Guides: Law: Databases

What is a Database?

A database is a website where you can search for:

journal articles
conference papers
reports
books
patents
standards

Note that databases may be specific or cover different subject areas

Library Databases for Law

Library Databases for Law

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Search the following databases for online articles, reports and more

Eastlaws
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East laws is an Arabic database for the use of Faculty of Law.
To get access you need to refer to the Faculty Administrator who will provide you with the username and password (access is limited).
Westlaw UK
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Harnessing 200 years of experience, Westlaw is your online legal research service delivering unmatched speed and accuracy. Westlaw’s dynamic, ever-growing, and the easily searchable content set includes case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts, and legal materials specific to your region. Now with the most relevant legal information at your fingertips, you can search with confidence, every time.
Westlaw International
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Harnessing 200 years of experience, Westlaw is your online legal research service delivering unmatched speed and accuracy. Westlaw’s dynamic, ever-growing, and the easily searchable content set includes case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts, and legal materials specific to your region. Now with the most relevant legal information at your fingertips, you can search with confidence, every time.
LexisNexis
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Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news and business sources
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organisation that serves and is supported by the scholarly community. It offers multidisciplinary archival collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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It's a full-text database including scholarly collection that is spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study.
Taylor and Francis Online This link opens in a new window
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The T&F provides access to over 900 must-have online journals from Routledge, It Covers different Disciplines such as Anthropology & Archaeology , Arts and Humanities , Behavioral Science , Economics , Criminology & Law , Education , Library and Information Science , Media, Cultural and Communication Studies,Politics, International Relations and Area Studies , Public Health and Social Care, Chemistry and the Biological, Earth, Environmental & Food Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics and Engineering and Computing Technology subject.
Emerald Insight
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Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference, now also including health and social care, education and engineering.

Egyptian Knowledge Bank

Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB)
Will grant all Egyptians from all ages access to the largest amount of knowledge, cultural and scientific contents whether it is basic, applied, technology, human or management science and even public cultural books, including books targeting children.

For any Egyptian citizen in country, through a unified portal, inside the Arab Republic of Egypt, to be used through all computers, as well as smart phones and tablets.
HOW TO USE THE EKB PORTAL