Databases

Select your study programme below to find out which databases you can access, or visit your Study Programme page for more details.

Please note: all Online Library databases are password protected. For further information see the passwords page.

Currently showing: Laws (UG)

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

You can login to this database using either your student portal password or your Online Library Athens account.

 

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. 

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 freely available online.

 

Please note that the Online Library does not administer BAILII. 

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

 

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.

Cambridge Core

You can log into this database using your student portal password.

 

Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through Cambridge Core. Our subscription also includes a small but growing collection of e-books in Cambridge Core.

 

CommonLII

Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) provides free access to core legal information from Commonwealth and Common Law jurisdictions.

Dissertations (ProQuest: Global‎)

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As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations.

If there is no PDF option for a dissertation, this means that the full-text of that dissertation is not available.

 

Dissertations (ProQuest: UK and Ireland‎)

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This database is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716. There are no full-text dissertations in this database.

 

 

EJS E-Journals (EBSCO)

You can login to this database using either your student portal password or your Online Library Athens account.

 

This database provides access to abstracts and full text journal articles where indicated. Our subscription includes, but is not limited to, these journals:

  • Law and Critique
  • Social and Legal Studies
  • The Journal of Contemporary Asia 

 

Financial Times

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

 

The Financial Times is a London-based newspaper and one of the world's most renowned publications with a focus on global business, finance and economic news. As well as providing access to the newspaper, FT.com includes addtional content and a number of personalised features such as subject-focused newsletters, news alerts and more.

 

HeinOnline

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

HeinOnline contains major full text collections with an American focus including: the Law Journal Library, covering over 2600 titles (including older issues of journals), the English Reports, the Legal Classics Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, the Foreign & International Law Resources Database, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.

HSTalks

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Henry Stewart Talks provides access to videos of world class lectures and case studies given by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia, including Nobel Laureates.

IngentaConnect

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

 

IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4 million articles from 11,000 publications.

JSTOR

You can login to this database using either your student portal password or your Online Library Athens account.

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. The Online Library's subscription covers the Arts and Science Collections 1-15.

 

Justis Parliament

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Justis Parliament is an index to the proceedings and publications of the Houses of Parliament, and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, dating back to 1979.

Please note that this database will be retired on the 31st December 2022

Lexis+ (LexisLibrary)

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

This database includes 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, and local and national UK newspapers. Includes Halsburys Laws of England.

This database was formerly known as LexisLibrary.

Oxford Academic

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Through the Oxford Academic platform, the Online Library provides access to over two hundred journals published by Oxford University Press. This is a multi-disciplinary database, with journals covering a wide range of topics in the humanities, sciences and law. Please note that our subscriptions do not cover all titles in this database.

Oxford Handbooks Online

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Brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate.

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law

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Contains full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, such as Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

Project MUSE

You can only log into this database using your student portal password.

 

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. It currently includes 468,570 articles and 1,177,319 chapters by 265 publishers, on a wide variety of topics including education, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, economics, politics and technology.

 

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PubMed Central (PMC)

The PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

SAGE Journals Online

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SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. We subscribe to three collections in SAGE: the Education Collection, the Management and Organisation Studies Collection, and the Politics and International Relations Collection.

 

 

Science Direct

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

Full text access to over 3,800 peer reviewed journals in a wide range of subject areas, including education, health, psychology, business & management, economics and earth sciences. Full text access is limited to those titles we have selected and paid for.

Scopus

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

 

Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database from Elsevier, with over 91 million records. 

"Quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and gain access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools." 

Taylor and Francis

To login with your portal password, click the orange button and then select University of London Online Library (Portal Login).

 

The Onlne Library's subscription covers two collections of journals: the Science and Technology Collection, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Collection.