This document provides an overview of resources available to law students and researchers through the Middlesex University library. It summarizes key services and databases including the law subject guide, researchers' subject guide, RefWorks bibliographic management software, the Middlesex research repository, journal articles from sources like HeinOnline and Google Scholar, access to other libraries, the library catalogues, and alerting services. Contact information is provided for the law librarian to get further assistance.

1. MY LIBRARY:GETTING
THE MOST FROM OUR
RESOURCES
Catherine Funnell

2. LAW SUBJECT GUIDE
libguides.mdx.ac.uk/law
Good Starting Point
Allows Access to:
LINKS
BLOGS
RSS FEEDS
PODCASTS
NEW BOOKS
APPOINTMENTS
ASK A LIBRARIAN
EVENTS

3. BLOGS
Access
On my
Law
Subject
Guide

4. RESEARCHERS’ SUBJECT
GUIDE
libguides.mdx.ac.uk/research
l
Useful as a Starting
point for Researchers in
any subject field

5. 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

6. 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

7. ACCESSING REFWORKS
LAW SUBJECT GUIDE

8. 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

9. 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?

10. SHERPA ROMEO
Access Sherpa Romeo on
Researchers Subject guide Definitive source for
Libguides.mdx.ac.uk/research finding out your rights
with our repository

11. LSE RESEARCH ONLINE
Other universities have
Research Repositories Research produced by LSE
You should have a look staff. Content often Full
at them! Text

12. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Google Scholar may be
useful for finding journal
articles
If you are logged into
the University
Intranet you can use
Google Scholar to
link to OUR free
electronic journals

13. JOURNAL ARTICLES
Click on the link for Full Text

14. HEINONLINE FULL TEXT
Off campus you
must set your
preferences to
Middlesex
University Library to
enable this to work

15. SUBJECT SPECIALISMS
libguides.mdx.ac.uk/law
International Law
EU Law

16. USING OTHER LIBRARIES
Speak to the Law
Librarian or other Subject
Librarians regarding
access

17. THESES/DISSERTATIONS
Many available
electronically via
British Library’s
EThos
Middlesex currently
digitising PhD
Dissertations Have
some print

18. THESES/DISSERTATIONS
Other useful sites for
accessing Theses
electronically
Access via my Law
Subject Guide
Libguides.mdx.ac.uk/law

19. EVENTS/APPOINTMENTS
libcal.mdx.ac.uk
Appointment-Subject
Librarian
Workshops-Law
Electronic Resources
IT-Software Workshops

20. 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

21. ALERTING SERVICES
ZETOC
MY Westlaw
Halsbury Law
Exchange

22. FINALLY.......
Need more help?
Contact me at
c.funnell@mdx.ac.uk
OR
Make an appointment!!