Law

Westlaw is an international database of full text primary resources, including UK and EU legislation and case law as well as selected books and full text journals.
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The topics this video covers include:
Searching and browsing case law.
Filtering your results.
Status icons and badges.
Case Analysis tools - citing/cited references, graphical history, and commentary references.
Creating case alerts to track cases.

The topics this video covers include:
Searching and browsing articles.
Filtering your results.
Finding specific journals.

The topics this video covers include:
Searching and browsing legislation - in force, bills, draft legislation and policy materials.
Filtering your results.
Status icons and versioning - historical, prospective and proposed.
Navigating around a piece of legislation.
Legislation Analysis tools - citing/cited references, status information, Act/SI overviews, and commentary references.
Finding the latest legislation and tracking legislative developments.

Lexis Plus (previously Lexis Library) contains a wide range of databases of full text legal resources, including statutes, statutory instruments, and cases. It provides extensive coverage of English, U.S., Commonwealth and European Union primary and secondary materials. In addition, it provides access to journals and eBooks.

From LexisNexis, a useful introduction to the main features of LexisLibrary.

The LexisNexis student hub provides UK law students and trainees with the latest guidance and how to get certified.

User guides and resources available through Lexis Library's Help and Support portal.

HeinOnline contains more than 2,800 journals on a variety of subjects, including animal rights, human rights, political science, history, gender studies, election law, civil rights, foreign relations, and more. All journals date back to inception and more than 90% are available through the current issue or volume.

A short video by HeinOnline introducing how to conduct a search on this database.

Learn the basics of HeinOnline's flagship database, the Law Journal Library. This LibGuide includes an overview of content, tools, search tips, and interface navigation

This collection offers an historical overview of how criminal justice has changed in American and English law and the effect criminology has had in facilitating those changes.

This database covers civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.