Free Academic Resources | Free Journals and Publications
Last edited: April 10, 2025
Below are the free electronic resources our Legal Policy Department regularly uses in policy research. Apart from the issuing institutions listed below and the Taiwan Open Access Journals platform, which provide open full texts, most academic journals are available only through paid electronic databases.
Journals and magazines
| # | Publication | Full text | Notes |
| Government agencies | |||
| 1 | Academia Sinica Law Journal | Academia Sinica | Full texts of its law monographs, law book series, and foreign-language publications are also available |
| 2 | Fair Trade Quarterly | Fair Trade Commission | |
| 3 | Parliament Quarterly | Legislative Yuan | |
| 4 | Bill assessment reports | Legislative Yuan Legal Affairs Bureau | Link is for the 11th term; reports for the 9th–10th terms are also on the site |
| 5 | Legislative issue analyses and special studies | Legislative Yuan Legal Affairs Bureau | Link is for the 11th term; reports for the 9th–10th terms are also on the site |
| 6 | National Parliament Library Newsletter | Legislative Yuan National Parliament Library | Focuses on foreign legislative developments and book introductions |
| 7 | Judicial Weekly | Judicial Yuan | A selected essays supplement is also available |
| 8 | Journal of Criminal Policy and Crime Prevention Research | Crime Prevention Research Center, Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice | |
| 9 | Judicial Aspirations | Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice | |
| 10 | Clean Stream Bimonthly | Investigation Bureau, Ministry of Justice | |
| 11 | Police Torch Magazine | National Police Agency | |
| 12 | Gender Equity Education Quarterly | Ministry of Education | |
| 13 | Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Law Journal | Council of Indigenous Peoples | Not updated since November 2021 |
| 14 | Supreme Prosecutors Office Monthly | Supreme Prosecutors Office | |
| 15 | Criminal Investigation Bimonthly | Criminal Investigation Bureau, National Police Agency | Since February 2021 it has become an internal publication; print and electronic versions are no longer made available to the public on the official site |
| 16 | Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy | Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica | |
| 17 | NEWS Quarterly | National Communications Commission | |
| 18 | Periodical literature information network | National Central Library | Some articles can be downloaded directly as full-text PDFs |
| Academic institutions | |||
| 1 | NTU Law Review | Taiwan Open Access Journals platform | A different journal from the National Taiwan University Law Journal, which does not currently provide free full texts |
| 2 | Chung Yuan Financial & Economic Law Review | Chung Yuan Financial & Economic Law Review | |
| 3 | Hwa Kang Law Review | College of Law, Chinese Culture University | |
| 4 | Journal of National Development Studies | Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University | |
| 5 | National University of Kaohsiung Law Journal | College of Law, National University of Kaohsiung | |
| 6 | Taiwan Criminology | Graduate School of Criminology, National Taipei University | Formerly Research in Crime and Criminal Justice and the Journal of Criminology (ROC) |
| 7 | Taiwan International Law Journal | Taiwan Society of International Law | |
| 8 | Providence Law Review | Department of Law, Providence University | |
| 9 | NCKU Law Review | Taiwan Open Access Journals platform | |
| 10 | Legal History Studies | Chinese Legal History Society | |
| 11 | Chengchi Law Review | College of Law, National Chengchi University | Full texts online except for the latest issue |
| 12 | Taiwan Human Rights Journal | Chang Fo-chuan Center for the Study of Human Rights, Soochow University | |
| Civil society organizations | |||
| 1 | Judicial Reform Magazine | Judicial Reform Foundation | Discontinued |
| 2 | Prosecutors Association Newsletter | Taiwan Association of Prosecutors | |
| 3 | Legal Aid and Society | Legal Aid Foundation | |
| 4 | Taiwan Bar Journal | Taiwan Bar Association | |
| 5 | Dissent Law Tide | Taipei Bar Association | |
| 6 | Lawyer Magazine | Taipei Bar Association | |
| 7 | Congress Watch Quarterly | Citizen Congress Watch | |
| 8 | Patent Attorney | Taiwan Patent Attorneys Association | |
Other full-text electronic materials
| # | Name | Full text | Notes |
| 1 | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan | National Central Library | |
| 2 | Academic research projects of the Crime Prevention Research Center | Crime Prevention Research Center, Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice | |
| 3 | Crime conditions and analysis | Crime Prevention Research Center, Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice | |
| 5 | Collected papers on criminal policy and crime research | Crime Prevention Research Center, Academy for the Judiciary, Ministry of Justice | |
| 6 | Judicial Yuan electronic publications (special research reports, study-abroad reports, etc.) | Judicial Yuan electronic publications search system | |
| 7 | Compilation of Supreme Court judgments | Supreme Court | |
| 8 | Compilation of Supreme Court Grand Chamber rulings unifying legal opinions | Supreme Court | |
| 9 | Written opinions of prosecutors, defense counsel, and scholars before the Supreme Court Grand Chamber | Supreme Court | |
| 10 | Supreme Court judgments of reference value | Supreme Court | |
| 11 | Supreme Court meeting resolutions and judicial precedents | Supreme Court | |
| 12 | Selected judgments of the Supreme Administrative Court | Supreme Administrative Court | |
| 13 | Compilation of judgments under the Supreme Administrative Court Grand Chamber system | Supreme Administrative Court | |
| 14 | Supreme Administrative Court joint meeting resolutions | Supreme Administrative Court | |
| 15 | Legal affairs research projects and results | Ministry of Justice | |
| 16 | Ministry of Justice e-books | Ministry of Justice | |
| 17 | Taiwan legal affairs statistical compilations | Taiwan High Prosecutors Office | |
| 18 | Interpretive letters on the Attorney Ethics Rules over the years | Taiwan Bar Association | |
| 19 | Article-by-article commentary on the Attorney Ethics Rules | Taiwan Bar Association | |
| 20 | Selected attorney disciplinary cases | Taiwan Bar Association | |
| 21 | LEE AND LI BULLETIN | Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law | |
| 22 | Government overseas mission report network (legal affairs) | Government overseas mission report network | |
| 23 | Research projects commissioned by government agencies | Government Research Bulletin |  indicates full text is published. Under "Research field," check "Law" to search. |