Electronic law library
Legal databases at Kent
Almost all the services listed provide help and support on their web sites. Unless otherwise indicated all services can be accessed direct from this page on campus. Off campus you may either access via this page using your Kent login or use alternative access which will take you via Shibboleth or Federated access.
| Major services | Alternative access? | These services provide access to a wide variety of law reports, statutory material and secondary sources | |
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| Justis | Home Institution | Wide range of Law Reports including the English Reports, Times Law Reports, Industrial Cases Reports, UK Acts, UK SI's, EU materials, Scots and Irish cases. | |
| Lexis®Library | UK Federation | Wide range of UK case materials, legislation, journals, commentary (including Halsbury's Laws), forms and precedents. Also includes material from other jurisdictions. See the Sources tab for full list of subscribed sources. |
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| Westlaw | Home Organisation | Wide range of UK case materials, legislation, journals, commentary. Also includes material from other jurisdictions. For UK sources click on Help and look at Content Descriptions. For material from other jurisdictions click on Westlaw Services tab, select Westlaw International and use Directory or Site Map. |
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| Lawtel | No |
Easy to use service providing current information aimed at high street practitioners. |
| Specialist case series | |||
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| Casetrack | Transcripts of current cases and cases going back to 1996 including Northern Irish and Irish Courts, Scottish Courts, ECJ and ECHR. | ||
| International Human Rights Reports | Special access arrangements - requires a password | Full text facsimile |
| Subject specialist services | Subject based collections containing different types of data | ||
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| European Sources Online | Information on the European Union, the countries of Europe and issues of concern to their citizens and stakeholders | ||
| GreenFILE | Indexing and abstracting service from EBSCO on the human impact on the environment. Includes some full text material | *Article linker | |
| Transnational Dispute Management | Special access arrangements - requires a password | Commentary, legal and regulatory materials on transnationals economic, commercial and financial disputes | |
| UN Treaty Collection | Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General and those formerly deposited with the League of Nations | ||
| WorldTrade Law.net | Summary and analysis of WTO reports, arbitrations and texts |
| Access to legal journals | Some of the indexes link directly to the full text (marked *Article linker) | ||
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| Hein Online | UK Federation | Searchable full text backruns of journals | |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals | Institutional login | For articles on non-Anglo-American law and British and American publications concerning foreign law. | *Article linker |
| Index to Legal Periodicals | UK Federation | For articles on law from English language publications | *Article linker |
| Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law | File in Hein Online Law Journal Library | ||
| Kindex: an index to legal periodical literature relating to children | File in Hein Online Law Journal Library | ||
| Legal Journals Index | File on Westlaw. Articles in legal journals published in UK and Europe as well as articles relating to laws of the EC and its Member States |
Use the Templeman Library's Online Journals database to see if the library has online access to the full text. Decode article citation abbreviations with the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
| Broadening your research | Some of the indexes link directly to the full text (marked *Article linker) | ||
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| IBSS | Indexing and abstracting service from LSE. Core subjects: anthropology, economics, politics, sociology | *Article linker | |
| Nexis | UK Federation | Access to full text newspapers, journals and company information | |
| SCOPUS | UK Federation(Select UK Access Management Federation) | Abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources | *Article linker |
| Social Science Citation Index | Shibboleth | In Web of Science - access to journal articles in social science and humanities | *Article linker |
Check out other indexing and abstracting services on the Online Resources pages of the Templeman Library
Manage the references you have found by using Refworks
E-books and reference services can be accessed from the general Templeman Library pages.