Journal Articles
Resources that are freely available (websites members of the public can use) are marked with an asterisk (*).
Journal articles will interpret the law and provide greater detail on specialized topics than books do, and they’ll be more current because there’s a shorter turnaround time for publication.
If you already know the journal title, year, volume number and page number for an article, you may be able to access it electronically by searching for the journal's title in UNB Libraries' Journals & Newspapers search. If we have the journal electronically or in print, it will be listed. You can also look up the journal title in UNB WorldCat.
Sometimes it's best to start with an index rather than a full-text journal search.
Indexes
An index is a list of articles and their citations arranged by topic. Full-text articles may or may not be available; however, you can use the citation information an index provides to find the article in another database or in print.
- Index to Canadian Legal Literature
- Available via Westlaw Edge (law students only) and Lexis+ (law students only; start typing the name and add as a search filter)
- Non-law students and faculty use campus-wide Quicklaw (start typing the name and add as a search filter)
- Available via Westlaw Edge (law students only) and Lexis+ (law students only; start typing the name and add as a search filter)
- Index to Canadian Legal Periodical Literature* (Scott Index) (in French; to search, change Tout le catalogue to Articles de periodiques (Index Scott) in the search box) (via Barreau du Quebec)
- Index To Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (indexes articles from 1981–present; select full text from 1994–present)
- Index To Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908–1981)
- LegalTrac
- AGIS Plus Text (full-text and indexed articles from Australia and New Zealand, 1975–present)
Databases
The following databases will provide full-text results.
- Lexis+ (law students only) (click Law Reviews & Journals under Secondary Materials)
- Non-law UNB/STU: use campus-wide Quicklaw
- Westlaw Edge (law students only) (click Articles and Newsletters under Commentary)
- CanLII* (under Commentary)
- HeinOnline (click Law Journal Library)
- LegalTrac
- AGIS Plus Text (full-text and indexed articles from Australia and New Zealand, 1975–present)
- Google Scholar*
- Note: accessing Google Scholar through UNB Libraries will show which documents are available at UNB.
- Index To Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text
- WorldLII International Legal Scholarship Library*
- ABA Free Full-Text Online Law Review/Journal Search*
- Law Review Commons (Free and Open Law Review Scholarship)* (over 220,000 articles from open-access law reviews, 1852–present)
- Directory of Open Access Journals*
- SSRN* (Social Sciences Research Network)(preprints and working papers)
- bePress Legal Repository
- Digital Commons Network – Law Commons* (search the legal repositories of over 400 American law schools)
- Osgoode Hall Digital Commons*
- Schulich Law Scholars* (Dalhousie Law School repository)