Refer to the Research Guide on Secondary Sources for more sources and detailed information.

AGIS Plus Text Full text and abstracts

The key resource for Australasian legal journal articles, conference papers and reports. Coverage: 143 law journals. Indexed articles from 1970. Full text articles from 1995 (See also Informit).

AustLII Legal Scholarship Library Full text

Australasian database of 60 full text law journals, including many not included in AGIS.

Index to Legal PeriodicalsIndex with some full text

Indexes articles from 1,025+ legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, and bar association publications, and over 1,400 books per year. Includes full text coverage for 320+ periodicals from 1994. Mostly US content, but includes major periodicals from Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. ILP combines 2 databases: ILP Full Text (1982+) and ILP Retrospective (vol 1 – 1981 for most titles). Coverage: 1908+

Hein Online Full text

Retrospective legal periodicals. Coverage: Some titles from late 1800's. Generally does not hold material from the last 3 years. 

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Abstracts

Multilingual index to 470 legal journals worldwide. Also covers some published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Mélanges, and congress reports. Coverage: 1985+

Informit (Including AGIS etc)

Informit includes a a number of databases pertinent to law, including AGIS Plus Text, SNIPER for Intellectual Property, Australian Federal Police Digest, the Australian Industrial Relations Database and many others. This is the largest database index for Australasian Legal journals, it mostly includes index searching, with some full text. We recommend you "select all" databases to use the full Informit database for a better search, but you can use the individual databases for narrower areas.

LegalTrac Index with some full text

Key resource for legal journals, law reviews, newpspers, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Indexing for approximately 1700+ journals.
Jurisdiction: US focus and some titles from other jurisdiction such as Europe, Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Coverage: 1980+

Lexis Full text

900 full text journals, law reviews, bar journals and legal newspapers. Mainly US and Canadian titles.

LexisNexisAU Full text and article citator

Includes 12 Lexis journals in full text, as well as the ability to search for journal references to cases in Casebase. Coverage: 1990's+

Lexis-Nexis Academic Full text

350+ worldwide newspapers. Includes headline news, general news' topics, news/broadcast transcripts, foreign language news sources as well as company, industry, market and legal news.

Westlaw Full text  

700+ journals, law reviews and bar journals. Focus is on US, Canadian and UK titles. Also includes Legal Journals Index, an index of 430+ UK and European Union titles. The index links to the full text of the articles. Individual staff password access

Academic Search Premier  Full text

Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for 4,500+ journals, including 3604+ peer-reviewed titles and 374 mostly full text law titles. US focus, but includes some international. Coverage: Mainly from mid 1980s.

Cambridge Journals  Full text  

Journals from Cambridge publishing. 230 journals, including 23 law titles.

Expanded Academic  (Includes Legal Trac) Full text

Multi-disciplinary database. 4,300+ indexed journals, 2,500 full text titles, and 3,000 peer-reviewed journals.  Coverage: 1980+

Informit (Includes AGIS)

Key multi-disciplinary resource for Australian journal articles. 70+ databases. Coverage: 1970+

ISI Web of Knowledge (includes Current Contents) Full text

Multi-disciplinary database which covers agriculture, art, biology, computer science, earth sciences, engineering, environmental studies, humanities, life sciences, medicine, science, social sciences, and technology.

JSTOR Full text

Full text archives of 1000+ leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes approx. 60 law titles. Coverage: Does not hold issues for the most recent 3-5 years.

SSRN (Social Science Research Network - includes Legal Scholarship Network) Full text and abstracts

The SSRN elibrary includes an abstract database containing abstracts from 260,000+ scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and an electronic paper collection currently containing 200,000+ full text papers.

Factiva Full text

25,000+ authoritative sources including 3000+ newspaper titles. Includes Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, the Associated Press, and D&B company profiles. May be unavailable at peak usage times.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Full text

350+ worldwide newspapers. Includes headline news, general news topics, news/broadcast transcripts, foreign language news sources, company, industry, market news and legal news.

