Locating journals
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Search the Library Catalogue by journal title
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If the Library has both print and online versions, there will be 2 entries one for the printed version and one for the e-version.
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EJournals
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Search the A-Z listing alphabetically, by title, or by subject to identify which databases to use. Access using your LSE username and password.
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The subject listing is under Government, Law and Social Policy.
Finding journal articles
Journal articles are not generally indexed on the Library Catalogue|, so if you have a journal citation, look for the journal in which the article was published.
Researching a topic will require our electronic resources. Do not assume a simple Google search will find all articles - the Library provides powerful databases. Our databases cover materials from a wide range of publishers so can give you more information than you will retrieve from an individual publisher's ejournal site. Databases can also include information on book reviews, book chapters, grey literature, government reports, theses etc.
Some databases will link to the full text of article - look out for the LSE Article Finder 
but some will give you bibliographic details only.
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Cross Searcher for LSE staff and students searches across the content of selected databases. This can be used to find journal articles, and where available, links through to the full text, using the LSE article finder:
NB. Not all resources for legal topics are available via Cross Searcher. Westlaw UK and Lexis Library will need to be searched separately.
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There is extensive full text coverage of current law journals via Westlaw UK (select Services then Westlaw International for non-UK materials) and Lexis Library (select Sources for separate jurisdictions).
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Hein Online (US law journal archives), and JSTOR (major social science journals archive) include large backsets of many titles.
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For the widest research see a full list of Law Databases.
Please note that the majority our online legal resources are available to current LSE staff and students only. If you are not a member of LSE, please check before you visit that you can access the resources that you require.
Law journal indexes
Use these services to research across a wide range of publishers and journal content.
Legal Journals Index (1986- ) via Westlaw UK|
Content and coverage: Abstracts and references to legal journal articles published in UK publications since 1986. Links to full text articles where available.
Index to Legal Periodicals via Lexis Library| Select Sources to locate file.
Content: Abstracts and References to legal journal articles published in North American law journals since 1978.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals|
Content: Abstracts and references to non-US and non-UK articles published in legal journals with extensive coverage of foreign language material since 1981.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Content and coverage: Criminology & related areas - abstracts and references to journal articles, book reviews and book chapters since 1987. Links to full text articles where available.
Major social science journal indexes
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences| (IBSS)
Content: Broad range of Social Science topics, but particularly strong on Anthropology, Economics, Politics & Sociology. Its a great place to start your literature searches. It includes abstracts and references to journal articles, book reviews and chapters from edited books since 1951.
Scopus| is larget abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources covering over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers.
ISI Citation Indexes via the Web Of Knowledge/Science|
Content: There are 3 ISI files which can be cross searched: Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities. Coverage of abstracts and references to journal articles and book reviews since 1956. Features include links to full text articles via LSE Article Finder and citation searching.