Useful guides to Case law

OZCase

“The OzCase Project is an initiative of the Queensland University of Technology Law Library Manager. Based on the successful Case Project in the United Kingdom, permission was given by Case to utilise their ideas and formats to develop a similar Collection Collaboration within the Universities, Government Departments and Private Legal firms within South East Queensland.
The OzCase Project aims to evaluate and document the feasibility of improving library and information support for law researchers in the South East Queensland region.”

Case Law & Courts Australia

This part of the Walter Harrison Law Library guides to legal resources. It provides a comprehensive listing of Australian Commonwealth and State eResources

Courts & Case Law

This site is maintained by the State Library of Queensland and provides links to International, Canadian, UK and USA case law as well as Australian.

SBDS Prototype

SBDS, a new initiative of the National Library of Australia, will be a new discovery service focused on Australia, Australians, and items found in Australian collecting institutions. It will provide a single point of access to resources currently discoverable via the Library's multiple discovery services, and to digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.

The primary purpose of this first prototype version is to develop the technical framework to support this new discovery service, and as far as possible ensure that the technologies we are using will provide acceptable performance, especially for record updates. The design so far is based primarily on decisions made within the project team to allow rapid development of the prototype. What is there now will form the basis for feedback, ideas for improvement, and input into the design of new features from a wide range of people.

The system is a work in progress, and we have made it available for you to follow our development as we build and improve it. The prototype will be constantly updated as it evolves into a system planned for release into production in the third quarter of this year. -- NLA

Keeping Up with the News

NewsCred is free news service where you may sign up to get the latest news from a wide range of sources including The Australian and The Australian Financial Review

Access to New Resources

As a result of the merger with Dept. of Natural Resources and Water, we can now offer you access to two new Informit Databases:

APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs: Full Text)

AIATSIS (Indigenous Studies Bibliography)

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. The database indexes 515 journal titles, with 223+ being comprehensively indexed. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.

Some of the titles which are available fulltext and may be of interest include:

Aboriginal history
Australian Aboriginal studies
Australian archaeology
Australian historical studies
Australasian j. of environmental management
Australian j. of public administration
Australian zoologist
Griffith review
J. of the Royal Historical Society of Qld
Policy
Quadrant
Queensland archaeological research

Periodic Tables of Videos

This site from the University of Nottingham is a periodic table with added interest as each description of an element is accompanied by an informative and interesting video clip such as the one on P (Lead) where we learn something about the camouflage of submarines in WWII.

Environmental History Resources

This site is maintained by Dr Jan Oosthoek at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

It was set up to provide resources and information for students, scholars and anyone interested in all aspects of environmental history.

The Aldo Leopold Archives

"Aldo Leopold is considered by many to have been the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century. Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics. He is most widely known as the author of A Sand County Almanac, one of the most beloved and respected books about the environment ever published. The Leopold Collection houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948.

Leopold was a meticulous and disciplined generator and retainer of important correspondence, memorandum, reports, and related materials. He published more than 500 articles, essays and reports and his papers contain at least 500 more unpublished essays, reports, and memorandum of significance. He also kept detailed diaries and journals of his Forest Service activity, his travels, hunting and field experience, and observations and activities at his Sand County farm. He maintained active correspondence (both outgoing and incoming) with more than a hundred professional and conservation organizations, with his many graduate students, and with hundreds of leaders in a range of scholarly disciplines, professional fields, government agencies, and conservation organizations. His papers reflect the most advanced thinking and most innovative practice across virtually the entire spectrum of natural resource conservation, policy and management in the first half of the twentieth century.

The collection has been augmented by correspondence and related materials carefully retained over the years by his mother, his wife, and other family members and professional associates; these span his entire life, but are most rich and voluminous for his early years. It also includes student notebooks and course materials from his studies in Burlington, Lawrenceville and Yale, and copies of his inspection reports on many national forests in the Southwest as well as hundreds of family photographs and photographs taken by Leopold to illustrate aspects of wildlife ecology and land management". - Information taken from the site maintained by the University of Wisconsin as part of the University's Digital Collections.

eResearch Archive

eRa is the gateway to to the Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
archive of scientific and research publications

For the first time, the research output of QPIF is available to the wider online community. This output includes journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and theses. Where permission has been granted (or subscriptions permit), users viewing the eResearch Archive will be able to link directly to full text content online or download a copy free of charge.

eResearch Archive ensures the widest possible dissemination of QPIF staff research and contributes to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online.

