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Key databases for Law	Cases	Legislation
Journal Databases and News Services	Comprehensive legal Research	Full Text Books and Loose Leaf Collections
International Legal Resources	Reports

Key databases for Law
AGIS Plus Text : Attorney General's Information Service (1975 - present) References journal articles, government documents, publications from non profit organizations and law reform commissions, on all aspects of law in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific. Full-text for selected publications from 1999.	Help
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.	Help
CCH Online 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.	Help
HeinOnline You may not download or print more than 200 pages per session 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.	Help
Law Book Online now 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.	Help
LawOne LawOne provides searchable access to full text 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).
LexisNexis AU Access to the Cases and Legislation, Legal Commentary and sources for specific practice areas. Includes the case citator CaseBase, Halsbury's Laws of Australia, reported and unreported judgments, and full text journal articles from selected journals Browser settings	Help
Lexis.com Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia)	Help
Westlaw Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia)	Westlaw QuickGuide
Westlaw China Westlaw China's Chinese online legal database contains 35 legal topics, more than 630,000 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. The database also contains more than 320,000 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. It is updated daily.
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.	Help
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.	Helpsheet
Firstpoint via Westlaw AU Combining Australian Case Citator Plus and The Australian Digest, this database cites Australian reported cases and summarises Australian case law developments	FirstPoint QuickGuide
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.	Terms & conditions
Lawlink New South Wales Court and Tribunal Decisions (NSW Attorney-General's Department)	Help
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.	Help
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's University Intranet Parliamentary and Legal information from federal and selected State Parliaments. Includes Commonwealth and NSW bills, Commonwealth Government gazettes, tax rulings, acts assented. Full-text available for many publications.	Terms and agreement Content & coverage
ComLaw Official source for the full-text of Commonwealth legislation and the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI).	Help
Lawlex Free access only to Australian legislation, (plus NSW, Qld, NT and Victoria) from Anstat. Subscription services unavailable through this site.	help
LawOne LawOne provides searchable access to full text 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).
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) You may not download or print more than 200 pages per session Full text access of English statutes. Available via the English Reports, full reprint link.	Help
Journal databases and News Sources
AGIS Plus Text : Attorney General's Information Service (1975 - present) References journal articles, government documents, publications from non profit organizations and law reform commissions, on all aspects of law in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific. Full-text for selected publications from 1999.	Help
APA-FT : Australian Public Affairs - Full Text via Informit (1978-present) References journal articles and other published material in the social sciences and humanities. Selected full-text from 1994/1995.	Help
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 You may not download or print more than 200 pages per session 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)	Help
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.	Help
Factiva.com (mid-1980s - present) Full-text news, commentary, pictures and media transcripts from Austrailan and overseas media sources For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage.	Search Tips Company search tips
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals via HeinOnline You may not download or print more than 200 pages per session Provides access to worldwide legal literature, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law, including comparative law. Includes British and U.S. articles.	Terms & conditions HeinOnline Help
Index to Legal Periodicals via Lexis.com (1978 - present) Indexing legal lterature, mainly from the United States, includes material from Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.	Help
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 (1980 - present) Indexes law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Includes some Australian content and some full-text articles.	Terms and conditions
Legal Journals Index via Westlaw 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.
Mediascan via Informit Topical subject index for Australian newspapers: Sydney Morning Herald (1995-), The Age (1991-), The Australian (1991-), The Herald Sun (1991-), The Bulletin (1991-), The Courier Mail (1995-), Sunday Mail (1994-), Adelaide Advertiser (1997-), West Australian (1996-1997).	Help
Oxford Journals	Alerts
Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates.	Terms & conditions
ResearchNow - Berkeley Electronic Press Journals Includes access to the Berkeley Electronic Press Journals and to working paper series, preprints, monographs, and other content from institutional and subject-matter repositories hosted by bepress.	Terms & conditions
TVNews via Informit Online (September 2007 - present) TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs programs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks and links to the video files. Access problem? Delete your browser cookies and temporary internet files. (For Internet Explorer 7: Tools > Internet Options > Browsing History) Provided access is restricted to University of Sydney staff and students, the material is used for educational purposes and the Copyright Part VA Warning Notice is displayed, possible uses of TVNews items include: lecturers downloading a news items to a workstation and showing this in a class or tutorial lecturers loading a number of news stories into a Learning Management System such as Blackboard or WebCT and making these available online to students students viewing the items online or saving a copy on their workstation for later viewing	Terms & conditions Access help
Westlaw's Journals and Law Reviews select the World Journals tab at the top	Help
World News Connectione A large database of news articles, conference proceedings, and television and radio broadcasts from non-U.S. sources.	Help
Comprehensive Legal Research
Australian Legal Words and Phrasese via LexisNexis AU Provides a comprehensive listing of words and phrases which have either been defined in legislation or judicially interpreted. The publication provides details of where the word or phrase has been defined and often the context in which the term is defined. Browser settings	Help
Encyclopaedic Australian legal dictionary Butterworths Encyclopaedic Australian legal dictionary is a unique reference work containing over 25,000 definitions (legal words and phrases, including references to legislation and cases).
Halsbury's Laws of Australia via LexisNexis AU Statements of legal principle covering all jurisdictions in Australia. Browse categories or sub-categories or search by legal principle, keyword, phrase, case or legislation. Updated by Australian Current Law: Reporter. Browser settings	Help
Laws of Australia via Westlaw AU States the principles of Australian law Via Lawbook Online Click on "research" to browse index	Lawbook Online Quick Guide Lawbook Online Complete User Guide
bepress Legal Repository The bepress Legal Repository is a network of law-related research materials. Law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and other subject-appropriate groups post materials to specific publications (e.g., the USC Working Paper Series.
