The Law Library now has a subscription to OSO. Law is a subject area in OSO, subdivided into sub-disciplines as follows
OSO homepage
Legal Profession and Ethics Medical Law Philosophy of Law Private International Law Public International Law . Today we are having an access problem – for the most recently added material (May 2009) we are only allowed access to the abstracts. This is just an intial (inexplicable) hitch, we shall definitely – and rapidly we hope – have access to all the full text versions. The OSO home page offers a quick search box – good if you have an author’s name for example – but of course there is the option of an Advanced Search form where you can put in a good deal more detail to sharpen your results.
Law Home Page
If you wait to start your search from the home page of Law, the left hand column offers first the Quick Search option (which assumes that you just want to search within the discipline -although you can easily change this), a link to the Advanced Search Screen, f ollowed by the option of a Bibliography Search screen. The options further down the left hand column under Law – of Author Index, Title Index, Sub-discipline Index and What’s new – allow you to browse.
You can email tables of contents, abstracts, or sets of search results easily.
Note that if you use the highlighted keywords on a results page – the resulting search will be performed across all the OSO subject areas not just Law. Of course, your use of OSO is not restricted to Law -and there are other disciplines here that may provide a useful alternative viewpoint – eg Economics and finance, History, Philosophy, and Political Science.
