Today's legal research thread is devoted to Westlaw, and the little tips that can help you make the most of this database.

Did you know that we now have a Patron-Driven Acquisitions Scheme? But what is this? Let us explain with this delightful comic ...

For today's thread we are going back to basics with the 10 Rules of Legal Research

We'll kick off with our old friend, the neutral citation. Read, save, print, tattoo this thread. It will save you a lot of time when it comes to deciphering citations.

Today is #HeritageTreasures Day and to mark this occasion we shall tell you the story of one of the Inner Temple's treasures. A rather fetching flying horse. Pull up a chair and we shall begin ... The ‘Flying Horse’ is a white marble relief sculpture of the Inner Temple’s Pegasus emblem. Walking around the Temple you will see a number of carvings of the Pegasus (some flying others not), but this one has a particular story to tell.

What's happening in January? A lot! Here's a selection of law-related events happening in January 2023 ... 16 January @UCLLaws - 'Reframing the English Foreign Act of State Doctrine'. 6pm, in-person & free eventbrite.co.uk/e/reframing-th…

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.

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…

For Halloween this year we've been digging* around in the archives and found a signed (!) call photo of a very famous member

*buckle in, there's a lot more puns to come Sir Edward Metatarsal Hall KC.

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. Open Access law books from Cambridge University Press available on Cambridge Core: cambridge.org/core/what-we-p…

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/…

Today's thread is for all new students about to embark on their law studies. 🥳

What to watch during lockdown? Here's a thread of law related shows and documentaries available to watch online (via iPlayer, Amazon Prime, Netflix and YouTube) - we will add to this as we find them Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings (iPlayer) - 'The untold story of Britain’s worst fetal poisoning scandal since thalidomide, when a group of ordinary mothers took on the establishment and won.'
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…