You can use Library Search to find some articles on law but for a thorough search, it is recommended to use databases as some articles may not appear in Library Search (e.g. results from Westlaw). The following resources are the best sources for finding articles on law.
West Group's online source of legal & business information. Full text legislation, case law, law reviews, texts and newspapers from across the world. Includes Legal Journals Index and selected full text Sweet and Maxwell Journals. To access the international content menu click on Services International materials.
Established in 1980 in the UK, LEXIS-NEXIS is an online legal research tool. It provides access to full-text online legal services - with over 2 billion documents gathered from 28,000 sources - including: UK reported and unreported cases; English legislation; Legal journals; UK current awareness library; EU law; Commonwealth law; World-wide legal sources; and International law.;Direct links to U.S. files
HeinOnline, is the world's largest image-based research collection. HeinOnline provides comprehensive coverage from the inception of all publications carried, from volume one, number one, issue one onwards, to one or two years prior to the current year. As well as including leading U.S. scholarly law journals, there are also many non-US titles included, such as the Modern Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal, British Yearbook of International Law, Law Quarterly Review, and many more. The collection is growing fast, with countries of publication covering Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, etc. HeinOnline has approximately 1400 journals and the Legal Journal Library module is image-based (PDF) and fully-searchable, meaning that they provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared in hardcopy-including all charts, graphs, and photographs.
Kluwer Law Online is an online gateway to Kluwer Law International publications. Searching, browsing and bibliographical information are provided free of charge - no subscription needed. Full text documents are available for library subscriptions only.
Cambridge Core is the platform for academic content from Cambridge University Press. As of 2021, we have signed up to a read and publish agreement with Cambridge. This provides us with access to over 400 journals while also offering our researchers open access (OA) publishing in Cambridge journals at no cost to the individual. . Additionally, all available ebook titles on the Cambridge Core platform are listed in library search.
Provides a full-text archive of selected journals, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The Library subscribes to the following collections: the Arts & Sciences Collections I-XIII; XV, Life Sciences Collection and19th Century British Pamphlets (which comprise seven individual collections held in universities within the United Kingdom). N.B. All titles previously found in JSTOR business collections I & II are now included in JSTOR Arts and Sciences I-X. The Library also subscribes to the current content of 27 journals through JSTOR, including some University of California Press titles.
Discover 438 journal backfiles from the leading publisher in social science. Coverage is particularly strong in the following areas: Sociology, Politics, Psychology, Health, Education, Business & Management, Linguistics
Oxford Journals is a division of Oxford University Press, which is a department of Oxford University. They publish well over 230 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The library has access to the humanities, law, medicine, science and social sciences archive collections.
Includes three large, multidisciplinary databases: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975 - present), Social Sciences Citation index (1898 - present), and Science Citation Index (1970 - present). Each database indexes the core journals in its wide general area, including reviews, editorials, letters, etc. They give bibliographic details of articles, and 670% of SCI and SSCI references include abstracts (AHCI contains very few abstracts), but do not contain the full text of journal articles.
Site offers a searchable database of published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to the social sciences which are available for viewing or downloading. However, please note that some content may be locked and require a subscription.