Finding books beyond the Bodleian Law Library

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Finding books beyond the Bodleian Law Library

• Margaret Watson
• Reader and faculty Services Librarian
• margaret.watson_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk

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Finding books beyond the Bodleian

• Automated stack requests (ASR)
• COPAC
• Worldcat
• FLAG
• Inter-library loans

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Automated Stack Request

• OLIS (catalogue) function
• Accessible worldwide
• Use to order books from other OULS libraries

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What can I order?

• Books and serials from
• Bodleian Bookstack 'BOD Bookstack'
• Nuneham Courtney 'BOD Nuneham'
• RSL Stack 'RSL Stack'
• Rhodes House Stack 'RHO Stack'
• Vere Harmsworth Stack 'VHL Stack'

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Are there any restrictions?

• Only 8 books at a time to the Law Library
• Fragile items may only be read in certain reading
  rooms
• Time limit one month (renewable)

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What do I need to use ASR?

• Access to OLIS
• Your University card number
• Your password your date of birth
• e.g. 15JUN1945

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COPAC

• Free access via OxLIP
• Over 20 million records
• Merged catalogues of 27 UK and Irish
  institutions, including the British Library

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WorldCat

• Over 40 million records
• Accessible via OxLIP
• Athens required outside Oxford

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FLAG

• Foreign Law Guide
• Free internet database
• Lists UK university libraries holdings of
  foreign legal materials

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Inter-library Loans

• For material not available in Oxford
• Supplied as books or photocopies
• Subsidised charges 3 (UK)

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Summary how to access material from

• elsewhere in Oxford ASR (via OLIS)
• elsewhere in the UK COPAC (via OxLIP)
• elsewhere in the world WorldCAT (via OxLIP)
• collections of foreign law FLAG (via OxLIP)
• Use Inter-library Loan to request items

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Useful web addresses

• Bodleian Law Library
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/law
• OLIS
• http//www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/
• Copac
• http//copac.ac.uk/
• WorldCat (via OxLIP)
• http//www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/
• FLAG (Foreign Law Guide)
• http//ials.sas.ac.uk/library/flag/flag.htm