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Brief Guide to Electronic Resources NOTE: You can access most of the databases and electronic journals

off-campus. See the Law Library Website for details.

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Internet product, available from any PC on the UCT campus.

Go to the Law Library Homepage at: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/law.

Select the database from the ‘Quick Links’ list.

If the database is not listed here:

Click on the ‘Electronic Resources’ button on the Menu Bar.

Then click on 'Law Databases'.

Select the required database from the alphabetical list.

Access is restricted to UCT students and staff.

CD-ROM Ask for the CD-ROM at the reference desk. For use in the Law Library only.

This program must be loaded on your PC desktop. Access is restricted to users with a login account on the UCT Law Fileserver (UCT law students and faculty members).

Available from the Reference PC in the Law Library.

Password required. Contact the Law Library on 650 5691, 650 5600, 650 5601 or 650 2671.

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Books and Dissertations

Africa-Wide Information The following databases provide bibliographic access to SA and foreign journal articles, reports and books: South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine. Includes details of reports published by the Centre for Rural Legal Studies. The reports:

Cover issues relating to agricultural workers in South Africa, specifically labour law, working conditions, housing/tenure and socio-economic conditions.

Land reform initiatives and rural local government issues are also covered.

ALEPH Aleph provides access to the Library catalogues of UCT, UWC and the University of Stellenbosch. It lists books, DVDs, dissertations and journal titles (eg SALJ), but does not provide access to individual articles within the journals listed.

Arbitration CD: Resources On International Commercial Arbitration Provides full text access to: Fouchard, Gaillard & Goldman on

International Commercial Arbitration The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA’s) Congress Series, Handbook,

Yearbook Consolidated Commentary on New York Convention by Albert Jan van den Berg.

BookData Online Used mainly for checking prices, availability and publishing details of books, journals, CD-ROMs, audio cassettes and videos. Includes summaries, tables of contents, ISBNs and prices.

Butterworths Products (Zimbabwe) Tax & Commercial Library Provides full text access to Income Tax in Zimbabwe 5th ed Practical Guide to VAT by Ernest and Young.

Current and Completed Research Projects (via Sabinet Online) Describes work in progress at South African universities, including the dissertation topics of currently registered PhD and LLM students.

Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) Includes abstracts of theses and dissertations submitted to 11 African institutions, mainly universities. Coverage from 1982.

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Dissertation Abstracts Information about doctoral dissertations and masters theses. Dissertations published from 1980 include 350-word abstracts by the author. Masters theses published from 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Titles available in PDF format include 24 page previews. Coverage from 1861 to date.

Electronic Meyerowitz Provides full text access to the following publications: Double Taxation

Agreements Income Tax Cases and Materials Meyerowitz on

Administration of Estates and Estate Planning Meyerowitz on Income

Tax 1997 Meyerowitz on VAT

Gore-Browne on Companies Comprehensive work on UK company legislation.

HeinOnline’s Legal Classics Library Provides full text access to many legal classics such as Blackstone’s Commentaries (1803) and translations of works of the ‘Old Authorities’ such as De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres by Grotius.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Indexes over 1 400 books annually.

Covers the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

1981 to date.

IR Network Comprehensive database on SA labour relations, including:

Full text of Basic Principles of South African Labour Law.

HR Policies and Procedures: disciplinary code, grievance procedure and general labour relations policy.

Labour Directory: Bargaining Councils (Registered and Unregistered), Chambers of Commerce, Employer Organisations, SETAs and Trade Unions.

Service Directory: Lists of firms and organisations providing services in the industrial relations field.

Annual Labour Law Conference Papers.

International Bureau for Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) Online Publications Provides full text access to the following publications: Country surveys

which include African jurisdictions Taxation of Permanent

Establishments Mergers and Acquisitions International Guide to the

Taxation of Transfers of Technology International Guide to the Taxation of Trusts.

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Juta Law Online Publications Income Tax Library.

Full text access to South African Income Tax and Value-Added Tax Legislation and Commentary

Labour Library. Includes the full text of Workplace Law by John Grogan.

Magistrate’s Court Practice. Contains the full text of the loose-leaf publication: Civil Practice of the Magistrates' Courts in SA by Jones & Buckle.

Superior Court Practice. Contains the full text of the loose-leaf publication: Superior Court Practice by Erasmus.

Court Rules: The Divorce Court, High Courts, Land Claims Court and the Magistrates’ Courts.

LexisNexis (South Africa) Provides full text access to:

General reference works including LAWSA Claassen's Dictionary

of Legal words and Phrases Current Law.

Textbooks, practitioners’ manuals, and commentaries on statutes

including Becks Theory and Principles of Pleadings in Civil Actions

Butterworths Forms and Precedents Harms Civil Procedure in the

Supreme Court Harms Civil Procedure in the Magistrate’s Court

Henochsberg on the Companies Act Butterworths Business Contracts

Compendium Butterworths Bill of Rights Compendium Wiechers and

Vorster Administration of Estates Davis, Beneke and Jooste Estate

Planning Pace and Van der Westhuizen Wills and Trusts Amler’s

Precedents of Pleadings. Manual on SA Retirement Funds and other Employee Benefits.

LexisNexis Academic (Foreign and International) Comprehensive legal information from the UK, USA, Canada and the European Union, including texts and treatises such as Halsbury's Laws of England Monthly Review from 1996 and Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law (current issue and back copies from the past 12 months only).

SACat (via Sabinet Online)

The joint catalogue of the major libraries in Southern Africa.

Provides details of books and journals held by each library.

Useful for Interlibrary Loan requests.

Sustainability Science Abstracts Covers all aspects of sustainable development, human

population and demography topics, as well as issues involving natural resource management and conservation of natural resources.

