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Subject Resource Guide for Law

Finding Information

A useful place to start your research is to use legal dictionaries and encyclopaedias to provide definitions, and help you to understand the terminology. Check the Law Reference Collection in the Law Library.

Law resource guide
Getting started on your law assignment
Quick guide to finding Commentary
Quick guide to finding Legislation
Quick guide to finding Case Law

Research Tools

Law Library shelf location:
law journals K1
jurisprudence KA
international law KC
common law primary materials KF-KH

Subject searching in NEWCAT try:
comparative law
criminal law family law
jurisprudence
native title

Keywords:
family law
law and australia
law terminology

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Finding Journal Articles and Law Reports

A number of the online databases to which the Library subscribes include full text articles and full text Law Reports. For articles or reports not found in those databases, you must search the Library catalogue to find if the Library has these journal titles.

Journal Databases
Links to Law Reports and Legislation
Journal titles and Law Reports are abbreviated in citations. The abbreviations can be identified by using an abbreviation list:

Common Legal Abbreviations

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The Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC2)

Online Databases

CCH Online
Hein Online
Informit Law
Justis
Legal Online
Legal Periodicals Fulltext
LexisNexis AU
TimeBase LawOne
>>more online databases

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Contact

Lindsey Fratus
Law Librarian,
Auchmuty Library
Ph: 02-49218627; Fax: 02-49215833
Email: Lindsey.Fratus@newcastle.edu.au

Fiona Neville
Client Services Librarian
Ourimbah Library
Ph: 02-43484211; Fax: 02-43484215
Email: Fiona.Neville@newcastle.edu.au

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