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AGIS Plus Text is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on all aspects of law. Source documents include Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals, and selected articles from major law journals from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Subject coverage includes all aspects of law including administrative law, banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright law, criminal law, environmental law, family law, human rights, international law, legal aid, and trade practices. Over 400 titles are indexed.

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See also: AGIS : Attorney-General's information service | CaseBase

CaseBase is a citator and annotator of cases from over 60 Australian and overseas report series and the unreported decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of all Australian states and territories and other selected jurisdictions. It provides a guide as to whether a case has been followed, distinguished or overruled by later judgments with coloured signals to flag positive, negative, or cautionary treatment. Journal articles that comment on the case are included.

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FirstPoint provides access to case references, citation, history, and digest information for Australian cases since 1825. All case material is classified to a detailed classification scheme, which can be browsed or searched to locate cases on legal topics. Information is sourced from the Australian Case Citator, Australian Digest and Australian Legal Monthly Digest (published by Lawbook Co.). See also CaseBase.

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Provides access to full-text Australian legislation, with associated Bill tracking, amendment & commencement information and links to related material, such as Second Reading speeches. Title, keyword or subject searches are available. A good first stop for finding Australian legislation.

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See also: AustLII
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A major bibliographic database that indexes and selectively abstracts articles from law reviews and, speciality law and bar association journals and legal newspapers on cases studies, government regulations, practice of law, statutes, and legal subjects such as taxation and international law. It also covers law related articles for approximately 1000 additional business and general interest titles. Some full text articles are included. Geographical coverage includes the U.S. Canada, U.K. and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

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See also: Legal Resource Index on Lexis.com

Includes in-depth coverage for over 2,700 publications, with more than 2,000 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels. With ABI/INFORM Global, users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.

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See also: Business Source Premier | Australian Public Affairs - Full Text
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From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 title--over 2,550 in full text--from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

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Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on accounting and related business topics. Source documents include Australian journals, conference papers and academic research papers.

Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished materials on policing, criminology and related fields. Source documents include selected Australian and overseas journals, conference papers, and book chapters.
See also: CINCH

The AGIS-ATSIS database is a subset of AGIS that contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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See also: CINCH | APAIS

"Contains the complete set of the American Maritime Cases publication, from 1923 to [the present]. American Maritime Cases contains significant maritime decisions rendered by United States (Federal and State) courts. It also reports legislative action, administrative law decisions, arbitration decisions, Maritime Law Association of the U.S. source material and other items which are deemed significant to researching U.S. and Canadian law. Cases contain AMC's key indexing system and headnotes." -- Information page.

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Bibliographic database that indexes published material on Australian social sciences and humanities. Source documents include periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers, and books. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.
See also: Australian Public Affairs - Full Text

Focus includes economic cooperation, international trade and trade law, labour and development issues, environment and tourism. Indexes journals (including Australian titles), books, academic papers, reports and conference proceedings. Coverage: 1988 to 2002.

Provides full text searching of publicly available Australian primary legal materials such as Commonwealth and state consolidated acts and regulations, treaties and decisions of federal and state courts and tribunals. Extensive secondary legal materials such as law reform and royal commission reports, etc. are also included. Includes extensive links to other Australasian, Asian and international legal resources on the Internet.

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See also: Lawlex

Contains over 4,000 ready-to-use legal forms and precedents covering 93 areas of law. It includes a range of legal procedures and concepts, sample documents and forms. Introductory notes explain the purpose of individual forms, precedents and clauses, and indicate where and when each should be used. Precedents are drafted in plain English, by experienced practitioners in leading law firms and from the bar.

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A searchable database of legal definitions supported by Australian legislative and judicial authority, including: jurisprudential and criminological terms; explanations of well known rules and principles of law; international law terms, treaties and conventions; translations of Latin legal words and phrases; descriptions of landmark decisions of the High Court of Australia; and biographical entries. There are links to additional citations in Australian Legal Words and Phrases, and to full-text law report series on LexisNexis AU.

