This document provides an overview of databases and resources for researching competition law, including LibrarySearch, JustCite, LexisNexis, Westlaw, Oxford Competition Law, and Business Source Premier. It discusses searching each database, selecting relevant sources within them, and using search techniques like connectors and proximity searches. Authentication process for off-campus access and additional resources like SCONUL Access and Search25 are also summarized.

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