The Oxford Law Citator, developed by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

 ('OUP'), is an example of an authority control system, used within legal research

Legal research

Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and...

. The Oxford Law Citator provides and manages hypertext links between items published on OUP’s online services, as well as to other externally referenced sources.

Description

The Oxford Law Citator links together OUP online materials that mention or discuss each other, and provides users with further information on all references which are available online. An Oxford Law Citator record contains basic information on the referenced item to help the user to continue their research, as well as links to related cases, instruments and commentary.

The population of the Citator is an ongoing project, which is being undertaken by OUP alongside the development of its online services. The aim is to provide a tool which allows users to follow, and explore the relevance of, references in and between different types of legal content and commentary.

See also

• Law Citator
• Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
  
  
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
  Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
  The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is an online encyclopedia dealing with international law. It is published under the auspices of Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The initiative to compile the...