Division of Library Services

Subject Support:
Legal Studies

To help you complete your Legal Studies assignments, follow these four easy steps:

Step 1: Create your Search Strategy

• Use Legal Studies Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias to define your topic.
• Need some help?
  • Take our Topic Analysis InfoSkills@CSU Tutorial.

Step 2: Search the Catalogue for Books and other resources

You can use the Catalogue to search for books, DVDs, eBooks and other online resources.

TIP: If you want to check if your Library has access to a particular journal, simply type in the title of the journal and select Title as the search option.

• Need some help?
  • Take our Catalogue InfoSkills@CSU Tutorial
  • Watch our "Find a Book" Watch-it! Tutorial

Step 3: Search the Journal Databases for Articles

You can use Journal Databases to search for articles from journals, magazines and newspapers.

• See Legal Studies Databases for a list of Journal Databases that relate to your subject.
• Use Article Finder to see if we have the full-text version of an article you are looking for.
• Use SmartSearch to conduct a search across multiple Journal Databases.
• Need some help?
  • Take our Databases InfoSkills@CSU Tutorial.
  • Watch our "Looking for Journal Articles" Watch-It! Tutorials
  • Watch our "Find Full Text Articles with Google Scholar" Watch-it! Tutorial

Step 4: Explore Useful Websites

You can find a lot of current information about Legal Studies on the internet.

• See Legal Studies Useful Websites for a list of useful web resources that relate to your subject.
• Need some help?
  • Take our "Searching the Internet" InfoSkills@CSU Tutorial.

Need more help?

• See Ulrichs Periodicals Online to find out if a journal article is peer reviewed.
• See the CSU Learning Skills website to learn how to reference your assignment.
• See the Australian Bureau of Statistics to find statistics.
• See EndNote @ CSU to learn how to use this bibliographic management program.
• See Australian Government Sites by Portfolio to find a government department or agency.
• See Avoiding Plagiarism @ CSU to learn how to avoid plagiarism.