Law

>> Go to darts-ip

• Subject coverage: legal database
• Size/scope: Global intellectual property case law database. Contains decisions on patents, trade marks, domain names and designs & models from many jurisdictions. Updated daily
• Type of content: legal materials
• Level of access: full text.

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From 2018, the Family Law content currently available on the Jordan Publishing platform will be migrated to Lexis Library

On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link

• Subject coverage: legal database
• Size/scope: provides access to the Family Law Reports, the Family Law Journal, Child & Family Law Quarterly, plus relevant legislation and forms. (Use 'Find a Source' option to find the title you are interested in)
• Type of content: legal materials
• Level of access: full text.

BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (OALA).

On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link

• Subject coverage: law: mainly US, some British
• Size/scope: law journals the Federal Register; all US Treaties and Agreements; decisions of the US Supreme Court, plus ‘classic’ legal monographs
• Type of content: academic journal articles and other material
• Date range: 1235 onwards
• Level of access: full text.

>> Getting Started in HeinOnline

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• Subject coverage: detailed primary sources for the history of Britain, its former colonies and the wider world
• Size/scope: 200,000 sessional papers
• Date range: 1688 - 2004
• Level of access: some full text available.

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>> Go to HUDOC

• Subject coverage: Human Rights Law
• Size/scope: 11,000 academic journals indexed
• Type of content: case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers
• Level of access: some full text available.

>> Go to Lawtel

• Subject coverage: law
• Type of content: contains cases, legislation, details of Parliamentary Bills, green and white papers, a daily update of new legal issues
• Level of access: full text available.

>> Online Student User Guide

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• Subject coverage: Law and tax
• Type of content: Access to UK legislation currently in force, many law report series and some full text journals and UK newspapers. Includes full text works of legal commentary, plus forms and precedents. Provides an online version of Halsbury’s Laws. Contains EU and international legal materials
• Level of access: Some full text available.

>> Lexis Library Essential User Guide

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On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link

• Subject coverage: Public international law
• Size/scope: Encyclopaedia
• Type of Content: Reference work
• Date range: Current
• Level of access: Full text.

Note: The off-campus connection link above is the only off-campus access route for this resource

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>> Go to Westlaw UK

• Subject coverage: legal database
• Size/scope: Statutes and Statutory Instruments currently in force and broad coverage of law report series. Some full text law journals. Contains selected practitioner's materials. Includes EU legislation and case law. If you require international materials, click on 'Region' (top left of screen), then select 'International'
• Type of content: legal materials
• Level of access: Some full text available.

>> User Guides

Bournemouth University does not licence all Westlaw content and does not currently subscribe to Practical Law

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