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COPAC is a free consolidated catalogue produced by the University of Manchester
http://www.copac.ac.uk
HERO aims to be ‘the primary internet portal for academic research and higher education in the UK’
http://www.hero.ac.uk
Westlaw is a database owned by the publisher Sweet & Maxwell. It lists all articles that appear in their own journals as well as a selection of those owned by other publishers such as Oxford University Press
http://www.westlaw.co.uk
Lawtel provides a search facility for seventy-two different UK legal publications. It is also owned by Sweet & Maxwell so you may find that there is a fair degree of overlap with Westlaw in terms of its coverage
http://www.lawtel.com
LexisNexis is owned by the publisher Butterworths and contains the full text of articles published in around eighty-five journals and summaries of the articles found in many more journals
http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk
HeinOnline was introduced in 2000 by William S. Hein & Co., an American legal publisher. It contains full-text resources from a large number of journals
http://www.heinonline.org
Official Documentsis the official reference facility for Command Papers
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/
The Office of Public Sector Information website contains a list of Command Papers from 2001 by number and alphabetically by department with links to the papers on Government Departmental websites where possible
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/official-publications/
BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) is a free online database which provides British Official Publications from 1688 to 1995
http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/
UKOP is a subscription service provided by TSO (the Stationery Office). It is the official catalogue of UK official publications since 1980
http://www.ukop.co.uk
House of Commons Parliamentary Papersis a commercially-available service. It provides a searchable full-text facility as well as a detailed index
http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk/marketing/index.jsp
Details of the Bills before Parliament in the current session can be found on the UK Parliament Website
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/pabills.htm
Hansard is available online free of charge online on the UK Parliament website at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm (Commons) http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/home.htm (Lords)
A comprehensive search facility is also provided
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/semaphoreserver?DB=semukparl&FILE=search
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