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ALJI allows browsing or searching through journal abstracts, cases referred to, legislative references, and key-citing information by jurisdiction. Includes links to 20 full text online journals, authorised and specialist law reports. Database also contains over 100,000 abstracts from over 400 legal journals. Compiled by the Commonwealth Attorney General's Lionel Murphy Library since 1971.

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A comprehensive index to words and phrases defined in Australian legislation or interpreted and considered in judgments of the superior courts from 1900 to date. Provides over 100,000 words and phrases and complete details of where the word or phrase has been defined and the context in which it is defined.

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See also: Australian encyclopaedic legal dictionary
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Indexing and full text database that provides access to published material on Australian social sciences and humanities. Source documents include periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers, and books. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

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See also: APAIS : Australian public affairs information service

This bibliographic database is a subset of the Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) database that indexes articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. The APAIS-ATSIS subset contains records that specifically relate to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Source documents include scholarly Australian journals, monographs, newspapers and conference proceedings. Limited articles from overseas publications are also included. Specific subject coverage includes history, economics, politics, current affairs and culture.

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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.

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"A practical service where the chapters follow the natural order of a bankruptcy proceeding, taking the user through all the necessary steps with analysis and detailed discussion ... The online version of this service has all the features of the looseleaf version together with intuitive online functionality, real time law in force."--Thomson catalog.

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A comprehensive information service that includes the text of British company legislation and cases and commentary with the emphasis on practical guidance. Newsletters highlight recent developments.

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The purpose of this service is to assist parties to building contracts, their consultants and advisors, understand the complexities of building contracts. The authors guide you through the major concepts and forms of building and construction contracts, making this an essential tool for drafting and negotiating these contracts. The commentary includes extensive analysis of the contractual principles relating to building negotiations and disputes, precedents, references to cases that have been relevant to contract law and the law of evidence in general as applied to construction contracts, relevant parts of State Supreme Court Rules, Security of Payment legislation, practice directions and notes and extracts from the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW).

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The Campbell Collaboration (C2) helps people make well-informed decisions by preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, and social welfare. The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions. Through its reviews and annual Colloquiums, the Collaboration strives to make the best social science research available and accessible.

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CanLII provides access to primary sources of Canadian Law accessible for free on the Internet. Includes legislative and judicial texts, as well as legal commentaries, from federal, provicial, and territorial jurisdictions.

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Provides tailored news and information services, with information from Parliament, Government and the Courts. Bills Monitors and Acts Assented sections are available for Federal, NSW and Victorian jurisdictions. Major strength is its currency, navigability, and features that aid monitoring such as 'What's new' (daily update on categorised topics), 'Newsletters' and 'Ask our experts by e-mail'.

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Provides full transcripts of judgments from the British Courts of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions) (April 1996-), Administrative Court (April 1996-), High Court (July 1998-), House of Lords, Privy Council (Nov. 1996-), Crown Office, Employment Appeal Tribunal (July 1998-), VAT Tribunal (Jan. 2002-) and Irish, Northern Irish and Scottish courts. The judgments can be browsed by date and case name, and searched by keywords. A useful database for finding transcripts of very recent United Kingdom decisions.

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Provides online access to selected Australian CCH titles and loose-leaf services. These publications cover topics such as corporations law, family law, industrial law, taxation and, occupational health and safety. Commentary, case law and legislation are included. Publications can be browsed or searched. See also: CCH Solution Finders for Corporations law, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, OHS, Superannuation, Tax, and Trade Practices.

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A comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese journals. It contains more than 7,200 journals starting from 1915, sourced from core journals and speciality journals from mainland China. Monash University Library has access to three of the ten series databases comprising 3, 350 journals - 1. Literature/History/Philosophy, 2. Economics/Politics/Law, and 3. Education/Social Science.

