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Databases for Human Rights

• Legal Databases
• Non-Law Databases
• Newspapers
• Electronic Journals

Legal Databases

Search the following for legislations, case-law and journal articles. AustLII: Australasian Legal Information Institute Australasian primary and secondary legal materials. British and Irish Legal Information Institute Find British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material. CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute Canadian primary legal materials. European Court of Human Rights ECHR case-law, reports and press releases. HeinOnline Has lots of U.S. legal material. Useful for journal articles on International Law and Human Rights. Lexis Library Legislation, cases and articles from legal periodicals. Westlaw Includes full text of some UK and EU case law and legislation, the Legal Journals Index to UK journals , and the full text of some law journals. WorldLII: World Legal Information Institute Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law. United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Document Search This document search database is a collection of case opinions and reports on arbitrary detention that have been produced by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Freedom Now, a non-governmental human rights organization, facilitated the creation of this database and continues to assist in its function.

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Non-Law Databases

This small selection gives you some idea of other databases you might find useful, depending on your topic. Academic Search Complete Covers most subjects. Business Source Complete Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Contains lots of working papers and documents. Humanities International Complete IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is one of the most comprehensive politics and economics databases. Sage Journals Online Contains full-text articles of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning. Access is to subscribed journals only, get a list by clicking on “SAGE journals available to me”. Can also read summaries to journal articles we don’t subscribe to or which might be available via other databases. Zetoc References to journal articles and conference proceedings covering all disciplines.

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Newspapers

Nexis UK Business database that also includes international newspapers.

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Electronic Journals

Search the following databases for journal articles. Journals the library subscribes to will be available in full-text, the rest will be references with article summaries. EBSCO Host. Electronic Journals Service IngentaConnect Sage Journals Online Swetswise Search or browse the list of e-journals the library subscribes to.

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  Page last updated : : 14 Feb 2012