University of New South Wales - Library - Guide to Legal Research

The following table is designed to help you select the right legal database for a particular legal research task. Access is available online for UNSW staff and students and requires you to login using your staff/student number and UniPass when off-campus.

	Australian	International
Legislation	LawOne/TimeBase (Commonwealth and state) LexisNexis AU (by subject) CCH Library (by subject)	EUR-Lex (EU) Lexis (U.S. & Internatonal) Westlaw (U.S. & International)
Legislation (Finding Aids)	Australian Current Law, Legislation Federal Statutes Annotations New South Wales Statutes Annotations	Current Law Legislation Citator #(U.K.)
Case Law (Reports)	LexisNexis AU (Cases) CCH Library Westlaw	EUR-Lex (EU) Lexis (U.S. & International) Westlaw (U.S. & International)
Case Law (Finding Aids)	CaseBase FirstPoint* Australian Current Law, Reporter	Current Law Case Citator # (U.K.) Current Law Cases # (U.K.)
Journal Articles	AGIS (Attorney-General's Information Service) AATD (Australian Accounting and Taxation Database) AFPD (Australian Federal Police Database) IREL (Australian Industrial Relations Database) Taxabs (Australian Taxations Abstracts) CaseBase CINCH (Australian Criminology Database)	Hein Online (U.S. & Canada) Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Non-common law jurisdictions) Index to Legal Periodicals (U.S. & International) Legal Journals Index # (U.K. & Europe) LegalTrac (U.S. & International) Lexis (U.S. & International) Rave (International) Westlaw (U.S. & International)
Secondary Sources	ATP Taxpoint Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Australian Legal Words & Phrases Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary LexisNexis AU CCH Library Halsbury's Laws of Australia The Laws of Australia* Lawbook Online	Lexis (U.S. & International) Westlaw (U.S. & International)

* Part of LBC's Lawbook Online
# Part of Sweet & Maxwell's Current Legal Information

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