HeinOnline is our top recommended database for searching on legal journals, and other materials such as legal classics.
To search for journals from the HeinOnline homepage, click on Law Journal Library under Browse Databases by Name. Run your keyword search in the main search bar. On the results page, note you can refine your results by date; subject area; country published; etc.
Multidisciplinary databases are useful to search for legal issues as related to society at large.
Westlaw Australia holds much more than just cases and legislation, you can search for journals and commentary too.
Click on Law Reviews & Journals under the Secondary Sources list on the Westlaw Australia homepage. You can browse to a specific publication, or run a keyword search in the search bar. Note you can filter your results by date; jurisdiction; practice area etc.
Informit is a platform with multiple databases on it. One of the databases is called the Attorney General's Information Service, or AGIS Plus Text. This database contains a number of law journals, newsletters, bulletins, and other information on legal topics with a specific Australian context.
To search this database, type in your keyword into the red search bar. Take note of the different boxes you can select to filter your search. Once you are on the results page you can further refine by author, resource type, publication date, source, or even if it mentions a specific legal case or legislation.
AGIS Plus Text unlocks over 30 years of authoritative and peer reviewed legal research from the Australasia and Asia-Pacific regions as indexed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department.
Lexis Advance contains a limited number of full-text journals, but will give you the citation details of other journals you could request from elsewhere.
You can see what journals are available on the Lexis Advance homepage, by looking at the publications box on the right-hand side, then clicking the chevron to the left of the Law Journals group. You can also search by keywords in the main search bar, then refine by AU Secondary Material on the results page.
Westlaw International is a US-based database with access to a large number of law journals from around the world.
Westlaw International allows you to search specifically for journals by clicking journals under content type. From there, you can keyword search in the search bar and refining your results down the left-hand side.
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