Sandbox:Library:Law - Textbooks or Treatises

Textbooks or treatises on your subject:

• Are important secondary research tools;
• Provide in-depth commentary and scholarly analysis of areas of law;
• Provide citations to potentially relevant cases, statutes and secondary sources such as journal articles & books.

UBC online catalogue

• Used to locate textbooks;
• Includes holdings for all UBC Library branches;
• 2 main approaches to searching the catalogue for books:
  • Simple Search (this is the default search)
    • Search using the exact title of a book or the name of an author by selecting relevant section in box on the right;
    • Or select keyword, linking key (or important) words by using Keyword (use AND,OR,NOT, or "a phrase").
    • Click on the entire record to see the location of the book and subject headings.
    • Click on the subject headings to expand searches and locate other useful materials on the same topic.
      • Example: international and "human rights"
        
        • Click on the subject heading(s) to locate other books on the same topic.
  • Guided Keyword Search
    • Allows one to search for terms in specific fields (author/title/subject/publisher fields)
      • Example: international criminal court (as phrase) in subject field and united states (as phrase) in default Keyword - All Fields