UC Library Guides: Law: Find Journal Articles

General note

Library Search is NOT able to search within the majority of legal databases. Therefore, to find relevant journal articles you may need to search one or more legal databases.

Some databases provide the full text of an article wherease others will only provide a citation and you will need to lcoate the full text.

Find Journal Articles

Secondary sources that 'talk' about a case or 'a point of Law' are best explained through a journal article or legal encyclopedias. You can find journal articles using the databases below:

Lexis Advance This link opens in a new window
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Platform for Australian and New Zealand law material. Includes Halsbury's Laws of Australia, CaseBase, Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents and LawNow Legislation.

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Westlaw AU This link opens in a new window
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Covers case law and journals, legislation and commentaries, encyclopaedias and news, including: Laws of Australia, Australian Digest, Australian Legal Monthly Digest, Principles of the Law of Trusts (Ford & Lee)
Please use your UC ID number as client ID when logging in for the first time.

CCH iKnowConnect (previously IntelliConnect (Wolters Kluwer)) This link opens in a new window
Regularly-updated publications in corporations law, credit, family, tax, trade practices, OH&S, sales, torts... Includes Australian Master Tax Guide.

         SSRN : Legal Scholarship Network
        The LSN is a sub-group of Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). Working papers and articles are uploaded by law
       schools and made available in either full-text or just the abstract.

Australasian Legal Scholarship Library (part of AustLII) This link opens in a new window
Free-access resource. Includes a collection of Australian and New Zealand law journals.
AGIS Plus Text (Attorney-General's Information Service) (Informit) This link opens in a new window
Authoritative and peer reviewed legal research from the Australasia and Asia-Pacific regions, indexed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department.
Coverage:Full text articles: 1999 - present ; Index: 1975 - present

Westlaw This link opens in a new window
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Access to U.S., U.K. and other International Primary and Secondary law materials.
Please use your UC ID number as client ID when logging in for the first time.

APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) (Informit) This link opens in a new window
Australian multidisciplinary database. Covering the areas of business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline provides access to almost 50 million pages of legal information. The collection is mostly international in focus (especially US), with access to legal resources such as: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Lib, amongst others.

WorldLII This link opens in a new window
Find courts and case law by country, as well as International courts and tribunals. Free website.

Multidisciplinary Databases

EBSCOhost (Multiple database collection) This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary collection of databases of journals, chapters, and reports including business, management, health and nursing, education, professional development.

Informit (database collection) This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary Australasian journal indexes with some full text.

Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central brings together complete databases across major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world