Law e-resources and databases
- Accounting, tax & banking collection
Contains highly ranked global and scholarly publications, many with full text. Sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
- AGIS: Attorney general's information service
Records cover various aspects of law - including content from major law journals published in UK, Canada and USA - from 1975 onwards. Subject coverage includes administrative law, banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright law, criminal law, environmental law, family law, human rights, international law, legal aid, and trade practices.
- APAIS (Australian public affairs information service) index
This social sciences and humanities bibliographic database covers Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs from 1978 onwards. It includes a wide range of materials including Australian journals and conference materials.Many articles are available in full text.
- AsianLII (Asian legal information institute)
A free access website for legal information from all 28 countries and territories in Asia, which enables searching and browsing databases of legislation, case-law, law reform reports, law journals and other legal information, where available, from each country. Also contains APEC, ASEAN and SAARC agreements, declarations and conventions, and other international agreements and treaties.
- ATNS: Agreements, treaties and negotiated settlements project
An online gateway to a wealth of information relating to agreements between indigenous people and others in Australia and overseas. It involves comparative research that draws on anthropology, geography, demography, law and public policy to identify and analyse impediments to indigenous socio-economic empowerment.p>
- AustLII (Australasian legal information institute)
A series of full-text databases containing most Australian Court and Tribunal decisions and legislation. AustLII also includes a number of subject specific databases; an extensive law reform collection; a growing law journal collection, and the most comprehensive online index to Australian law.
- Australian Criminology Database
An index of materials covering all aspects of crime and criminal justice. Source documents include journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, government documents, book reviews, and theses. Subject coverage includes corrections, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime. Statistical publications are gradually being added.
- Australian Federal Police Digest (AFPD)
Produced by the Australian Federal Police Library, Canberra, AFPD is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published material on policing & law enforcement, and national security issues such as counter-terrorism, aviation security, protection, organised crime, cyber threats, border operations and intelligence capabilities from 1991 onwards.
- Australian federation full text database (via SETIS)
This database contains digitised versions of key texts recording the making of the Australian Commonwealth including debates of the Federal Conventions of the 1890s; debates of the people's conferences at Corowa and Bathurst, and a large selection of writings of contemporaries of Federation such as Sir Robert Garran and Sir Henry Parkes.
- BAILII (British and Irish legal information institute)
A free resource containing 90 databases from 7 jurisdictions including British and Irish case law and legislation; European Union case law; Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
- Bloomsbury Collections
The Australian National University has access to Bloomsbury Open Access titles plus these archive collections:
- Comparative Law, Legal History and Legal Studies
- Constitutional and Administrative Law
- Human Rights Law
- International Law
- Legal Philosophy
- Brill primary sources: Climate change and law collection
This comprehensive collection of climate change and law documents contains original source, non-edited and non-redacted “grey literature” (non-peer reviewed) in English, centered on climate change and the law. Incorporated in the category of ‘law’ is any discipline of law which addressed climate change, including corporate law, environmental law and human rights law. Materials in the collection originate from a wide range of organizations in the public and private sector, institutions, and/or individuals, world-wide.
- CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute)
CanLII provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes, and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions. Text is in French and English.
- CaseBase (Lexis+)
CaseBase provides access to case annotations. The database contains mainly Australian cases but some UK and NZ cases are included.
- CCH iKnowConnect
CCH iKnowConnect includes cases, legislation and commentary on a wide range of Australian law subjects such as corporations law, family law, industrial law, taxation, and occupational health and safety. Publications can be browsed or searched.
- Climate change and law collection
This comprehensive collection of climate change and law documents contains original source, non-edited and non-redacted “grey literature” (non-peer reviewed) in English, centered on climate change and the law. Incorporated in the category of ‘law’ is any discipline of law which addressed climate change, including corporate law, environmental law and human rights law. Materials in the collection originate from a wide range of organizations in the public and private sector, institutions, and/or individuals, world-wide.
- CommonLII (Commonwealth Legal Information Institute)
Provides free access to core legal information in 987 databases from 60 Commonwealth jurisdictions, and enables searching and browsing databases of legislation, case-law, law reform reports, law journals and other legal information from each country in the Commonwealth, where available.
- Congress.gov
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.
- Criminal justice database
ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.
- De Gruyter Online
De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.Authorised for ANU alumni access
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500-1700
This collection of primary sources looks at two centuries of everyday, political, religious, working, trading and administrative life in England during this pivotal epoch. Documents cover an array of topics relating to England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a significant focus on the lives of ‘everyday’ people. Volumes of correspondence from more prominent families look at governance, politics, monarchy, relations between landowners and tenants, war, politics and relations with England’s neighbours. The materials offer in-depth case studies of different regions in England from the Southeast to the Scottish borders allowing for comparison of experience across the country.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Elgaronline
This is a small collection of selected law e-books published by Edward Elgar.
- English Historical Documents Online (EHD)
EHD includes primary source documents spanning from 500 A.D. to 1914, along with the previously out-of-print American Colonial Documents. Sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, and diaries, covering topics from political and constitutional issues to social, economic, religious and cultural history.
- Federal Register of Legislation.
The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them.
- Gale OneFile: LegalTrac
LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals. It offers coverage of British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.