St. Augustine Legal Affairs (STALA) Issue 2 | Page 38

Law

Resources

By Ms. Jolie Rajah

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The Alma Jordan Library has the responsibility of developing, maintaining and managing the legal information
collection, in order to satisfy the teaching, learning and
research needs of the programme and of the wider community of The University of the West Indies (UWI), St.
Augustine (STA) campus.

Databases

Books / E-Books


CARILAW [individual username and password
required] – This e-resource contains full-text cases (with
head-notes) from Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions and to a lesser extent treaties and legislation. The
database is searchable by title, country, court, judge, subject, date, and word / phrase and browseable by jurisdiction and court.

Legal information databases provide access to a wide
range of primary and secondary material including law
reports, legislation, journal articles and books. One of the
advantages of electronic databases is that you can usually access content, anytime, anywhere. The Alma Jordan
To this end, we have continued to acquire relevant law ti- Library subscribes to several such e-resources. Below I
tles, invested in subscriptions to several legal information have profiled some of the major, subscribed legal infordatabases and created online research guides on topics mation databases, but for a complete list, please consult
of interest. Below is an overview of those resources and the Databases section on the Library’s home-page. You
more:
can browse that list by title or by subject (Law).

Every academic / financial year, many legal publications are acquired for various collections in the Library,
for example the General collection (4th Floor), Course
Reserves (Ground / 1st Floor) and West Indiana (2nd
Floor). The Course Reserves collection holds texts that
have been identified by your lecturers from the Faculty of
Law (amongst others) as essential or highly recommend- 
HeinOnline – This e-resource includes (amongst
ed for particular courses – i.e. selected book / reading list others) collections such as Law Journal Library, Foreign
titles.
& International Law Resources Database, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP), Kluwer Law International
The Library’s law collection includes titles in print and Library, United Nations Law Collection and World Conelectronic format (e-books). The advantage of the latter stitutions Illustrated. The Law Journal Library is paris that you can access certain publications, anytime, any- ticularly useful as the collection contains a wide variety
where (on or off campus), once you are connected to the of law and law-related journals