However, you will need a password to access this. This is available only to University of Manchester staff and students, from the Reference and Information Desk on Area 1 Floor 1. Academic Indexes . This is a CD-ROM covering several years of general source material e.g. mainstream journals and newspapers, with an American bias. Useful for introductory background material on social science-orientated topics.
Some abstracts are available.
The Library takes both these titles in hard copy and these are always more up to date than the CD-ROM version, particularly if you are looking for very recent law reports. However, the CD-ROM version makes subject searching much easier. There are several good law dictionaries shelved at 347.03 on Area 4 Level 3. If you need to find out about other research which has been conducted in your area of interest, one valuable source of information is the thesis literature. Dissertation Abstracts International does cover European universities but this coverage is limited.