Your Subject Librarian
Your Senior Information Assistants
Stefanie McDade
Based at: Law Library
Supports: students
Working days: Thu, Fri
News databases
- FactivaAccess to international newspapers, trade publications, magazines and websites in over 23 languages, including Chinese simplified and Arabic. Particularly useful for business and industry news and information.
- Nexis UKDatabase with access to over 12,000 news sources, newspapers, newsletters, magazines and trade journals including over 450 international publications, with over 250 newswires updated continuously.
- Press ReaderThe world’s largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk, providing full content digital replicas of more than 2300 titles from 97 countries in 54 languages. PressDisplay presents content as a full digital replica, which allows users to view newspapers and magazines on-screen exactly as they would see in a print edition.
FT.Com
We have a subscription to the FT.com website, giving you access to all of the site including apps for phones and tablets, up-to-date news and information, and all the FT's articles.
FT.com gives access to the daily news focusing on international business and economics. It also provides access to company and market data as well as the FT ePaper, which is the digital replica of the Financial Times printed newspaper from different countries including UK, Asia and USA.
Sign up with your City email address. Further assistance is available from the Library Help Desk.
Current affairs
- Current Awareness from Inner TempleView Inner Temple Library's current awareness feed for the latest legal news.
- The EconomistThe Economist Online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. The website publishes all articles from The Economist print edition (including those printed only in British copies) and maintains a searchable online archive that dates back to June 1997.
- Factiva
Offers full text from a range of sources including international newspapers, trade publications and magazines. Many titles have a 20 year archive and content is updated daily, making it useful for business, industry news and reports.
- Foreign AffairsJournal covering international politics and other issues.
- Guardian LawThe law section of the Guardian website, including the latest legal news and opinions.
- Law in ActionLaw in Action's is a BBC Radio 4 series offering analysis of legal stories.
- Legal Journals and NewslettersYou should keep up to date with legal publications, e.g. Counsel, Family Law Week, Criminal Law Review. Many of these titles are available in hardcopy in the Library and also online through the Library's databases. Lexis+ and Westlaw both allow you to set up alerts for recent articles on a particular subject.
- NewsnightNewsnight is a weekday BBC Television current affairs programme.
- Nexis UK
Full-text coverage of national, regional and international news from a range of sources including newswires. Updated daily and with many titles having a 20 year archive, useful for current affairs and seeing how topics have been reported.
- Practical Law current awareness RSS feedsRSS feeds with the latest news from a large range of legal sectors.
- PressReader
Provides digital access to thousands of newspapers and magazines from around the world. You can browse entire editions making it useful for studying page layout etc.
- Recent CasesYou can search Westlaw and Lexis+ for recent cases in a practice area, and also look at their Current Awareness sections for recent developments.
- X (formally Twitter)Many practitioners, commentators and professional organisations have X (formally Twitter) accounts. Even if you do not tweet it can be useful to have an account in order to keep up to date.
- Practical LawUp to date current awareness in its monthly PLC Magazine
- Law Society Junior SolicitorsThe Junior Solicitors Network, the community for solicitor apprentices, LPC/SPP students, LPC/SPP graduates, trainee solicitors and solicitors up to five years' qualified.
- The LawyerLegal guides, white papers and thought leadership from The Lawyer’s third-party contributors, plus a curated top legal briefings of the week. You need to register to read the Briefings and to receive alerts, which is free.
- Roll on FridayA British website designed for and used by those involved in the legal profession, from law students to qualified solicitors and barristers including Queen's Counsel. Its readership includes journalists and others from outside the profession, as well as a large number of practising lawyers.
- Legal CheekNews, market insight and legal careers section
- Legal Women UKA magazine for all UK women in law and legal services, providing networking, resources and events to encourage and support.