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- 5. Google Scholar Something we subscribe to!
- 16. HeinOnline – the American Dream
- 21. Links to useful docs Campaigns Comment Links to analysis in online newspapers or blogs
Editor's Notes
- Google Scholar can sometimes up with little gems – e.g. search for legal aid, finds a lot of US stuff but on page 2 gets an article in Social Policy and Society The Audacity of Justice: Recession, Redundancy, Rights and Legal Aid (Pleasance and Balmer, 2010) wouldn’t be found on Westlaw index as not law journal.
- Filetype – pdf for reports, research papers. Ppt for presentations ~energy will search for energy, power, oil, gas, electricity or electric. Solar*panel allows for a few words in between
- Includes over 12,000 news sources, newspapers, newsletters, magazines and trade journals including over 450 International publications, with over 250 newswires updated continuously, many within minutes of publication. Usually need to narrow down in some way – more keywords, specify date etc. Do you want just national papers? Home office crime, policing, justice, immigration, drugs and race equality ILAG – has country reports
- Just searching for Legal Aid in the first box will bring back too much. What does Bob actually want – and what does he already know…
- He wants to know more about the history of LA and knows from reading online that the Rushcliffe committee was instrumental in setting up LA as it is, for now. Soooo… Def journals, subject Legal Aid, inlcding the word Rushcliffe. Number 8 looks good – a history up until 1994- provide some good history for Bob. But oh no! It is not available here!
- So – checked catalogue for Journal of Law and Society Remember that article Emily found reference to in Social Policy and Society (2010) – check if we have it… But what about the ones that we do NOT have.
- EG – IBSS, SCOPUS, WoK Drawing a blank? Try citation searching Search for articles that have cited older, seminal, works. Scopus and Web of Science – a whole session in itsself but if you want to know more feel free to ask me! Many databasess also allow you to scehdule
- Australian Bar Review, Journal of Family Law, Journal of Labour Law, Though the legal aid budget is large compared to other countries, it is not clear whether this is because of the adversarial nature of our law, and whether this is compensated by lower spending on courts and public prosecution. The budget has been kept constant in recent years, amounting to real terms cuts already.
- Search screen a little cumbersome - not as sophisticated as Lexis and Westlaw.
- Academic commentary via normal means slow.... Social media is the way forward. Blogging and twitter have filled the the gap where serious legal journalism left off (except Guardian, Times) Speedy analysis and critique of judgments, legislation, government papers etc
- Lots of reference management tools out there, We have an inst sub to refWorks – warnings – not so great wioth Law resources, but is useful to create a database – looks a bit clunky, and my own feeling is that it is a bit pants – which you can buy! Mendeley is my fave but there are other things too Zotero is popular but requires Firefox Or you could go Old Skool