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Designed as a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs from 1991, it includies working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects and proceedings from conferences. Has links to over 160 international sites, environmental studies Web pages and news media services.

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This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles from primarily Australian published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime, criminal justice and criminology. Subject coverage includes all aspects of crime and criminal justice including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime.

The CINCH-ATSIS database is a subset of CINCH that contains records that specifically relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the justice system.

Provides a search interface to several databases of British law, including: [1]. Current law cases, with digests from 1986 to present covering selected reports from over 70 UK commercial law report series, quantum information and Scottish law reports. Case digests from 1947 to 1985 available on the complementary CLI CD-ROM service; [2]. Case citator, a quick guide to case law developments, with links to digests of cases in Current law cases, if available -- [3]. Legislation citator, a guide to whether any act or statutory instrument has been amended, repealed, applied, or referred to by any other legislation, with some coverage from 1989; [4]. Legal journals index (LJI), an index providing summaries of articles, cases, and legislative comments from UK legal journals, including entries from English language legal journals of EU law and Irish published journals, covering over 700 journals dating back to 1986; [5]. LRDI grey paper index (formerly known as BADGER), comprising an index to the public domain information of interest to the legal profession, 1994 to date; [6]. Financial journals index (FJI), an index to the main banking, insurance, pensions, and financial services journals, 1992 to date, with industry specific journals from Jan. 2002.
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See also: Legal Journals Index on Westlaw

CLJ Law provides access to databases covering the Malaysian legal system. The databases include cases, articles, practice notes, forms, legislation and words and phrases. In addition to reported court decisions, unreported High Court decisions are included from 1997 onwards. All current Federal legislation is made available in consolidated form, and links are provided between legislative sections and relevant case law. A searchable and browsable full-text database of articles published in MLCJ publications from 1981 onwards is also available.

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CLEA consists of a bibliographic database in English linked to a full text database in English, French, and Spanish. CLEA contains national legislative texts in the field of intellectual property, texts of treaties administered by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), texts of treaties not administered by WIPO and bibliographic data entries concerning each legislative text and treaty.

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"Commercial Contract Clauses ... is the first systematic analysis of the process of construing and interpreting commercial contracts on a clause by clause basis, to the benefit of Australian lawyers ...The work opens with topics where knowledge is often wrongly assumed - the process of construing a contract, and issues regarding the operation of deeds. The authors then move to areas of difficulty for lawyers."--Thomson catalog.

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Company Receivers and Administrators is the essential reference tool for insolvency practitioners. It provides a thorough analysis of case law and legislation on private and court appointments and discussion of voluntary administration and deeds of company arrangement under Part 5.3A of the Corporations Act ...The online version of this service ... contains all the features of the looseleaf version together with intuitive online functionality, real time law in force and integration with [many] major Thomson online publications [depending on subscribed services] -- Thomson catalog.

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"Provides a practical insight into company receivership and insolvency practice and is the only service devoted exclusively to company receivership, deeds of company arrangement and voluntary administration ... The legislation is updated as changes occur with the online version providing an enhanced level of currency and contains all the features of the looseleaf version together with intuitive online functionality, real time law in force and references to case law linked to, eg, FirstPoint."--Thomson catalog.

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"Designed for use by practitioners, business professionals and anyone with an interest in corporations law ... Confirm the text of the legislation, quickly and easily with this essential resource. Currency can also be easily sourced by the list of amending instruments at the end of the act or regulation."--Thomson catalog.

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Indexes and abstracts international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Areas covered include trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing.
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Includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

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Provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the legal texts of the WTO agreements, from 1995 onwards, with daily updates. Also contains selected material for the period 1986-1994, principally Uruguay Round documents and a small number of GATT documents.Note: this database does not contain WTO publications.

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Provides access to full text and/or bibliographic databases to which Monash University Library currently subscribes. These databases index journals and other periodical sources in the fields of science, technology, economics and business.

