Getting Started
About this guide
This guide will help you with:
- Studying online - using the technology (including Canvas / Blackboard), and staying connected.
- Your assignment research - this guide provides links to key legal databases, tutorials for those databases, and other useful assignment resources - see the 'Legislation', 'Cases' and 'Law Topic Resources' pages.
- Getting further help - find links to workshops on this page, and information about referencing and assignment support.
The Law Librarian is Kate Strong. Please feel free to contact Kate via library@ecu.edu.au, or to ask any member of Library staff for help with your research needs.
5 things to get you started...
On-campus assignment support is available to all Business and Law students (drop in, no appointment needed):
Online (MS Teams) / face-to-face / phone appointments: You can book a 30-minute appointment with a Librarian and/or a Learning Adviser - ensure you have your Unit Plan, any other assignment instructions, and your specific queries ready:
- Book a Librarian appointment, or email library@ecu.edu.au for assistance with assignment research, finding credible academic resources, using databases and referencing.
- Law students should email to request a Librarian appointment, rather than use the booking system.
- Book a Learning Adviser appointment, or email learningadviser@ecu.edu.au, for assistance with unpacking assignments, assignment structure and writing advice.
- Academic Skills Workshops covering Researching for your Assignment and Referencing (APA / AGLC4).
These will be held on campus and online.
- Peer Assistants - just-in-time assistance when you need to know what to do, or where to click, in order to solve any online learning issues as they arise and let you get on with your work.
- SLIDE: Accessing your learning online - how to use the learning technologies (Blackboard, Pebblepad, Panopto, Turnitin, and more...)
- Online communication & collaboration - online classrooms/group work, using discussion boards, online netiquette and more...
- VEEPS: Virtual Peer Support for online learning - just-in-time assistance when you need to know what to do, or where to click, to solve online learning issues and get on with your work.
- ECU Learning Online (Canvas) - watch the video below:
Upcoming Webinars (free - register to attend)
- ECU Library Workshop - AGLC4 Legal Citation for Law (Sem 1, 2024)
In this workshop you will learn how to reference using AGLC4, the legal citation style in common use in Australia. You will also learn how to locate AGLC referencing materials and assistance.
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WEEK |
DATE |
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TIME |
LOCATION |
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2 |
28 February |
Wednesday |
5.00 – 6.00pm |
Register |
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6 |
28 March |
Thursday |
12.30 – 1.30pm |
Register |
- If you are unable to attend these workshops and require assistance with AGLC4, please email library@ecu.edu.au
- You can watch a recording of the workshop - click the link and go to Referencing for Law
- Westlaw - videos / webinars
Watch short video clips or register to attend free online webinars and improve your legal research skills (ongoing).
- CCH iKnowConnect - Platform Introduction Webinars
Register for a free training session to get started with CCH iKnowConnect. These introductory sessions will introduce the wide range of practical tools and functionality available.
- JADE (free open law resource - e.g. for locating unreported judgments)
Click to see the live online training schedule, including:- Introducing JADE - a tour of JADE and the basics of searching, saving and sharing.
- Getting Savvy with JADE - take your legal research skills to the next level with JADE's intermediate training.
- Jasmine (new) - ask Jasmine a question and you will be shown passages from judgments with answers, and a supercharged starting point to continue your legal research journey from within JADE
NEWS
- The Conversation (2021, February 4) : Can my boss make me get a COVID vaccination? Yes, but it depends on the job. (Cecilia Anthony Das & Kenneth Yin)
- Melbourne Law School Academic Research Service has created a bibliography of worldwide COVID-19 legal literature and made it available on open access via the Melbourne Law School's website.
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New Series of the Queensland Reports (QR)
Please see the attached PDF letter regarding a change to the Queensland Reports series, from end March 2020.
The new series will carry the citation abbreviation QR, rather than the current Qd R.
Legal Advice
Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre - Joondalup Office
Edith Cowan University
Building 1, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup WA 6027
Phone: (08) 9440 1663
Findlaw (Australia)
Thomson Reuters directory of lawyers, solicitors and barristers, plus articles and news.