Encore Full Text Discovery
Encore Full Text Discovery

Offsite access availability
IALS Library academic members (all universities)
IALS Library non-academic members
IALS staff, fellows & students
SAS staff, fellows & students (other than IALS)
Uni of London law staff & postgraduate students
Description

Encore is a search tool for locating journal articles and e-books from multiple subscription databases with a single search. It does not cover all databases, but it can be used in addition to searching specific databases that IALS Library subscribes to. 

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About Encore
IALS Library subscribes to numerous databases containing journal articles and e-books and Encore's ‘Full text e-resources’ search facility covers many of these databases at the same time.  Not all of IALS Library's databases are covered by Encore's full-text search facility, however.

Databases included in Encore
The databases listed below are included in Encore full-text searches.

Journals: 

  • Academic Search Complete 
  • Brill Online (selected law titles) 
  • Business Source Premier 
  • Cambridge Core (selected law titles) 
  • Directory of Open Access Journals 
  • EBSCO Open Access Law Collection 
  • HeinOnline(Law Journal Library) 
  • JSTOR 
  • Kluwer law journals (selected law titles) 
  • Oxford Academic (selected law titles) 
  • SAGE (selected law titles) 
  • SpringerLINK (selected law titles) 
  • Taylor & Francis (selected law titles) 
  • Westlaw UK (onsite only) 
  • Wiley Online Library (selected law titles)

E-books: 

  • Brill Online: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law; Foreign Law Guide; human rights and international law e-books
  • International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law
  • Cambridge Core (Law) 
  • Directory of Open Access Books 
  • EBSCO Open Access Law Collection 
  • EBSCOhost E-books (selected law titles) 
  • Elgar Online (selected law titles)
  • Hart E-books (selected law titles)
  • HeinOnline: United Nations Law Collection, World Constitutions Illustrated & World Treaty Library 
  • LLMC Digital 
  • OAPEN Library
  • Oxford Legal Research Library
  • Oxford Public International Law (selected law e-books, but not Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law)
  • Oxford Scholarship Online (Law) 
  • ProQuest Ebook Central (selected law titles) 
  • SpringerLINK (Law and Criminology eBooks)
  • Taylor & Francis E-books (selected law titles)

Access
You do not need to log in to search Encore. However, if you are not on site at IALS Library you will be prompted to log in using your IALS Library card to view full-text material.  

Off-site access permissions vary between databases. Some Encore search results give information about who has off-site access (in a grey box, to the right); some results are open access resources; other results may also be available to you in full, depending on your IALS membership category. If you have any difficulty accessing full-text content, please email the library on ials@sas.ac.uk, ask at the Enquiry Desk, or contact us via the live chat on the Library pages of the website.

Searching 
Encore's full text e-resources search facility has basic and advanced versions. Choose Advanced Search to specify keyword, title, subject or author, or to limit the search by publication date. 

Once you have run a search, Encore offers facets to help you further refine your results; these include format, subject, language and date. To list subjects or other facets alphabetically, click on ‘more’ then ‘name’.

The Encore full-text search page has a link to another search facility, called ‘Publication Finder’. This allows you to search the titles, authors, subject headings, etc., but not the full text,  of e-books and e-journals from different publishers and different database providers. Publication Finder includes some material that is not covered by Encore's full text search facility, such as Sabinet African Journals, and Westlaw Books. 

 

 

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