Library support for law students
As a law student at the University of South Australia you will be able to enjoy all the advantages of Australia's newest law library, including 24 hour access to online legal materials and training resources.
Resources
- 130 Computers in the Library at City West
- Study rooms and laptops for student use
- Wireless internet access oncampus
- Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom authorised law reports in dual format (print and online)
- South Australian and Commonwealth legislation in dual format (print and online)
- United Kingdom cases and legislation dating back to the 13th century
- over 1,200 law and law-related journals
- the world’s largest and most complete online collection of United States treaties and agreements
- over 300 Australian and international databases including:
- LexisNexis AU - Comprehensive range of Australian cases, legislation and commentary including CaseBase, Unreported Judgments, Halsbury's Laws of Australia and Australian Current Law. Also includes the New Zealand Law Reports and the All England Reports.
- Westlaw - Comprehensive coverage of international cases, legislation and commentary with citation information available for United States and Canadian cases through KeyCite.
- Justis - United Kingdom cases and legislation dating back to 1220 including coverage of The Law Reports, The Weekly Law Reports, English Reports, Daily Cases and The Times Law Reports.
- HeinOnline - Law Journal Library Service and Foreign and International Law Resources Database as well as significant United States material such as treaties and agreements and the English Reports.
- LegalTrac - Provides indexing for approximately 1,300 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, law specialty publications, bar association journals and international legal journals.
- Legal Online- Comprehensive range of Australian case law and commentary including the Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports and Federal Law Reports.
- CCH - provides access to legislation, law reports, digests, cases and legal guides in a range of areas of law including topics such as industrial law, trade practices, taxation and occupational health and safety.
- Lawlex - Full text database which provides links to Australian legislation, amendment and commencement information, and progress of bills through the Premium Research facility.
- AGIS Attorney General's information Service - Bibliographic database that indexes
and abstracts articles from published material on all aspects of law. Source documents
include over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Asia Pacific law journals and selected
articles from major law journals from United States, Canada and United Kingdom.
Criminology a SAGE full-text collection - Full text journals covering subjects such as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. - CINCH Australian Criminology Database - Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime, criminal justice and criminology.
- a comprehensive print collection covering major Australian and United Kingdom publications
Support for students
- Legal Research Workshop an online resource to teach you basic legal research skills using online resources
- Assignment help
- Oncampus training
- Online training
- Virtual library tour
- Ask the Library Service (including real-time Chat - UniSA is the only library in South Australia to offer this unique service)
- Service desk
Contact your Academic Library Services team Lby-Business-DivLibrarians@unisa.edu.au to find out what other dedicated library support is available