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The University of Adelaide
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AUSTRALIA
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Online journal index research

Australian law journals

AGIS Plus Text (Attorney-General's Information Service)
This is an online index of Australian law journals and is probably the most comprehensive online tool for coverage of Australian content. Some of the journal references also link to a pdf of the full-text article.

  • Enter your search query in the "Search Query" box.
  • Or, you can search using the index tab, for an author, a case, etc.
  • brief search results are retrieved with the most recent article displayed first, with search terms highlighted in red.
  • To determine if the article is relevant, click on "Complete record" to view the abstract of the article, and topic descriptors
  • where there is a PDF icon "Full Text pdf" clicking on this link will load up the full-text of the article
  • if there is no PDF link, click on the "Search Full-text options" for information on how to source the article by other means

CaseBase Journals
CaseBase Journals Index is a index of law journals from Australia and Oceania. The search box is show below and search results are displayed in title alphabetical order. The results provide citation details and an abstract of the article, however they do not link to the full-text article itself. The researcher will need to save / print relevant article citations and look for the journal source through the Library Catalogue.

One distinctive feature of searching for journal articles through Casebase, is the linking to case law references.  Citations to cases discussed within an article are provided with linking to the case digest record on CaseBase.  This then provides easy navigation between journal and case law databases. 

 

Expanded Academic ASAP

Expanded Academic Index is an interdisciplinary index to scholarly and general-interest journals and magazines. Coverage is very broad, from the Journal of Biological Chemistry to Popular Mechanics, and includes most areas of academic enquiry, as well as many areas of popular culture. The full text of articles is available for many of the journals indexed.