Legal MethodFinding information for

Competition Law

Sarah Crofts,

Law & Criminology Librarian

January 2015

By the end of this session you will

be able to:

Select appropriate databases for

Competition Law,

Formulate a search for cases and journal

articles for a specific topic,

Select appropriate resources on the internet

for Competition Law.

LibrarySearch (LS): Purpose &

Coverage LibrarySearch is a discovery tool that provides

access to millions of learning resources: eBooks

Journal articles

Reviews, conference papers, newspaper articles, etc.

Library Catalogue (for discovering the location and availability of printed books, DVDs, etc.)

LibrarySearch does not give access to: Cases and legislation (use JustCite)

Articles in legal journals on Lexis and Westlaw (but it does find journals covering law in other databases)

Datasets, e.g. Company accounts, Macroeconomic data, Marketing data

LS: Access – the University Portal

Access via the Library & Computing tab See the dedicated LibrarySearch channel

Note: Access to each of the underlying databases is via the eLibrary channel

LS: Home page and Basic Search

options

LS: Accessing full-text -

Authentication

Sometimes, especially from off-campus, you will be prompted to login to the database in which the full-text item is held

Look for an institutional (rather than individual) login button and select the University of Greenwich – OpenAthens option; you may then be prompted to login with your network username and password

LS: Authentication - Example

We’ve clicked on a link to an article in the Cambridge Journals database, but it hasn’t given us direct access; so…

OFF CAMPUS ACCESS

Library Subject Guide: Law

Off campus access Please see guides for

Law Databases at

http://libguides.gre.ac.uk

/law/training

E-Library: Library Databases

OXFORD COMPETITION LAW

Oxford Competition Law Overview

Online Resources

From Oxford University Press

JUSTCITE

JustCite

JustCite Searches: EU materials

Cases:

Hofner & Elser v. Macrotron

Volk v Ets J Vervaecke Case 5/69 1969Re K

Legislation (add article number)

TEU article 3

JustCite Searches: UK materials

Cases

Costa v Enel

14/68 -it seems to work better without the “C”

[2000] ECR I-6451

Legislation

Competition Act 1998 (add section number if

required, e.g. s2)

Enterprise Act 2002

Enterprise and regulatory reform act 2013 (but

not ERRA!)

LEXIS

Lexis: Quick Find

Find a legal term: Competition

Find a source: European

Competition Journal

Lexis:ExploreExclusionary practices

Lexis: Cases

Select:

Competition Law

Lexis: Journals

Select Competition Law

Lexis Commentary: including

Halsbury’s Laws of England

Select: Commentary, Halsbury’s

Laws of England

www.lexisnexis.co.uk/HalsburysLaw/halsburys_laws_about.html

Searching in Lexis:

Choose key terms

These could be a phrase such as:

“parallel behaviour”

“distribution agreements”,

“block exemption”,

“anti competitive abuse(s) Lexis always searches words as a phrase, unless you instruct

otherwise and will return results with words in that order.

Or individual words, such as “dominance”

Searching in Lexis: Using

Connectors Connectors:

AND to find both terms anywhere in the

document, e.g. Competition Law AND internal

market,

OR to find either of two terms anywhere in the

document, e.g. joint ventures OR Co-operation

agreements

Proximity connectors:

w/s to find both terms within the same sentence,

e.g. “Competition law W/S internal market”

w/p to find both terms within the same paragraph.

Lexis: International Materials - USA

Sources

Browse Sources

1. Area of Law

2. Filter by:

1. United

States

2. US Federal

All

3. Group

Sources

3. Select

Competition Law

Lexis: USA, Federal Sources

Select relevant source,

e.g. Mergers and Acquisitions

WESTLAW

Westlaw: Index of Legal Terms

and Insight

Westlaw Cases search

Westlaw: Journals

Westlaw Search tips:

To search for words as a phrase in Westlaw,

you need “quote marks”

E.g. “competition law”

Too many results?

Try “Search Within” or add more search terms to

narrow your search down.

Westlaw: Refining your search

Connectors (as for Lexis):

AND to find both terms anywhere in the

document, e.g. Competition Law AND internal

market,

OR to find either of two terms anywhere in the

document, e.g. joint ventures OR Co-operation

agreements

Proximity connectors (different from Lexis):

/s to find both terms within the same sentence,

e.g. “Competition law /S internal market”

/p to find both terms within the same paragraph

Westlaw: Books

Westlaw Books

Business Source Premier

SCONUL Access

SCONUL Access allows you to use many

other university libraries. Apply online:

http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access

To search Library Catalogues of university

libraries across London, use the Search25

tool:

http://www.search25.ac.uk/

Thank you and success in your

research

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Sarah Crofts Email: cs02@gre.ac.uk, x9078

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