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EU Legal Research: Starting Points: Indexes of Articles

Recommendation for BLS researchers who are using this guide off-campus: first, implement the proxy instructions [at https://www.brooklaw.edu/intellectuallife/library.aspx] for access to BLS subscription databases.

Indexes of Articles

Students, please search more than one vendor's database of full-text legal articles (e.g., Westlaw: Law Reviews & Journals).

To find recent articles, search:

Digital Commons Network > Law > European Law Commons 

Social Science Research Network (free, registration might be required to access material)  

Includes legal, business, economic and accounting papers/articles (even some book chapters) submitted by scholars in many countries.

bePress Legal Repository

To find published legal articles on a topic, use BLS Library's discovery platform OneSearch + indexes of articles

Indexes: 

Westlaw: Legal Journals Index (1986-)

Focus: Legal articles published in the U.K. and English-language legal articles published in Europe.  Search results (cites and abstracts) in Legal Journals Index generally do not link to full-text articles.  In SARA catalog, use tools OneSearch (search by title of article) and Find A Source (search by title of periodical) to try to retrieve the article. 

Westlaw: Legal Resource Index (1980-)

Focus: Legal articles published in the U.S. + some articles published in Australia, Canada, the U.K., and New Zealand.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

Focus: Worldwide.  Can limit searches by country subjects, including: European Union & European Union Countries.  

Irish Legal Information Institute (search page for journal articles) LegalPeriodicals.org (1997-)

Focus: Ireland.