Library
The NOVA School of Law Library is a freely accessible library whose primary mission is to support teaching and to promote research and relations with society in general. It seeks to encourage the development of research skills in searching, locating, accessing, (critical) evaluation and organization of information by its users.
The research unit of NOVA School of Law, CEDIS, supports the library with national funding from FCT, I.P. (Foundation for Science and Technology, Public Institute) under projects UIDB/00714/2020 and UIDP/00714/2020.
Documentary Fund
The Library’s Documentary Fund currently comprises some 40000 monographic titles with digital support, and some 255 periodical titles, of which over 153 are foreign publications. Focusing fundamentally on the area of Law, however, works of Philosophy, Political Thought, Sociology, Economics, History, etc. can be found. Reference works (dictionaries and encyclopaedias) are also available for local consultation.
The documentary fund is classified according to specific thematic areas. This classification allows you to understand the arrangement of the publications on the shelves. However, it must be remembered that interdisciplinarity implies a work classified and arranged in a certain area could, in your opinion, be classified differently. It is therefore important to use the automated catalogues and not just browse the shelves. With regard to periodical publications, they are divided into Portuguese and foreign publications. Issues for the current year can be found in the reading room display. Issues from previous years can be found in the periodicals room.
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Metasearch platform for bibliographic resources of the Organic Units of NOVA University Lisbon (full-text journal articles, e-books, bibliographic catalogues of NOVA libraries, etc.)
Around 40000 monographic titles and 255 titles of periodical publications, of which more than 153 are foreign publications. It comprises mainly publications focused on the area of Law, but also on other areas, such as Social Sciences and Humanities.
Platform which aims to collect, store, manage, preserve and allow access to intellectual production, from journal articles and communications to conferences and theses. The works available through RUN are covered by the Creative Commons Licence.
A guide to access your personal area of the online catalogue, where you can view your borrowing history, any penalties imposed and renew your loans. The loans can be renewed up to two days before the due date, with the possibility of renewing them three times consecutively, provided there are no reservations for the book.
An alphabetical list of journals held by the Library. With over 200 journals in its collection, the most recent issues are available in the display case in the Reading Room. The remaining journals are in storage and must be requested by emailing the Library at biblioteca@novalaw.unl.pt in order to be consulted.
Platform which aims to collect, store, manage, preserve and allow access to intellectual production, from journal articles and communications to conferences and theses. The works available through RUN are covered by the Creative Commons Licence.
Online Resources
Free trial | HeinOnline
HeinOnline is na american database aggregating a vast digital library which includes international law publications and legal materials, ranging from digital facsimiles of historical documents to current and up-to-date law journals. The material focuses on American legislation and legal documentation yet also extends to works relating to dozens of countries all over the globe.
HeinOnline has made available to the NOVA Law community a trial of its resources through to July 8th, through the following link: https://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome
To aid in using these resources, the following tools are also at our disposal:
- Knowledge Base: access training guide, videos, and more
- LibGuides: each guide features database-specific content, search tips, tools, features, training materials, and more
- HeinOnline Blog: be the first to know about new content and features available in HeinOnline by signing up for our blog
- Live Support: contact our dedicated support team via live chat, email, or at (800) 277-6995
- Training & Demos: our support specialists provide database training and product demos via live web conference
HeinOnline also shares tutorials and video guides through its YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealHeinOnline/videos
Access to the contents of the Online Resources (Restricted Resources) is via our IP address, either via our wi-fi network on campus or from home, provided you have a connection to our VPN. To access the VPN, you will need to set it up via moodle, where you will find a tutorial on how to set up the network.
If you have any difficulties setting up the VPN, you can contact tic@novalaw.unl.pt with your questions.
You can access the information available without having to log in by entering each of the databases on the page and carrying out the necessary search.
+ Restricted Resources
The NOVA School of Law Library has a collection of databases of publications in the area of Law, which users can access by completing the requisite criteria and through access provided by the Library.
Bloomsbury as a publisher covers a wide array of subjects, and through Bloomsbury Collections, the NOVA community has access to works from both their backlist and frontlist, on topics ranging from Professional Law, Comparative Law, Legal History and Legal Studies, Competition Law, Legal Philosophy, et. across thousands of titles.
HeinOnline is na american database aggregating a vast digital library which includes international law publications and legal materials, ranging from digital facsimiles of historical documents to current and up-to-date law journals.
The material focuses on American legislation and legal documentation yet also extends to works relating to dozens of countries all over the globe.
SCOPUS is a multidisciplinary database that provides access to peer-reviewed scientific literature in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. The database indexes a vast number of sources divided into articles, conference proceedings, journals and books.
SCOPUS also provides intelligent tools for tracking, analysing and visualising scientific research, in order to provide metrics on the impact of productions and authors.
Proquest is a multidisciplinary full-text and reference database that provides access to 47 databases from different areas such as social sciences, science and technology, health and medicine, business and the arts and humanities.
