Year 11 Legal Studies Research Strategies
May 10, 2015
Year 11 Legal StudiesResearch Strategies
Places to Visit Terrace Library website Terrace library catalogue Databases Weblinks Google Scholar State Library of Queensland – eresources Referencing Bibliography
What will I learn? Where to find specialist legal
information How to identify quality web sources How to search in a database How to select keywords and use search
operators Following information links on Terrace
Library website
Why Not Google?
What are databases?
A database is a collection of data that is organized so that its contents can easily be accessed.
Databases
Which databases would be useful? Elibrary Questia The Conversation
Terrace database - elibrary
Select Australasian Documents Only
Terrace database - Questia
Select Law > Criminal Law> Criminal Sentencing
Terrace databases – The Conversation Opinion pieces
Google Scholar
NB: Case Law has American content
State Library of QLD - Austlii
Use keywords from your case details – provides similar precedents
State Library of QLD - CINCH
Use keywords from your case details – provides journal articles on topic
State Library of QLD – Halsbury’s Laws of Australia
Use keywords from your case details – provides relevant criminal code on topic