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How to find a Journal in the Law Library

If Journal Title Is Known	Common Legal Abbreviations
If Abbreviation Is Known	Moys Classification Scheme

Reference School of Law material using theAustralian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC2) , by Melbourne University.View or download AGLC2 here.

Searching for a journal by title

Law journals in the Auchmuty Library are arranged by a K1 call number e.g. Australian Bar Review = K1 AUST-B. To locate a journal on the shelf find out its call number by searching for the journal title, not the article title, in the catalogue NEWCAT

Choose JOURNAL TITLE and search for the first words of the title, the first 2 or 3 words is usually enough (Words in the title must be spelled out in full - no abbreviations).

Select the desired entry, multiple entries may represent printed, electronic or microfilm versions of the journal, and note the location, call number and library holdings.

NEWCAT provides information about the 'latest issue received' of a journal title, and the expected date of arrival for the next issue.

If a journal is not in the catalogue, you can contact Interlibrary Services about the cost of having an article delivered or, if you are a staff member or postgraduate student, you can register for Get It.

Expanding journal title abbreviations

Citations commonly abbreviate journal titles, you need to find out what that abbreviation means. In a large collection like ours a wrong guess may be the title of a journal, just not the one you want.

Check for an abbreviations list in the publication your reference comes from.

Locate a published list of legal abbreviations on the Law Reference shelves; around RK112

Check the law library's common legal abbreviations for journals and law reports, along with their call numbers.
Two more good sources of legal abbreviations are Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations , which has good international coverage, or Monash University Library Legal Abbreviations for a more comprehensive list of Australian abbreviations

The Moys Classification Scheme

Below is a brief summary of the subject areas within the Moys Classification Scheme, as used in the Auchmuty Law Library.The table below also gives a comparison to where a book would be classified using the Dewey Decimal System (as used in the rest of the library).

Click on the links below, you will be taken directly to the subject area of Moys you require.

K - Journals & Reference Books: bibliographies, legal writing, dictionaries, abbreviations

KA - Jurisprudence

KB - General and Comparative Law: biographies, memoirs

KC - International Law

KC - Public International Law: human rights, social laws

KD - Religious Legal Systems

KE - Ancient & Medieval Law

KF-KN Common Law: treatises

KM - Public Law: constitutional, administrative, criminal

KN - Private Law: contract, tort, property, equity, commercial, maritime, procedure

KP-KW - Other Modern Legal Systems

KZ - Non-Legal subjects

K	JOURNALS & REFERENCE BOOKS	340
K1	Journals	.01
29-79	Bibliographies	.08-04
80-90	Law Libraries, law librarianship	.05
100-107	Legal writing, legal publishing	.06
110-114	Abbreviations Indexes	.07
120-126	Law Dictionaries	.08
150-180	Directories	.09
200	Maps, etc.	.099
KA	JURISPRUDENCE	340.1
KB	GENERAL & COMPARATIVE LAW	340
10-22	Biographies, Memoirs etc…	.31-35
30-35	Legal miscellany	.37
40-66	Popular accounts	.4
100-250	Comparative law	.5-6
KC	INTERNATIONAL LAW	341
10-65	Primary materials	.11-16
71-76	Reference materials	.17
80-86	General works	.19
KC	PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW	341
100-136	General, history, theory, etc.	.2-23
140-199	The state	.24-31
200-208	Human rights	.33
210-219	International criminal law	.35-39
220-239	International economic law	.4-43
240-242	Social laws	.44
245	Nuclear energy	.448
250-259	Transport, communications	.45-46
260-277	International maritime law	.47-48
280-284	Outer space	.49
300-339	International relations, diplomacy, treaties	.5
340-1199	International organisations	.6
1200-1319	International disputes, courts, etc.	.7
1350-1425	War	.8
2000-2150	Conflict of laws	.9
KD	RELIGIOUS LEGAL SYSTEMS	342
10-39	General	.1
60-890	Jewish law	.2
100-590	Christian churches	.3-6
600-680	Islamic law	.7
700-780	Hindu law	.8
800-980	Others	.9
KE	ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL LAW	343
5-20	General	.1
21-29	Ancient Near East	.2
30-95	Hellenistic law	.3
100-250	Roman law	.4
251-300	Byzantine law	.5
310-340	Other ancient European Systems	.6
350-380	Medieval and Pre-Napoleonic European Law	.7
400-480	Roman-Dutch law	.8
500-540	Others	.9
KF-KN	COMMON LAW	344-347
	Primary Materials	344
KF	British Isles
KG	Canada, US, West Indies
KH	Australia, New Zealand
	Treatises
KL	General	345
1-36	Legal system	.1
40-44	Legal dictionaries and encyclopedias	.03
50-119	Legal Profession	.06
130-149	Legal education	.07
155-179	Legal research, law reform	.08
200-319	Administration of justice	.2-7
400-480	Legal history	.8-9
KM	PUBLIC LAW	346
1-29	General	.01
	Constitutional & Administrative Law
31-141	General	.1-2
171-259	Citizens, government	.3
300-307	Administrative law	.4
331-359	Public finance, taxation	.5
361-391	Local Government	.6
400-416	Military law	.7
	Criminal law and procedure
500-565	General, crimes	.8
570-690	Criminal procedure, law enforcement	.9
KN	PRIVATE LAW	347
(1)-(4)	Conflict of laws (alternative)	(.1-4)
10-25	Contract, agency	.1
30-39	Tort	.2
	Property
50-58	General	.301-305
60-98	Real property	.31-35
100-118	Personal property	.36-37
120-143	Inheritance and succession	.38-39
150-198	Persons and social laws	.4
200-235	Equity	.5
	Commercial law	.6-8
250-256	General, trade, etc.	.605-619
260-275	Business associations,industries	.62-64
280-287	Sale of goods	.65-67
290-295	Insurance	.68-69
300.315	Finance	.7
320-329	Transport (non-maritime)	.81-82
330-339	Maritime law	.83
340-349	Communications, computer law	.84-89
350-399	Procedure (general & civil)	.9
KP-KW	OTHER MODERN LEGAL SYSTEMS
KP	Preferred jurisdiction	348
KR	Africa	349.6
KS	Latin America	349.8
KT	Asia & Pacific	349.5
KV	Europe	349.4
KW	European Community
KZ	NON-LEGAL SUBJECTS