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In addition to bibliographical, indexed and full-text databases necessary for efficient research work, the users also use different legal databases, legislation databases and case-law databases. Legislation databases include acts and other regulations of certain countries. Case-law databases contain published case-law, decisions of the Constitutional court, orders and reports issued in a certain period within one or more countries.

Type of database: Full-text database
Access: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Fields: Law
Publisher: Beck

A database containing the following resources on German Law: journals, journal articles, books, commentaries, legislation and case law.

Type of database: Full-text database
Access: National license
Remote access to the collection is also enabled via a proxy server on the eSources project website.
Fields: Social sciences
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing

Business Source Complete is a scientific-business database that contains a leading collection of bibliographic and complete content, including complete texts of peer-reviewed business journals, trade journals, books and monographs, company profiles, market reports, industry reports…

Type of database: Case law database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: Constitutional Court

Contains full texts of selected decisions, rulings and reports translated in English, as well as the summaries of important decisions, rulings and reports that have been translated in English and published in "Selection of Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia" (1996-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).

Type of database: Bibliographic database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: Eurolex

The Reports are an official publication of the case-law of the jurisdictions which form the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Curia database contains all the publicly available information concerning the cases brought before the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal. Curia gives access, primarily, to the documents of the Institution (principally the judgments, Opinions, orders and notices in the Official Journal of the European Union), by means of a text search or a data search. Those data concern, in particular, the dates of certain stages of the proceedings, the subject matter of the case, the type of proceedings, the legal acts of the European Union cited in the case-law, the nationality of the parties, etc. The availability of those data may vary according to the type of proceedings and the stage (progress) of the case.

Type of database: Legislation database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law

Provides access on Federal law in Germany.

Type of database: Bibliographic and full-text database
Access: National license
Remote access to the collection is also enabled via a proxy server on the eSources project website.
Fields: Social Sciences
Publisher: American Economic Association

EconLit with Full Text je baza podataka koja sadrži bibliografske podatke svih radova indeksiranih u EconLitu (The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography): članke iz časopisa, knjige, sažetke, disertacije i radne materijale iz područja ekonomije i srodnih područja. U bazi je dostupno više od 600 časopisa s cjelovitim tekstovima, uključujući časopise udruženja American Economic Association (AEA).

Type of database: Bibliographic and full-text database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: Cardiff University

European Sources Online [ESO] is a free-access database and information service. It aims to support users in understanding Europe and beyond. It brings together a comprehensive and curated set of sources and information, which are able to inform people holding different levels of expertise.

Type of database: Bibliographic and full-text database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: European Commission

Bookstore at the European Commission that provides access to official publications of EU institutions. Publications can be ordered and purchased or downloaded electronically.


Type of database: Bibliographic and full-text database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: European Commission

EUR-Lex is your online gateway to EU Law. It provides the official and most comprehensive access to EU legal documents. It is available in all of the EU’s 24 official languages and is updated daily.

Type of database: Bibliographic database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: European Commission

Find-eR is the search engine to explore, read and lend the print and electronic collections of the European Commission libraries.

Type of database: Full-text database of laws and regulations
Access: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Fields: Law
Publisher: Droitdusport

One of the most relevant databases of legal sources, scientific and professional research and case law in the field of football law.

Type of database: Full-text database of laws and regulations
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: Library of Congress

The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the full texts of their published documents to the database in their original languages. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and, in many cases in additional languages, plus subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN.

All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available only for the GLIN member states.

Type of database: Full-text database
Access: National license
Remote access to the collection is also enabled via a proxy server on the eSources project website.
Fields: Law
Publisher: HeinOnline

HeinOnline is a online database containing more than 183 million pages and 283,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,800 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.

Type of database: Case law database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: High Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia

Contains full texts of selected decisions of the High Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia.

Type of database: Full-text database of laws and case law
Access: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Fields: Law
Publisher: Ius-Info

IusInfo is a unique on-line legal information system which contains up to date legislation and case law in its original form, catalogued and fully searchable. In addition, IUS-INFO provides access to the legal literature and some useful on-line tools like various income calculations and price lists.

Type of database: Full-text database
Access: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Fields: Social Sciences - Collection of Law journals
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Kluwer Law Online publishes a high-quality collection of peer-reviewed journals on international legal matters in many different practice areas, written by experts from around the world.

Type of database: Full-text database of laws and case law
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: Narodne novine d.o.o.

Narodne novine is the official gazette (or newspaper of public record) of the Republic of Croatia which publishes laws, regulations, appointments and official decisions and releases them in the public domain.

Type of database: Full-text database of laws and case law
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: United Nations

The Official Document System (ODS) is an online database of UN documents that was first launched in 1993 and updated in 2016. ODS has full-text, born-digital UN documents published from 1993 onward, including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents.

The database also includes scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993, including all resolutions of the principal organs, all documents of the Security Council and the General Assembly Official Records. Documents are available in the official languages of the UN; some documents are also available in German.

Type of database: Full-text database of laws, case law and legal journals
Access: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Fields: Law
Publisher: Inženjerski biro d.o.o.

Publications of the Inženjerski biro.

Type of database: Database of legislative documents
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: Digitalni informacijsko-dokumentacijski ured

The collection offers a search of legal regulations and other documents available in the open access - international agreements, documents and publications of public authorities and official gazettes of local governments, address books and directories and information on political parties in the Republic of Croatia.

Type of database: Case law database
Access: Open access
Fields: Law
Publisher: Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia

Contains full texts of selected decisions of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia.

Type of database: Full-text database of laws and case law
Access: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
Fields: Law
Publisher: Thomson Reuters

An online legal research service for legal and law-related materials and services, including searches of United States and international legal materials, federal and state statutes, and legal periodicals; maintained by the West Group of Thomson Learning, Inc.