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the indexes published with the
volumes of Reports, indexes
published by the Court, our own in-
house index to the transcripts, the
Gazetteer of European Law and the
Common Market Reporter
encyclopaedia which contains the
EuropeanCommunity Cases
series.
Computerised Databases
The library has access to CELEX,
the Commission's official
computerised on-line database which
contains all the legislation (other
than measures of short duration),
mostly in full text form though some
by short reference only, and all the
case law as published in the
EuropeanCourt Reports,
as well as
a good deal of other official
material.
The library subscribes to the LEXIS
database which contains the full text
of the
European Court Reports,
the
Common Market Law Reports
and
the legislation section of CELEX
from 1980 to date.
Some queries are more suited to
computer than to manual searching.
For example, the request mentioned
above for a list of all the cases on
the Lomé Conventions was answered
by doing a search for the term
"Lomé" in the Reports section of
CELEX. If this term had located too
large a number of case reports, it
could have been modified by linking
it with another appropriate search
term. As it happened, 24 cases were
found by the first search and titles,
summaries and citations were printed
out.
Another recent example of the use
of CELEX was a search for the term
"spring water" in the legislation
section. TWo occurrences of the term
were found and the titles of the
documents and the references were
printed out and checked. The
enquirer wanted to know if there was
a definition of "spring water" as
distinct from "natural water" in any
regulation or directive.
The information on a particular
regulation or directive on CELEX
includes a section listing earlier
Law Society Library
Blackhall Place, Dublin 7. DDE 79
Tel: (01) 710711. Fax: (01) 770511
Opening Hours: 9.00a.m. - 5.00p.m.
Textbooks - borrowing period: 3 weeks
Charges for document supply
Self-service photocopying in the library:
lOp per sheet
Requests received by telephone/fax/post for copies of law
reports, judgments, legislation, articles, precedent forms,
etc., are subject to a handling charge:
£7.50
plus
photocopying:
15p per sheet
packing & postage:
£1.00
fax transmission:
£1.00 per sheet
VAT is charged on all orders.
measures which it modifies and later
measures which have in turn
modified it. Information on
amending measures is also contained
in Butterworths
European
CommunitiesLegislation: Current
Status.
(A fuller description of these
computerised databases will be given
in a later article).
Textbooks, Encyclopaedias, Journals
Commentaries on the law are the
starting point for research on a
subject. The library has CCH's
Common Market Reporter,
referred
to above, Vaughan's
Encyclopaedia
of European Community Law
and
Myles'
EC Brief
Copies of the main
textbooks on the institutions and on
the substantive law are held and also
the leading journals on EC law. Of
course, many textbooks and journal
articles on UK and Irish law also
include references to EC law and its
application. Journal articles are
located using
Legal Journals Index
and
European Access.
Current awareness
The daily news bulletin
Agence
Europe
is received and is scanned
by the editor of
Eurlegal News.
It
is available for consultation in
the library. The
Bulletin of the
EuropeanCommunities
published
by the Commission is a useful
source for recent legislative
developments.
Margaret Byrne,
Librarian.
(This is the first in a series of
articles on the libraryand its
services).
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