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Guide last updated by Hester Swift, May 2022
IALS Library has a large suite of subscription databases, covering many different jurisdictions and containing journal articles, legislation, case law, books, treaties, journal indexes and more.
This guide offers an overview and says how to choose which databases to use. It also explains how members of the library can access them.
Access to databases is via the IALS Law Databases page.
On-site access
Students and academics can access any of the databases while in the library. Select the IALS-Lib wireless network, or use one of the library's computers.
Off-site access
To see which databases you can access from off site, go to the Law Databases page, click on 'Offsite access availability' and select your membership category:
IALS staff, IALS fellows and IALS students have off-site access to almost all the databases, and other academics and students have off-site access to many of them. Practitioners and other non-academic readers have no off-site access to subscription-based databases.
The remote login for most databases is:
ID: family name
PW: barcode number from IALS Library card
The remote login for Westlaw and Practical Law uses the same ID and password as StudyOnline and the IALS computer network. (Remote access to our Westlaw and Practical Law accounts is for IALS students/staff/fellows only.)
Lexis 360 and SCC Online require you to register the first time you use them: see our information pages for Lexis 360 and SCC Online.
i-Law and Le Doctrinal require individual logins: please email the library (ials@sas.ac.uk) to request one if you would like access full text material on i-Law or Le Doctrinal.
The "How To" video below demonstrates remote access to IALS Library's online resources:
