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Electronic Databases & Directories

Electronic Databases & Directories for Legal Use. A Subject List

Key databases for Law

  • AGIS Plus Text : Attorney General’s Information Service (1975 – present)
    Covering all aspects of Australian law, and an authoritative collection for primary legal research in comparative and Commonwealth law. Includes articles, reports, and books from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region, plus selected material from the United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada starting from 1999.
  • AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute. Free access to Australasian legal materials. Includes legislation, decisions of courts and tribunals and treaties. Also some secondary materials including journals and law reform commission reports. Some international legal materials also available.
  • CCH Intelliconnect. This database includes full text of many loose-leaf services published by CCH. Full text of commentary, case law and legislation from CCH Australia Ltd. Covers many legal practice areas arranged by subject heading.
  • HeinOnline. Full-text legal journals and other legal documents predominantly US, also includes major international publications and some Australia Law reviews. Also includes English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) and Statutes of the Realm 1235-1713.
  • LawOne. Legislation from seven Australian jurisdictions, links through to amending and subordinate legislation, Bills, Explanatory Memoranda and Second Reading Speeches, detailed legislative histories. Commonwealth legislation updated daily, NSW legislation updated weekly, all other jurisdictions updated at least 12 times a year. Also includes Federal Cases, & TimeBase Point in Time Services (excluding the ASX Point in Time Service).
  • Westlaw AU. Provides access to a collection of Australian legal materials, incluging law reports, journals and loose-leaf titles. Includes the case citator Firstpoint and Laws of Australia.
  • Westlaw China. Contains laws and regulations promulgated by Chinese government agencies at both the central level and the level of province, municipality directly under the Central Government, and autonomous region since 1949. It also includes cases sourced from the Supreme People’s Court and local courts in 31 provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions, as well as special courts such as maritime courts. Updated daily.
  • Westlaw International. Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia)
  • Westlaw UK. Includes EU & UK legislation, case law, selected legal journals, Legal Journals Index, Financial Journals Index Archive (-Mar. 2006), Woodfall’s law of landlord and tenant, and Palmer’s company ‘s law.

Cases

  • AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute. Free access to Australasian legal materials. Includes legislation, decisions of courts and tribunals and treaties. Also some secondary materials including journals and law reform commission reports. Some international legal materials also available.
  • Australian Current Law – Reporter via LexisNexis AU. Provides digests of judgments from the High Court, the Federal Court and the State Supreme courts, as well as important decisions from the Family Court, Federal Magistrate’s Court, AAT and selected tribunals. Coverage extends back to 1976 for cases and to 1991 for legislation.
  • BarNet JADE. Jade (Judgments and Decisions Enhanced) is a free current awareness service that collects recent decisions of selected Australian Courts and Tribunals into a searchable database.
  • CaseBase via LexisNexis AU. Australian case citator providing details of where a case has been reported and cases where the main case has been considered. Also provides subject access to cases and journal articles which discuss a specific case.
  • FirstPoint via Westlaw AU. Combining Australian Case Citator and Australian Digest, this database cites Australian reported cases and summarises Australian case law developments.
  • ICLR Online.Provides access to authorised UK cases, including The Law Reports and Weekly Law Reports. Also the Citator+ index cards present relevant case information.
  • Law Reports – A-Z. Alphabetical list of Australian and New Zealand Online Law Reports
  • Justis & JustCite. Justis 2.0 is the online legal library of UK, EU and Irish law dating from 1163 to the present day. It is integrated with JustCite, a legal reference search engine, which provides a fully cross-referenced index to a comprehensive collection of authoritative UK and European legal information.
  • The ICLR reports including The Law Reports and Weekly Law Reports are now available via ICLR Online.
  • Lawlink. New South Wales Court and Tribunal Decisions (NSW Attorney-General’s Department)

