740 likes | 850 Views
HSC Legal Studies at the State Library 2013 . 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 and other reference material HSC Legal Studies guides – great launching pads
E N D
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 and other reference material • 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
Students and teachers need: • Legislation • Cases • Media reports: • Newspaper articles • Magazine and journal articles • International instruments and documents • Readable and understandable • Current • Accurate
Benefits of online databases Provide you with: • access to additional information on the topic you are researching – definitions and other background information • full text newspaper articles • full text magazine and journal articles using them will develop useful research skills for Year 12 and uni
Citation of your article very important – this will give you all the details you need: • Author • Title of article • Name of journal, year, volume number and page references • Deep link to the article so you can return to the article at a later time.
Demonstrating logging into databases Don’t set password – leave blank