Subscribed E-Resources

    Subscribed E-Books

  • Cambridge e-Book Collections

    Cambridge University Press NUALS, Library subscribes a bunch of 286 e-Books on law and allied subjects. The books have been subscribed on a perpetual basis. These books can be accessed with the IP Ranges of the University.

  • Bloomsbury Collections The Library of NUALS subscribes 167 e-Books related to law and allied subjects published by Hart Publication. The books have been subscribed on a perpetual basis. These books can be accessed with the IP Ranges of the University.

  • Oxford E-Books have also been included in the list of subscribed e-Books of the NUALS. A set of 38 e-Books published by Oxford University Press under Oxford Scholarship Online in perpetual mode over the law and allied subjects.

  • Brill's e-book has also been included in the list of subscribed e-books of the NUALS. A set of 64 e-book-published collections features monographs and series, providing access to centuries-long research. Their platform offers advanced search capabilities, enabling users to find specific content efficiently. Brill e-books are often utilized by researchers, academics, and students due to their rigorous peer-reviewed content and comprehensive indexing.

  • Taylor & Francis (T&F) has also been included in the list of subscribed e-books of the NUALS. A set of 32 e-book-published collections is a major global academic publisher known for its comprehensive collection of e-books. Established in 1852 and headquartered in the United Kingdom

  • Edward Elgar has also been included in the list of NUALS subscribed e-books. A set of 26 e-book Publishing offers a comprehensive selection of e-books available through their dedicated digital platform, Elgaronline. The platform hosts a vast array of content across various academic fields, including law, business, economics, social sciences, and environmental studies.

  • Subscribed E - Databases

  • Bar & Bench is a legal reporter which reports on legal news and everything connected with the legal field. It covers live legal reports from Supreme Court, High Courts and covers important cases from NCLT, NCLAT, NGT and other tribunals. B&B covers almost every legal field regarding Academia, Law Firms, Corporate entities, moot courts etc. It also covers interviews, specialized subject matter columns, blogs, news articles & relevant judgments.

  • Publishing the judgements of Supreme Court of India, All India High Courts, various Tribunals & Foreign Courts.

  • An Authentic & Largest Research Platform for Service Tax./Central Excise /CST & Vat laws. It covers 70000 Judgments of Supreme Court /High Courts/ITAT/AAR. It brings 13000 Circulars & Notifications and 6400Artciles. The search engine works on the best ‘algorithms’ and ‘set of instructions to give you the best results with minimum effort. Further, it gives more accurate Data, real-time updating, Completeness of research Case laws with complete headnotes.

  • HeinOnline is an online research database with more than 100 million pages of legal history available in an online fully-searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from the inception of more than 2000 law and law-related periodicals HeinOnline provides exact page images of the documents in PDF format just as they appear in the original print. This means that all charts, graphs, tables, pictures, handwritten notes, photographs, and footnotes. HeinOnline is counted as the best database for access accessing to academic articles for research purposes HeinOnline is also IP based and accessible within IP Ranges of the NUALS.

  • KluwerArbitration.com is an online resource for international arbitration research. It contains commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials including Conventions, Jurisdiction based information, Legislation, New York Convention Decisions, Rules and Chinese Court Decision Summaries on Arbitration. It also provides Books, Journals and News related to international arbitration. The database is accessible within the IP Ranges.

  • Lexis Advance®India is a revolutionary and unmatched online legal research platform that gives you access to the content that you know and trusts with the smartest search relevance technology with a host of other user-friendly features. The platform has the latest full text and head noted judgments from the Supreme Court of India, all leading High Courts and from various Tribunals. The Universal Bare Acts with Rules and Regulations and legislations from various States are up to date and current on the platform. Lexis Advance® India also gives you access to the leading and authoritative commentaries and analysis by renowned legal experts like DD Basu, MP Jain, Mulla, A Ramaiya, Kailasam, Bhandari, Tannan, Ratanlal & Dhirajlal and Halsbury’s Laws of India and covers the Labour Law Journal and Madras Law Journal (Civil and Criminal). The platform has International Content covering primary and secondary legal sources from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries and premium contents like Halsbury’s Laws of England (HLE), All England Reporter (ALL ER), Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, to name a few.

  • The i-law database is published by Informa. The Library subscribes to the Maritime and Commercial Law practice area, which provides cases, legislation, treaties, journals and books.