Legislation

  • AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute. Free access to Australasian legal materials. Includes legislation, decisions of courts and tribunals and treaties. Also some secondary materials including journals and law reform commission reports. Some international legal materials also available.
  • Australian Current Law – Legislation. ACL Legislation alerts you to the latest amendments to all Acts, Regulations, Rules and other statutory instruments across all Australian jurisdictions. Coverage extends back to 1976 for cases and to 1991 for legislation.
  • Capital Monitor. Full coverage of Australian Parliaments, government departments, agencies, courts and key stakeholders in public policy; provides parliamentary, political, legislative, regulatory and judicial news and information almost as soon as it is available. Includes Commonwealth and NSW bills, Commonwealth Government gazettes, tax rulings, acts assented. Full-text available for many publications.
  • ComLaw. Official source for the full-text of Commonwealth legislation and the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI).
  • Lawlex. Free access only to Australian legislation, (plus NSW, Qld, NT and Victoria) from Anstat. Subscription services unavailable through this site.
  • LawOne. Legislation from seven Australian jurisdictions, links through to amending and subordinate legislation, Bills, Explanatory Memoranda and Second Reading Speeches, detailed legislative histories. Commonwealth legislation updated daily, NSW legislation updated weekly, all other jurisdictions updated at least 12 times a year. Also includes Federal Cases, & TimeBase Point in Time Services (excluding the ASX Point in Time Service).
  • LEGENDcom. The most up to date Australia Migration and Citizenship legislation and policy available, from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. The most up to date Australia Migration and Citizenship legislation and policy available, from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
  • New South Wales Parliament. Bills list. Free access to NSW Bills, Explanatory notes and Parliamentary Debates.
  • New South Wales Parliamentary Counsel’s Office. Official website for New South Wales legislation.
  • Parliament of Australia – Bills section. Free access to Commonwealth Bills, EMs and Parliamentary Debates.
  • Statutes of the Realm via HeinOnline (1235-1713). Full text access of English statutes. Available via the English Reports, full reprint link.

Journal databases and News Sources

  • AGIS Plus Text : Attorney General’s Information Service (1975 – present). Covering all aspects of Australian law, and an authoritative collection for primary legal research in comparative and Commonwealth law. Includes articles, reports, and books from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region, plus selected material from the United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada starting from 1999.
  • APA-FT : Australian Public Affairs – Full Text via Informit (1978-present). The place to start for coverage of Australia’s political, economic and social affairs. Broad-ranging coverage also includes Australian humanities and social sciences, current affairs, and law.
  • Cambridge Journals Online
  • Current Law Journal Content. Free access to the tables of contents pages of selected Australian and international legal journals through Washington & Lee Law School.
  • HeinOnline. Full-text legal journals and other legal documents predominantly US, also includes major international publications and some Australia Law reviews. Also includes English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865)
  • Informit Legal Journal Index Library. Includes AFPD – Australian Federal Police Digest; CINCH – Australian Criminology databases; Family Plus; SNIPER – Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource and TAXABS – Australian Taxation Abstracts Database.
  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals via HeinOnline. Provides access to worldwide legal literature, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law, including comparative law. Includes British and U.S. articles.
  • International Institute for the Sociology of Law – Journal Articles. A free bibliography.
  • Kluwer Law Online. A collection of Kluwer law journals spanning a vast array of legal topics.
  • LegalTrac via Gale (1980 – present). Indexes law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Includes some Australian content and some full-text articles.
  • Legal Journals Index via Westlaw International now Westlaw Next. Legal Journal Index indexes articles from legal journals published in the United Kingdom and Europe as well as journals covering topics pertaining to the laws of the European Community and its Member States.
  • OGEL:: Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal. A peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of law pertaining to oil, gas, and energy in general.
  • Oxford Journals. SNIPER: Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource via Informit Online (2000 – present). Covers issues in intellectual property such as patents, trade marks and designs, copyright, plant breeder’s rights and domain names .
  • Westlaw’s Journals and Law Reviews

Biographical Information

Citation Indexes & Bibliometrics

Copyright & Intellectual Property

Dictionaries, Directories, Abbreviations, Catalogs, & Codes

Dissertations & Theses: US & International

Education & Communication

Free Full-Text Articles, Books, Reports, and Audiovisuals

Government Documents

Library & Information Science

Publishers & Publishing

Social Work, Sociology, & Social Sciences

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