New week, new thread. This one is 50 simple (and some not so simple) Google tips and tricks.
Search within a site using "site:" followed by the URL of the site (without the http: bits) and then your chosen search term. Results will be limited to hits from that specific site.
Use the - (minus symbol) to exclude terms you don't want clogging up your results page.
For November we will be highlighting 50 tips and tricks collected from the brains of the Inner Temple librarians. Everything from search tips, free resources, useful tools, apps, browser extensions and more.
1. Unpaywall browser extension (Chrome/Firefox) will display a little green padlock to flag up alternative free sources for articles/research papers where they are available: unpaywall.org/products/exten…
2. Cite This For Me has an OSCOLA (Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities) Referencing Generator to help you compile footnotes and bibliographies correctly citethisforme.com/citation-gener…
24-30 October is International Open Access Week. To celebrate the bounty of free materials available we will be highlighting some resources for free and open access books and picking out a few interesting titles.
An example of an Open Access book you can read for free online on Cambridge Core - The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol (2022) cambridge.org/core/books/law…
1 July 1972 is the 50th Anniversary of the first Pride march held in London. To celebrate we will be taking a whistlestop tour of the history of Pride around the world.
The first Pride marches were held in a handful of cities in the United States to mark the first anniversary of the 1969 'Stonewall Riots'. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
Since then Pride events have become an international phenomenon. Both celebratory and political, Pride serves as an important platform for raising awareness on issues affecting LGBTI+ communities across the globe.