Oxford LibGuides: Labour & employment law: Journals

Law Journals, WP & OA repositories

Some specialist titles in print

AJIL	Australian journal of labour law	Cw Austral 300 A26.5
ELJ	Employment law journal	Cw UK 300 E41.5
	IDS employment law brief	Cw UK 300 I2
IndLJ	Industrial law journal	Cw UK 300 I15
IJCCLIR	International journal of comparative labour law & industrial relations	General 300 I124.5

Most of the above and more are available to OU members electronically

Search the Law Library journal holdings
Search the Law Library's database of journal holdings, both hard copy and electronic. Details of coverage and the databases providing online access are given.
E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies (EJCLS)
OA journal "The E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies is intended to present research and new developments with regard to comparative collective and individual labour issues, equality and discrimination, transitions to work, public policy and labour regulation, vulnerable workers and precarious working, employment productivity and international labour institutions; and any other material concerned with any aspect of labour studies"

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Archive of social science papers including legal papers.
The subscribed collections are:
•Economics Research
•Financial Economics
•Legal Scholarship
•Management Research
Bepress Legal Repository

Alternative name: Berkeley Electronic Press

The Bepress Legal Repository is a network of law-related research materials. Law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and other subject-appropriate groups post materials to specific publications (e.g., the USC Working Paper Series).

LawArXiv: Legal scholarship in the open [ARCHIVE]
2017-2019. LawArXiv was an open access legal repository; preprints deposited during its life remain available to all to download

Free online material from legal practitioners and organisations with a special interest in this area of law

ACAS Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Publications on statistics, handbooks and case studies.
Daniel Barnett's Employment Law Vault
English barrister's blog
Equality & Human Rights Commission : Publication Library
Official website. EHRC has "a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the nine "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation and gender reassignment."
IIkbw : 11 King's Bench Walk
Free resource. Commentary from barristers' chambers
Low Pay Commission
Official website. LPC was established as an independent body as a result of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to advise the Government about the National Minimum Wage.

There are special tools - make use of them!

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981

This retrospective database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic will also be covered.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals This link opens in a new window

Alternative name: IFLP

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (produced by The American Association of Law Libraries) provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law from 1985 onwards. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law. The data is not limited by country of publication, but rather type of publication. Therefore whilst publications concerning British and American law are not included, British and American publications concerning foreign law are included.

The types of documents covered include journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews. The database encompasses all languages. Materials in Greek, Cyrillic, and East Asian vernacular are Romanized according to Library of Congress standards. Arabic and Hebrew titles are translated into English or French.

Legal Journals Index (LJI)
Requires Oxford SSO & personal registration. Westlaw Edge UK indexes more UK law journal issues than it holds in full text. (1986 onwards) If Westlaw only has the abstract make a note of the citation details. If needed, use Cardiff Index to find the full title of the journal, then search SOLO by the full title of the journal. In other words, search SOLO for LLoyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (not LMCLQ)

Social Sciences Citation Index

Alternative names: Web of Science ; SSCI. SSCI is the machine readable version of the printed Social Sciences Citation Index. It provides bibliographic references to significant items from over 1,400 journals in the behavioural and social sciences. Selected items from over 3,100 physical and natural sciences journals are also included to provide multidisciplinary coverage. This amounts to approximately 130,000 articles per year.
The data, which is updated weekly, consists of articles for the current year, with other year's data going back to 1970. The data for each index defaults to the current year plus the three previous years (this can be reset), with searches covering one index at a time. Many of the more recent articles contain abstracts, as well as author, title and journal information with lists of citations.

LawCite search
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LawCite is being built as part of a three year project that is funded by the Australian Research Council in co-operation with a number of Australian courts and other commercial and non-commercial organisations. It is being developed at AustLII in collaboration with other members of the Free Access to Law Movement - in particular BAILII , HKLII , PacLII , SAFLII , NZLII and CYLAW. Particularly strong for common law countries, but the civil law dimension is growing
Google Scholar search (enhancements)
Enhancements: OU members should
1) click on the 3 parallel lines (top left corner before google logo), then click Settings
Among the options:
1) Search Results - last options in central panel, if you are using RMS adjust Bibliography manager options
2) Library Links in the left hand column, type Oxford in the search box and then click in box alongside "University of Oxford Find it @ Oxford" and finally click Save this setting. This will help you get online access to material in some (but not all) legal databases for which the Law Bod has a subscription when on the OU network/working via VPN.