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
•HSC Legal Studies blog – keeping up to date with
recent changes to the law
•LIAC Crime Library – excellent resource for locating
cases
Learning outcomes
Students and teachers need:
•Legislation
•Cases
•Media reports:
–Newspaper articles
–Magazine and journal articles
•International instruments and documents
–Readable and understandable
–Current
–Accurate
www.legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au
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
Demonstrating logging into databases
If you have a password and you have
forgotten it:
Not in this box
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
Law reform in action – other topics?
type in kathleen folbigg and
murder and trial
Demonstrating logging into databases
Don’t set password – leave blank
Citing legislation
Legislation:
–Name of act, year, jurisdiction example:
Crimes Act 1900 NSW s 18
Citing cases
Cases
•Criminal – R or the Crown v the name of the
offender, year, court, number of case for that
year,
•Civil – name of each party
Other databases
Tip – for each topic you can find more
–Use eResources & media
reports tab
to find out more – will give you links
to all the databases.
This tab is on all research guides
Any questions?
Key tips
•Bookmark our HSC Legal Studies page
•Great launching pad for each syllabus topic area for
finding key information – each time you start a new part
of the syllabus, look at the guide for this section of
syllabus and browse each tab to see what information
you can find
•Before your next class – practice using your library
card to access these databases
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