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HSC Legal Studies

HSC Legal Studies. Legal Studies resources on the internet – HSC and Preliminary. In this session you will learn about: Online databases you can use to locate media reports HSC Legal Studies guides – great launching pads

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HSC Legal Studies

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  1. HSC Legal Studies

  2. Legal Studies resources on the internet – HSC and Preliminary In this session you will learn about: • Online databases you can use to locate media reports • HSC Legal Studies guides – great launching pads • HSC Legal Studies blog – keeping up to date with recent changes to the law • LIAC Crime Library – excellent resource for locating cases

  3. Learning outcomes

  4. Students and teachers need: • Legislation • Cases • Media reports • Magazine and journal articles • International instruments • Readable and understandable • Current • Accurate

  5. www.legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au

  6. Access to databases including: Informit Online Law – includes: • AGISPlus • Cinch • Family Oxford Reference Online - includes: • Australian Law Dictionary • Encyclopaedia of International Law • Oxford Companion to Law Proquest ANZ Newsstand – full text newspaper articles

  7. Benefits of online databases Provide you with: • access to additional information on the topic you are researching – definitions and other background information • full text media reports • full text magazine and journal articles using them will develop useful research skills for Year 12 and uni

  8. Demonstrating logging into databases Don’t set password – leave blank

  9. If you have a password and you have forgotten it:

  10. Demonstrating logging into databases Don’t set password – leave blank

  11. Deep link to article

  12. Key tips • Bookmark or make this page a favourite on your computer • Great launching pad for each syllabus topic area for finding key information • Before your next class – practice using your library card to access these databases

  13. Demonstrating logging into databases Don’t set password – leave blank

  14. Conclusion You now have a strategy and place to find information for HSC Legal Studies • Research guides for each topic area • HSC Legal Studies:Newswatch Blog • State Library databases for newspaper articles and magazine articles • www.legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au

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