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Law Resource Guide

Finding Journal Articles

Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC2) , by Melbourne University is used by the School of Law.

To view or download theAGLC2 click this link (167 pages)

Finding Legal Abbreviations

If you have a citation to a specific journal title and the name of the journal is abbreviated, be sure you know what the abbreviation stands for.

Use the law library common legal abbreviations guide to locate journal titles and their call numbers. This guide is only for the most commonly used abbreviations. For a more complete list of legal abbreviations, including international abbreviations, use the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations.  Monash University Library provides a comprehensive listing of abbreviations for Australian legal publications.

 

Databases for Journal Articles

AGIS Plus Text: Informit database produced by the Attorney Generals Information Service (AGIS indexing for 400+ journals 1975-, selected full-text for 122 journals 1999- )

Australian Public Affairs Full text: Informit database produced by the National Library of Australia
(APAIS indexing for 2,000+ journals 1978-, selected full-text for 223 journals 1995- ) 

Cambridge Journals Online: provides full text articles from a number of English law journals.

Expanded Academic ASAP: multi-disciplinary U.S. database of 1450 journals (300+ are full text).

Hein Online: U.S. database of 350 full-text law journals from inception to the most recent volume allowed

Informit Law: collection of Australian journal databases in the topic of Law (indexed 1968-, selected full-text 1995-)

Legal Periodicals Full Text: International database of 1000+ law journals (indexed 1918-, 200+ full-text 1994-)

Lexis.com: U.S. database of full-text cases, legislation and articles from many countries (mostly U.S. materials)

Oxford Journals Online:  full text access to all Oxford University Press journals

Proquest 5000: multi-disciplinary database containing full-text articles for law, business & social sciences

Westlaw: database of International legal resources, including treatises, newspaper and journal articles.