Law - Databases and Websites

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Databases - find cases, legislation, journal articles, conference papers etc

Websites - links to major portals

Law Databases

AGIS plus text INFORMIT  

Indexes and abstracts journal articles on all aspects of law. Includes full text.

AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute

Provides full text access to Australian legal materials including primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access.

Australian Criminology Database- CINCH   INFORMIT

A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journal articles from material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. Produced by the JV Barry Library, Australian Institute of Criminology.

Australian Current Law  LexisNexis Butterworths

Includes information on recent developments in case law and legislation. Arranged by subject area and jurisdiction. Case database from 1976 and legislation from 1991.

Australian Federal Police Digest - AFPD   INFORMIT

A database that indexes and abstracts journal articles on policing, criminology, law enforcement and related fields. Produced by the Australian Federal Police Library.

CCH Library CCH Library

Arranged by subject area, includes full text cases, legislation and commentary.

CCH Solution Finders lets you access all of CCH's vast range of information through a single easy-to-use search facility for the following areas:

CCH Corporations Law Solution Finder

CCH Human Resources Solution Finder

CCH OH&S Solution Finder

CCH Tax Solution Finder

CCH Trade Practices Solution Finder

ComLaw Australian Flag

Contains all legislation of the Commonwealth and non self-governing Territories (and related material such as Reserved Commonwealth Laws, Bills, explanatory memoranda/statements, tables, indexes and other finding aids). Includes full text.

FirstPoint on LawBook Online
A search interface for the case law research tools on LawBook Online:
Australian Case Citator
Australian Digest, 3rd ed.
Australian Legal Monthly Digest
Click here for a FirstPoint QuickGuide

Halsbury's Laws of Australia  LexisNexis Butterworths

Legal encyclopaedia covering most areas of Australian case and statute law. Includes full text.

Hein-On-Line

Full text database of American law journals, does include some international titles.

LawBook Online LBC Thomson
Provides full text acccess to Australian legal decisions, FirstPoint case citator and a number of law journals & looseleaf services.

LexisNexis LexisNexis Butterworths

Full text acess to the Australian Law Reports, Northern Territory Reports, Australian Capital Territory Reports, New South Wales Law Reports, Queensland Reports, Victoria Reports and All England Law Reports.

WestLaw  LBC Thomson flag

Provides full text access to Australian, Canadian, UK and US primary and secondary sources.  Case citations can be verified / noted up using the Keycite search facility.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text INFORMIT

Based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia and includes full text.

Academic Search Premier  EBSCOhost

Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is multi-disciplinary.

Australian Digital Theses Program 

A national collaborative distributed database of full text digitised theses produced at Australian Universities. The ADT database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only.

Business Source Premier EBSCOhost 

Provides full text for over 2,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 900 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.

Expanded Academic GALE

provides access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images - on arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. includes full text

Websites - General

Australian Resources in AustLII's World Law Index

Law Internet Resources Australian Department of the Parliamentary Libary

World Law - A global catalog and search engine for law

Websites - Australian Commonwealth Government

Attorney-General's Department - ComLaw - Commonwealth Legislation

Australian Law Rerform Commission

Federal Court of Australia

High Court of Australia

Websites - Northern Territory Government

Northern Territory - Legislation & Hansard

Northern Territory Attorney-General's Department

Northern Territory Supreme Court

Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission

 


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