1. Year 11 Legal
Studies
Research Strategies

2. Places to Visit
 Terrace Library website
 Terrace library catalogue
 Databases
 Weblinks
 Google Scholar
 State Library of Queensland – eresources
 Referencing
 Bibliography

3. What will I learn?
 Where to find specialist legal information
 How to identify quality web sources
 How to search in a database
 How to select keywords and use search
operators
 Following information links on Terrace
Library website

4. Why Not Google?

5. What are databases?

6. A database is a
collection of data that
is organized so that its
contents can easily be
accessed.
Databases

7. Which databases would be
useful?
 Elibrary
 Questia
 The Conversation

8. Terrace database - elibrary
Select
Australasian
Documents
Only

9. Terrace database - Questia
Select Law > Criminal Law> Criminal Sentencing

10. Terrace databases – The
Conversation
 Opinion pieces

11. Google Scholar
NB: Case Law has American content

12. State Library of QLD - Austlii
Use keywords from your case details – provides similar precedents

13. State Library of QLD - CINCH
Use keywords from your case details – provides
journal articles on topic

14. State Library of QLD –
Halsbury’s Laws of Australia
Use keywords from your case details –
provides relevant criminal code on topic