Databases provide access to collections of information such as books, journals, encyclopedias, etc. Some databases provide information in full text whilst others will only give the reference and an abstract (summary of what the article covers). The advantage of using databases (rather than Google or Google Scholar) when researching is that you can be assured that the information you retrieve is from a reliable source.
The search box on the library website searches across a large number of databases in one search; however, there are some databases (Westlaw) that are not included in the library website. Use the Library website to search across multiple databases
Click here for a list of databases not available in the library website search.
The University Library subscribes to the legal databases listed below. Access the databases by clicking on the title link and, if asked, entering your username and password.
Your username is your student email address (studentIDnumber@students.lincoln.ac.uk) and your password is your Blackboard password.
Access the English Reports, Full Reprint and the Law Journal Library, a collection of more than 1,100 law and law- related periodicals.
Access HeinOnline's Law Journal Library, a collection of more than 1,100 law and law- related periodicals.
Lexis+ provides access to a range of case law, legislation, commentary, and current awareness. This includes the full text of volumes 1-50 of Halsbury's Laws of England.
Access decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Includes International Criminal law, International Human Rights, International Investment, International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction and Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law.
Aimed at helping the busy practitioner, Practical Law provides legal updates, practice notes, standard documents, checklists and expert opinions.
Access case reports, legislation, journal articles and a selection of practitioner texts.
You may need to register before accessing this database
A vast global legal research library built on some of the world's best legal, news and business information.
You may need to register before accessing this database
The research databases listed below may contain journals relating to law.
Use the search box on the library website to search across a selection of databases or access them individually by clicking on the title links and, if asked, entering your username and password.
Multi-disciplinary journals, reports and proceedings.
Abstracts and some full-text scholarly articles from Cambridge University Press on the humanities, social sciences and STEM displines.
Includes the Digital Journals Archive.
Access the abstracts of journal articles from a range of different publishers. If the University of Lincoln subscribes to a listed journal, then many of that journal's articles will also be available in full text.
Information and a searchable index of international electronic theses and dissertations, including some open-access titles.
Search and view open access theses and dissertations.
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
If you wish to access full text theses, please make sure the "Full text" option is ticked under the search bar.