This guide offers an overview of important resources for finding (international) legal literature. Follow the steps/instructions and find legal books, articles and journals efficiently!
See the Research guides for an overview of books and journals in a specific field of law. Refer to the guide Juridische literatuur - Artikelen en tijdschriften for Dutch articles and journals.
Do you need help or do you have suggestions or comments? Please contact us.
UvA CataloguePlus
Availability and location of books, theses, (e-)journals and more in the UvA library collections.
WorldCat Discovery
Contains materials from more than a thousand libraries all over the world, including catalogues from all Dutch universities, all fields of science, and in various languages. It is possible to request items from other Dutch libraries through ILL.
FOUND NOTHING OR BOOK IS ON LOAN?
FOUND NOTHING OR BOOK IS ON LOAN?
A selection of important (text)books in a specific field of law can be found in our Research guides.
The books in the Law Library collection are placed according to fields of law. A floor plan can be found here.
For Dutch articles and journals, refer to the guide Juridische literatuur - Artikelen en tijdschriften.
Beck-online
German legal library with (text)books, commentaries, journal collection, case law and more. Please note that access to BeckOnline is only available within the UvA buildings (no access from home).
CataloguePlus
Find both print and e-books and references to and articles from (e-)journals in many disciplines. It also searches UvA-DARE, the Academic Repository of the University of Amsterdam.
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature and sources (articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions) from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites. Contains the UvA-linker (when within the UvA-domain).
HeinOnline
US and international law journal collection grouped by law discipline, legal classics, treaties library, world constitutions and more.
List of law journals
List of law journals, both digital (not exhaustive concerning international journals) and in print available at the Law Library. Contains information on years covered, call number and links to digital versions.
Paper journals (and yearbooks) can be found in the library at call number YA - ZT.
Nexis Uni
Contains among other things law reviews, journals, case law and legal news. Click on Menu (top left hand) and select All sources. Narrow on the left side by Category.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
eLibrary consisting of an Abstract Database on scholarly working and forthcoming papers and Electronic Paper Collection with full-text articles (includes a Legal Scholarship Network, LSN).
Westlaw: World Journals
The World Journals collection contains 1.000 leading international journals and law reviews from the US, across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Canada. To quickly search this elaborate collection, search for ‘World Journals’ in the search box from the start page or use the quick link above.
WorldCat Discovery
Global catalogue contains journals and articles from more than a thousand libraries all over the world, all fields of science and various languages.
It is possible to request items from other Dutch libraries through ILL.
1) CataloguePlus
Select Journals at the top. Enter the journal title in the search box (use " ", e.g. "entertainment law review"):
Too many hits? Refine to Journals (under Refine my results > Resource type).
NO PAPER COPY OF THE JOURNAL AVAILABLE AT THE UVA LIBRARIES OR YEAR OF PUBLICATION NOT COVERED?
2) WorldCat Discovery
Find out if the paper journal is available at another Dutch (university) library by using WorldCat Discovery:
For authoritative journals on a specific field of law, refer to the research guides.
We recommend using all resources listed below!
Please note that access to BeckOnline is only available within the UvA buildings (access from home only via UvAVPN).
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Did you find an interesting title?
When you have too many or limited hits:
Refer to the guide Searching, writing and citing for more advanced search techniques and additional resources.