Do you want to keep up to date on your subject? This blog post will go through some of the current awareness tools, sources and methods you can use to save you time in keeping abreast of recent developments in your area of law. We will be looking at delivery methods, table of contents services, databases… Read More »
Are you having to do a formal literature review or just needing to start your research? Below we discuss some of the things that may help you. We will be looking at each of the different elements briefly but will (hopefully) point you to resources so you can dive a little deeper. This blog… Read More »
After wrapping up the Getting to Know the Law Bod series we are now getting into the festive spirit and bringing you our annual Christmas blog offerings. Like with previous years (a good summary with links through to each year can be found here for the curious) we have a theme and this year it… Read More »
In the interest of ‘research’ for this blog post I thought I better look back and browse through some Christmas TV Specials. For this I turned to a very useful tool called ‘Box of Broadcasts’ affectionately known as ‘BoB’. The official description of this service is as follows: Box of Broadcasts is an on demand TV… Read More »
The Christmas Invasion, which was David Tennant’s first full episode as the infamous two-hearted Time Lord in 2005, was the first Christmas Special in its, then, 42-year history. Now, 13 years on and four regenerations later, it has become a tradition for the TARDIS to be beamed into our living rooms every year on Christmas… Read More »
*If you’re the tallest, the smallest … For a child growing up in Britain in the 1970s the Christmas edition of Record Breakers was a sign that the holiday was really underway. This children’s TV programme, presented by the multi-talented Roy Castle, met the BBC’s remit to educate and entertain by presenting the facts and… Read More »
The Bodleian Law Library provides a number of database tools to help you find articles and cases from reading list citations. The basic process is to Determine the name of the journal or law report from the standard abbreviation used in the citation. You will almost certainly be able to tell from the citation whether… Read More »
Many of you will have received an email direct from Thomson Reuters outlining the improvements that went live on the database ‘Practical Law (PLC)’ over the weekend. The aim of this blog post is to draw your attention to what we think the main improvements will be for you, the user. (If you are unfamiliar… Read More »
This somewhat melancholy and mournful tune by Conway Twitty, was the 1958 Christmas number one. Conway Twitty, (having changed his name and chosen two seemingly random towns as names), was an American singer and this was his first big hit. The song was actually written whilst Conway was in Ontario, apparently he had become convinced that this is… Read More »
Who can forget the 1967 classic ‘Hello, Goodbye’ by the Beatles? Perhaps not the most diverse set of lyrics of any Christmas number 1, indeed here is a short sample; “You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say hello Hello hello I don’t know… Read More »
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