Health Care Law: Journal Literature

Medical Journals & Databases

Medline

LexisNexis and Westlaw: Full Text Journals

Boston University Electronic Journals

  • Mugar Library maintains a list of full text Electronic Journals at the Boston University libraries. The list includes dates of coverage, which may be greater than what is available on LexisNexis, Westlaw, and the Internet. Many journals are available in PDF format.
  • Science Direct provides PDF access to articles from over 1,800 journals, emphasizing the hard sciences. Some journals have full coverage, and most are available to the most recent issues.

Law Journals & Databases

While there are numerous journals which specialize in law and health case issues, a search in general law review and law journal literature will uncover relevant articles in those sources as well as in general legal periodicals.

Health Law/Health Care Law Journals Full Text

General Law Journals Full Text

  • LexisNexis: Law Reviews, Combined
  • Westlaw: JLR
  • HeinOnline contains PDF articles of journals from their earliest volumes. Some journals have full coverage from the earliest issues to within the last 1-2 years.

Legal Periodical Indexes

Occasionally, you will need to research beyond what is available full text on LexisNexis, Westlaw, or HeinOnline. The following resources can be used to obtain citations to book chapters, law journals, and legal Newspapers.

  • Current Law Index
    PRINT: Law Indexes K 33 C87
    ONLINE: LegalTrac

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Last updated: January 2009