Center for State Courts
Resource guides on various legal topics, court resources by state.
Information about courts, programs & services, court administration, e-courts, representing yourself, the law, jurors, legal profession, and judges.
New York State Legislative Information
New York State Laws, Court Acts, and Rules
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
PACER is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information online from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts, and the PACER Case Locator.
Reference Resources
Library of Congress Virtual Reference Shelf
Selected online resources for research from Library of Congress.
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Area Libraries
Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Library
Corning Community College library located in Corning, NY.
Charles B. Swartwood Law Library
Chemung County law library located in Elmira, NY.
Located in Ithaca, NY.
St. Bonaventure University library located in St Bonaventure, NY.
Elmira College library located in Elmira, NY.
Alfred University library located in Alfred, NY.
Alfred State College library located in Alfred, NY.
Public library located in Olean, NY, part of the Chautauqua – Cattaraugus Library System.
The libraries for both the Olean, NY and Jamestown, NY campus of Jamestown Community College.
Houghton College Library in Houghton, NY.