Lexis Library - New Feature

Lexis Library has added a new feature, LexisNavigator which allows you to search for content in LexisLibrary using legal terms that you come across when carrying out research.

It appears in the Quickfind search box on the Home page as ‘Find a legal term’. The search box allows you to type in legal ‘terms of art’ from which you will get a detailed definition of the term taken from Words and Phrases Legally Defined (4th ed). You will also get links to cases, legislation and narrative definitions from key major works such as Halsbury’s Laws as well as related legal terms.

Justis Parliament

We now subscribe to Justis Parliament, a three million record-strong index to the proceedings and publications of the Houses of Parliament, and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, allowing you to search for Parliamentary material from the UK legislatures. It also includes comprehensive hyperlinks to the related full-text databases, such as Hansard. Justis Parliament allows searches in Parliamentary Questions; Bills going through Parliament; Select Committees; and Debates.

You can access Justis Parliament through E-Library (go to Justis and select Parliament from the options at the top of the screen).As it is a very specialised service, the Justis team have offered to come in and carry out training sessions for staff and students. Please let us know if you feel you would benefit from some training by emailing Nicky Freeman (n.freeman@salford.ac.uk).

Improvements to music stock at Adelphi

The Library have made a couple of improvements to the music stock at Adelphi Library:

• The older music books and scores have been reclassified so they now use the same classification system (Dewey) as the newer material. This should make it easier to browse the stock.
  
  
• There are now labelled dividers separating out the different types of music in the CD collection - again making browsing the stock easier.
  

Go and have a look!