Publications have been submitted from a broad cross section of QPIF staff, covering areas such as Animal Science, Emerging Technologies, Fisheries, Plant Science, Horticulture and Forestry Science, Biosecurity and Industry Development.

Users can conduct a basic or advanced search or browse by subject

An Introduction to Google’s Search Engine

This article on About.com covers all you need to know to make the most of your Google search, so if you can’t get along to the Library session have a look at this.

Nature precedings

This is a free online resource where researchers in the life sciences can openly share preliminary findings and solicit community feedback.

Researchers can post preprint manuscripts, white papers, technical reports, posters and presentations.

AuseSearch

This site provides a single access point to the open access repositories in Australia.

It searches all full-text research articles and (if available) theses from repositories 48 sites from the major Australian universities

Free access to Sage publications

Sage publications are offering free access to over 500 journals from 1999 to current issues until the end of April.

To take advantage of this offer all you need to do is register by visiting the Sage website.

New Library Internet sites: advice to all users

If you are using the new site for the first time please sort the list of sites alphabetically before you do anything else.

To do this just go to the blue arrow beside the words Sorted by Most Recent and select Alphabetical

Once you have done this the records will always be in this order each time you log in to use it. You only have to do this sort once.

Free Access to Royal Society Publications during March 2009

The Royal Society has just changed it's publishing over to Highwire and to celebrate they are providing free access to all the Royal Society Publications throughout March.

Links to Internet Resources

All the library links to internet resources have now been entered on Delicious and shortly we plan to switch our links to this site.

Here is a brief guide to the features on the site

Viewing options
Title – this just displays the title of the website
Title and Tags – this shows what tags have been assigned to each site

Users can sort the bookmarks
Most recent
Alphabetically

TIP - - Library staff recommend sorting and viewing them in alphabetical order since this provides the viewer with an alphabetical listing of the websites


Users can show up to 100
Use the little blue arrow at the foot of the page to select the number you want from 10 to 100

Tip - - Library staff recommend selecting 100 as this makes it easier to work through the alphabetical list of the websites


Searching for sites using the TAGS
Type the first letter of your subject into the search box and then select term from the dropdown list

Top 10 (the most frequently used on the site) are at the top


Dig down or hone in using the Tag bundles
Tag bundles are the broad subject areas/access points
These are used to organise the indexing into the equivalent of chapter headings in a book.
Within each tag bundle are associated tags (sub-headings) which you access in two ways:
by Clicking on the Tag Bundle heading
by clicking on the arrow head beside the tag bundle
Search within the these headings using the Related tags at the right of the screen to locate more specific topics


Unbundled tags
These are headings not assigned or associated with any particular bundle.
They provide access to individual subject areas regardless of which Tag bundle they may be associated with


Please take the time to look at this site and

Contact the library to comment on this site

Journal Tables of Contents Service

Looking for a one-stop shop to subscribe for table of contents?

Here is a new site to help you manage your journal reading It's called ticTOC, and has been created by the ticTOCs Consortium consisting of: the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.

ARROW Discovery Service

The number of records in the ARROW Discovery Service has reached over 250,000. Each of these metadata records link to research outputs held in 26 university repositories across Australia and includes theses, preprints, postprints, journal articles, book chapters, music recordings and pictures.

Australian National Dictionary

This was the result of a joint initiative of the Australian National University and Oxford University Press. This free online dictionary of Australianisms has been donated to the nation by Oxford University Press.

Oxford Digital Library

Oxford University is in the process of digitizing items in its collection and this page gives access to some samples of the treasures amongst which there are images from Flora Graeca for the 21st Century, John Gould’s Ornithological Works and Key 19th Century Entomological Literature

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

The National Library of Australia, in collaboration with the Australian State and Territory libraries, has commenced a program to digitise out of copyright newspapers. The free online service will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles. This will include newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies. The Beta service now contains 150,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards. Additional pages are being added each week. The Courier-Mail has been digitised from June 1846 to December 1899 to date.