Its platform provides access to a wide variety of content types such as journals, books, video or audio, dissertations and theses, newspapers, encyclopedias, among others.
The Biblioteca do Conhecimento online (b-on) provides unlimited and ongoing access for research and higher education institutions to the full texts of thousands of scientific journals and online e-books from some of the most important content providers, through nationally negotiated subscriptions.
It contains books, journals and a number of additional online products and collections, as well as content published by partner publishers, including Edinburgh University Press, Facet Publishing and University of Adelaide Press, among others.
Legislação, Jurisprudência e Doutrina
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary digital library containing retrospective archives of academic publications and images of art and history. It is a full-text database that allows access to diverse sources over a long period of time.
Available collections: Art & Sciences I, Art & Sciences II, Art & Sciences III.
KluwerArbitration.com is the world’s leading online resource for international arbitration investigation. It contains a wide range of commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. In addition, as a subscriber, you get access to exclusive materials, including ICC cases and awards.
The Kluwer Law Online website (contains):
- Complete collection of academic journals;
- A growing selection of papers;
- Browsable tables of contents;
- Bibliographic information in HTML format;
- Full-text documents in PDF format;
- Advanced navigation and search functionality within and between titles;
- Online availability 3-4 weeks prior to the print publication
Database with access to scientific journals specialising in international legal issues in different practice areas, written by experts from all over the world and published by Wolters Kluwer;
IEL Labour Law, Encyclopedia of International Labour Law, which provides practical information and valuable insights into national and international legal frameworks in 25 practice areas, written by more than 1,200 renowned experts from around the world;
A collection of high-quality handbooks that are a valuable aid to exploring the ever-changing international legal landscape, in areas such as Business and Commercial Law, Litigation, Labour Law and Transport Law.
As part of the Project to Support the Development of the Judicial Systems of the PALOP, and within the framework of the PALOP II Regional Indicative Programme, financed by the 9th European Development Fund (EDF) and the Portuguese Institute for Development Support (IPAD), the Legis-PALOP+ TL Legal Database is an ambitious project to provide a platform for knowledge and sharing of legal information between the Portuguese-speaking African countries and East Timor, for all those who wish to learn about these legal systems.
Metasearch platform for bibliographic resources of the Organic Units of NOVA University Lisbon (full-text journal articles, e-books, bibliographic catalogues of NOVA libraries, etc.)
Oxford Academic is the home of academic research from Oxford University Press (OUP), the world’s largest university press. It serves global communities of scholars, researchers, and teachers by publishing scholarship and research in several subject areas.
You can discover and explore scholarly books and journals from OUP, as well as from a wide array of leading university presses and learned societies on Oxford Academic.
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast online library, home to thousands of scholarly works from the world-renowned academic publishing list of Oxford University Press.
The academic law list at Oxford University Press has a strong tradition of developing exceptional work across the full breadth of legal scholarship. From Oxford Studies in European Law and Oxford Monographs in International Law to Clarendon Studies in Criminology and Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History, its publications range from the foundations of legal history and philosophy to analytic and comparative work on legal doctrine and empirical research on law in modern society.
With University Press Scholarship Online you can choose from over 20 prestigious university presses from all over the world, and give your patrons access to thousands of essential titles in almost every area of scholarship.
Each partner press is available on the Oxford Academic platform, allowing your patrons to read books online, or download chapters as PDFs in one single site.
With over 1,900 titles from a wide variety of different presses, the Law module of UPSO is an essential resource for any law scholar.
Oxford Handbooks Online brings together the world’s leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate.
Articles review the key issues, reveal original arguments and concepts, and set the agenda for new research. These books have become one of the most successful and cited series within scholarly publishing.
Very Short Introductions is an online resource that offers scholars and students OUP’s premier publishing series in an easily discoverable, fully cross-searchable, and highly accessible format.
The VSI of Law provides access to titles ranging from Forensic Science and Medical Law, to Human Rights and the Philosophy of Law.
vLex dá-lhe acesso a mais de 100 milhões de documentos de 134 países e disponíveis em 13 idiomas.
Regiões: Europa; América do Norte; América Central e do Sul; Ásia; África e Outras Jurisdições (União Europeia e Comunidade Andina)
Web of Science (formerly Web of Knowledge) is a multidisciplinary indexing database of scientific literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
It indexes peer-reviewed scientific articles and conference papers, as well as providing intelligent tools to analyse scientific output quantitatively (Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators).
NEW Search Assistant
Web of Science has launched a search assistant to help researchers. Based on Artificial Intelligence, this tool allows for a more “intelligent” search of data from the Web of Science Core Collection.
The assistant accompanies the research process, helping with the search and interpretation of the literature. It allows you to search the database using natural language and multilingual queries; it assists you in understanding basic concepts through concise comments on the themes and makes connections through graphs, maps and co-citation networks. The tool offers intelligent database searching and supports research through task-based guidance.
