Legal Periodicals Online

Overview

This section provides annotated lists of law journals and other legal periodicals available on the Internet. The lists include journals and periodicals that have full text online and those that only provide abstracts or tables of contents but are available in print in the Great Library's periodical collection. The journals and periodicals are organized under the following headings:

Print Holdings in the Great Library
Information about print holdings in the Great Library includes a link to the entry in AdvoCAT, the Great Library's online catalogue, where the last issue received may be ascertained. An A to Z list of print titles is also available on this website. For further details about these publications, please call the Resource Centre at 416-947-3315 or 1-800-668-7380 ext. 3315 and ask for the Great Library.

Other Sources of Online Full-Text Law Journals and Tables of Contents

Database of Law Journals Available Electronically and at the Bora Laskin Law Library
A searchable database of direct links to full-text law journals available on Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw, Westlaw Canada, University of Toronto Electronic Resources (which includes LegalTrac and HeinOnline) or the Internet as well as a list of the Bora Laskin Law Library's print holdings. A browsable alphabetical list is also provided. A useful feature is the inclusion of database codes of the journals on Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw and Quicklaw.

Free Full-text Online Law Review/Law Journal Search Engine
The ABA Legal Technology Resource Center has created a free full-text online law review/law journal search engine that searches the free full-text of over 400 online law reviews and law journals, as well as document repositories hosting academic papers and related publications such as Congressional Research Service reports. In addition to a list of journals searched, includes links to journals with free full-text content online which must be searched/browsed manually.

University Law Review Project
Full-text search of all academic law journals available on the Web. These free services have been setup by FindLaw and the Coalition of Online Journals with help from Verity, the Australasian Legal Information Institute, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell, Stanford University, JURIST - The Law Professors' Network and many law schools and journals throughout the world.

Current Law Journal Content
An indexing database (without any subject analysis) that covers 1355 journals and can reconstitute the text arrangement of an issue's table of contents. The table of contents information is obtained from a number of sources: the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library scans 720, Washington & Lee Law School scans (or electronically reformats) 563, and other libraries scan 72 journal contents pages. Few journal issues published prior to 2004 are indexed in the database. The database contains no articles in full text, but it might contain links to full text.

Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
A keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications related to the law published in the United States and abroad. Updated daily, the database lists journal issues received over the past three months by the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library.

Related Services

Access to online subscription databases, including Westlaw Canada, LexisNexis Quicklaw, LegalTrac and HeinOnline, is available free of charge to Law Society members and candidates in the Articling Program at library workstations. See Databases & Article Searching for more information.