And now, databases.
Trying them out has been interesting - my favourite search detailed health topics work (as you might expect!) less well in law databases than they do in health ones!
Although things like just "nurses" and "caesarean section" work quite well.
I can see that some topics like safeguarding and consent would work well, and the question is whether searches would find different types of information from searches in the usual health sources (they would, I am sure), and whether that different type of information is valuable to undergraduate health students (that I need to ask).
My colleague made some excellent videos for the law students, which have proved very useful for this interim law librarian too!
The law databases have books (are they all there in full text), journal articles (ditto), legal commentary (which might search in handbooks), forms (official ones) and precedents (which seem to be texts for letters, procedures for interviews and explanatory leaflets), cases, legislation and statutory instruments.
There may also be practical guidance, and indexes of legal terms.
As well as wondering what is in the law databases about health, I wonder what is in the health databases about law? Of course, not law books and primary sources, but articles in health journals, which might reference those primary sources.
If they do, how do the health students get on tracking down the primary sources? What do they know about the nature of those sources?
Some research needed!
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