SCHOOL OF LAW LIBRARY
GUIDE TO PREMIER ELECTRONIC JOURNAS’DATABASES
FOR LAW & LEGAL INFORMATION SUBJECTS
1. Hein Online: Access the following three core collections of the Hein
Online database.
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Law Journal Library
English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867)
Kluwer Law International Journal Library
URL is: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome.
2. Lexis Library
URL: https://www.lexisnexis.com
Access the UK’s most authoritative and comprehensive collection of
annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents & commentary from
Butterworth’s & Tolley.
3. JSTOR:
URL: http://www.jstor.org: provides access to more than 12
million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75
disciplines
Subject Strengths: include – Economics, History, Political Science,
and Legal & Law concepts, Literature, Art & Art History, Science,
Statistics, Education.
4. EBSCOHOST
URL: http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost
Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals, over 15,000 abstracted
and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search
Premier; Business Source Premier; ERIC; Master file Premier.
5. EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/
Subject strengths: features 140 Business and Management journals
Which are peer-reviewed and fully searchable, plus reviews from the
World’s top 300 management journals. Included is, Public Policy &
Environmental Management, and Sociology.
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6. IMF eLibrary: is viewed as one of the world’s most authoritative
sources for economic information, analysis and harmonized
statistics
URL: https://www.elibrary.imf.org/
Selected subject strengths: Banks & banking, Corporate Governance,
Investments and Securities, Government and Business, Arbitration,
Negotiation, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Business and Financial
Contracts, Environmental Health, International Judicial Power, Labor
and Employment, Environmental policy, Environmental Conservation
and Protection, Ecosystems and Habitats - Oceans and Seas
7. Project muse books
URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE is trusted source for the highest quality books and
journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the
world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
It provides online access to full-text journals and books in the
humanities and social sciences.
Very rich in textbooks on African Content, all full-text
8. The University of Chicago Press:
URL: https://www.jstor.org/publisher/ucpress
Disseminate scholarship of the highest standard and publish works
that promote education, foster public understanding, and enrich
cultural life. It publishes in a wide range of academic disciplines,
including social sciences, humanities, education, biological and
medical sciences.
9. Taylor & Francis Online Journals
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/
Provide access to more than 1,300 titles in humanities/social
Sciences {Law, Political & international studies, environment &
Sustainability}. Full text is for selected items while other access is
Via Open Access
10. .Google Scholar
Enables searches specifically for scholarly literature: including
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and
technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google
Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers,
professional societies, preprint repositories and universities as well
as scholarly articles available across the web.
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11. Kenya Law : URL: http://www.kenyalaw.org/kl/
Get access to Laws of Kenya, Kenya Law Reports, Kenya Gazette,
tribunals, Cause lists, and Parliament’s bills among other
publication
12. Southern African Legal Information Institute
(SAFLII): URL: http //www.saflii.org
The Southern African Legal Information Institute publishes legal
information for free public access which comprises mainly of case
law and legislation from South Africa.
It also hosts legal materials from other countries in the region. All
information is offered on a free and open basis subject and is
continuously updated.
13. World Legal Information Institute:
URL:http://www.worldlii.org--The World Legal Information
Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal
research facility developed collaboratively by the various Legal
Information Institutes and other organizations. It provides access to
1834 databases from 123 jurisdictions.
14. Edward Elgar Journals
URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/browse
Publishing is one of the largest independent academic book
publishers in the Social Sciences and Law.
15. Wiley Online Library (FORMERLY BLACKWELL SYNERGY)
URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
Provides access to over 840 leading learned journals in science,
Technology, medicine and social sciences. Law and criminology
is widely covered
NOTES:
UNLESS WHERE SPECIFIED, ALL DATABASES/RESOURCES ARE
ACCESSIBLE THROUGH IP AUTHENTICATION
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2. ELECTRONIC BOOKS’ DATABASES FOR LAW & LEGAL
INFORMATION SUBJECTS
1. Encyclopedia Britannica : Britannica Online academic
edition delivers fast and easy access to high quality
information in a vast range of subject areas. It provides a
single point of access to the full text of the Encyclopedia
Britannica plus a range of other titles and databases.
2. E-Kitabu: Core Text Books Online
URL: https//uon.ekitabu.com/Provide rich access to scholarly
publications by local authors and on local contents included
selected titles in Law/legal subject.
3. ProQuest Books) Ebrary: provides authoritative academic
materials and offers access to more than fifty thousand
electronic
books
in
all
subject
areas.
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
4. Project muse books
URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE is trusted source for the highest quality books and
journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 of the
world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.
It provides online access to full-text journals and books in the
humanities and social sciences.
Very rich in textbooks on African Content, all full-text
5. Directory of open access books (DOAB)
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for
peer reviewed books published under an open access license. DOAB
provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with
links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or
repository. URL: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar
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