Competition Law resources 2014-15

1. Legal MethodFinding information for
Competition Law
Sarah Crofts,
Law & Criminology Librarian
January 2015

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. LS: Home page and Basic Search
options

6. 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

7. 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…

8. OFF CAMPUS ACCESS

9. Library Subject Guide: Law
Off campus access
 Please see guides for
Law Databases at
 http://libguides.gre.ac.uk
/law/training

10. E-Library: Library Databases

11. OXFORD COMPETITION LAW

12. Oxford Competition Law Overview
Online Resources
From Oxford University Press

13. JUSTCITE

14. JustCite

15. 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

16. 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!)

17. LEXIS

18. Lexis: Quick Find
Find a legal term: Competition
Find a source: European
Competition Journal

19. Lexis:Explore
Exclusionary practices

20. Lexis: Cases
Select:
Competition Law

21. Lexis: Journals
Select Competition Law

22. Lexis Commentary: including
Halsbury’s Laws of England
Select: Commentary, Halsbury’s
Laws of England
www.lexisnexis.co.uk/HalsburysLaw/halsburys_laws_about.html

23. 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”

24. 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.

25. 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

26. Lexis: USA, Federal Sources
Select relevant source,
e.g. Mergers and Acquisitions

27. WESTLAW

28. Westlaw: Index of Legal Terms
and Insight

29. Westlaw Cases search

30. Westlaw: Journals

31. 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.

32. 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

33. Westlaw: Books

34. Westlaw Books

35. Business Source Premier

36. 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/

37. Thank you and success in your
research
 Senior Academic Services Librarian:
Sarah Crofts
 Email: cs02@gre.ac.uk, x9078
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