‘Explore the British Library’ is the British Library’s main catalogue. It covers books, journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, electronic resources, maps and other materials. Registered readers can use the catalogue to order items for consultation in the reading rooms. Anyone can use it to order photocopies from the British Library, for a fee.
COPAC combines the catalogues of more than one hundred research libraries in the UK and Ireland, allowing them all to be searched simultaneously. It includes the holdings of the British Library and many university and specialist libraries. Quick or advanced search screens are available and there is also a special search facility for finding maps in library collections. COPAC is run by Jisc, a non-profit organisation based at the University of Manchester which provides digital services for the UK academic community.
Website of the Bodleian Law Library at the University of Oxford. The Library’s collections cover many different jurisdictions, focusing on the law of the UK, the Commonwealth, the US, European countries and the EU; it also has substantial collections of materials on public and private international law, legal history, jurisprudence, Roman law and criminology. The website provides information about the collections, electronic resources and services, as well as a set of research guides and access to the online catalogue.
De Jure is an open access online general law journal published by the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The journal carries articles based on original research concerned with "the development and dissemination of cutting-edge legal research", as well as case law and book announcements. It has national and international scope. De Jure, edited by Professor Steve Cornelius, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, aims to support legal academics, practitioners and scholars in their legal research. Free and unrestricted access is available to volume 44 2011 onwards.
Jurispedia, the shared law, is an academic project utilising an open source Wiki format which aims to offer information about all of the laws of every country in the world and is concerned with systems of law as well as legal and political sciences. The service provides information about the law and user-contributed articles relating to thirty countries currently.
The number of the regnal year is part of the citation for an old English statute; this table gives the exact dates of every regnal year from 1066 up to 1962. It is accompanied by an introduction explaining the various dating systems which have been used in England. The table and introduction have been reproduced from Sweet and Maxwell’s ‘Guide to Law Reports and Statutes’, 4th edition, 1962, and made available online by Harvard Law School Library.
Website provided by the Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel’s Secretariat. Has information for applicants for the award of Queen’s Counsel (QC). Also includes press releases, and a statistical breakdown of recent applications by gender, ethnicity, area of law and other criteria.
Specialist internet search facility for law, provided by Cornell University Law Library. Users may search law websites generally, or choose from three targeted search options: academic law blogs, selected law websites, or legal research guides. The search faciliities may be used to research the law of many different jurisdictions, but their scope is largely restricted to information provided by US-based websites and by the websites of international organisations.
Online version of the Highway Code, on the UK government’s DirectGov website. The Code applies to England, Wales and Scotland. The Introduction includes a link to a page called “The road user and the law”. The site warns that only the Department of Transport’s current printed edition should be used in legal proceedings.
Alphabetical table of nominate reports giving the corresponding volume numbers in the English Reports, together with each report’s abbreviation and the time period and court that it covers. The table is provided by Lancaster University Library.
