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11. Onsite(CDROM)Australian Legal Research Library (CD-ROM 3)

Butterworths: Contains 1. Australian legal words and phrases 2. Butterworth's encyclopaedic Australian legal dictionary 3. Statutes annotations

12. FreeAustralian Treaties Database

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: This database is a resource for researching treaties to which Australia is a signatory, or where Australia has taken other treaty action.

13. FreeComLaw: Commonwealth of Australia Law

Attorney-General's Department: ComLaw provides access to Australian Commonwealth statutory instruments, which include Bills, Acts, Regulations, Statutory Rules, Ordinances, Rules, By-laws, Proclamations and Determinations. PLEASE NOTE: From 1 January 2005 all new primary and subordinate legislation that is made will be published on ComLaw/Federal Register of Legislative Instruments as relevant, not to SCALEplus. However, SCALEplus will continue to be available to users until all relevant material, including historical material, is migrated to ComLaw. Until this process is complete, you may need to visit SCALEplus in order to access the contents of: all historical databases, Statutory Rules that are not in force, and the legislation of the non-self-governing Territories.

14. FreeEncyclopedia of Law and Economics

University of Ghent, Belgium: a broad-based collection of resources pertaining to economic and legal issues throughout the world. Showcasing a comprehensive index of searchable bibliographic resources, This site also includes abstracts of recent law and economics reviews. The Law and Economics Web Resources section features working papers, bibliographies, and mailing lists. In addition, the site links to law and economics academic programs, associations, and an array of relevant Websites.

15. FreeFirstGov.gov : The U.S Government's Official Web Portal

U.S. General Services Administration: FirstGov.gov is the official United States portal to all online government information and services - federal, state, local, tribal and international. The Reference Section provides access to government news releases, forms, publications, statistics, laws and regulations, plus links to Government Podcasts and RSS Feeds.

16. OnsiteFirstPoint

Thomson Legal & Regulatory trading as Lawbook Co.: FirstPoint contains Australian reported cases since 1825 and unreported judgements from September 1999. Through this link the following full-text online resources can either be searched together with FirstPoint, or searched as separate resources: Laws of Australia; Commonwealth Law Reports; Federal Court Reports; Federal Law Reports; and Unreported Judgements. The following Australian law journals are also available in full text: Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, Australian Business Law Review, Australian Intellectual Property Journal, Australian Journal of Administrative Law, Australian Law Journal, Australian Tax Review, Company and Securities Law Journal, Criminal Law Journal, Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Insolvency Law Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance law and Practice, Journal of Judicial Administration, Journal of Law and Medicine, Local Government Law Journal, Public Law Review, Queensland Lawyer, Tort Law Review, Trade Practices Law Journal.

17. FreeGLIN : Global Legal Information Network

he Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. Summaries are freely available, while some full text material is limited in its availability.

18. FreeIGLOO (International Governance Library Open Access Online)

Centre for International Governance Innovation: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the IGLOO Library is an Open Access online repository comprised of thousands of electronic resources gathered from hundreds of partnering organizations from around the world. All documents are available for free full-text download from anywhere at anytime. This repository covers subjects such as: Economics, Energy, Environment, Health, Humanitarian Issues, International Institutions, International Law, Peace and Security, Science & Technology, Social & Political Development.

19. LicencedIndex to Legal Periodicals & Books

H. W. Wilson: International coverage (including periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand) and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. Includes full text of nearly 300 select periodicals, as far back as 1993. This bibliographic database cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books that cover the following topics: administrative law, antitrust legislation, banking, constitutional law, domestic relations, environmental protection, estate planning, food, drug & cosmetic law, international law, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, minorities, multinational corporations, negligence, non-profit corporations, occupational health & safety, politics, probate, products liability, public law, real property, securities, tax law, and trade regulation.

20. Freeinfolaw: Gateway to the UK Legal Internet

The infolaw gateway is the UK legal portal site. It includes: website listings of all UK law firms, groups, barristers chambers, law associations and selected other lawyers; a host of Legal Resources screened for relevance and usefulness.

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Our subject guides

"Australian law: selected websites"

This resource contains links to major Australian legal sites on the Internet organised by jurisdiction. It provides links to the websites of all commonwealth courts (federal, high and family courts of Australia) and state law resources including legislation, parliaments and courts.

"Law reports and court records: print resources"

The National Library holds law reports published in Australia from 1825. Historical sets of law reports are also held for many overseas countries. Court records include unpublished decisions, transcripts of proceedings (verbatim accounts of statements given during the course of proceedings), letters, lists of trials, depositions, circulars, bench books etc. They may cover the topics of wills (grants of probate or letters of administration), divorce, bankruptcy, civil and criminal cases, naturalisation, newspaper registrations and conscientious objectors.