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MY LIBRARY:GETTING THE MOST FROM OUR

RESOURCES

Catherine Funnell

LAW SUBJECT GUIDElibguides.mdx.ac.uk/law

LINKSBLOGSRSS FEEDSPODCASTSNEW BOOKSAPPOINTMENTSASK A LIBRARIANEVENTS

Allows Access to:Good Starting Point

BLOGS

AccessOn myLaw

Subject Guide

RESEARCHERS’ SUBJECT GUIDE

libguides.mdx.ac.uk/researchl

Useful as a Starting point for Researchers in any subject field

RESEARCHERS’ GUIDE

Journal publishing-how to find the best ranked journals in your field

Book publishing-how to get an ISBN

Free academic resources

Using other libraries

BIBLIOGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE: REFWORKS

Refworks is an online RESEARCH and MANAGEMENT tool designed to help researchers:

Gather

Manage

Store and Share

All types of information.......................AND

Generate Citations

Generate and Format Bibliographies

ACCESSING REFWORKSLAW SUBJECT GUIDE

MIDDLESEX RESEARCH REPOSITORY

There is a great deal of material available ‘open access’-freely available on the Internet. Some of this includes research papers which academics have uploaded to their institution’s research repository

QUESTIONS TO ASK

What rights do you have to place your journal article in the Middlesex Research Repository?

How long articles may be embargoed before we can make them freely available?

SHERPA ROMEO

Definitive source for finding out your rights

with our repository

Access Sherpa Romeo on Researchers Subject guide

Libguides.mdx.ac.uk/research

LSE RESEARCH ONLINE

Research produced by LSE staff. Content often Full Text

Other universities have Research Repositories You should have a look

at them!

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

If you are logged into the University

Intranet you can use Google Scholar to link to OUR free

electronic journals

Google Scholar may be useful for finding journal

articles

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Click on the link for Full Text

HEINONLINE FULL TEXT

Off campus you must set your preferences to

Middlesex University Library to enable this to

work

SUBJECT SPECIALISMSlibguides.mdx.ac.uk/law

International Law

EU Law

USING OTHER LIBRARIES

Speak to the Law Librarian or other Subject

Librarians regarding access

THESES/DISSERTATIONS

Middlesex currently digitising PhD

Dissertations Have some print

Many available electronically via British Library’s

EThos

THESES/DISSERTATIONS

Other useful sites for accessing Theses

electronically

Access via my Law Subject Guide

Libguides.mdx.ac.uk/law

EVENTS/APPOINTMENTSlibcal.mdx.ac.uk

Appointment-Subject LibrarianWorkshops-Law Electronic ResourcesIT-Software Workshops

LIBRARY CATALOGUES

Allows you to search the catalogues of the major

academic libraries in London and the

Southeast

A merged online catalogue with

details of material held at the UK’s major research

libraries

ALERTING SERVICES

ZETOCMY WestlawHalsbury Law Exchange

FINALLY.......

Need more help?Contact me at

c.funnell@mdx.ac.ukOR

Make an appointment!!