Reminder That No One Database Offers All the Canadian Law Journals You Need

The law library at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in Montreal has published a useful reminder that no single online source or database provides access to all the major Canadian law journals.

This is an important issue when training new employees in legal research. 

My experience is that many researchers become used to searching in one or maybe two online tools when looking for commentary, forgetting that no platform provides anything close to comprehensive coverage. 

Discovery tools are useful but the content of some major databases with collections of Canadian law journals is not indexed in discovery.

UQAM librarians created a table of Canadian law journals indicating which ones are covered in CanLII, Lexis Advance Quicklaw, Westlaw Canada and HeinOnline along with the years of coverage for each journal.