If you are interested in inter or cross disciplinary research areas/topics, the A-Z Database list can help you discover those which are available at Oxford, the majority are those to which the Bodleian has a subscription but there are some OA/free web sources included when these have been recommended by subject librarians.
Westlaw is produced by Thomson Reuters and is one of major UK Legal databases. It is a subscription database and available to OU members with an Oxford SSO.
Law Reports and Cases
Legislation
Journals
Books
Guides and tutorials
See the Legal Skills guide for a list of guides and tutorials.
HeinOnline is a legal database which from a UK Law perspective is useful for its law journal collection. Under the terms of its licence the material it can include is restricted which means that the more recent articles may not be available (and it differs from title to title). If you are looking for an article it would be best to search Oxford Ejournals first and see if the article is included within HeinOnline first. It also has a large collection of US material and UN material.
Selected Journals
There is also a collection of some of the student law reviews.
Guides and tutorials
See the Legal Skills guide for a list of guides and tutorials
i-law is a specialist legal database. OU members have access to the Maritime material which includes:
Guides and tutorials
See the Legal Skills guide for a list of guides and tutorials
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. BAILII is hosted in the UK and Ireland by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London and the Law Faculty, University College Cork. (Taken from website).
Contents
None of the databases are fully comprehensive and as the majority are commercially produced they only contain content that they have permission to reproduce and this is typically material that they have published themselves or they have been able to 'buy' from other publishers. On this page is a selection of some of the major UK databases. There are online tutorials for these on the Legal Research Skills guide. A list of all legal databases in the Bodleian are contained on our website , please use the link below:
Lexis Library is produced by Lexis Nexis (formally Butterworths) and is one of the major UK legal databases. It is a subscription database which is available to OU members with an Oxford SSO. Contents include:
Law Reports and Cases
Legislation
Journals
Commentary
Guides and tutorials
See the Legal Skills guide for a list of guides and tutorials
Justis One is a new combined database incorporating Justis and JustCite
Justis One Content
Guides and tutorials
See the Legal Skills guide for a list of guides and tutorials
This is a free database produced by the UK Government. It replaced the Statute Law Database and the legislation section of OPSI.
Contents (taken from the website)