Other Resources
- Cabinet Office Papers This link opens in a new windowThe Cabinet Office papers are a major contemporary source for British political history, and you can now search and download these free of charge. The Cabinet Office was created in December 1916 although The National Archives holds series of original documents which include earlier material about the Cabinet.
- Cabinet Papers 1915-1982Digitised collection from the National Archives.
- National Archives This link opens in a new windowThe National Register of Archives is the official archive for England, Wales and the central UK government, containing 900 years of history from Domesday Book to the present, with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to recently created digital files and archived websites. Increasingly, these records are being put online, making them universally accessible.
- Scottish Parliament This link opens in a new windowThe official website of the Scottish Parliament.
Statistics on various subjects can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/
- UK Government Web Archive (National Archives)This National Archives website captures, preserves, and maks accessible UK central government information published on the web. The web archive includes videos, tweets, and websites dating from 1996 to present.
- Official Publications Online This link opens in a new windowOPO is the official catalogue of UK official publications from the Stationery Office since 1980.
- Democracy LiveDemocracy Live is the BBC's new website which offers live and on demand video coverage of the UK's national political institutions and the European Parliament. Alongside the video are guides to how the different institutions work and who sits in them. Democracy Live covers the main chambers of the House of Commons, House of Lords, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Assembly and full sittings of the European Parliament. Westminster Hall and Select Committees at Westminster are also covered. When there is no business in the main chambers in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff, committee meetings are covered.
- European Union Legal Database EUR-Lex This link opens in a new windowEUR-Lex provides single entry point to the complete collections of EU legal texts, including CELEX, PreLex, Oeil, and other sources. It has separate search pages for the Official Journal, Treaties, Legislation, Legislation in Preparation, Case-Law, and Documents of Public Interest.
- EUROPA - European Union This link opens in a new windowEuropa.eu is the official website of the European Union. It is a good starting point if you are looking for information and services provided by the EU but you don't know your way around our sites.
- European Court of Human RightsInformation from the European Court of Human Rights.
- European Sources Online This link opens in a new windowAn information service that focuses on the European Union, the countries of Europe and on issues of concern to citizens and stakeholders in the Europe of today.
- Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) This link opens in a new windowCanLII is a non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. CanLII's goal is to make Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.
- Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) This link opens in a new windowThe Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) aims to provide one central Internet location from which it is possible to search - for free - core legal information from all Commonwealth countries.
- ECOLEXECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.
Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law .
- Fedstats This link opens in a new windowFedStats, which has been available to the public since 1997, provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic. With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more, FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information.
- The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)SAFLII, the South African Legal Information Institute, is an online repository of legal information, e.g. case law and legislation, from South Africa. It aims to promote the rule of law and judicial accountability by publishing legal material for open access in line with the objectives of the global free Access to Law movement.
- World Bank This link opens in a new windowThe mission of the World Bank is to help to reduce poverty. The organizations that make up the World Bank Group are owned by the governments of member nations, which have the ultimate decision-making power within the organizations on all matters, including policy issues.
Many statistical reports are available from this website,
- Irish Parliament - Houses of the OireachtasIncludes Official Parliamentary debates of Dail, Seanad and Committee Debates from 1919 and Legislation from 1922 to 2007. Includes Acts of the Oireachtas in Irish and English; Bills as initiated, as amended, and as passed; Explanatory Memoranda; Links to Debates on Bills; Amendment Lists.
- World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)WorldLII provides a single search facility for databases located on the following Legal Information Institutes: AustLII; BAILII; CanLII; HKLII; LII (Cornell); and PacLII. It also includes databases of decisions of international Courts and Tribunals, databases from a number of Asian countries, and databases from South Africa.
- The African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII)AfricanLII convenes a network of 16 African LIIs - a collaborative group of organizations and individuals in Africa, dedicated to free access to law on our continent. It also provide a Pan-African legal search engine, and host regional legal materials for free access.
- The Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)AsianLII provides for searching and browsing databases of legislation, case-law, law reform reports, law journals and other legal information, where available, from each country in the region.
- American Society of International Law (EISIL)EISIL has been designed as an open database of authenticated primary and other materials across the breadth of international law.
- FLARE Index to Treaties This link opens in a new windowThe Flare Index to Treaties, hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, contains details of over 1,500 of the most significant multilateral treaties concluded from 1856 to the present. It is searchable by keywords, date and place.
- International Court of Justice This link opens in a new windowThe Court is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It was established by the United Nations Charter, signed in 1945 at San Francisco (United States), and began work in 1946 in the Peace Palace, The Hague (Netherlands).
- NATONATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. NATO’s purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowOECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 - currently.
- OECD iLibrary Economics This link opens in a new windowOECD iLibrary Economics brings together in a single subscription all the core economic data and analysis available from the OECD, in PDF format as well as in interactive database format when available.
- OECD iLibrary Education and Skills This link opens in a new windowOECD iLibrary Education brings together in a single subscription all the core education data and analysis available from the OECD, in PDF format as well as in interactive database format when available.
- OECD iLibrary Environment & Sustainable Development This link opens in a new windowOECD iLibrary Environment and Sustainable Development brings together in a single subscription core data and analysis in this subject available from the OECD, in PDF format as well as in interactive database format when available.
- OECD iLibrary Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers This link opens in a new windowOECD iLibrary Agriculture and Food brings together in a single subscription all the core agricultural data and analysis available from the OECD, in PDF format as well as in interactive database format when available
- OECD iLibrary Social Issues/Migration/Health This link opens in a new windowOECD iLibrary Social Issues/Migration/Health brings together in a single subscription core data and analysis in these subjects available from the OECD, in PDF format as well as in interactive database format when available.
- OECD iLibrary Urban, Rural & Regional Development This link opens in a new windowOECD's work on territorial issues contributes toward clarifying the new relationships between private and public decision-making at different levels of government.
- United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) This link opens in a new windowThe Department for Business, Innovation and Skills publish a range of National and Official Statistics; topics include:
• Further and Higher Education
• Building materials
• Construction prices and costs
• Economic performance and employment
• Business population
• Innovation
• Trade Union Membership
- World Trade Organization (WTO)The World Trade Organization (WTO) deals with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.