CCH Online - Intelliconnect Full text

Australian CCH online commentary services covering topics such as Corporations, Trade practices, Tax, Health and Medical Law, Industrial Relations, Torts and Climate Change.

Westlaw AU Full text

Australian legal commentary materials published by Thomson, including the Laws of Australia, and online versions of legal texts.

LexisNexisAU Full text

Collection of Australian legal databases covering a large range of law areas. Includes Halsbury's Laws of Australia.

Lexis Full text commentary

Westlaw Full text commentary

AustLII

Australian and New Zealand unreported decisions, including most Australian courts, and many lower courts and tribunals.

Canadian Case Summaries

Summaries in English of Canadian and English court cases prepared

CaseTrack

Click here to get password You may need to click on "Login as a different user". Full text UK judgments may also be accessed on Westlaw and Lexis. Coverage: 1996+

CCH Online - Intelliconnect

Australian CCH law reports.

JADE

Jade (Judgments and Decisions Enhanced) is a free current awareness service that collects recent decisions of selected Australian Courts and Tribunals.  Jade can be used to search for Australian decisions, receive alerts on new decisions by email, and court digests by RSS. Jade has digitised copies of the Commonwealth Law Reports (CLRs) from 1903-1952.

Justis 

Full text of the The Law Reports (1865+), the Times Law Reports (1990+), the Weekly Law Reports (1953+) , the Daily Law Reports (1999+) and the International Law Reports (1919+).

Lawcite

Free access cross-jurisdictional case citator hosted on CommonLII.

Westlaw AU (formerly Legal Online)

Law reports published by Thomson, including the Commonwealth Law Reports (1900+), the Australian Law Journal Reports, Australian Criminal Reports, Australian Tax Reports, and the Administrative Appeals Reports. Legal Online also includes unreported decisions, as well as the Firstpoint case citator and digest.

Lexis

US case law, but also material from Australia, Canada, UK, the United Nations, and other international organizations. Includes Shephard's Citator service. Some users experience problems when using Internet Explorer. If this occcurs, you should try using an alternative browser such as Mozilla.

LexisNexisAU

Collection of full-text Australian legal databases. Includes law reports such as the Australian Law Reports, Family Law Reports, Intellectual Property Reports and Victorian Reports. It also includes Unreported Judgments for each of the Australian states and territories, and the CaseBase case citator.

Westlaw

Coverage includes US, UK, and Canadian case law. Includes the Keycite citator services. Individual staff password access

WorldLII 

World Legal Information Institute. Links to case material and legal resources worldwide. Browsable by country name.

Cambridge

Close to 1200 law titles. International and comparative law, but also covers human rights law, corporate law, legal history and intellectual property. The collection includes monographs, handbooks, textbooks and reference titles as well as publications with key global organisations, such as the WTO and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

CCH Online 

Has full text titles in the following areas: accounting, bankruptcy, insolvency, business law, industrial relations, tax and trade practices.

EBL

The University Library has access to over 5000 titles supplied by EBL. The EBL Library provides titles from academic  publishers in multiple subject areas including law. Simultaneous full text searching across all titles is
possible. Titles are continually added to the collection.

Edward Elgar -Law eBook collection 2011-2013

204 titles on intellectual property, international economic law, commercial law, human rights, environment and energy law, public international law and EU law.

Hart

Major UK law publisher, provides access to e books covering a wide range of law subject areas. UK law, and some international law coverage. Includes some key texts for certain areas of the law.

Kluwer Arbitration

Has 69 arbitration titles including Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration (2009), Yearbook Commercial Arbitration (1976 – to date), International Commercial Arbitration, Born, 2009.

IBFD – international tax

IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) has 142 e books on topics including - comparative tax law, European and EU tax law, international tax planning, tax treaties and transfer pricing.

Martinus Nijhoff

Brill publications for International Law and Human Rights are available in this database. Books are written by a wide range of international authors.

Making of Modern Law:

Trials 1600-1926 This collection describes the courtroom dramas in America, the British Empire and the world - includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitrations.