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"Text of the EC Competition Law Reporter, a comprehensive treatise providing analysis of the European Union competition rules as established by the European Commission. The treatise examines basic principles that apply to EC competition law, applies these principles to certain business practices and behavior, and explains procedural rules governing the competition law process. Information on state aids and the relationship between EC competition law and the activities of EU member states is also covered." -- Information page.

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EISIL provides access to the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet.

This interdisciplinary resource covers legal, sociological, psychological, historical and economic aspects of crime and justice worldwide. Entries cover civil and criminal issues, from domestic violence to terrorism. Entries cite pertinent legal cases as well as publications for further information. Also includes a glossary of related terms.

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Contains reprinted decisions of all English courts from 1220 to the commencement of the official Law reports in 1866. HeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection represents reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc. The English Reports, Full Reprint contains over 100,000 cases reprinted verbatim and spans the years 1220 to 1867.

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EUROPA is the portal site of the European Union. It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion, access the websites of each of the EU institutions and find out about the policies administered by the European Union under the powers devolved to it by the Treaties. Provides information on EU initiatives, policies, institutions and services, access to selected documents of the EU including the Maastricht Treaty.

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The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) conducts practice-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe. It serves European governments and regional intergovernmental organizations as well as non-dominant groups in the European area. The early monitoring, study and resolution of ethnic tension and potential conflict in all regions of Europe - East and West - provides one of the major focal points for the activities of the Centre. The HeinOnline library includes ECMI Reports and Working Papers, along with the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe.

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Expanded Academic ASAP contains citations and many full-text articles on current events, general sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Designed primarily to support undergraduate-level research, the database is useful to anyone seeking information on these topics. Journal coverage is from 1994 to the present, and backfiles (1980-1993) are available for some journals.

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"Expert Evidence is an essential resource for preparation and case presentation by litigation lawyers (both civil and criminal), forensic specialists and any expert engaged in investigations and hearings. It combines comprehensive analysis of legal principle with extensive technical treatment of over 75 Expert Witness fields. Major English language international case authorities are referred to and discussed, and academic research publications from around the world are cited as references."--Thomson catalog.

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Factiva provides access to full text coverage of major Australian newspapers (including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian), as well as global newspapers and news wires. Coverage for The Australian, Financial Review and BRW is from 2007, with abstracts only. Factiva also includes company profiles and financial information for listed companies worldwide, and historical financial market data.

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This Australian bibliographic database indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to Australian families.

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The FAMILY-ATSIS database is a subset of FAMILY that contains records that specifically relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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FLIRD contains full-text international law publications, including prominent Yearbooks from around the world and proceedings of the American Society of International Law. Also contains U.S. law digests on international law and judicial decisions of the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice.

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Searchable database of essential forensic science and law enforcement reference texts.

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This site provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994. Over 59,000 public documents and 300 publications of the GATT are accessible from this site, a digital library created in a partnership between the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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This bibliographic database contains abstracts of recent law journal articles exploring international labour standards in the global economy. Taken from English language law journals from around the world, GALS provides an alphabetical list of summarised articles, followed by citations categorised by subject heading. Current subject headings include: codes of conduct, child labor, NAFTA, WTO, ILO, women's rights, etc. The database can be browsed by subject, author, journal, or searched by keyword.

"A comprehensive guide on the important contractual issues raised by the U.S. adoption of the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. It covers the terms of the Convention, when it applies, what contracts are covered, and whether usages and practices make a difference. It reviews the rules of contract formation, offer and acceptance, conclusion of the contract, sale of goods, obligations of the seller, obligations of the buyer, passing of risk, anticipatory breach, damages, and avoidance." -- Information page.

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This legal encyclopaedia comprises a narrative statement of the law of Australia organised by subject area and covering all nine jurisdictions. Statements of legal principles and propositions of substantive law are supported by references to primary authority (cases and legislation).

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See also: Laws of Australia
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Provides searchable access to full text digitized legal journals, reviews and case law, predominantly published in North America.

