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Key Subject Resources

These are the key databases we recommend for Law. A green or red house icon next to a database means you can access it from off campus through the Southampton Virtual Environment (SVE). It is recommended you install VPN on your device if SVE doesn't work. Enable cookies on your device if using Safari to access Westlaw.

BIMCO: Baltic and International Maritime Council
HeinOnline
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i-law
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Individual login required even on campus.
Justis
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Lawtel
LexisLibrary
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Also includes some commentary from legal journals. Exclusive content includes the All England Law Reports, Halsbury’s Laws of England, Halsbury’s Statutes and specialist law reports (Family Law Reports and Industrial Relations Law Reports).
Lloyds List
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Oxford Law Trove
Westlaw
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Exclusive content includes the “official” law reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR).

Other databases for legal research

These databases might have journal articles and other commentary not available in full text in the key subject resources. Use the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations to find the meaning of abbreviations for English and foreign language legal publications.

Cambridge Core Journals
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Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
"This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.

A wide selection of major foreign language law publications is also included. Publications from over 295 jurisdictions are featured in the Index."
Google Scholar
IBSS - International Bibliography of The Social Sciences
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IBSS has particular strengths in politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. Click on the TDNet links to check for full-text. No password on campus. Off campus VPN or Institutional login.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
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The database contains more than 21.6 million records from 5,582 selected publications covering biomedicine and health from 1950 to the present. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE provides information from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, as well as coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
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Oxford Scholarship Online
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PsycINFO
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Provided by the American Psychological Association’s (APA). The largest database of peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Covers related subjects including medicine, law, neuroscience, business, human resource management, nursing, forensics, criminology, engineering, sociology and gerontology. Includes about 2500 journals, in many languages, from 1800s to present (including all articles from PsycARTICLES).
Sociological Abstracts
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Web of Science Core Collection
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Cambridge Core Journals
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More than 380 peer-reviewed journals and their digitised archives, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
Oxford Scholarship Online
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Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) offers access to over 16,000 academic works from the celebrated scholarly list of Oxford University Press, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law... more info.