CRIM 330 - Spring 2017

If you are in Criminology 330 this Spring 2017 semester, you might find these tips helpful for completing your legal research assignment.

1. Question 7 - (Part II: Quicklaw)

In this question, you are asked to locate Queen's Law Journal in Quicklaw. If you follow the instructions to search by content type --> secondary sources, Queen's Law Journal will not show up. Unfortunately, Queen's Law Journal is a restricted resource in Quicklaw; full-text access is not available to us as we don't have a subscription to this journal via Quicklaw; however, you may find limited indexing of the journal's contents in Quicklaw.

The library, however, does have access to Queen's Law Journal via several other sources.

For instance, you may access it through LexisNexis. (Note: LexisNexis is provided by the same company as Quicklaw, so the interfaces will look similar).

To do so, follow these instructions:

1. Log into LexisNexis via the link for Queen's Law Journal
2. You should now be searching within Queen's Law Journal, as seen by the sources text under the search bar
3. Enter some keywords that will help you find the article and then identify its authors

2. Question 9

For this question, you are searching Quicklaw for the resource, Alan D. Gold's Criminal Law Netletter.

There is no "commentary" search box from the new Quicklaw home page. Instead, to locate the source, go to Browse sources at the top of the Quicklaw home page. Next, click on Sources. A small search box will appear. From here, you can type in Alan D. Gold's Netletter, and auto-fill will soon list the appropriate selection. Select the Netletter issues, and hit "search". This will lead you to a browsable table of contents for the Netletter.