Foreign, comparative and international law 1600-1926 This collection is an invaluable collection of legal treatises, historical records and works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Providing broad coverage, the collection enables detailed research on centuries of major events of legal history, from public policy and taxation to contract law, sustainable development concerns, and issues of war and peace.

Legal Treatises 1800-1926 Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which offers quick and easy access to the full text Oxford books covering many areas  

Springer

This package includes English titles published by Springer from 2005 – 2011. 2012 titles will be added as they are released. There are 12 main subject categories including ‘Humanities, Social Sciences and Law’.

Casebase (LexisNexis AU)

Mostly Australian and some UK cases. CaseBase is a comprehensive citator and annotator of cases from 60+ Australian and overseas' reports. Includes some digest material and links to articles. Updated daily.

CaseTrack

UK case citator. Click here to get password You may need to click on "Login as a different user". Full text UK judgments may also be accessed on Westlaw and Lexis. Coverage 1996+

Just Cite (Justis)

UK case citator.

Firstpoint (Westlaw AU)

Firstpoint case citator, includes useful digests of cases. Features a subject-based taxonomy with linked cases. Full text of cases is accessible where available on the Thomson web site. Updated daily. Coverage: Reported Australian case law from 1825, and unreported Australian cases from 1999. Updated daily.

Keycite (Westlaw)

Covers Australian, UK, US, Canadian, NZ, and Hong Kong case law.

LawCite (AustLII)

International case citator available on the Austlii site. Freely available material.

Shepard's Citations Service(Lexis)

Covers US cases.

Australian

Refer to the LibGuide on Australian legislation for more sources and detailed information.

Australian Parliament House Website

Includes Commonwealth Bills and Bills Digests, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Explanatory Memoranda, Committee Reports.

Canada Statutes

Full text of the revised Statutes of Canada, including some point in time capability.

ComLaw/FRLI 

Full text Commonwealth legislation and legislative instruments. 

Timebase

Searchable legislation for all Australian jurisdictions. It also includes alerting service on legislation developments, bills, EMs and repealed legislation. Point-in-time for some law subjects.

SAI Global (Lawlex)

We have free access to material 'above the redline', including Hansard, legislation, second reading speeches, and debates.

Victorian Legislation & Parliamentary Documents

Includes full text, up-to-date legislation, and historical versions of legislation.

UK

Justis

Online legal library with UK legislation. Includes historical UK legislation.

US

Lexis

Includes federal public laws and the United States Code Service, as well as state codes, Federal and state registers, and state constitutions.

Westlaw

Comprehensive database of US case law and Shephard's citator service. Selected law report series from other jurisdictions, including Canada and the UK. Individual staff password access  

Australian

Australian Parliament House Website

Includes Commonwealth Bills and Bills Digests, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Explanatory Memoranda, Committee Reports.

Victorian Legislation & Parliamentary Documents

Includes full text, up-to-date legislation and historical versions of legislation.

UK

UK House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

This full text database contains over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the 2003/04 session, with supplementary material back to 1688

Canadian Legal Words and Phrases

Contains over 13,000 words and phrases judicially defined in Canadian court and tribunal decisions.

Halsbury's Laws of Australia

Large online encyclopaedia covering a wide variety of Australian legal subjects, mostly at an intermediate level. 89 titles cover both mainstream and more specific subject areas. Commentary on the law includes references to Australian legislative and judicial authority.

Halsbury's Laws of Canada

Large Canadian online encyclopaedia covering a wide variety of legal subjects, mostly at an intermediate level.

Halsbury's Laws of England

Large online encyclopaedia covering a wide spectrum of UK legal subjects. Useful for researching a new area of law and finding the most important cases, legislation and commentary in that area

Laws of Australia 

Large online encyclopaedia covering wide variety of Australian legal principles. Covers 320+ topics and every Australian jurisdiction.

Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law

The updated online edition of the reference work, Encyclopedia of Public International Law.

Oxford Reference

Kluwer Law Online

Online access to the following titles in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Constitutional Law, Energy Law, Environmental Law, Intergovernmental Organisations Law, Labour Law