Google Scholar An academic version of the famous search engine. Also useful for links to references which cite other academic articles. Using this link via the Library website means you can get the full-text of articles in journals to which the Library subscribes.
Index to Common Law Festschriften The Index to Common Law Festschriften is the culmination of a three-year project funded by the Law Foundation and undertaken by a small team at the University of Auckland Library and Law School under the direction of Professor Mike Taggart. Includes bibliographic entries on the literature of the common law. Includes English and foreign language entries.
Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) - University of Sydney Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series This homepage forms a centralised database of the scholarship of all Sydney Law School faculty members, who post their work on SSRN. Part of the Legal Scholarship Network. To obtain password click on 'Free Registration'
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository Free access to working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools such as Yale, Cornell
Full text books and Loose Leaf Collections
CCH This database includes full text of many loose-leaf services published by CCH.	CCH Quick Reference Guide
Criminal Law via Westlaw AU A practical guide NSW criminal law. Includes Criminal Law (NSW) and Criminal Procedure (NSW).	Help
IEL Labour Law Online This is online version of the 36 volume looseleaf: International Encyclopaedia of Industrial Labour Law and Industrial Relations. Includes International Monographs, National Monographs, European Works Councils, Legislation, Case Law and Codex.	Terms & Conditions
Making of Modern Law Fully searchable legal treatises comprising over 21,000 works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law. These include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.	Terms & conditions
Making of Modern Law: trials 1600-1926 Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York, the product offers online access to these important collections.	Terms & conditions
Oxford Scholarship Online Full text books online with a large selection of economics, finance, philosophy, religion, music, legal and political science titles. Please click Logout when finished	Terms & conditions
Riley Solicitors Manual - online via LexisNexis AU Includes relevant legislation and commentary on the regulation of the legal profession, professional responsibility and ethics for solicitors.	Browser Settings Help
Tax and Accounting Online (formerly ATP Taxpoint) A number of loose-leaf services relating to taxation are available on this database.	Help
Uniform Evidence Law via Westlaw AU A practical guide to the New South Wales and Commonwealth Evidence Acts.
International Legal Resources
Asian Law Online A free bibliography from the Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne. English language materials on Asian laws (books, chapters in books, journal articles and theses)
Australian Treaties Library - via AustLII The Australian Treaties Library includes treaty texts, indexes, status lists, and explanatory material. Material is provided by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade.
BNA International Tax Centre - off-campus or on-campus Provides tax and business regulatory systems of some 40 countries, as well as an overview of the European Union, USA international taxation, and transfer pricing portfolios. Also includes Tax Guides, Tax treaties, News & commentary.	Terms & conditions
EUR-Lex Free database of the European Community's legislation, caselaw and publications	Help
HeinOnline You may not download or print more than 200 pages per session This database includes the Foreign & International Law Resources Database, Philip C. Jessup Library and the Treaties and Agreements Library. Also includes English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) and Statutes of the Realm (1235-1713).	Help
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1688 - present) The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world.	Terms & conditions
Human rights case digest A digest of summaries of cases from the European Court of Human Rights
Human Rights Documents Online Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980. These documents emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world.	Terms & conditions
IBFD Tax Research Platform IBFD is a major database of materials on tax and related matters. It includes leading journals on international tax issues and loose-leaf services providing detailed country-specific tax information
International Law in Domestic Courts now Oxford Reports on International Law Covers international law as applied in the domestic courts of around 70 jurisdictions.	Terms and conditions
International Tax Law Reports Provide readers with judgments and decisions of major tax cases from all over the world.	Help
Justis 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.	Help
Kluwer Arbitration This resource for international arbitration research contains commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. Also includes ICC cases and awards.	Terms & conditions
Lexis.com Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia)	Help
Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Public Law A comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law.	Terms & conditions
OECD iLibrary Full text database of all OECD publications and databases
Oxford Reports on International Law Provides a single point of reference for all international law jurisprudence. Access to all modules: International Courts of General Jurisdiction (ICGJ), International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC), Criminal Law (ICL), Human Rights Law (IHRL), and International Investment Claims.	Terms & conditions
RIA Worldwide Tax & Commercial Law via IBFD This covers major laws including income and corporate tax law, VAT, corporation law, trust law, commercial codes, environmental law, money laundering and other regulations affecting financial transactions, labor law, and bankruptcy. The database provides English translations of foreign legislation. To search RIA Worldwide use the IBFD general search page as there is no separate entry into RIA Worldwide. Select the National Legislation collection.	Education licence Terms & conditions
Tax Analysts Webservices Provides international and US tax information, updated daily. Includes Worldwide Tax Treaties database.	Terms & conditions
Tax Notes Tax Notes is a weekly online journal that covers major international taxation subjects. The journal provides in-depth news, analysis and commentary on international taxation issues - including legislative, judicial, administrative and policy issues from over 180 countries.	Terms & Conditions
TradeLawGuide WTO legislation database	Terms & conditions
United Nations Treaty Collection Website providing full text access to all treaties and international agreements entered into by any Member of the United Nations. The collection is organised into five categories or databases scroll down to 'Access to Databases' Not available off campus	Treaty Reference Guide UN Treaty FAQs
Westlaw Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia)	Westlaw QuickGuide
WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) via AustLII Provides free access to primary and some secondary legal materials from overseas jurisdictions. Includes International law databses.
WorldTradeLaw.net WorldTradeLaw.net is made up of 2 parts : the Dispute Settlement Commentary (DSC) which includes summaries, commentary and analysis of WTO reports and arbitration, and other trade law resources from around the web – trade law legal texts, other trade agreement texts (GATT, NAFTA), bilateral trade agreements, other dispute settlement reports.	Terms & conditions

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