Welcome to the University of Botswana law guide, which is intended to provide information on law resources to our customers, students at both undergraduate and graduate levels, staff and researchers. The guide provides information on what resources we have and how to access them.
If you have not activated your OpenAthens account please do so now so that you can be able to access most of the online sources on and off campus. Below please find instructions on how to activate the openathens linkThe link was sent to student and staff email ( office 365) . On your searc box type: noreply@openathens.net.If the link is unavailable or broken, please send your particulars (names , student ID and Department) to any of these officers:
Log onto any computer on any floor using your login credentials i.e your username and password. On the University website, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Library catalogue.
First consult the catalogue known as Primo to identify what you need. The catalogue is a simple, one-stop point for searching for books and e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more, it helps you to manage your research.
To get more information on how to search the library, find Primo guides under a column labelled where can I get help.
Customers need to sign and be able to:
Conduct a search on the catalogue using either keywords, exact title or authors details. Results will provide further information like call/ class number i.e the Dewey classification number. Also provided will be location, and status of the item.
Law print books are classed between 340 and 349 and are placed on the shelves by the sequence of call or class numbers provided by Dewey Decimal classification Scheme .
