Session Cases: Celebrating 200 years of Scotland’s prestigious law report series TAGS: awards | case report | law reports | online resources | postgraduate | research | scholarship | scottish | Training This year the Scottish Council of Law Reporting celebrates 200 years of publishing Session Cases, Scotland’s most authoritative law report series. From the SCLR website: The Session Cases law report series contains …Continue reading →

Three new things: Dissertations TAGS: databases | dissertation | ebooks | information skills | library services | online resources | research | resources | subject guide | tips | Training It’s around the time where many of our students will be planning and beginning the research for their dissertations. If you’re at the start of this journey and looking for …Continue reading →

Literature search clinics: one-to-one sessions TAGS: databases | information skills | library training | online resources | Referencing | research | resources | Training Do you need help with your research? Have you got yourself into a muddle using legal resources online? Do you just need to know what you need to know? Book …Continue reading →

New Resources TAGS: course materials | dissertation | ebooks | online resources | request | research | resources | update Throughout the year the Law Librarians purchase new materials – sometimes following requests, and other times to ensure that new editions of established and key texts are available to staff …Continue reading →

The problem with ebooks TAGS: course materials | dissertation | ebooks | Law libraries | library services | reading list | research | update Working and studying through the Coronavirus pandemic has meant that we’re more reliant on ebooks and other electronic resources than ever before. As much as we would have liked for …Continue reading →

Dissertation Festival: Monday 8th – Friday 19th March 2021 TAGS: dissertation | information skills | library services | library training | research | subject guide | tips Do you want to find out more about the library resources available to support your dissertation question? Are you interested in learning how to manage the bibliographic and research data …Continue reading →

Meet your LexisNexis Student Associate! TAGS: databases | informationskills | Legal databases | LexisLibrary | research | Training We’d like to introduce you to Sam Ingleton, one of your fellow students who is a specialist in working with LexisNexis and all their resources – such as the invaluable …Continue reading →

Referencing and Beyond Reading Lists TAGS: informationskills | library training | mediahopper | OSCOLA | reading list | Referencing | research | videos Last week the Law Librarians held a Referencing training session- focussing on OSCOLA! If you didn’t get a chance to come along then don’t worry as we will be uploading …Continue reading →

Dissertation Festival: 26th October – 6th November TAGS: dissertation | information skills | library services | research | subject guide Are you writing a dissertation this year? Do you want to find out more about the library resources available to support your dissertation? From the 26th October to the 6th …Continue reading →

January Journal Club : Supporting systematic review for researchers TAGS: health | research | Social science | students The first Journal Club of 2020 met on 8 January to talk about : Dalton, M., 2019. How individual consultations with a librarian can support systematic reviews in the social …Continue reading →