Oxford LibGuides: Legal Skills and Research: Reading Lists

Finding things from your reading lists

Below are links to catalogues and resources to help you find the material on your reading lists in Oxford.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Search our law reports and journals
Database produced by the Law Library to search our for the title of our law reports and law journals to find locations in both hard copy and online.
SOLO - University of Oxford Catalogue
Oxford E-journals
Bodleian Law Library - Legal Databases page
An alphabetical list of legal databases.

Reading list other online resources

Learnmore - how to get your hands on Legal Information tutorial
Produced by City University
For Oxford Law Faculty Reading Lists
Use the Current Staff link in the gray stripe on the top of the Law Faculty webpage to be directed to the intranet and reading lists.

Search SOLO

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Quick guide to reading lists

If you are not familiar with reading lists and how they look they can be quite difficult to decipher. Below is a video outlining how to interpret reading lists at produced by Oxford (Faculty of Law) but the main pointers are:

Tips for deciphering reading lists

Look at the front page information to find information about how the list works, any symbols used or abbreviations.

Try to determine which type of material you are looking for is it a case, article, legislation or book chapter. What type of information you are looking for will determine where you will find it. There are more hints on how to do this in the presentation below).

If it is a law report or journal, look on the search our law reports and journals to determine if a law report series or journal is online and available at Oxford

If it is a book (or chapter of a book) then look on SOLO to see whether is available online or where it is in hard copy. Many reading list books are kept on the law reserve and so you could go and ask.

If it is legislation then you can look on one of the databases (such as Westlaw or Lexis Library) to find an online version or use a statute book (you can search on SOLO for these).

Ask a librarian if you get stuck.

Guide to reading lists at Oxford

Below is a 15 minute video showing how to interpret reading lists at Oxford. If you prefer to view the video in WMP then the file is underneath. If you wish to view the video on YouTube then go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amjaA6uRsxM