Subject guides: Islamic Law: Finding Articles

Key Legal databases

This is a list of some of the databases you can use to find journal articles. For a complete list click on "More links" at the end of this list.

AGIS Plus Text : Attorney General's Information Service
References journal articles, government documents, publications from non profit organizations and law reform commissions, on all aspects of law in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific. Full-text for selected publications from 1999.
HeinOnline
Full-text legal journals and other legal documents predominantly US, also includes major international publications and some Australia Law reviews. Also includes English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865)
Informit Legal Journal Index Library
Includes AFPD - Australian Federal Police Digest; CINCH - Australian Criminology databases; Family Plus; SNIPER - Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource and TAXABS - Australian Taxation Abstracts Database.
LegalTrac (1980 - present)
Indexes law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Includes some Australian content and some full-text articles.

Lexis Advance (US & International)
Full text legislation, caselaw, journal articles from the U.S., but including Europe, U.K and Australasia

Westlaw International
Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia)
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Brill Journals via Ingentaconnect
Full text academic journals with a strong international focus, including the Middle East & Islamic Studies.
Brill Reference Online
Full text of academic encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of Islam, the Encyclopedia of the Qur’¯an and the New Pauly for Classical mythology.
Early Western Korans 1537-1857
Contains all Arabic Koran editions printed in Europe before 1850, as well as all complete translations directly from the Arabic (until about 1860).
Expanded Academic Index ASAP via Gale InfoTrac (1980 - present)
Full text and abstracts from a large number of multidisciplinary journals
Factiva.com (mid-1980s - present)
Full-text news, commentary, pictures and media transcripts from Australian and overseas media sources. Search by keyword, region or media source. Australian news sources include The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and The Australian 1996+.

Google Scholar
An academic version of the famous search engine. Access through the Library proxy provides full text access to all the articles in journals to which the Library subscribes.

Index Islamicus via Proquest (1906 - present)
References to journal articles, book chapters and reviews on all aspects of Islam.

PAIS : Public Affairs Information Service via Proquest (1972 - present)
Good place to look for local and international resources on contemporary social, economic and political issues. APA-FT also covers Australian government papers and journals.
ProQuest Asian Business via ProQuest 5000 (1971 - present)
Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review and Asiaweek.
Proquest Central
A large multidisciplinary service including multiple databases covering ver 160 subjects areas including business and economics, social sciences , news and world affairs, technology, health and medical.
Scopus
Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database covering published material in the humanities and sciences. It also provides citation analysis of authors and subject areas.

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Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
The major source of bibliographic and publisher information on magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

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