New books and eBooks for law
The Library have been buying new books and eBooks for law throughout the year. Now that we are all working online more, we have concentrated on buying eBooks where possible. We have added...
Tagged: Law
Box of Broadcasts help videos
How are you getting on with using Box of Broadcasts? Isn’t it a brilliant resource?! For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet, Box of Broadcasts (often know as BoB) is an on-demand TV &...
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) update for UoS students overseas
Box of Broadcasts provides on demand tv and radio. Usually it is only available inside of the UK but as part of Learning on Screen's Covid response international students who are enrolled at UK...
Doctoral research
Sunderland University Library has a wealth of resources to support you during your doctoral studies. Check out our recent blog post for new students which highlights key ways in which we do this.
The Wayback Machine: a free tool for fact checking and internet research
How many times have you clicked on a link or reference, only to get the message that the webpage no longer exists? This phenomenon, which is called ‘link rot‘ or ‘content drift‘ can be...
UK Human Rights Blog
The UK Human Rights Blog is a topical and accessible legal blog. The frequent posts make excellent reading for law students wishing to stay informed about current issues. “The UK Human Rights Blog aims...
Free webinars for PhD students
Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...
Ebook error on Library Catalogue – what does it mean?
The Library have received some reports from students about an error message when accessing ebooks on the Library Catalogue. Unfortunately you may see this error message when accessing a book on our Catalogue if...
Westlaw: express tips for research assignments
Westlaw UK have produced a short guide of ‘express tips’ which will be useful when you are using Westlaw to do research for assignments, dissertations and exams. Westlaw Express Tips
Accessing Halsbury’s Laws of England online
Halsbury’s Laws of England is an authoritative encyclopaedia of the law in England and Wales, and is a great place to start researching legal areas that are new to you. Halsbury’s Laws of England...
Referencing using OSCOLA
Being able to accurately cite the source you have used in your work is an important academic skill. Citing correctly: Provides the relevant legal authority to support your work Enables the reader to find...
Find Law print textbooks in the library using the shelfmark
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is the classification system we use to arrange books on our library shelves by subject. DDC gives each subject area a number and these are displayed on spine labels on...
Make the most of legal databases
Achieving basic certification for legal databases (LexisLibrary, Westlaw UK and JustisOne) will give you a head start in making the most of these databases for your studies, and they also make a valuable addition...
Get started with legal research
All research involves a lot of searching and reading, and you should expect to have to read quite a lot before finding what you’re looking for. So don’t despair if you can’t immediately find...
How to use Newsstream for newspaper research
There are many reasons you might need to do research in a newspaper archive. You might be interested in how an event was reported in London vs Glasgow vs New York. You might be...