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Library Databases

Academic Source Complete

A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text journals.

The British & Irish Legal Information Institute contains British and Irish case law and legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish materials. BAILII is a free resource but note it may not be as up to date as databases such as Westlaw UK. Check the status of any Act to see if it is provided in its original version, or if it has been revised.

BibliU

Provides access to the Key Texts for your programme all in one place. You can use BibliU online and offline using a web browser or a mobile app for Android or IOS and as this is your own personal Library you will also have the ability to highlight and take notes.

Cambridge University Press Journals collection

Cambridge University Press Journals collection consists of more than 420 peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.

eBook Central

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes.

EBSCO

A repository of e-books and journals aligned to Arden's programmes.

EBSCO eBook Collection

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes.

EBSCO Legal Source

Full-text database covering Law and Criminal Justice. It provides detailed indexing for legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications and university publications and contains more than 490 full text journal and magazine publications.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

A database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

GALE Business: Insights

Gale Business: Insights provides users with detailed financial, historical, and current event information on over 400,000 companies, industries, and countries. Users can easily find Plunkett Reports, SWOT analyses, case studies, comparison charts, scholarly journals, and more.

Gale Power Search

GALE Power Search is a cross-search platform that enables users to do one search across multiple GALE databases.

Gale Research Complete

Gale Research Complete contains a wealth of resources including Gale eBooks (books and encyclopaedias), Gale Academic OneFile (journals), Gale General OneFile (magazines), Gale OneFile News (current newspapers), Gale Literature (English literature resources) and Archives Unbound (primary historical sources).

Global Crime

Global Crime publishes research on crime across international settings including issues relating to general crime trends, organized criminality, corruption and state crime.

Law Teacher

An international journal publishing research on all aspects of legal education including the teaching of law at all academic levels. (Please be aware that this is a separate resource from lawteacher.net)

Legislation.gov.uk

Legislation.gov.uk carries most (but not all) types of legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents. All legislation from 1988 is available (with a few minor exceptions). Legislation.gov.uk is a free resource but note it may not be as up to date as databases such as Westlaw UK. Check the status of any Act to see if it is provided in its original version, or if it has been revised.

Lexis Library

Provides access to a collection of highly regarded journals, loose-leafs, e-books and practitioner texts. The collection includes the Family Law Journal and The Family Court Practice (The Red Book).

Newswires

Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.

Oxford University Press Law Journals Collection

The Oxford University Press Law Journals Collection is a collection of 48 scholarly journals covering areas of legal scholarship such as commercial, economic, and refugee law, as well as criminal justice.

Police Practice and Research - An International Journal

Police Practice and Research publishes articles on developments in policing, public order, state of safety, community policing, country- or region-specific police organization and more.

Practical Law

Practical Law is an online legal know how service. It provides rigorous peer reviewed resources, such as practice notes, standard documents and current awareness services. Practical Law works in conjunction with Westlaw UK, allowing you to combine the expert legal know-how with the primary law resources on Westlaw.

SAGE Journals Premier Collection

Provides access to journal titles across a range of subject and sub-disciplines.

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection

ScienceDirect provides access to the scientific, technical and medical journals of Elsevier and participating publishers. It contains more than 18 million articles and book chapters from over 2,650 peer-reviewed journals and 42,000 e-books, including books, book series and major reference works, and digital archives that reach as far back as 1823.

Statista

Statista is a data and statistics platform that consolidates more than 1 million statistics over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

Westlaw eBooks

A collection of practitioner texts covering a range of legal areas including Company and Commercial, Employment, Contract, Employment, EU & International, Family and Social Welfare, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, Tort and more.

Westlaw International

Provides access to International Legal Materials from countries including Australia, Canada, European Union, Hong Kong and Korea.

Westlaw UK

One of the major databases for case law, legislation, and commentary. It has the full text of the official Law Reports series and contains material back to 1220 via the English Reports. Westlaw UK also provides a ‘case analysis’ document for UK cases providing information about the case and where it has been judicially considered, and where it links to relevant legislation and commentary. It also provides access to European cases and international case law. For legislation, it contains the fully consolidated full text of Acts since 1267 and selected Statutory Instruments since 1948.

World LII

The World Legal Information Institute: provides free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law including a country by country listing (for constitutions, cases and legislation etc.)

Referencing Guide

As a Law student (LLB only) you will be following OSCOLA. You can download the complete referencing guide here:

Guide to OSCOLA Referencing

AU Guide to OSCOLA Referencing

Guide to OSCOLA Referencing - International

If you are studying a Joints programme (e.g. Law and Criminology) or are a Foundation Pathway Student (e.g. Law and Criminology with foundation pathways or Law and psychology with foundation pathways) you will be following AU Harvard. You can download the complete referencing guide here:

AU Complete Guide to Harvard Referencing

AU Short Guide to Harvard Referencing

Professional Bodies and Associations

Professional bodies and associations are organisations you will engage with throughout your career. Becoming familiar with them during your studies is a great way to keep up to date with developments in your field and build your professional network.

Law Society

The independent professional body for solicitors.

Bar Standards Board

Regulates barristers and specialised legal services businesses in England and Wales in the public interest.

CiLEX

The professional association and governing body for over 21,000 Chartered Legal Executive Lawyers, other legal practitioners and paralegals.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)

Regulates solicitors in England and Wales.

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Library Databases

Academic Source Complete

Lexis Library

Westlaw International

Westlaw UK

Referencing Guide

Professional Bodies and Associations

Law Society

Bar Standards Board

CiLEX

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)

Podcasts

Law in Action

Rights Up

Lawyer 2 Lawyer

The Hearing

Law Pod UK

Useful Websites

House of Commons

British & Irish Legal Information Institute

Ministry of Justice

Lawbore

The Court of Appeal | Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

The Supreme Court

UK Parliament

Resources for Law Students

Lawyer2B

The Lawyer Portal

The Student Lawyer

Lexology

Current Awareness by Inner Temple Library

Law Gazette

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