LEX 4110

ISSUES IN EU LAW

CATHERINE FUNNELL

SENIOR LIAISON LIBRARY

SHEPPARD LIBRARY

PURPOSE OF SESSION

Look at a few of the subscription databases with

some possible topics you might use for your research

proposal

Useful websites freely available on the Internet-places

to start for a literature search or research proposal

pertaining to EU law

Briefly look at SUMMON-for multi-database

searching

LEGAL WRITING AND EFFECTIVE LITERATURE

SEARCHING

Let‟s start by looking at some useful titles that

we have in the library for legal writing

“Research and Writing in Law”-Hutchinson

“How to Write Law Essays”-Strong

“How to Write Better Law Essays”-Foster

USE „LEGAL COMPOSITION‟ AS THE SUBJECT

KEYWORDS

By doing a SUBJECT

KEYWORD search on

the catalogue you will

get a good number of

books on legal

writing

TRY THIS TITLEThere is

only 1 copy

but I have

more on

order!

.......AND A FEW MORE!!!!!!!

ALL ON THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE

Excellent Book by Peter ClinchReally useful

by John

Knowles

Legal

Writing

by

Higgins

EFFECTIVE LITERATURE SEARCHING

It helps to make a plan first as it may take much

longer to do your literature search than you

anticipated!

You may also need to visit other libraries and/or

order books /journal articles through Inter-library

Loan

Not everything can be found on the Internet!

THE PLAN

It may seem silly to plan the stages of your

search by resorting to a flowchart but a visual

image may help to get you organised,

prioritising the stages involved in the research

and reminding you what there is left to do!

THE PLAN

You may want to start by searching for some general background information and then move to the more specific and current information

Start thinking about specifc subject keywords that you would use when structuring your search strategies

Remember alternative terms and spellings eg labour/labor, euthanasia/assisted suicide

THE INTERNET

The Internet may be the quickest and most

effective tool for accessing EU publications as

more and more documents are being made

available online. The EU‟s own website Europa

http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

is the obvious place to start but many find it diificult

to navigate so you may find it easier to search

using a search engine such as Google.However.....

GOOGLE OR ADVANCED SEARCH GOOGLE?

COMPARE BASIC GOOGLE AND ADVANCED

Advanced

allows for

numerous

refinement

s

Beware of the

shortcomings of a

Basic Google

search

CURRENT AWARENESS-PART OF EUROPA-INFO

EUROPA

EU NEWS-NEWS FEEDS FROM THE

EUROPEAN INFORMATION ASSOCIATION

THE EUROPAEUM

ZETOC ALERTS-AVAILABLE FROM THE

DATABASES LISTINGS(MY UNIHUB)

Zetoc provides access to the British Library‟s Electronic Table

of Contents of around 20,000 current journals published each

year

Database covers 1993 to date and is updated daily

Includes an email alerting service to enable you to stay up to

date with relevant new articles and papers in your area of

research

ZETOC ALERT HOMEPAGE

Select Middlesex from the

universities list and click

GO. Then you will be asked

for your network log in

CREATE AN ACCOUNT

Create your account

with your email

address. Click

create.Then you can

add the journals you

wish to be alerted about

SETTING UP ALERTS

The alert can be set up

for contents lists of

several journal titles and

also for TITLE Keyword

searches

TIME PERIOD

You can have a number of alerts for contents

lists or article keywords and add them or make

changes as required

They are set up for 1 year and require renewing

after that period

Email alerts will be sent to whenever the

British Library database is updated with new

issues and articles relevant to your search

BLOGS-LINKS ON MY SUBJECT GUIDE

ONLINE JOURNALS-APPEAR ON THE CATALOGUE

AND CAN SEARCHED AS FOR A TITLE

The record

links directly

to the e-

version.

Check the

coverage

details to see

the format

E BOOKS ALSO APPEAR ON THE CATALOGUE AND

CAN BE SEARCHED AS FOR A BOOK

ACCESSING E BOOKS AND ONLINE

JOURNALS-

Access for all online or electronic resources to

which Learning resources subscribes will

requite a log in

This is to identify users as Middlesex students

or staff and therefore eligible under the user

licence

At some point then a log in screen will appear

ACCESSING E BOOKS-SUGGEST CLICKING ON THE

ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT OPTION

CHOOSE ALTERNATIVE LOG IN

TYPE IN MIDDLESEX OR CHOOSE FROM

THE LIST BELOW UNDER OPTION

UNIVERSITIES

CLICK ON MIDDLESEX

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY LOG IN PAGE-

AND CLICK!

