Secondary Sources

Welcome to the second module of the Law Online Tutorial. This module focuses on secondary sources of information for legal research including legal encyclopaedias, dictionaries and journal articles.

This module is designed to help you:

• create effective search strategies
• learn about Boolean operators, truncation and proximity searching
• browse and search legal dictionaries and encyclopaedias
• learn about journal articles and key databases
• locate and use looseleaf services
• find books using the catalogue
• locate law reform commission resources
• locate news and newspaper content.