Year 11 Legal StudiesResearch Strategies

Places to Visit Terrace Library website Terrace library catalogue Databases Weblinks Google Scholar State Library of Queensland – eresources Referencing Bibliography

What will I learn? Where to find specialist legal

information How to identify quality web sources How to search in a database How to select keywords and use search

operators Following information links on Terrace

Library website

Why Not Google?

What are databases?

A database is a collection of data that is organized so that its contents can easily be accessed.

Databases

Which databases would be useful? Elibrary Questia The Conversation

Terrace database - elibrary

Select Australasian Documents Only

Terrace database - Questia

Select Law > Criminal Law> Criminal Sentencing

Terrace databases – The Conversation Opinion pieces

Google Scholar

NB: Case Law has American content

State Library of QLD - Austlii

Use keywords from your case details – provides similar precedents

State Library of QLD - CINCH

Use keywords from your case details – provides journal articles on topic

State Library of QLD – Halsbury’s Laws of Australia

Use keywords from your case details – provides relevant criminal code on topic