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Corporate Compliance Online |
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Provides industry news, regulatory tracking and analysis service for risk, compliance and corporate governance professionals in financial and legal services.
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HeinOnline
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HeinOnline provides access to full text law journals (mostly US titles, but with a growing number of UK titles). In addition, the database contains the following US materials in full text: the Federal Register; all US Treaties and Agreements; decisions of the US Supreme Court (published in US Reports), plus a collection of 'classic' legal monographs. Each publication is provided from volume one onwards. The database is fully searchable. The materials are scanned into the database, so pages appear online as exact images of the original print publication. NB Please select PDF to view or download a document.
> Getting Started in HeinOnline
> HeinOnline Wiki
> HeinOnline YouTube channel
> UK & European Law Reports (PDF 23kb)
> UK & EU E-Journals (PDF 20kb)
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
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Access to over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2003/04, with supplementary material back to 1688.
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HUDOC: European Court of Human Rights Portal
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Searchable database providing access to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers. It is available in English and French.
> Online User Guide
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JustCite
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Legal reference search tool, which searches across several major law databases simultaneously, using a single interface. Covers case law, court transcripts, UK Statutes and Statutory Instruments, plus EU information.
> Online JustCite Tutorial
> Online Help
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Lawtel
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Contains cases, legislation, details of Parliamentary Bills, green and white papers, a daily update of new legal issues.
Note: The off-campus connection link above is the only off-campus access route for this resource.
>> Online Student User Guide
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Lexis®Library (formerly LexisNexis Butterworths)
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Contains extensive law and tax materials. Provides access to UK legislation currently in force, many law report series and some full text journals. Includes full text works of legal commentary, plus forms and precedents. Provides an online version of Halsbury's Laws (the major legal encyclopaedia). Contains EU and international legal materials.
> Online Lexis®Library Tutorials
> UK & European Law Reports (PDF 23kb)
> E-books & Encyclopaedias (PDF 18kb)
> UK & EU E-Journals (PDF 20kb)
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LocalawUK |
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LocalawUK is a comprehensive online legal research service on local government. It covers the following areas: compulsory purchase; environmental health; housing; highways; landlord & tenant; local government; planning and road traffic. Localaw contains key legislation, commentary, policy and procedures plus selected journals and law reports on local government. It provides access to the Local Government Library encyclopaedias and to Woodfall: Landlord & Tenant.
> E-books & Encyclopaedias (PDF 18kb)
> Online User Guide
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
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A fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001. The online edition includes search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries as well as related content.
Note: The off-campus connection link above is the only off-campus access route for this resource.
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| Web of Knowledge - Incorporating Conference Proceedings
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Citation databases in the subjects of Arts, Humanities, Sciences
and Social Sciences.
These bibliographic databases allow searching for a specific article
by subject, author, journal or author address. Because the
information stored about each article includes the article's cited
reference list (bibliography), it is also possible to search for
articles that cite a known author or work.
Web of Knowledge consists of:
Web of Science 1945-present
Science Citation Index 1945-present
Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science 1990-present
Biosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
Medline 1950-present
Journal Citation Reports
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
> User Guide (283 PDF)
> Cross Search Workbook (372 PDF)
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Westlaw UK
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Westlaw UK is a comprehensive legal database. It includes Statutes and Statutory Instruments currently in force and broad coverage of law report series. Legal Journals Index provides abstracts of journal articles (and access to some full text journal articles). Contains selected practitioner's materials. Includes EU legislation and case law. If you require international materials, click on 'Westlaw International' (the link is located on the blue bar at the top of the screen within Westlaw).
> Online Student User Guide
> UK & European Law Reports (PDF 23kb)
> E-books & Encyclopaedias (PDF 18kb)
> UK & EU E-Journals (PDF 20kb)
Tutorials on how to use Westlaw:
> Case Law
> Legislation
> Journals
> EU
> Current Awareness
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