Oxford LibGuides: Scotland: legal resources: Journals

Scottish law journals

Westlaw Edge UK
Full text journals include Edinburgh Law Review, Scots Law Times, Scottish Criminal Law, Scottish Planning Law & Practice, and Scottish Planning and Environmental Law. NB Juridical Review (but full text only from 2010)
Alternative name: West Law UK ; Westlaw UK

Westlaw is provided through a generous donation by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Westlaw is a large database of UK, US and international legal materials including cases, legislation and journal articles.
Coverage:
•UK statutes, statutory instruments and law reports
•England and Wales law reports
•US federal and state legislation and law reports
•Australian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Canadian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Hong Kong SAR law reports and laws
•European Union legislation and law reports
•UK and US law journals and texts
•Common Law Library and over 200 books published by Sweet & Maxwell (Thomson Reuters)
Because of licencing restrictions this database is not available to "Walk-in" users of the library.
HeinOnline
Includes: Aberdeen student law review, Journal of Jurisprudence
Alternative names: Hein Online ; HOL

HeinOnline includes five major collections:
The Law Journal Library includes over 500 U.S., U.K., Australian and International Law Journals. For most journals the date coverage starts very early (in many cases at the first issue). However the most recent editions (within the last calendar year) are sometime unavailable due to licensing restrictions. HeinOnline makes these journals available on a rolling yearly basis.
The Treaties and Agreements Library includes all U.S. treaties and agreements including those in force, expired or yet to be published.
The U.S. Supreme Court Library includes all U.S. Supreme Court opinions as published in the U.S. Reports
The Federal Register 1936-1995, and indexes to the register.
Legal Classics Library. Full text of over 100 legal texts including Blackstone's Commentaries (1803), Cardozo's Growth of the Law (1924), and Story's first edition of Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833). Provincial Statutes of Canada includes Provincial Statutes for ten of the Canadian provinces. Contains public and private acts passed by Canadian provincial governments. Current, revised, and historical content is now available for Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario. Historical and revised content only is available for Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.
All content consists of scanned images of the original printed editions. This allows you to view the content as it originally appeared in print complete with page numbers and pictures.
To save or print articles from HeinOnline choose PRINT OPTIONS followed by DOWNLOAD AS PDF. You will then be able to print out and/or save articles using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Edinburgh Student Law Review (ESLR)
Open access

Print resources

Below are some law journals published in Scotland (and therefore looking at Scottish law in particular - but not exclusively so) held in print in the Law Bod. Unfortunately we cannot always guarantee that we have a complete run (ie every single issue).

ASLR	Aberdeen Student Law Review	Cw UK Scotl 300 A15
Ed Law	Edinburgh Law Journal	Cw UK Scotl 300 J20
EdinLR	Edinburgh Law Review from 2014 this will be e-LD	Cw UK Scotl 300 E15
ENLR	Edinburgh Napier Student Law Review	Cw UK Scotl 300 E27
ESLR	Edinburgh Student Law Review - available on free www see link below
	Journal of Jurisprudence	Cw UK Scotl 300 J20
JLSS	Journal of Law Society of Scotland	Cw UK Scotl 300 L60
Jur Rev	Juridical Review	Cw UK Scotl 300 J60
SCAL & P.	Scottish Constitutional and Administrative Law & Practice	Cw UK Scotl 300 S25
SCL	Scottish Criminal Law	Cw UK Scotl 300 S26.2
Sc LM	Scottish Law Magazine & Sheriff Court reporter	Cw UK Scotl 300 S61
SCL Rev	Scottish Construction Law Review	Cw UK Scotl 300 S26
SHRJ	[Green's] Scottish Human Rights Journal	Cw UK Scotl 300 S27
SLG	Scottish Law Gazette	Cw UK Scotl 300 S50
SLLP	Scottish Licensing Law & Practice	Cw UK Scotl 300 S92
SLPQ	Scottish Law & Practice Quarterly	Cw UK Scotl 300 S30
SLT	Scots Law Times	Cw UK Scotl 300 S20
SPCLR	Scottish Private Client Law Review	Cw UK Scotl 300 S130
SPEL	Scottish Planning & Environmental Law	Cw UK Scotl 300 S120
SPLR	Scottish Parliament Law Review	Cw UK Scotl 300 S95
SPLP	Scottish Planning Law & Practice	Cw UK Scotl 300 S120

Finding articles in law journals

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
This retrospective database indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic will also be covered.
Westlaw Edge UK
Includes Legal Journal Index (LJI)
Alternative name: West Law UK ; Westlaw UK

Westlaw is provided through a generous donation by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Westlaw is a large database of UK, US and international legal materials including cases, legislation and journal articles.
Coverage:
•UK statutes, statutory instruments and law reports
•England and Wales law reports
•US federal and state legislation and law reports
•Australian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Canadian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Hong Kong SAR law reports and laws
•European Union legislation and law reports
•UK and US law journals and texts
•Common Law Library and over 200 books published by Sweet & Maxwell (Thomson Reuters)
Because of licencing restrictions this database is not available to "Walk-in" users of the library.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Alternative name: IFLP

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (produced by The American Association of Law Libraries) provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law from 1985 onwards. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law. The data is not limited by country of publication, but rather type of publication. Therefore whilst publications concerning British and American law are not included, British and American publications concerning foreign law are included.

The types of documents covered include journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews. The database encompasses all languages. Materials in Greek, Cyrillic, and East Asian vernacular are Romanized according to Library of Congress standards. Arabic and Hebrew titles are translated into English or French.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Alternative names: Web of Science ; SSCI. SSCI is the machine readable version of the printed Social Sciences Citation Index. It provides bibliographic references to significant items from over 1,400 journals in the behavioural and social sciences. Selected items from over 3,100 physical and natural sciences journals are also included to provide multidisciplinary coverage. This amounts to approximately 130,000 articles per year.
The data, which is updated weekly, consists of articles for the current year, with other year's data going back to 1970. The data for each index defaults to the current year plus the three previous years (this can be reset), with searches covering one index at a time. Many of the more recent articles contain abstracts, as well as author, title and journal information with lists of citations.

Google scholar search Enhancements: OU members should 1) click on the 3 parallel lines (top left corner before google logo), then click Settings Among the options: 1) Search Results - last options in central panel, if you are using RMS adjust Bibliography manager options 2) Library Links in the left hand column, type Oxford in the search box and then click in box alongside "University of Oxford Find it @ Oxford" and finally click Save this setting. This will help you get online access to material in some (but not all) legal databases for which the Law Bod has a subscription when on the OU network/working via VPN.
LawCite search
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LawCite is being built as part of a three year project that is funded by the Australian Research Council in co-operation with a number of Australian courts and other commercial and non-commercial organisations. It is being developed at AustLII in collaboration with other members of the Free Access to Law Movement - in particular BAILII , HKLII , PacLII , SAFLII , NZLII and CYLAW. Particularly strong for common law countries, but the civil law dimension is growing

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Free resource. Enter an unknown abbreviation to a law report or law journal from your reading list to find out the full title of the report series or journal. Alternatively, search by title of a report series or law journal to find the abbreviation to use in footnotes.
This web-based service allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law. A wide selection of major foreign language law publications is also included. Publications from over 295 jurisdictions are featured in the Index. The database mainly covers law reports and law periodicals, but some legislative publications and major textbooks are also included. The Index is still under development.