Guides and databases: Human Rights: Literature Searching

Guide to searching for information

This guide will help you start looking for research for assignments, literature reviews and research.

Finding literature on your subject

The following databases are useful for searching for books, journal articles and other literature on a specific subject and identifying where you can find them online:

Legal Journals Index (Westlaw UK)
Access for UCL students and staff only. Index to every significant legal journal article published since 1986, covering over 800 journals from the UK and Europe.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (EBSCO)
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books provides indexing of 850 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications, as well as coverage of 1,400 monographs per year.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews that appear in hundreds of legal journals published worldwide.

Search strategies for literature searching

This online tutorial uses a series of videos and activities to demonstrate some top tips for enhancing your searching skills. The extract below looks at how you decide what terms to use.

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