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HKLII is developed and jointly operated by the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). It provides free access to primary legal materials from Hong Kong (and some publicly available secondary materials).

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HCPP online is a major source for information on 19th and 20th-century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. Includes all sessional papers issued by the House of Commons between 1801-2003/04, including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers. Monash University Library has access to the following collections: 19th century (1801-1900) and 20th century (1901-2003/04 session)

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The ICL Database & Commentary aims to provide scholars, as well as practitioners, a starting point for legal research in the field of international criminal law. It is developed by the editor Mark Klamberg. Includes case law from the International Criminal Court and a commentary to the Rome Statute.

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Trilingual database (English/French/Spanish) on international labour standards containing more than 75,000 full-text documents. It includes the ILO Constitution, ILO Conventions, international labor standards, human rights, employment policy, working conditions, industrial relations, occupational safety and health, and social security.

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ICLL is both a periodical index and a bibliography of Canadian secondary legal literature. In addition to articles, case comments and annotations for more than 200 Canadian legal and law-related periodicals, ICLL indexes monographs, individual essays from edited collections, federal and provincial government publications, and the publications of law faculties and legal research institutes and associations, including theses.

The Index to Common Law Festschriften is the culmination of a three-year project funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation and undertaken by University of Auckland Law School. There are over 270 common law Festschriften indexed on this database, amounting to over 4,500 chapter entries. In addition, there are more than a thousand entries of English language contributions to predominantly foreign language, non-common law Festschriften from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Indexes articles as well as book reviews from more than 540 legal periodicals worldwide. It covers international law (public and private), comparative and foreign law, and municipal law, and includes materials in all languages. It does not cover articles about the legal systems of the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Australia. IFLP also analyses the contents of appoximately 80 individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Melanges and congress reports each year.
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Indexes legal journals, books, book reviews, yearbooks, institute and bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It includes thorough coverage of American law journals and selective coverage of law journals from the other jurisdictions.

A retrospective database indexing over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Cumulates citations from print editions of Index to legal periodicals published between 1908-1981. 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 are also covered.

Index, produced by the Australian Taxation Office, to Australian and overseas journals dealing with international taxation issues. Coverage: 1990 to 2003.

This is the online version of the 36 -volume looseleaf: International Encyclopaedia of Industrial Labour Law and Industrial Relations. It features: Country overviews of over 60 countries, English translations of the important labour and industrial relations laws of over 20 nations, and covers individual as well as collective labour relations.

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Contains domestic cases in international law from over 65 jurisdictions. Features expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English. Includes an archive of cases dating back to 2000, with over 150 new cases added each year.

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Contains: 1. Analysis of when U.S. law applies to foreign firms doing business in the U.S. and to U.S. firms abroad. 2. Exploration of the effect of globalization on competition between domestic and foreign markets and discusses current U.S. statutes, regulations, and case laws. 3. Discussion of the regulation of dominant firms, extraterritoriality, antitrust problems in export transactions, transnational litigation issues, international transfer of technology and intellectual property issues, competition and fairly traded imports, and "unfair" international trade practices. -- Information page.

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Justis encompasses key United Kingdom and Irish case law series, a complete archive of United Kingdom statute law and European Union case law and legislation. It is an advanced online legal research tool providing full text access to sources. It combines huge archives with regular updates. Authoritative sources include: English Reports (1220 - 1873), CCH British Tax Cases (1875-present), CCH British VAT Cases, (1973-present) and CCH Special Commissioners' Decisions (1995-present).

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Provides full-text access to the South African Law Reports, South African Appellate Division Law Reports, Constitutional Library, Statutes of Zimbabwe and Case Law of Zimbabwe.

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Kluwer Law Online provides access to over 20 online journals in a variety of areas of law including: air and space law, arbitration, business/commercial law, company/corporate law, competition law, environmental law, European community law, intellectual property, international trade law, labour law and taxation. New improvements to the site have seen each journal being allocated its own home page and the browsing facility has been much enhanced. Access to some looseleaf publications is also available.

