Researching Secondary Law Resources

AustLII - Australasian Legal Scholarship Library

AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) contains full-text access to academic law journals from Australia and New Zealand. Partial coverage of some legal industry journals are also available. 
 

Note

The Melbourne University Law Review and the Melbourne Journal of International Law journals both use the AGLC referencing style. It is sometime useful to search these two journals for examples of footnote styles for tricky references.

1. Go to the AustLII homepage. Select Journals & Scholarship from the top menu.
   
    
2. To browse to a journal, view the alphabetical list of journals, and click on the journal title to view the full text issues of that journal.
   
    
3. To undertake a keyword search across all available full-text journals on AustLII, type your keywords into the search field. This example uses proximity searching (e.g., w/n or Pre/n) using the terms solicitor NEAR client W/10 communicat* NEAR disclosure (AustLII user guide, p.7).
   
    
4. On the results screen, tick the box next to Show Excerpt, to see the search terms within context of the text of the article.
   
    
5. Click on the title of the article to view the full text of the article.
   
    
6. View the full text of the article, or choose the print/download options available.
   
    
7. The PDF format is the original print format of the journal, and is the best format to download.
   
    

More search help and information is available in the AustLII User Guide.