Introduction to Law and Business Information Resources for Law
Patrick Overy Subject Librarian (Law & Business)
Lasok Law Library
• Law collections are shelved in the Lasok Law Library on level -1
Finding books in the Law Library
• The Law Library uses a different classification scheme to the rest of the Library
• Moys classification scheme is designed
specifically for law libraries and is based on Library of Congress
• All classmarks use letters (K, KA-KW) + numbers + author letters
• Journals, law reports and statutes are not
Moys classification – main classes
• KA Jurisprudence/Legal theory
• KB General & comparative law
• KC International law
• KL Common law: general
• KM Public law
• KN Private law
• KV Law of European countries
Electronic books
• A number of law books are available online
• Search the library catalogue – e-books are marked Online version
• Click on the link in the catalogue entry to read online
• Halsbury’s Laws of England is available on Lexis – click on Commentary
• Click on Books on Westlaw for ebooks
Law journals
• All law journals or periodicals are shelved in
the Lasok Law Library at the start of the rolling shelves
• Exeter has online versions of most journals but also has print version of major titles
• All appear on catalogue as K 1, but are not labelled
Finding Law journals
• Use the orange folders to find where they are shelved – this only includes journals in the
Law Library so students should also check in the library catalogue
• The catalogue links to online versions
• Use lists of abbreviations in the folders or Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Electronic journals
• To find articles by subject or title you can use our electronic journals collections via the
Electronic Library but to find articles by subject use Law databases, especially:
• Lexis and Westlaw – these law databases include many major law journals
• HeinOnline (mainly US law journals but with many major UK and European titles)
• Main reference work is Halsbury’s Laws,
shelved at end of fixed shelves – also on Lexis
• Reprints of historic law reports – pre-1865 (English Reports and Revised Reports) are also shelved here
• All other series follow law journals on rolling shelves – for shelf locations see orange folders
• Most are online – see databases
Other sources – Law reports
Other sources - Statutes
• Statutes (or Acts of Parliament)
• Main reference work is Halsbury’s Statutes, shelved at end of fixed shelves
• To find old legislation use chronological series
• All statutes (legislation) on Lexis & Westlaw
• Free source is legislation.gov.uk
Law databases – Lexis Library
• Lexis Library has the full text of UK case law, legislation and core journals published by
Butterworths
• You can search by subject, author or citation
• Access to full text in most cases
• You can also read reference works like Halsbury’s Laws of England
Law databases – Westlaw UK
• Westlaw UK has the full text of UK case law, legislation and core journals published by Sweet & Maxwell
• Indexes all UK law journals and has many in full text
• You can search by subject, author or citation
• You can also read many major reference works online
Law databases – JustCite
• JustCite is a legal referencing system which
links up with Lexis, Westlaw and wide range of other sites
• Quick way of finding law reports and legislation
• Links with Justis Statutes – only online collection of historic legislation
Law databases – Hein Online
• Hein Online is a US database which works on a similar principle to JSTOR
• Has complete archives of over 2,000 (mainly US) journals but generally doesn’t have the most recent issues
• All titles are linked to the catalogue and included in Journal Article Search
Free law databases
• No walk-in access to legal databases
• All UK legislation (statutes and SIs) in force on Legislation.gov.uk (free site – useful for visitors with no access to legal databases
• Large collection of free law reports on BAILII http://www.bailii.org/
• All EU law and official documents free on Eur- Lex http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm
Help!
• Enquiry/Issue desks
• Online guides
• Subject pages
http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/using/help/
• Student representatives for Lexis, Westlaw and Justis
• Library champion
ELE – online courses and demos
• All courses now have online learning pages on ELE (Exeter Learning Environment)
• Use the Library tab at the top of every screen
• Go to Library and Research Skills
• Core (Exeter) has all generic material
• CSSIS includes subject-specific guides to Law
Library resources for Business
students
Business subjects
• There is no such thing as a Business student – 5 departments in the Business School are :
• Accounting
• Economics
• Finance
• Management
• Organisation Studies
What resources are available?
• Books and journals – use library catalogue
• Electronic journals – especially Business Source
Complete and ABI/INFORM – and electronic books
• News databases – especially Nexis UK & Factiva
• Statistics
• Business and company information
• Official information online
Where to look for books
• Books on economics (with classmarks from 300-339) are on level -1 in the Forum Library
• Books on accounting and management
(classmarks 657 and 658) are also on level 0
Electronic journals
• To find a journal by title use Journal search on the catalogue – this shows if it is in print and links to electronic versions on Business Source Complete, JSTOR, etc.
• To find articles by subject or title use Business Source Complete or ABI/INFORM (via
ProQuest Business Collection)
Looking for articles
• Use Article search on Library catalogue for a quick preliminary search of full text resources
• Results always show JSTOR first
• Click on EBSCO to find results in EBSCO journals & Business Source Complete
• Click on Social Science, Education & Law to get results from ProQuest Business
Electronic books
• Nearly 6,000 business, economics or
management books are available online
• Search the library catalogue – e-books are marked Online version
• Click on the link in the catalogue entry to read online
• To browse by subject go to the homepage of each collection - our main collections are
Business databases
• It is important to know which sort of database to use to find different kinds of information
• General databases are essential for finding
articles - especially Business Source Complete or ABI/INFORM (via ProQuest Business
Collection)
• Use Researching business online on Business subject guide to see which specialist
Business databases - BSC
• Business Source Complete has full text of over 3,000 journals + reports, books, etc.
• Search by subject, author, title, etc
• Access to full text in most cases
• Save search results as you go or register and use Alert/Save/Share
• Also has Company Information tab with details of companies worldwide
ProQuest Business collection
• Access to 6 databases, including:
• ABI/INFORM Complete has thousands of full- text journals, dissertations, newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and the Economist
• Subject collections : Accounting & Tax,
Banking Information Source, ProQuest Asian Business & Reference, ProQuest
Databases -Market research
• KeyNote – leading service for market research and company information
• Passport – Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database
• We no longer subscribe to Marketline (which was Datamonitor 360) although their reports are on Business Source Complete.
• We don’t subscribe to Mintel, although we are often asked for it!
Databases -Company research
• FAME UK - comprehensive information on companies in the UK and Ireland
• KeyNote - company, industry and country profiles
• Morningstar Company Intelligence (formerly Hemscott Company Guru - financial data and analysis for over 300,000 top UK companies
• Business Source Complete & Nexis UK – for
News services – Nexis UK
• Nexis UK is a comprehensive news, business and industry information service which is
updated daily
• Full text of all English-language press round the world
• Includes Financial Times
• See the online demo on ELE to find out how to search
News services – Factiva
• Factiva brings together a wide range of
business sources, including major newspapers, journals and web services
• Includes Dow Jones and Reuters newswires
• Company search finds financial details, stock price activity, etc.
• Industry search finds market leaders, current trends, etc.
Statistics
• UK Data Service – register free for access.
ESDS International - selected datasets from IMF, World Bank, OECD etc.
• Eurostat free statistical publications and data on EU member states
• OECD iLibrary – statistics & publications
• Wharton Research Data Services(WRDS) data in finance, accounting, banking, economics
Help!
• Enquiry/Issue desks
• Online guides
• Subject guide
http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/subjectguides/b usiness/
• Information skills page on ELE
ELE – online courses and demos
• All courses now have online learning pages on ELE (Exeter Learning Environment)
• Use the Library tab at the top of every screen
• Go to Library and Research Skills
• Core (Exeter) has all generic material
• Business School includes subject-specific guides to all disciplines
