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Law
Selected E-resources for this area.

Core E-resources

Westlaw [electronic resource]. Access to the full text of cases and legislation for UK materials, some EU and International documentation plus considerable US resources. It incorporates the Legal Journals Index and the Case and Legislation Citators.

Lexis Library [electronic resource]. UK Cases (including the All England Reports), UK Journals and Newspapers. International Legal Materials includes access to an extensive collection of US law journals.

Lawtel [electronic resource]. Good for daily updates to legal issues, details of green and white papers, and searchable database of all legislation, also contains links to the full text of Acts from 1990, a 20 year archive based on major law reportsand details of unreported cases.

The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) [electronic resource]. This is the official "statute book" database of all UK primary and secondary legislation freely available from the Department of Constitutional Affairs.  It is not currently fully up-to-date, so use with care for 2007.  See the Help button for guidance on content, searching, and updating details.

 

Background E-resources

ASSIA [electronic resource]. ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

Bailii: British and Irish Legal Information Institute [electronic resource]. Access to freely available UK and EU primary legal material and links to other world collections through WORLDLII. Coverage varies - cases back to 1996, legislation to 1988.

EGI: Estates Gazette Interactive [electronic resource]. Property market news and information.

IBSS [electronic resource]. Updated weekly, with data going back to 1951. IBSS Online (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) contains references to over 2400 selected journals and 7000 books per year.

IDS Employment Law Brief [electronic resource]. Over 3000 employment law cases, with transcripts of court judgements and current and forthcoming legislation from Income Data Services.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource]. References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes: SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX: Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts [electronic resource]. From the U.S. Department of Justice, this deals with aspects of law enforcement including drug control, terrorism and fraud at both federal and state level. Please note : it does NOT deal with legislation or court reports.

RefWorks [electronic resource]. RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Sociological Abstracts [electronic resource]. Covers international sources of references and summaries of journal articles, book extracts etc. from 1963 for social structure and social problems, inequalities and behavioural sciences.

Journal Collections and Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource]. Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource]. Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource]. Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

 

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