Law databases

AFPD: Australian Federal Police Digest
Supports the information needs of personnel involved in Federal law enforcement and community policing.

AGIS Plus Text: Attorney General's Information Service Plus Text Full Text
Access to legal journals for Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Includes all aspects of law.

AustLII: The Australasian Legal Information Institute Selected Full Text
Australian legal materials (including journals) and the decisions of most state courts and tribunals.

Australian Current Law Legislation  Annotator
Tracks the most recent changes to Acts, Regulations, Bills and other Statutory Instruments for all Australian jurisdictions.

Australian Current Law Reporter Case Citator
Includes digests of judgments from the High Court, Federal Court and Supreme Courts in Australia.

APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. 
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BAILII: British and Irish Legal Information Institute Full Text
British and Irish primary legal materials.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Covers Australian, UK, US and other international jurisdictions.

CaseBase Cases
CaseBase is a citator and annotator for reported judgments and unreported decisions. CaseBase covers more than sixty Australian and overseas Law Reports titles. It also cites unreported decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court and all Australian Supreme Courts.
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CaseBase Journal Articles
Indexes around 100 legal journals with references to articles about cases.
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CINCH: Australian Criminology Database
Covers all aspects of crime and criminal justice.

CCH Online Full Text
Covers taxation law, corporations, torts, the family and trade practices.
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ComLaw
Contains Commonwealth legislation, regulations, Bills, Explanatory Memorandums and other statutory instruments.
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Duke Scholarly Collection Full Text
Covers humanities and the social sciences.
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Family & Society PLUS Selected Full Text
Covers research, policy and practice issues about Australian families including child abuse and child protection issues.

Federal Court of Australia eSearch  Full Text
Application details about cases filed in NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, ACT and the NT.

GovPubs: The Australian Government Publications Guide
Provides links to Commonwealth and State Government publications available online.

Halsbury's Laws of Australia Full Text
An encyclopedia of law which lists the relevant legislation and cases for each subject area.

HeinOnline Full Text
1200 law journals on aspects of the environment, history, politics, business, public policy, government, international issues and criminal justice.  Check the HeinOnline Titles for a full list.
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Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books covers English language sources of law information. It indexes some 845 law journals and 1,400 books per year from the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Australia. The index covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation and original research. It is accessed using LexisNexis.

Lawbook Journals Online Full Text
This is a full-text collection of eleven of Lawbook Company's legal journals. Articles are available as PDF page images and start from January 2001. Topics include ADR, business, financial, tax, criminal, environmental & planning, medical, administrative and trade practices law.
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LAWLINK NSW Full Text
Lawlink NSW is the gateway to the NSW Attorney-General's site. This site contains extensive resources for lawyers and the general public, including court and tribunal decisions.

LexisNexis AU (formerly Butterworths) Selected Full Text
LexisNexis AU is a collection of Australian legal resources, including reports (NSW Law Reports), research (Australian Current Law, CaseBase and Halsbury's Laws of Australia), and services (Court Forms, Precedents and Pleadings NSW; Local Government Planning & Environment NSW and Ritchie's Uniform Civil Procedure NSW.)
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LegalTrac Selected Full Text
LegalTrac indexes over 800 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
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LexisNexis Legal Selected Full Text
LexisNexis Legal is a collection of legal resources including case law, legislation, law journals, law reviews and legal reference works. Although there is a bias towards US primary and secondary materials, there is substantial Australian content, as well as materials from the Commonwealth, the United Kingdom and other world sources. Australian Federal and State case law is included, as well as the full-text of selected online journals.
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Local Government Planning & Environment NSW Full Text
This service contains the Acts, regulations, policies, notes and bulletins for NSW local government and environmental planning.
Volume A: has all the relevant legislation and regulations for running local government.
Volume B: contains legislation and policies for environmental planning, including coastal protection, water, heritage, air, biodiversity and so on.
Volume C: has commentary on the law for local governments, environment and planning, such as the accountability of councils and environmental litigation.

MAIS: Multicultural Australia
MAIS indexes and abstracts a wide range of published and unpublished material on all aspects of Australian immigration and related multicultural issues.

MEDITEXT Full Text
Meditext provides full-text journal articles from the 100+ Australasian medical and health journals indexed in AMI, the Australasian Medical Index. Subject coverage includes all aspects of health and medicine in Australasia such as: alternative medicine, clinical medicine, dentistry, ethics, experimental medicine, immunology, legal aspects, nursing, nutrition, occupational health, pharmacy, physiology, physiotherapy, public health, and psychology. There is an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields.

New South Wales Legislation Full Text
The NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office maintains this authorised government source of legislation. Any amendments of Acts, Regulations, Rules, By-Laws and Environmental Planning Instruments are updated within three working days. There are three databases - 'In Force' (currently in force, including amendments), 'As Made' (as originally made, from 1990) and 'Repealed' (since 2002).
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ScalePlus  Full Text
Contains legislation of the Commonwealth and non self-governing Territories and related material . (No new material since 2005. Being replaced by ComLaw.)

State Legislation Websites Full Text
Authorised sources of legislation and regulations for all Australian States and Territories.

Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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UK Statute Law Database Full Text
Official source of UK primary legislation currently in force.

WebLaw
A  subject index to Internet resources for Australian legal researchers.

Year Books (Legal history) Full Text
Seipp's index and paraphrase of the law reports of medieval England.