LibGuides: Law: Journals

Recommended journals and magazines

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Journals and magazines

What are journals?

Journals are academic magazines. All law journals are available online.

Journals are

published daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly - therefore the material is up to date
generally the first place that scholarly research is published
often 'peer reviewed', this means that articles have been critically reviewed by experts prior to being published.

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Conference papers

What about conference proceedings?

This is a collection of research papers delivered at a conference or symposium. Proceedings are available both from UoG search tools such as Library Discovery, SCOPUS, as well from services like GoogleScholar and SemanticScholar.

Searching for journal articles

Lexis +

UK / EU law reports and legislation. 50 legal journals. All UK national newspapers (except FT) and local newspapers - journal and other content, dates will vary.
Westlaw UK

UK & EU case law, legislation & legal journals (Including access to the Legal journal Index). Register with your email address to access personalised features.

Accessibility statement

British and Irish Legal Information Institute "Provides access to British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other British and Irish law related materials."
ConnectedPapers
Creates a visual map of published research, shows links between papers containing references. 5 free maps per month.
Elicit
A free AI literature search tool using similar natural language searching Displays and summarises relevant papers. See FAQ.
GoogleScholar
Searches scholarly materials. Use Settings to select the Library Links to access content to which the UoG Library subscribes.
SemanticScholar
Searches and retrieves scholarly publications based on the importance and relevance of cited papers using machine learning techniques.

Eagle-i Provides links directly to legal resources or via respective organisations' websites, such as the UN, The World Trade Organization, etc.

UN Human Rights Council The Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental body within the United Nations system responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe and for addressing situations of human rights violations and making recommendations on them.

World Trade Organization The WTO operates the global system of trade rules.

Using the Inter-Library Loan service

Article not in library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain journal articles not held by the university. Primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers or academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans.