information on access to online legal resources for GSM students enrolled in law programmes available through partnership with Plymouth University

1. Online resources for GSM Law students

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Learning outcomes
By the end of this training session the participants will be able to:
•Access, browse and search resources on Lexis Library and Westlaw,
the online legal databases available through Plymouth University.
•Access, browse and search Primo, the indexing and full search text
tool used to access all available databases at Plymouth University.

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Hierarchy of legal resources

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Primary sources – Legislation
Access to consolidated version (that is , in force at present
time ) for primary and secondary legislation passed from
the UK Parliament at Westminster, applying to the UK as a
whole, England and Wales together and Wales only.
It also covers Acts and Statutory Instruments passed by
Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales.
Coverage of Halsbury’s Statutes from 1929 including
annotations.
Similar coverage to Lexis Library. Access to consolidated
version of primary and subsidiary legislation from UK
parliaments/assemblies (except local SIs).
It includes legislation from Northern Ireland Assembly.
Coverage of Halsbury’s Statutes from 1991 in expansion.
Service of annotations on commencement and extent.
Scottish
Parliament
Northern Ireland
Assembly
National
Assembly
Wales
UK
PARLIAMENT
Westminster

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Primary sources – Case law
Full text of cases published by Butterworths and other
publishers. About 60 law reports including The Law
Reports, All England Law Reports, and The Times Law
Reports, and unreported cases from 1980.
Full text of cases published by Sweet & Maxwell and other
publishers.
About 45 UK law reports including The Law Reports and
Weekly Law Reports, and unreported cases from 1999.
Which report of a case do I cite?
Courts have determined an order of priority
(Practice - Citation of Authorities ,2012):

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Secondary sources – Law journals,
commentaries and e-books
Full text of more than 100 law journals and access to
bulletins, newsletter and e-books including the Halsbury’s
Law of England, the Encyclopaedia of forms and
precedents.
Full text of more than 1,300 law journals, bulletins and
newsletters and e-books including Palmer’s company law,
White Book 2015 from Sweets & Maxwell and other
publishers.

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Accessing Plymouth legal resources
You have two separate log-ins, one for the GSM Library resources and one for Plymouth
online resources. Your GSM Athens account can only be used to access GSM online resources.
your Plymouth log in should be used to access Plymouth legal resources.
MyAthens
•Business and Management databases
•E-books
•Print books
•Use GSM ID and Athens account
•Access directly via OpenAthens, through
GSM Learn or GSM Library Catalogue
•Only for students in Law programme
•Plymouth login received from Law
Department
•Legal Databases Westlaw and Lexis
Library as well as other law resources
•Acceess via Plymouth University’s
electronic library

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Accessing Plymouth legal resources
www.plymouth.ac.uk

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Accessing Plymouth legal resources

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Accessing Plymouth legal resources
If you have forgotten your password or have problems with logging in, please contact the
Law Office via email at lawoffice@gsm.org.uk. Do not email the Plymouth University
IT Department

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Accessing Plymouth legal resources
You can search the resources by keywords
by using the Primo search tool
Or you can search using
the Find Databases
button

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Accessing Plymouth legal resources
Once you log in you can search the resources
by letter, subject or keyword

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Accessing Plymouth legal resources
If you choose to search by subject, select
“Law and Criminal Justice” from the list

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Accessing Westlaw & Lexis Library directly
If you choose not to go through the Plymouth University website and go to the
Lexis Library or Westlaw websites directly, there is a slightly different log in procedure
1 Select “Academic Sign in” from website
homepage
2 Select the option “UK access management
Federation” and then click on Plymouth University
from the list of institutions.
https://www.lexisnexis.com/uk/legal/

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Accessing Westlaw & Lexis Library directly
1 Select the “organisation name” option
from the “Log in to your service” section on
Westlaw homepage
2 You will then come to this page, where you
need to type in “Plymouth University” name
http://legalresearch.westlaw.co.uk/

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Westlaw
Content Sets
Tips Box

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Westlaw - Cases
Case status

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Westlaw - Cases

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Westlaw - Legislation
Law status

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Westlaw - Legislation

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Westlaw - Journals

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Lexis Library

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Lexis Library - Cases

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Lexis Library - Cases

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Lexis Library - Legislation

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Lexis Library - Legislation
Currency of legislation
indicated by snapshot signals

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Lexis Library - Journals

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• E-books
• A-Z Journal List
E-books and e-journals via Plymouth

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Links to online free resources
• Bodleian Law Library, University of London - Research Guides
• British and Irish Legal Information Institute
• Cardiff Index of Legal Abbreviations
• Courts and Tribunals judiciary
• Guide to foreign and international legal citations 1st edition
• Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
• Legislation.gov.uk
Other Legal Resources

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GSM Learn

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GSM Learn – Resources for law students

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Legal research textbooks