From November 5th until the 20th, this resource is available for free trial to the entire academic community.
+ Open Access Resources
The NOVA School of Law Library has a collection of databases of publications in the field of law available to users with free access.
National Databases
A Revista
Supreme Court of Justice Journal, available in open access.
Arquivo.pt
Arquivo.pt preserves millions of files collected from the web since the 1990s and provides a public search service of this information.
Digital archive António Manuel Hespanha
Digital archive António Manuel Hespanha aims to make available the electronic edition of the main Portuguese legal literature from the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century.
CEJ – Centro de Estudos Judiciários – E-publicações
The Centre for Judicial Studies makes its publications available free of charge, including the CEJ Journal and various e-books
DGPJ – Direção-Geral da Política de Justiça
The DGPJ provides useful information on its website, including statistical data on justice.
Diário da República Eletrónico
E-publica
The E-Publica journal is available in its entirety in Open Access (CC-BY).
Royal Legislation
Portuguese legislation from the beginning of the 17th century until the establishment of the Republic in 1910.
Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa
RCAAP – Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
RED – Revista Eletrónica de Direito
The Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Justice has the Journal of Electronic Law available free of charge for online viewing and download in PDF format.
Revista de Direito Comercial
The Commercial Law Journal is dedicated to disseminating commercial law, covering all areas of commerce, whether land, sea, air or space, real or virtual. It aims to be useful for traders, companies, consumers, workers, magistrates, lawyers, teachers and all those who deal with the veritable maze that is commercial law.
International Databases
Admiralty & Maritime Law Guide
Focused on US maritime law, this lively and ever-growing guide provides over 1,500 annotated links to sources, opinions, articles, etc. on maritime law and information relevant to the topic.
Digital library of the United Nations
Provides open access to documentation produced by the United Nations, ranging from articles to minutes and speeches.
British Library
Includes a catalogue of digital and digitised content, including open access documents.
Bundesgerichtshof – BGH
The Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) is Germany’s highest court in civil and criminal matters, i.e. “ordinary jurisdiction”.
ICRC – International Humanitarian Law Databases
The International Committee of the Red Cross provides three databases on international humanitarian law through this website: “Treaties, States Parties and Comments”; “Customary IHL”; “National Practice”.
DOAJ
This directory provides free access to the full text of thousands of scientific and academic journal titles in all areas of knowledge.
Dialnet
It is a portal for the dissemination of Hispanic scientific production, which allows access to documents and the creation of alert systems.
Digital Library of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Its aim is to provide researchers in Legal Theory and History with digitised, open-access resources.
EUI Publications – Cadmus
European University Institute Research Repository, with emphasis on the Department of Law, Department of Economics and Political Science.
Eur-Lex
Database of Community Legislation and Case Law. Provides free access to European Union law (legislation, case law, treaties, preparatory acts, etc.).
EZB Eletronik Journals Library
Cooperative service of 497 libraries that aim to facilitate access to academic journals published electronically.
ILO Databases
Databases developed by the International Labour Organisation that integrate information on the application of international labour standards, regulations, statistics, social security, equal opportunities, etc.
Internet Archive
One of the largest digital archives on the internet, it includes the Wayback Machine, a tool that allows users to view pages as they were on a specific date, including those from websites that have since been deleted.
Library of Congress
A world-renowned library, it includes an extensive catalogue. Particularly useful for research related to the United States of America.
OAPEN Library
The OAPEN Library contains open access academic books, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a collection of quality-controlled open access books, and provides services to publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination and digital preservation.
OATD – Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Open Access Thesis and Dissertation Repository, access thousands of theses and dissertations defended at universities around the world.
Official Documents Systems of The Unite Nations
This database contains all types of official United Nations documentation since 1993. The database also provides access to document of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council since 1946.
Open Research Library
The Open Research Library (ORL) is a multidisciplinary platform that aims to include open access books globally. It offers access to over 20,000 books.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
It is a service administered by the U.S. Department of Justice and includes a database of abstracts from over 200,000 publications.
PARLINE database on national parliaments
Updated database on national parliaments around the world.
Doxa Portal – Digital library Miguel de Cervantes
Focus on Philosophy of Law, with the aim of providing a wide range of documents and services in digital format of interest to the community of philosophers of law who express themselves in Spanish.
Portal Europa
Europa.eu is the official website of the European Union. It is a good starting point if you are looking for information and services provided by the EU but do not know which website to visit. Here you will find: basic information on how the EU works; the latest EU news and events; links to information about the EU on the websites of EU institutions and agencies.
Portal Europeu de Justiça
This portal, known as ‘e-justice’, provides quick answers to citizens’ legal questions.
Treaties and Agreements of the European Union
European Union treaties and agreements in French and English.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Provides access to all international treaties or agreements in effect of the Member States of the United Nations.