1. Catherine Funnell
Senior Liaison Librarian(Law)
Sheppard Library
c.funnell@mdx.ac.uk
LEX 4110ISSUES IN EU LAW

2. PURPOSE OF SESSION
Look at a few of the subscription databases (journal articles) with some possible topics you might use for your research proposal
Useful websites freely available on the Internet-places to start for a literature search or research proposal pertaining to issues in EU law
Briefly look at SUMMON-Middlesexs new facility for cross database searching
3. LIBGUIDES
SingleMarket YouTube video-good starting point for this topic or refresher!
All the websites I will show you in the session are linked on my LibGuide(well have a look at it in a moment)
But first..............
In the Module Handook for this course Penny Kentstates Identify what makes a good piece of legal writing and she covered this in the first part of this session
Following on from that,the Sheppard Library offers some useful texts to assist you
4. USEFUL LIBRARY TITLES
Research and Writing in Law-Hutchinson
How to Write law Essays- Strong
How toWrite Better Law Essays-Foster
Catalogue-Do a subject keyword search using the words LEGAL COMPOSITION-you will get a good number of results here. Refer to these books as they ARE useful!
5. LOCATING SUBJECT GUIDES
6. SUBJECT GUIDE FOR LAW
7. LAW AND LEGAL RESEARCH
8. EUROPEAN UNION PAGE
9. SINGLE MARKET VIDEO
10. SUMMON-ACCESS FROM LRWEBSITE
11. ADVANCED SEARCH
12. ADVANCED SEARCH
13. RESULTS LIST
14. CHOOSE AN ITEM
15. NEXT SCREEN-CHOOSE PDF
16. PDF FORMAT
17. WESTLAW INTERNATIONAL
18. JOURNAL ARTICLE SEARCH
19. SEARCH STATEMENT
20. RESULTS
21. LEXIS LIBRARY-SOURCES
22. KEYWORD AND TOPIC
23. JOURNALS SEARCHED
24. SEARCH STATEMENT
25. RESULTS
26. TERMS IN CONTEXT
27. HEINONLINE
28. CHOOSE ADVANCED SEARCH
29. HEINONLINE-SEARCH STATEMENT
30. RESULTS-TERMS IN CONTEXT
31. INTUTE
32. START SEARCHING
33. SEARCH BY KEYWORDS
34. RESULTS
35. ONS-MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
36. EUROPEAN COMPETITION NETWORK
37. FLAG-FOREIGN LAW GUIDE
Freely available-Internet
Lists UK university libraries holdings of foreign legal materials
Maintained by IALS(Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)-authoritative
Research postgraduates may use IALS with letter from Director of the programme and take Middlesex ID card
38. FLAG-IALS
39. START SEARCHING
40. NEXT STEPS
41. COLLECTIONS OF MATERIALS
42. RECORD DETAILS
43. INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH TUTORIAL
44. EUROPEAN UNION
45. TOP TIPS!!
46. EISIL(Electronic Information System for International Law)
47. SOME BASIC STARTING POINTS
48. GLOBALEX
49. GLOBAL RESEARCH TOOLS
50. GUIDE TO FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DATABASE
51. RESEARCH GUIDES
52. RESEARCH GUIDES