NOW YOU TYPE IN YOU NETWORK

USERNAME AND PASSWORD

FINALLY-THE E BOOK VERSION

Choose from the

options 1-7 number

of days you want to

download

Choose to

download

according to the

number of days

1-7

ONLINE JOURNALS ACCESS FROM THE CATALOGUE-GO

THROUGH THE LOG IN STEPS AS ON PREVIOUS SLIDES

CHOOSE DATE FROM OPTIONS ON LIST

CHOOSE ISSUE NUMBER

FIND ARTICLE ON THE LIST-CLICK ON

ARTICLE AND PDF FORMATTED ARTICLE

SHOULD APPEAR

SUMMON>MY UNIHUB>MY STUDY>MY

LIBRARY>SUMMON

SUMMON-ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH

VARIOUS DATABASES SIMULTANEOUSLY

Can do a Basic

or Advanced

search but the

latter gives you

more opportunity

to narrow /refine

the search

SUMMON-ADVANCED SEARCH-PHRASE SEARCH

INVERTED COMMAS-NO BOOLEAN FUNCTIONALITY

RESULTS-KEEP REFINING AND UPDATING

WITH MORE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

Change the date, type of

publication, subject terms

to get fewer and more

meaningful results

Can refine by

using the

sidebar and

changing

date, pub type

etc

PREVIEW OF THE FULL TEXT ARTICLE

FULL TEXT ARTICLE-FROM BUSINESS

SOURCE COMPLETE

SUMMON-TRY “EUROPEAN COURT OF

JUSTICE” AND “HUMAN RIGHTS”

RESULTS-MASSIVE!!

Use the Sidebar

to refine the

search-eg

narrow the date

range, peer-

reviewed articles

only

RESULTS

Fewer

ECJ AND ECHR-VIEW THE ABSTRACT FOR A

PREVIEW

WESTLAW INTERNATIONAL-MY UNIHUB>MY

STUDY>MY LIBRARY

WESTLAW-ENTER HERE TO GO TO WESTLAW

HOMEPAGE

WESTLAW INTERNATIONAL

JOURNAL ARTICLE SEARCHINGVARIOUS WAYS TO

SEARCH

SEARCH BY JOURNAL TITLE OR DO A SUBJECT

SEARCH

SEARCH BY FREE TEXT OR NATURAL

LANGUAGE

USING TERMS AND CONNECTORS FOR

FUNCTIONALITY AND EFFICIENT SEARCHING

Enter phrase in

inverted commas and

ask it to search for this

phrase in the same

sentence as eu-

contextual searching

RESULTS

Scroll down the

results as they

appear in the

sidebar and read

the abtract which

describes the

text of the article

PRINTING,SENDING, SAVING AN ARTICLE

LET‟S LOOK AT ANOTHER

RESULTS

REFINE IT SOMEWHAT

RESULT

MORE PROXIMITY SEARCHING

RESULTS

LEXIS LIBRARY-CLICK ON SOURCES

TICK KEYWORD AND THEN START

FILTERING

FILTER BY PUBLICATION TYPE AND

CONTENT AND THEN CLICK ON MORE

SOURCES

For pub type I

chose legal journals

and for topics I

chose all of

EU, Immigration

and

Nationality, Intellec

tual Poperty and

International Law

NOW HIGHLIGHT TITLES TO SEARCH-YOU CAN GIVE

IT A FILE NAME AS WELL

TYPE IN SEARCH STATEMENT

You can scroll down

this list to see the

names of the titles

you highlighted to

search

STRUCTURE THE SEARCH STATEMENT

CAREFULLY-LEXIS USES BOOLEAN OPERATORS

RESULTS-CAN EDIT AND ADD OTHER

SEARCH TERMS IF NECESSARY

TRY ANOTHER WITH PROXIMITY

OPERATOR

RESULTS

HIGHLIGHT FROM THE LIST

SUBJECT KEYWORDS ARE HIGHLIGHTED

IN BOLD-SEE THE CONTEXT-

WORTHWHILE?

HEINONLINE-MY UNIHUB>MY

STUDY>MY LIBRARY>HEINONLINE

Choose Advanced

Search for more

flexibility and

functionality

SEARCH STATEMENT, REFINE BY LIMITING

DATE AND CONTENT TYPE(ARTICLES ONLY)

RESULTS

Click on View

matching Text

Pages for para

with the search

terms you used

FULL TEXT

Print

function

s and

moving

between

pages

SUBJECT GUIDE

SOME USEFUL EU

BLOGS, DATABASES,READING LISTS