Secondary Sources
(includes Journals and Updating Services)
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This webpage provides links to supplementary resources additional to those included in the Legal Information Guide.
For external students if you are unable to obtain the journal articles from the databases or E-Reserve please contact Access Services to arrange for materials to be delivered to you. Please note that you need to register and complete a copyright declaration form for the material to be sent to you.
Journal Articles - Law
E-Portal Link to all law journals available in full text
Journal Articles - Law Related
Australian Public Affairs - Full Text INFORMIT is 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.If you click on this it will take you to the EBSCOhost interface. By default, Academic Search Premier is preselected. You may need to untick this before proceeding if you wish to search alternative EBSCOhost databases
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.If you click on this it will take you to the EBSCOhost interface. By default, Academic Search Premier is preselected. You may need to untick this before proceeding if you wish to search alternative EBSCOhost databases
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
MAS Ultra - School Edition EbscoHost Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. Also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily. If you click on this it will take you to the EBSCOhost interface. By default, Academic Search Premier is preselected. You may need to untick this before proceeding if you wish to search alternative EBSCOhost databases
Legal Subject Guides
Recommended Links
Australian Law Online is an Australian government initiative, and contains subject guides on areas including Accidents and Compensation; Banking and Finance; Business; Children and young people; Consumers; Crime; Culture and Recreation; Employment; Environment and heritage; Family and relationships; Government; Health; Housing, Property and Development; Human Rights; Immigration and Citizenship; Indigenous Australians; Intellectual Property; Legal system; Media and Communication; Security; Social Services; Taxation; Wills and estates.
Law Internet Resources is a service maintained and undated by the Parliamentary Library
WebLaw is a cooperative subject gateway to Internet resources for Australian legal researchers. It is a distributed cataloging system, based on a central database model. Law librarians from the participating organisations have taken responsibility for a particular subject area or areas and provide annotated records for quality Internet legal resources in this area.
WorldLII provides free Internet access to legal resources around the world. These sites provide links to courts, law journals, law reform, lawyers, parliaments Click here for WordLII's subject guides to Australian law. WolrdLII's subject headings are much more extensive than either Australian law Online or Weblaw, but are in many cases not as comprehensive nor as well-maintained.
Other Links
CataLaw provides access to worldwide law sites on the Internet. It aids legal research by arranging indexes of law and government into a uniform index.
FindLaw Australia is a free legal information service containing information for legal professionals, students, business people, and members of the public. FindLaw provides access to the full text of recent cases and legislation from most jurisdictions in Australia. It also has a "legal research" section that provides articles on a range of legal areas, written by specialists in those areas.
Guide to Law Online is one of the most widely known and heavily used foreign law websites. It includes links to government and country information and links to legal guides and miscellaneous sites. Emphasis has been placed upon sites offering full text of laws, regulations and court decisions.
Hieros Gamos Legal Research Centre provides access to information on the law and government of over 230 countries, with special emphasis on United States law, international law, and professional organizations.
InfoEssentials Legal Resources provides links to Australian and international legal resources.
Jurist Australia is especially designed for individuals learning, teaching or researching law and contains authoritative legal information. It covers not only areas of Australian law but also world law. It also has links to other international jurist sites such as Jurist USA, Jurist UK and Jurist Canada
Law Portal provides access to Australian sites offering online law including legislation, regulations, cases, parliamentary publications, tax and company legal resources, and government information.
Law Zone is a U.K. directory to online legal resources and 'lawlinks' organised by areas of law.
LawLinks provides access to global legal information . A jurisdictional and topical approach to law related web resources is provided.
LegalEngine contains case law, laws, legal topics and research with emphasis on United States Law
SOSIG Law Gateway provides guidance and access to global legal information resources, organised by jurisdiction, by subject area, and by publication type.
Updating Services
The following electronic services provide facilities whereby you are kept up to date with recent journal articles, judgments, or news, in your area of interest, by first creating a subject search or profile. The following web services provide email and/or newsletter legal alert services on a daily or weekly basis.
CCH offer a daily email alert service to your email address, on news and events pertinent to law (or a number of other broad categories including Taxation, Business & Management and Industrial relations, as selected), sent as headlines with hypertext links to the full story if desired. Simply Register your name, email address and preferred area of interest at: http://www.cch.com.au/about_benefits.asp You will be sent an email confirmation of your registration.
Findlaw - access to international legal materials
FindLaw Australia offers free email and newsletter services on legal news, legislation and caselaw. Simply Register your details at: http://www.au.findlaw.com/emaillists/register.asp
LawBook Judgment summaries from Australian superior courts are available within 24 hours from LBCs website, with links (via Findlaw) to the full text unreported judgments.
LexisNexis ( Australia) Legal Express is an electronic alert service provides an overview of current legal events, including news stories, short case notes and legislative information. To subscribe to Legal Express go to http://www.lexisnexis.com.au/legalexpress
Butterworths Lexis_Nexis offer an email alert services called Content Notifier. This notifies the user when Butterworths reports journals or bulletins are updated. Through this service you will receive the table of contents of the latest issue in PDF format. This is a free service and you can subscribe for as many publications as you like.
Lawbook Daily Digest provides judgment summaries from Australian superior courts from the following jurisdictions: Federal Court, High Court, New South Wales Supreme Court, Victorian Supreme Court, Queensland Supreme Court, South Australian Supreme Court, Western Australian Supreme Court and the Tasmanian Supreme Court, with links (via FindLaw) to the full text unreported judgments. Additionally they provide a daily alert service via email.
University Law Review Project has links to law reviews and other scholarly journals on the web, with keyword searching of articles and an abstract by email subscription service.
For UK & international law, please refer to:
Daily Law Notes
Daily Law Notes provides free summaries of reportable UK cases within 24hours of the decision being handed down.
LLRX comparative and foreign law guides LLRX.com was established by several US law librarians and is mostly intended for professional librarians, but many of the articles are just as valuable for any legal researcher. There are articles about legal research dealing with a wide and ever-increasing range of countries. Click here to go to LLRX comparative and foreign law guides. You can register to receive and email each time the site is updated.
Individual publishers webpages display tables of contents of their journals, often in advance of the publication. Links to legal publishers' sites are available from AcqWebs' Directory of Publishers and Vendors - Law Publishers , or from Northern Lights Law Publishers' Catalogues Home Page.
