Following on from recent student surveys, focus groups and UX (user observations) we have been working to introduce more comfortable collaborative study space into the Law Library to accommodate academic conversation. This Journals A-H room now contains brand new noise-suppressing study booths—they will soon have power and be bookable via the library website. 

Journals are essentially academic magazines—articles, reviews, opinion pieces or even professional updates, for example, can be published in a journal. Issues, or parts, are released throughout the year. They are then bound or boxed together by year, or volume, and put on our shelves. 

If you want to find an article, you need to find:

• the title of the journal
• the year and/or volume
• the page number that the article starts with

In the Law Library, we have a vast collection of journals and they are shelved alphabetically in the Journals rooms (PER 340):

• A-H (including Cambridge Law Journal, Criminal Law Review)
• H-M (including Law Quarterly Review)
• M-Y (including Modern Law Review) are held in the Mooting Room
• Current Journals (these are from the current year, volume, or issues) can be found in boxes with the bound volumes of each title

You will also find journals in the European Law Room (PER 348) and the International Law Room (PER 341).

Walk into next room (watch the step!) to locate pause point Law 12 - Current Journals

As a University Library, we have a lot of print material. With over 0.8 million books and 450 journal titles, we can't hold everything in the centre of Newcastle. So, the Library has access to state-of-the-art off-campus storage facilities, meaning we can hold less-used material for much longer than some other academic libraries.

These materials can all be requested using online forms, and you'll be provided with a scan of what you need, or it can be retrieved for you and collected from the Philip Robinson Library or Walton Library.