{"id":6223,"date":"2021-11-05T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2022-05-27T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:19:59","slug":"resource-on-trial-westlaw-academic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/resource-on-trial-westlaw-academic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource on trial: Westlaw Academic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Westlaw is one of our highly-valued legal databases and can be accessed via our Law Subject Guide<\/a> and Library Search<\/a>, logging in with your Newcastle University Campus ID & password. One of the lesser-used aspects of Westlaw is its Books collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westlaw Books<\/strong> gives access to invaluable titles such as the White Book<\/strong> and Archbold<\/strong>, alongside comprehensive and authoritative coverage of common law through titles from the Common Law Library<\/strong> series (e.g. Chitty on Contracts, and Benjamin\u2019s Sale of Goods).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until the end of November 2021, we also have access to the academically-based books available in the Sweet & Maxwell Academic Collection<\/strong> to support your studies. These include Duxbury’s Contract Law<\/strong> (Textbook Series), Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort<\/strong>, Treitel on the Law of Contract<\/strong>, and Elliott & Wood\u2019s Cases and Materials on Criminal Law<\/strong> (the latter being written and edited by former academics of Newcastle Law School).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To access this content, log into Westlaw<\/a> and click on Westlaw Books<\/strong> in the menu at the top of the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can browse through the 350+ titles included in the Library\u2019s subscription plan, but if you know the book you are looking for, search by a title keyword, e.g. criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you want to browse those student-focused books which are currently on trial, use the filters on the left-hand side of the screen. Scroll down and select \u2018Sweet & Maxwell Academic\u2019 in the Publisher\/Series filter section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This short Thomson Reuters video (1:56 mins) gives tips on using Westlaw Books effectively in locating bibliographic information (essential for referencing these titles in your work), searching the materials using keywords, saving your favourite titles for repeated use, and how to email, print, download, save into a Westlaw folder or simply view the material on the screen (in reading-mode too).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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