Library guides: Law: Get Started

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Introduction to the Law library guide.
A quick five minute introduction to the Law library guide that takes you through some of the useful features you will use in your study.

Westlaw Australia
Provides Australian legal resources with selected New Zealand content. Case citator, commentary and authorised reports in a single search. With natural language search and a database of case law and journals, legislation and commentary to precedents, encyclopaedia and news.

Westlaw Au Video Tutorials
A series of short videos aimed at increasing your familiarity with the platform and conducting common types of search quickly and efficiently. Most videos are 1-2 minutes long with just a few covering more advanced topics being considerably longer.

iKnowConnect (CCH)
Provides access to CCH's looseleaf law reporting services and guides in electronic format.

CaseBase (via LexisNexis)
A case citator and annotator covering Australian and New Zealand law reports; plus journal articles.
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CaseBase is a comprehensive case citator and annotator covering more than 60 Australian and overseas report series and the unreported decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court, the Supreme Courts of all Australian States and Territories, the Family Court, the NSW Land and Environment Court, the Cth Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Federal Magistrates Court, and other selected jurisdictions. Case entries include case details (name, date decided, judges, court and citation), parallel citations, CaseBase signals which summarise the subsequent judicial consideration the case has received, a list of cases that have subsequently considered the case, a list of cases considered in the case, judicially considered words and phrases, catchwords, digests, articles considering the case, and, for online subscribers, a link to the full text of the decision or articles cited where available.
Cases (via Westlaw AU)
Cases is the latest case discovery tool from Westlaw.
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Access legal resources including law reports, unreported judgments and case citators and more.

Thomson Reuters Westlaw
Provides access to cases, legislation, journals, books online, and news. Also includes some international primary and secondary material.
HeinOnline
HeinOnline's "Law Journal Library" contains more than 2,400 law and law-related periodicals. Subjects covered include criminal justice, political science, technology, human rights, and more. Coverage for all journals is from inception and goes through the most currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. About 90% of journals are available through the current issue or volume. Search by article title, author, subject, state or country published, full text, and narrow by date.
HeinOnline is a database of full text legal research resources.

Federal register of legislation (formerly ComLaw)
The Federal Register of Legislation is the official Commonwealth Government website for publication of legislation.
Queensland Legislation
The official Queensland Government website for publication of legislation via the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.