Electronic Law Library

A sophisticated searchable database of online primary legal resources, updated daily and included among the Guardian's top 100 UK websites. It has made a huge contribution to freeing the law for students, educators and the general public. BAILII contains judgments, decisions, legal texts and commentaries of all kinds. In supporting all legal researchers and demonstrating its value to citizens, the service also reinforces the wider relevance of higher education and academic research.

This index allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications (particularly law reports and law journals), from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.

CaseBase is an index to Australian cases and journal articles, providing summaries but not the full text. It is part of LexisNexis Australia.

Celex (Communitatis Europeae Lex) is a large collection of European Union official documents, available at IALS as part of the Justis online service.

A searchable database of current awareness information giving bibliographic details of newly published books and journal articles of specific interest to law library and legal information professionals.

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Successor to the award-winning national Intute and SOSIG law gateways, provides description and evaluation of selected high quality and authentic legal information sources on the web. By agreement IALS has harvested and enhanced law records rescued from Intute – helping to ensure the continued availability of quality-driven facilities for the national legal research communities and encourage inclusion in skills training.

The English Reports (1378-1865) and individual series of nominate reports, in the Foreign Jurisdictions Collection under United Kingdom.

The Official Journal C Series database is part of the Justis.com online service. It consists of the full text of the European Union's Official Journal: Information and Notices (the C series) from 1990 to date.

An award-winning database forming a collaborative Internet gateway to holdings of foreign, comparative and international law in UK national and university libraries, locating and describing the collections in libraries throughout the UK.

A web database version of the Flare Union List of Foreign Official Government gazettes which provides bibliographic and source information (including details of print holdings in UK libraries and links to online versions) for foreign official government gazettes publishing primary and secondary legislation - offering guidance to pinpoint the relevant portions and sources of gazettes which can be voluminous and complex publications.

Current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world / Thomas H. Reynolds, Arturo A. Flores

Hein Online is a substantial collection of legal research materials, primarily US-focused, but also encompassing international law and other jurisdictions. It includes a Law Journal Library covering more than 1200 titles; the English Reports; over 1,400 treatises on law and politics, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; United Nations treaties; the United States Reports and other US primary materials.

All of the content to which IALS subscribes on IBFD is displayed on the IBFD Tax Research Platform.

The Index to Legal Periodicals is an indexing database, containing bibliographic details of over 1,000 journals (877 excluding name changes), published in the US or UK, and concerning the Anglo-American legal system. Some titles from Canada, Australia and New Zealand are also covered. Whilst the database does not provide full-text access to any of the periodicals or articles, it is an invaluable source for performing a comprehensive search to see exactly what is available in terms of journal articles on particular subjects. Used in conjunction with other IALS Library electronic resources such as Hein Online, and our extensive hard copy holdings, ILP can be a valuable research resource. ILP also includes details of new books.

International Courts of General Jurisdiction is a module of the online service Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL), produced by Oxford University Press. It consists of cases from the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of International Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Permanent Court of Arbitration

International Human Rights Law is a module of the online service Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL), produced by Oxford University Press. It contains decisions from various regional and global bodies, including UN committees.

International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) is a database of domestic cases concerning international law, from more than seventy jurisdictions, with commentary. It is a module of the online service Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL), produced by Oxford University Press.

A database of judgments from Jamaica’s Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Revenue Court

IALS Library's subscription to Justis covers United Kingdom legislation, European Union materials, the International Law Reports, the Singapore Law Reports, Caribbean case law and the JustCite search tool and citator. PDF facsimiles of the original printed documents are available.

Legal Journals Index (LJI) is part of the Westlaw UK online service. It indexes articles from around 800 law journals published in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Lexis®Library is a database of legal materials concerning the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, international law, Commonwealth countries and other jurisdictions.

This database (MPEPIL) is an updated online edition of the printed Encyclopedia of public international law. It is produced by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and published by Oxford University Press.

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) offers abstracts and full text of over 4000 books from Oxford University Press. IALS Library subscribes to the full text and abstracts of books in the law subject collection, and has access to the abstracts and tables of contents of OSO books in other disciplines. Over 200 full text books are available in the law subject collection, for teaching and research, representing a wide range of legal scholarship and research.

SCC Online is a database of Indian cases and legislation, bills, bilateral treaties and other Indian material, together with cases from other Asian jurisdictions, Africa and elsewhere.

The Statutes of the Realm were originally published between 1810 and 1825, as an authoritative collection of the statutes from 1235 to 1713. Hein Online presents the 11 volumes, of which volume 10 is an alphabetical index and volume 11 is a chronological index.

The UK Statutes database is part of the Justis online service. It consists of the original texts of UK statutes from 1235 to date, with lists of amendments.

HeinOnline’s United Nations Law Collection consists of law-related publications from the UN, including yearbooks, conference reports, the United Nations Treaty Series, the League of Nations Treaty Series, publications of the International Court of Justice and UNCITRAL materials.

The entire Weekly Law Reports (WLR) series is available on Westlaw UK. You can search for a case published in the Weekly Law Reports from the welcome screen. Alternatively, go to the Cases page and browse under "Law Reports and Transcripts" to find the whole series.

World Constitutions Illustrated is a collection of constitutions, related commentary and bibliographies. It is a module of the HeinOnline database.