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 »
Over the vacation, LexisLibrary introduced a new platform for its foreign and international materials. As holders of an Oxford SSO this means access to a variety of both primary and secondary sources from Australia, Canada, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia , New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States. Lexis is not the only database for foreign… Read More »
I am guessing not many people will remember Scoop, a board game which first came out in the early 1950s and is now considered a collector’s classic (still available to buy online, or look out for at charity shops.) Basically a card collection game, the object was to fill the ‘front page’ of a newspaper… Read More »
‘Cluedo’, (or ‘Clue’ as it is known North America), is an all-time classic favourite board game in the murder mystery genre. Originally manufactured in 1949 by Waddington’s, it is now owned by the American giant Hasbro. It has had many reissues and updating of characters, most recently with the tragic death of Mrs White –… Read More »
George R.R. Martin neatly encapsulates the precariousness of being a character in A Game of Thrones, the televised version & extension to his books. A game built on such an ethos is clearly what anyone’s Christmas needs! Games producers have been quick to translate the, err, cut and thrust of the TV series into coloured… 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 »
Back in the early days of the internet, when those of us working occasionally from home, or different locations, and/or on different browsers, needed some way of storing bookmarks in a shared space (well before the cloud existed), Delicious came along,(see Wikipedia entry for history) allowing anyone to set up a free account, put their… Read More »
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