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An international commercial arbitration database of primary and secondary materials, with full text access. Includes conventions, legislation, institutional rules, model clauses, case law and commentary from leading publications.

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Provides access to New Zealand law via databases such as: BRIEFCASE - indexes New Zealand case law since 1986; Bills Digest; LINX - the district law society libraries' index of judgments, texts, and journal articles; Refugee Law; and Waitangi Tribunal Reports. Provides access to the following databases - 1) BRIEFCASE, which indexes New Zealand case law since 1986, with references to commentary notes and full reports of cases, 2) BROOKERS, which provides searchable and browsable access to consolidated New Zealand statutes and Regulations, 3) GP legislative databases, which include NZ (unconsolidated) Regulations, Bills, Hansards etc., 4) LINX database, contains index references to Court of Appeal and High Court judgements and is the combined database of the Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury Dist. libraries, 5) Refugee Law, allows free searching of indexed decisions, 6) Waitangi Tribunal Reports, which provides access to Waitangi Tribunal Reports.

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Note that free access to NZ legislation is available at www.legislation.govt.nz

"The Law Handbook Online contains information on areas of the law that most often affect people in everyday life [in Victoria]. It is designed for the consumer who wants to be better informed about the law and more self-reliant in using it."-- Home page. Includes Law Handbook online services directory, a searchable database of all organisational contacts from the Law handbook, and a discussion forum.

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The LAW REFORM DATABASE has been under continuous development since 1988. This version (5.4) contains over 7000 records. Each record describes a discrete publication of one of the law reform agencies in Canada, the Commonwealth or the United States.

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This legal encyclopaedia comprises a narrative statement of the law of Australia organised by subject area and covering all nine jurisdictions. Statements of legal principles and propositions of substantive law are supported by references to primary authority (cases and legislation).

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This subset of Hein Online is an image-based and fully searchable library collection. The library, which contains more than 300,000 pages, contains landmark legal works from the late 18th through the mid 20th centuries. It is based on the titles in "Bibliography of Early American Law" by Morris Cohen. In addition, titles from AALS Law Books Recommended for Libraries and early British and Commonwealth titles form part of the collection. It is expected that aproximately 500 new titles will be added to the collection annually.

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Access is provided to selected databases such as Australian Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Law Reports, Federal Court Reports, Australian Digest, Australian Legal Monthly Digest, The Laws of Australia and the Australian Case Citator.

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A free database of over 35,000 abstracts and 18,000 working papers in law, economics, and finance, in 61 different subject areas, available on the Social Science Research Network site. Search for papers by author and title or abstract keywords.

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A major bibliographic database that indexes and selectively abstracts articles from law reviews and, speciality law and bar association journals and legal newspapers on cases studies, government regulations, practice of law, statutes, and legal subjects such as taxation and international law. It also covers law related articles for approximately 1000 additional business and general interest titles. Some full text articles are included. Geographical coverage includes the U.S. Canada, U.K. and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

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See also: Legal Resource Index on Lexis.com

The Monash subscription provides access to materials on administrative law, corporations, intellectual property, forms and precedents, and general legal research tools that include a dictionary, an encyclopaedia, case citator, statute annotators and current law developments. Decisions from the Commonwealth and State courts and England are included, as well as the full text of some Australian law journals. Unreported Judgments and Australian Law Reports and Australian Current Law updated daily. Most other resources updated monthly.

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LexisNexis is an international online legal research tool providing full-text access to case law, statutes, administrative materials, annotated reports, law reviews, current affairs, etc. from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, Australia, and many other jurisdictions around the world. (Not the first choice for Australian legislation or case law.)

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LexUM is the University of Montreal's legal information technologies laboratory. LexUM's strategy is based on the advanced use of technology to improve access to law and justice. LeXUM provides free access to law resources including; Canadian law resources and Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII); Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada and Statutes of Canada; International Law Resources including Juris International, Droit francophone, JuriBurkina; Conferences Proceedings; Canadian Citation Committee.

