RESEARCH AT RGSL / Library Databases

NEW databases:

  • TradeLawGuide  - an online database for researching WTO law. The database is sponsored by the TradeLawGuide until December 2012.
  • world’s leading scientific database ScienceDirect . Full texts available from the Freedom Collection (list of journal titles)
  • the largest abstract and citation database Scopus  

Journal title search from the databases

Readers are welcome to use the following information resources in electronic format (access via IP address authenticated within the RGSL network):

  • Westlaw International - West's online legal research service providing fast and easy access to an extensive collection of legal resources, news, business, and public records information. Westlaw offers access to a complete and fully integrated legal and business research system. More than 17,000 databases offer both broad and deep coverage. List of sources
  • HeinOnline - offers the world's largest collection of electronic, image-based periodicals from inception (fully-searchable and in pdf format including all charts, graphs, pictures, photographs, and footnotes). Database consists of four major collections: the Law Journal Library (more than 1,100 journals), the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library (all U.S. Treaties and Agreements, whether in-force, expired, or yet-to-be published), and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. List of sources
  • HeinOnline Foreign and International Law Resources (FILR) database - includes treasures of some of the world’s best international law publications, from the in-depth coverage of publications of prominent Yearbooks from around the world and series the American Society of International Law to the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice and the publications of dozens of other highly-respected publishers. List of sources
  • HeinOnline Kluwer Law International Journal Library 
    The Library offers access to the new HeinOnline database Kluwer Law International Journal Library which covers full texts of articles from 12 journal titles published by Kluwer Law International
  • EBSCO Database - offers popular bibliographical and full text databases covering virtual area of academic study. List of available EBSCO sources
  • The Hague Academy Collected Courses Online - book series “The Hague Academy Collected Courses / Recueil des Cours” which comprises full texts of over 320 volumes published by the Hague Academy of International Law.
  • SpringerLink - one of the world's leading online information services for scientific, technical, and medical books and journals. List of sources in Humanities, Social Sciences and Law.
  • NAIS Latvian legislation data base;
  • "Latvijas Vestnesis" - the official newspaper archive of the Republic of Latvia, archive of "Jurista Vārds";
  • LETA - Latvian news agency's archive, database of "Latvijas Vestnesis" publications, court decisions, laws.