Workshops The Main and Law library's offer a range of information skills training to help you find the information you need. Most of these classes take place at the beginning of each semester. You can get assistance with your research at any time:
Library research skills - Learn the best ways to search journal databases and other sources for information for your research
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
RefWorks - Create your own RefWorks database for storage and management of your references
- Use your RefWorks database to easily create the bibliographies required for your assignments
- These are drop-in sessions - bookings are not required
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
EndNote - Hands-on sessions about how EndNote may be used to manage your references and create in-text citations and bibliographies
- If you would like to attend please email your faculty librarian
- Places are limited but further sessions will be made available according to demand
Searching for a literature review - How to create an effective search strategy and take advantage of the advanced search features offered by many research databases. This is a generic session focusing on techniques that are transferrable to different disciplines
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Cited reference searching - Use the power of cited reference searching to discover related works, patterns of influence and co-citation that are not accessible in conventional searching
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Managing information for current awareness - Take advantage of the many services provided by publishers and databases to keep you informed of the latest research. Save time and effort by having the most recently published information and search results sent to you
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Research data management @ Bond - An information session for those interested in minimising the risk of data loss, gaining credit for data created and open collaborative research and publication possibilities with other researchers
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Measuring research impact - Do you need evidence of impact for a grant or promotion application? Do you know your most highly cited publications? How about your h-index? Are you publishing in high impact journals? This session will introduce you to all these areas of measuring research impact
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Your researcher presence online - This session will cover online tools you can use to help enhance your profile as a researcher, including Personal Researcher Pages, Researcher IDs, ORCID, and Scholar Citations
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Sage Research Methods Online - Sage Research Methods is an easy to use, award winning tool which will help researchers design research projects and understand the interconnection between the different methods. It contains all content from the famous Sage Little Green Book and Little Blue Book series, journal articles, encyclopaedia, dictionary and book material. It also provides the Methods Map which will give a clear visual overview of research method terms, online videos and the opportunity for researchers to create their own research method lists.
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Searching for case law & legislation
- Introductory hands-on session on finding case law using case citators
- Locating full-text decisions
- Locating legislation through Government websites and library databases
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Legal commentaries & other secondary sources - How to use the Law Library resources to locate dictionaries, textbooks, legal encyclopedia and journal articles
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Referencing with AGLC (Australian Guide to Legal Citation) 3 - An overview of some important features of AGLC 3
- This session runs for approximately 30-40mins
- Sessions held in the Octagon on Level 2 of the Main Library
Law Library Classes on Demand Throughout the semester, groups of two or more students may request training as needed. Contact Sarah Dern or Michael Wallace to arrange a time. Sessions run from 30 - 45 minutes. The training offered includes: Finding cases - learn how to quickly locate a case using the Law Library's resources Searching legislation - learn how to find legislation online, along with parliamentary materials such as Hansard and Explanatory Memoranda Case citators and digests (e.g. CaseBase and FirstPoint) - find cases dealing with a particular issue or statute or journal articles about a case Refworks and AGLC 3 - Learn the basics of legal referencing and building your own reference library, using Refworks Westlaw: an introduction - a basic introduction to navigating and searching Westlaw Lexis: an introduction - a basic introduction to navigating and searching Lexis Searching for books and journal articles Legal encyclopedias and other online commentaries
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