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Produced by the Cornell Law School, this comprehensive site provides free and easy access to a vast selection of legal information. Resources include recent and historic U.S. Supreme Court decisions, full-text access to every U.S. state statute and constitution, complete full-text of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and the U.S. Code, as well as bills pending in state legislatures. LII also offers a "spotlight section" which highlights specific Supreme Court decisions during the current term and also includes links to law cases recently in the news.

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Loislaw offers a wide range of United States legal content and supporting materials, including: up-to-date cases, statutes, rules and regulations, and other primary law for all 50 U.S. states and federal jurisdictions; expert-authored online treatise libraries, focused around practice areas, including Wigmore on evidence, Ginsberg and Martin on bankruptcy, and Price on estate planning; and extensive public records for individuals and corporations.

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Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.

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"Company liquidation is one of the most active areas in insolvency. The authors Michael Gronow and Ros Mason write from the perspective of guiding liquidators and those representing creditors and contributories through the processes of winding up: modes of winding up and applications for winding up by creditors, contributories and others; commencement and effects of winding up; duties, functions and status of liquidators; available assets and their distribution regime; investigations, examinations and prosecutions; termination of winding up and relevant private international law."--Thomson catalog.

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"Media and Internet Law and Practice is the only service of its kind in Australia. It brings together the diverse sources of law for all forms of media, including the internet and on-line services .... the service covers emerging forms of media, including internet, datacasting and Pay TV, narrowcasting, as well as "traditional" media such as print, radio and television. Media, in all its forms, is rapidly changing, especially as we enter the "Information Age". The service is updated regularly, to keep abreast of current developments and to provide a focus on the legal and other challenges, presented by this rapid change."--Preface to revised ed.

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"Provides users with a thorough knowledge of the law relating to guarantees, including a complete analysis of relevant case law. This knowledge enables: solicitors and barristers to minimise financial risk to their clients and fully prepare for litigation; banking and finance professionals to understand their legal obligations and duties to customers and third parties in order to minimise the risk of loan default and costly litigation."--Thomson catalog.

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MyiLibrary, distributed through Coutts Information Services, is an electronic platform which gives users desktop access to some of the most topical and current electronic content available today. MyiLibrary has partnered with numerous distributors to bring their content together in one aggregated database.

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The Native Title Infobase includes selected material commencing from 1839 to the present day and covers all aspects of native title. It gives reference to Australian material including journal articles, book chapters, books, conference papers, reports and press clippings. It also includes relevant material from other jurisdictions such as New Zealand, United States, Canada, Africa and Asia.

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Trilingual bibliographic database containing information on national laws on labour, social security and related human rights. Includes references to legal texts from about 180 countries and in more than forty languages. Each NATLEX record contains a detailed bibliographic description, an abstract, ILO Thesaurus descriptors and LABORLEX classification headings, and, when appropriate, links to other related records.

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Presents a collection of electronic theses and dissertations. Includes theses and dissertations from North Carolina State University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and West Virginia University. Allows users to search the theses and dissertations. Provides access to other schools with electronic theses and dissertations collections, including the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo.

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The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools. The aim of the Repository is to improve dissemination and visibility of a variety of scholarly materials throughout the academic and legal research communities.

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Free access to legal information in New Zealand, including cases & legislation, treaties, and journals. NZLII currently contains 18 databases.

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Access is provided to two separate bibliographic databases specialising in the sociology of law and other related subjects such as the sociology of legal professions, family sociology, sociology of criminality and its control, police, prisons, administration of justice, human rights, marginalisation and public policy. The majority of documents are in English with others in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, German, etc. Citations included cover books, series, journal articles and unpublished material.

Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. It provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. It indexes articles from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at publisher sites.

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The Pacific Islands Treaty Series (PITS) focuses on pacific regional