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ABI/Inform | | quick start guide (PDF, 168k)
ABI/INFORM is a database covering business, management, economics and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and over 2,000 titles in full text, from 1987 onwards.
Academic Search Complete | | | quick start guide (PDF, 129k)
Updated daily, Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with full text coverage of almost 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text coverage of over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals dating as far back as 1975. View a demonstration of the new EBSCO interface here.
Academic Search Complete | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)| Login Guide
Updated daily, Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with full text coverage of almost 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text coverage of over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals dating as far back as 1975. View a demonstration of the new EBSCO interface here.
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Bailii
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials that are available for free and in one place on the internet
Business Search Premier | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)| Login Guide
Full text coverage of nearly 7,600 business publications, including full text coverage of over 1,100 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Coverage back to 1922 in some cases. View a demonstration of the new EBSCO interface here.
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Business Source Premier | | | quick start guide (PDF, 129k)
Full text coverage of nearly 7,600 business publications, including full text coverage of over 1,100 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Coverage back to 1922 in some cases. View a demonstration of the new EBSCO interface here.
Cambridge Journals Online | | quick start guide (PDF, 208k)
Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM displines, made available electronically through the Cambridge Journals online service.
Casetrack | | quick start guide (PDF, 129k)
Full text database of court judgements. NB This database does not contain case reports, but may have the court judgement (published by the Justice system) relating to a given case report. If your Casetrack username and password does not work please contact the Online Library at onlinelibrary@shl.lon.ac.uk. Please DO NOT contact the publisher directly.
Dawsons E-Book Collection |
The Online Library has purchased several core text books in electronic format, and the collection is constantly growing. Please note that not all your required textbooks can be provided but we consider all your suggestions. You can access Dawson E-books with your Athens account by selecting the link above.
EJS E-Journals | | Login Guide
Law and Critique and Social and Legal Studies are available from EBSCO's Electronic Journals Service (EJS) database. This database provides access to abstracts and full text journal articles where indicated.
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EndNote Bibliographic Software |
EndNote and Reference Manager Bibliographic software enables you to record and store references to books or journal articles - with additional options such as the facility to generate bibliographies. Click the link to purchase your own copy of the software at the reduced educational price.
HeinOnline | | | quick start guide (PDF, 371k)
Hein Online has four major full text collections: the Law Journal Library, covering over 650 titles (including older issues of journals), the Federal Register Library (1936-1998), the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. The HeinOnline YouTube page contains "how-to" videos for the HeinOnline collections, general searching, navigating videos and tips and hints.
HeinOnline | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)| Login Guide
Hein Online has four major full text collections: the Law Journal Library, covering over 650 titles (including older issues of journals), the Federal Register Library (1936-1998), the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. The HeinOnline YouTube page contains "how-to" videos for the HeinOnline collections, general searching, navigating videos and tips and hints.
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | |
A searchable full-text database of the entire collection of 18th 19th and 20th century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers. Contains over 200,000 House of Commons Sessional Papers, including Bills, House of Commons Papers, and Command Papers from 1715 to present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
For further information see the Guide to parliamentary papers.
Please Note: Hansard debates are not included.
IBSS | | Login Guide
International Bibliography of the social sciences. Covers the core social science disciplines of economics, sociology, politics, and anthropology. Current data is taken from over 2400 journals and around 7000 books per annum. Its coverage spans 50 years from 1951 to the present and draws on material published throughout the world. Access via EBSCO with Athens username and password. NB ABSTRACTS ONLY.
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IngentaConnect | |
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4 million articles from 11,000 publications.
JSTOR | | | quick start guide (PDF, 69k)
A digital archive collection of core scholarly journals. It is unique in that complete archives of these journals have been digitised, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century.
JSTOR | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)| Login Guide
A digital archive collection of core scholarly journals. It is unique in that complete archives of these journals have been digitised, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century.
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JustCite | | Login Guide | Quick Start Guide
JustCite is a legal search engine and citation service that cross-references case law, legislation and journal articles. JustCite is the only search engine that searches across all major online legal publishers and links you straight to their content.
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Justis | | | quick start guide (PDF, 336k)|Justis Web Demo|Justis Alerting Service
Full text of the The Law Reports, UK Statutes, EU, Family and Human Rights Legislation.
Justis | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)| Login Guide |
Justis Training Tutorial | Justis User Guides|Justis Alerting Service
Full text of the The Law Reports, UK Statutes, EU, Family and Human Rights Legislation.
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KluwerArbitration | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)| Request Password
Full text database of primary and secondary materials relating to commercial arbitration, including conventions, legislation, case law and journal articles.
Lexis®Library | | | quick start guide (PDF, 215k)
Full-text case-law and legislation for the UK, US (Federal and State), EU and other jurisdictions. It also provides access to a large number of full-text legal journals, local and national newspapers and business information, again both from the UK and the rest of the world.
Check your Lexis®Library knowledge by taking the Lexis®Library Tests
Lexis®Library | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)| Login Guide | Lexis®Library Training Videos
Full-text case-law and legislation for the UK, US (Federal and State), EU and other jurisdictions. It also provides access to a large number of full-text legal journals, local and national newspapers and business information, again both from the UK and the rest of the world.
Check your Lexis®Library knowledge by taking the Lexis®Library Tests.
To login with your Athens account click here.
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Includes the Journal of Medical Ethics from 1975 to 2006.
Science Direct | | | quick start guide (PDF, 278k) |
FulL text access to over 70 peer reviewed journals in a wide range of subject areas, including education health, business & management and the social sciences. Abstracts for over 1800 journals can be searched,
but full text access is limited to those titles we have selected and paid for. Please see the quick start guide for further information about limiting searches to full text content.
Web of Knowledge | | Login Guide
ISI Web of Knowledge delivers easy access to high quality, scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes free access to My EndNote Web reference management. To access My EndNote Web log into Web of Knowledge and select My EndNote Web from the links at the top of the page. Access the EndNote Web online tutorial here.
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Westlaw | | | quick start guide (PDF, 152k)|
Westlaw Training Tutorial
Full text UK case law and journals. Also includes UK Civil Procedures, EU cases, treaties and directives, daily alerting service and some material for other jurisdictions such as the USA
Westlaw | | quick start guide (PDF, 0k)|Login Guide |
Westlaw Training Tutorial | Westlaw Student User Guide | Clues & Cues
Full text UK case law and journals. Also includes UK Civil Procedures, EU cases, treaties and directives, daily alerting service and some material for other jurisdictions such as the USA. To access material from other jurisdictions click on the Services tab and select Westlaw International.
To login with your Athens account click here.
Wiley Online Library | |
Access an extensive range of quality journals, reference works and Current Protocols online, covering a range of scientific, medical, technical and professional disciplines.

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