Self Paced Lesson - Australian Law - Subject Guide: Secondary Materials

Publishers have policies whereby all articles submitted for publication in a journal are first scrutinised by experts (peers or scholars) in that subject area to fact check.

The peer reviewed publishing policy is for a journal.

This means that every article published in a journal that has a peer review publishing policy has been reviewed prior to publication.

Articles sourced from all journals published and available on the HeinOnline, Lexis Advance and Westlaw Australia databases are all peer reviewed.

If you have source an article from other sources, you can search for the journal title (not article title) in UlrichsWeb to confirm that a journal's publishing policy is to have articles reviewed prior to publishing.

More detailed instructions are on the Peer Review page

Source Articles on a Topic

In Lexis Advance , select Advance Search (located above the red search box, to the right).

Select Secondary Materials from the drop-down menu

Note the list of journals in the left hand pane that will be searched on Lexis Advance

In the Terms text box, paste the search string
(distribut! /5 power!) AND Commonwealth AND State

Click on Search

The Search Results can be Narrowed to only journals by expanding the Content Type, and selecting Journals

Source Articles on a Case - Option 1

Add the case citation to the Quick Find box

From the Results list, select the CaseBase link for the case

From the Document list, select the Publications referring to this case link 

Articles available on Lexis Advance will be hyperlinked.

Articles found on other databases will have to be searched for using the steps:

• Step 1: Solve the abbreviation of the journal title into full using Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
• Step 2: Search for the full title of the journal using Library Search
• Step 3: Source the journal on the correct database (eg HeinOnline, Informit, Lexis Advance, WestlawAU) or Library shelves (eg Law Quarterly Review)
• Step 4: Browse by volume, then page number to source the article or Search within the journal

Source Articles on a Case - Option 2

1. Select Advanced Search Secondary Materials

Complete Case citation OR case name in the References to Cases field

Source Articles on a Topic

Step 1: Access Westlaw Australia database.

Step 2: From the Westlaw Australia database homepage, select Content type Secondary Sources

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Step 3: Select By Type  Law Reviews & Journals

Step 4: Select Advanced search

Step 5: Add the search terms (distribut! /5 power!) AND Commonwealth AND State into the All of these terms box.

Boolean & Connectors:
  the exclamation mark is a truncator
  /5 is the proximity limiter - the words must appear within 5 words of each other (within the same sentence)

Click on Search

The Search Results can be Refined by adding more search words can be added in the Search pane at the top of the Results list.

Source Articles on a Case

In Westlaw Australia 

1. Enter the case citation
             Example: (1920) 28 CLR 129

2. From the drop-down menu of suggestions, select the relevant case
             Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd (The Engineers' Case)

3. Select the down arrow beside the Citing References tab

4. Select Secondary Sources from the drop-down menu

The Search Results can be Refined by adding more search words in the Search within results panel in the menu to the left of the Results list.