For members of Oxford University who hold a current OSS Oxford Single Sign On username and password

1. Help for students and faculty of Oxford University
with a current Oxford Single Sign On username and
password
De Jure: Italian legislation, cases
& journal articles

2. Password + Limited Licence
 Even when on OU network/domain/vpn needs
special username and password (NOT OSS)
 Log into Weblearn page to find out what it is
(link on BLL page & OxLIP+)
 We only have a subscription to part of a
larger database
 When you have finished your session, please
click ESCI

3. BLL webpage link to Weblearn

4. OxLIP+ - gold key leads to Weblearn

5. Weblearn: long abc list

7. Don’t be put off: try again

8. Note: sub is to only parts of db

9. My Page
 Is not one person’s but
for the account
 History of past searches
– all users not just you
(beware of Elimina!!)
 If you want to email
results out, be sure to
change the address to
your own
 Alerting/monitoraggio
- untested by me

10. To get to better search screens

11. Basic search screen

12. Giurisprudenza
 Massime “amplissima selezione” from 1979 on
 On results screen look out for correlazioni
legislative e dottrinali e alle Coordinate del
diritto (to right) – first 5 are obvious, click
visualizza successivi for more…
 Sentenze della Cass. Civile all published1986
on, from 2006 include “unreported”
 S d Cass Penale all published from 1995, 2006
 S d Corte Costitutionale all since 1956
 EU and ECtHR

13. Fonti Normative
 5 sources
1. Legislazione nazionale – vigente & testo in
GU
2. Legislazione regionale
3. Codici
4. Legislazione Europea
5. Prassi 1992 on

14. Other sections
Dottrina
 Commentary published in
Giuffre’s legal periodicals
since 1995
 We will look at separate
Journals library later on
Bibliografia
 Details of c200,000 law
books & journals printed
since 1979

15. Searching tips
 Boolean: AND, OR, NOT + ( )
 ADJ (adiacente, contiguo – dopo o prima)
 NEAR (vicino – prima o dopo, entro n
termini) e.g. NEAR5
 THEN (dopo, poi, entro n termini) e.g.
THEN3
 Caratteri jolly * (to extend root word),?(for
one letter) e.g. istig* - istigato, istigazione etc
 Abbreviations with or without punctuation
e.g. USA or U.S.A.

16. Search warning..
 Manual says you should be able to use
BOOLEAN “” to set exact phrase “frase
esatta”
 but this doesn’t always seem to work

17. Simple search screen

19. Tools & functions

20. Advanced search screens: for each
section

21. Case law search: top half

22. Case law: foot of page

24. Latest developments

25. To get to journal library: first …

26. Then: Le mie riviste

27. Le mie riviste= about 40jjs ex
c2004on

28. To browse journal – click title

29. LATEST
ISSUE

31. Archivio rivista = drill down from year to issue. Full text of
whole volumes but only from early 2000s onwards

32. Basic search e.g. Stipul! NEAR5 contratto

33. Improving results
 Snippet view - Grafica  Reordering results
(default is date newest)

34. Refining results

35. Better search screen

36. Ricerca
per
Estremi
Search
Screen
–once
you
select
title(s)
then
you can
put in
citation
details

37. To download or email first use
Appunta

38. Appunta: saves in Documenti
appuntati
Tools in My Page – Documenti
appuntati – printing, emailing,
downloading

39. Select then Download: Esporta

40. Select then send Invia
Remember to
change the default
email to your own!
You can change
format to pdf

41. Search history: Ultime 20 ricerche
THINK BEFORE
ELIMINA – are the
searches only yours?
You cannot pick &
choose ….

42. When you have finished
 Please remember to log out using
the formal
ESCI link (near top right of web
page) rather than just closing
brower/window