The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a collaborative database of research papers set up to encourage the early distribution of research results. It has far more recent content than the big commercial law journal databases.
SSRN's content is divided into Subject Area Networks. The Network for law is called the Legal Scholarship Network. Once you have registered you can sign up for alerts for papers in different subject areas.
There are over 100 law e-journals on every conceivable legal topic. Note that you cannot create alerts for saved searches on SSRN, and the e-journals are on broad topics rather than your specific research query.
Some journals are free, but many require an institutional subscription. So make sure you subscribe to the e-journals on SSRN via our University subscription rather than going directly to SSRN, so that SSRN recognises you as a University of Melbourne student/staff with full access to the journals.
For more information and how to subscribe on the SSRN Legal Scholarship Network journal alerts help web page.
You will receive your subscribed e-journals via email - the email will include citations and abstracts, with links to the full-text articles. You will receive your subscribed e-journals via email - the email will include citations and abstracts, with links to the full-text articles.