  • Manupatra a comprehensive online legal and business policy database. It contains judgments of Supreme Court of India, High Courts of Indian States, Tribunals, Commissions and Commission and Committee Reports, Gazette Notifications, Circulars, Bare Acts, Rules and Regulation, Ordinance and Pending Cases and Legal material on subject-based research. It provides comprehensive search techniques, including Manu Search, Legal Search, Citation Search and Act Search. Manupatra may be searched through its website www.manupatra.com within university IP Access without a password.

  • SCC Online is a product of Eastern Book Company primarily providing Supreme Court of India Cases publishing in SCC Weekly. SCC Online is known as the most authentic source for SC Judgments due to its case notes and effective search. Other than cases, SCC Online coverage includes Articles published in SCC and Practical Lawyers, Central and few coverages of States Legislation, Law Commission of India Reports and Selective Judgement of High Courts of Indian States. SCC Online IP based is accessible within the Campus ranges and off-campus

  • Westlaw Asia is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals. In addition, it provides proprietary database services. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources of India, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States and European Union. It is IP Based database and accessible within the secured IP Ranges. Westlaw Collection includes 1600+ Academic Journals; the Legislation of Australia, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom & the United States of America.

  • Resources through e-ShodhSindhu (eSS)

  • The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), a sponsored institution of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), is a public-funded, non-commercial research and development institution in social science. ISID was set up as an independent organisation to carry on the work initiated by the Corporate Study Group (CSG), at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, during the early ‘eighties. ISID has developed databases on various aspects of the Indian economy, particularly concerning industry and the corporate sector. It has created Online Indexes of Indian Social Science Journals (OLI) and Press Clippings on diverse social science subjects. It provides access to Indexes of 125 Indian Social Science journals and major newspaper articles, editorials and news features.

  • JSTOR archival collections contain the back issues of more than 1,500 scholarly journals across 50 disciplines and more than 2000+ e-Books . Art & Science Collection IV contains most of the journals from Law Discipline.INFLIBNET under Law Consortia has extended the coverage of JSTOR for NUALS accessible within IP Ranges.

  • J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles. The J-Gate platform is fronted by a simple, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface, and also gives users complete control over search filters. By allowing users to access content from a wide variety of publishers on a single platform

  • NDL e-Resources

  • World e-Book Library (WeL): The World e-Book Library includes 3 million (30,00,000) primary sources spanning the past 1,000 years of world history in more than 320 different languages. In addition, contemporary journal collections of WeL include scholarly journals and academic articles from every academic field.

  • South Asia Archive (SAA): South Asia Archive contains more than 4.5 million pages spanning the period of 18th and mid-20th century from documents across the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Guidelines for Fair Use of e-Resources at NUALS: Usage Policy

  • Electronic resources such as e-journals, e-databases, e-books made available by the University Library, NUALS are for educational use.
  • These resources can be searched, browsed and material may be downloaded and printed as single copies of articles as is done in the case of printed library material. Downloading or printing of a complete book or an entire issue or a volume of one or more journals (called systematic downloading) is strictly prohibited.
  • Use of robots, spiders or intelligent agents to access, search and systematically download from these resources is also prohibited.
  • Please be aware that systematic downloading will cause the publisher to block to the entire community of users @ NUALS from accessing these resources.
  • The University Library subscribes E-Resources directly through the publishers and eSS Consortium. The terms and conditions for using these resources are spelled out in electronic resource license agreements with each publisher. It is the responsibility of individual users to ensure that the use of electronic resources does not breach the terms and conditions specified in the license agreements. Licenses vary from publisher to publisher; however, the general principles are as follows
Permitted Not Permitted
Viewing, downloading, copying, printing and saving a copy of search results Use of robots or intelligent agents to do systematic, bulk or automatic downloading is not permitted
Viewing, downloading, copying, printing and saving individual articles Systematic downloading or printing of entire journal issues or volumes or large portions of other e-resources is not permitted
Using e-resources for scholarly, educational or scientific research, teaching, private study and clinical purposes Using e-resources for commercial gain is not permitted (i.e. reselling, redistributing or republishing licensed content)
Sending a copy of an article to another authorized user (i.e. current faculty, students or staff) Transmitting, disseminating or otherwise making online content available to unauthorized users (i.e. sending to mailing lists or electronic bulletin boards) is not permitted
Posting the URL to the publisher's version of the article on a class website (publisher links will allow only authorized users access) Posting the publisher's version or PDF of an article to an open class website is not permitted (instead, post the URL to the article, which will allow only authorized users access)

Breaches of the license agreement with publishers could result in the suspension of access to the resources for the member institutions.