Includes papers, reports, books and reviews from peer-reviewed journals. Material from conference proceedings and gray literature is also summarised.

Covers the period 2003 to current.

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UCT Theses and Dissertations Access this collection from the ‘Digitool’ link on the Law Library Homepage. Gives full text access to more recent submissions.

Union Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations (UCTD) – (via Sabinet Online) UCTD provides access to 65,000 records of dissertations at masters and doctorate levels submitted to 32 universities in South Africa in all disciplines. It overlaps with Current and Completed Research (See above).

Westlaw International (Please remember to sign off)

Comprehensive legal information from the UK, USA, Canada and the European Union, including texts and treatises. For example, WLI provides full text access to International Commercial Arbitration by

Redfern and Hunter, Black's Law Dictionary (8 ed) Palmer's

Company Law Constitutional Law of South Africa (2 ed) by Woolman et al.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses

Provides access to the dissertations and theses submitted to universities worldwide. Many theses can be downloaded for free.

Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) Although this is not a legal database, it includes 118 journal titles

dealing with law and criminology.

Years covered vary by publication, with full text articles sometimes dating back to 1990, and indexing sometimes dating back to 1984.

Africa-Wide Information Indexes journal articles from SA and foreign journals.

Arbitration CD: Resources On International Commercial Arbitration Provides full text access to the following journals: Arbitration

International (1985 – 2003) Association Suisse de l'Arbitrage (ASA)

Bulletin (2000 – 2003, Journal of International Arbitration (1984 –

2003) Revue de l'arbitrage (1986 – 2003).

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e-Journals Portal Provides access to UCT Libraries’ current print journal subscriptions and gives full text access to on-line journals in databases such as Westlaw International, LexisNexis Academic and HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library and also links to journals which come directly from the publisher.

Electronic Meyerowitz

Provides full text access to The Taxpayer from 1952.

Emerald Management Reviews

Provides access to abstracts and full text articles on management and industrial relations.

Environment Abstracts

Deals with aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment.

Provides access to more than 950 journals. Also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, NGOs, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include monographs, government publications and newsletters

Covers the period 1975 to date.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements Detailed abstracts of all impact statements issued by the US

federal government.

Entries include a description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates.

Covers the period 1985 to date.

HeinOnline Law Journal Library Provides full text access to more than 1 200 law and law-related

journals (most of these are US law reviews). Includes non-US titles such as the Law Quarterly Review and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.

Provides full text access to the following SA journals: South African Law Journal, Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg, Acta Juridica, South African Journal on Human Rights, SA Human Rights Yearbook, Industrial Law Journal, Juta’s Business Law and Annual Survey of South African law.

Mainly intended as a historical archive, HeinOnline includes articles from the late 1800’s. Coverage of most titles ends in the last 2 years.

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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals IFLP is an American product, and 'foreign' means 'non-Anglo-

American'. The database is not limited by country of publication, but rather by content of the publication (thus British and American publications about non-Anglo-American law will be included).

Indexes journals published in South Africa such as: SALJ, SAJHR, CILSA, SAYIL, THRHR, and TSAR.

Covers the period 1985 to date.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books

ILP indexes over 1 000 major legal periodicals.

Covers the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Covers the period 1981 to date.

Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law (via HeinOnline) [Access: key in Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law’ in the ‘Enter publication title to lookup’ field]

Indexes law-related articles from non-law journals such as the Economist, Science and Monthly Labor Review.

Covers the period 1958 to date.

Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) (via Sabinet Online) Indexes articles from more than 500 South African periodicals.

Specialist periodicals are indexed fully, and general and popular periodicals are indexed selectively.

Includes all major SA law journals but only selected articles are indexed.

Covers the period 1987 to date.

IR Network Comprehensive database on SA labour relations, including current awareness services such as Gazette Alert, IR Network Today and News Watch.

International Bureau for Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) Journals Online Provides full text access to the International VAT Monitor and the Bulletin for International Taxation.

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JSTOR Full text access to core scholarly journals.

JSTOR is not a legal database. Very useful for cross-disciplinary research.

Includes journals in the following subject areas: African American Studies; Anthropology; Asian Studies; Ecology; Economics; Education; Finance; History; Language & Literature; Philosophy; Political Science; Population Studies; Sociology; Statistics.

Mainly intended as a historical archive, JSTOR includes articles from the late 1800’s.

Juta Law Online Publications Labour and Tax Libraries The Labour Library contains full text articles from the Industrial Law Journal from 1980 to date and the Tax Library contains full text articles from Juta's Tax Law Review from August 2005 to date.

Kindex: An Index to Legal Periodical Literature Concerning Children via HeinOnline [Access: key in: Kindex in the ‘Enter publication title to lookup’ field.]

“An index to legal periodical literature concerning young people and their problems with the law”.

Focuses on juvenile justice issues.

Covers the period 1965-2001.

Legalbrief (via email) A daily legal newsletter devoted to current developments locally and internationally. Links to newspapers and databases. Staff should send an email to: Dilshaad.Brey@uct.ac.za if they wish to receive the Legalbrief. Full time students can register for free access. Details on the Law Library Homepage.

Legal Journals Index (Westlaw International) The LJI database indexes articles from more than 430 United

Kingdom and English language journals.

Coverage begins with 1986.

Links directly to the full text where available.

LexisNexis (South Africa) Contains full text articles from De Jure Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse

Romeins-Hollandse Reg Employment Law Journal Insurance and

Tax Journal Income Tax Reporter Property Law Digest Taxgram.

LexisNexis Academic (Foreign and International) Contains the full text of articles from the law reviews of over 500

American and Canadian universities as well as many scholarly journals from the UK and Europe.

Years covered vary by publication. Most coverage is from 1990 to date, with some dating from the early 1980's.

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SA ePublications Provides full text access to 30 SA law journals including Acta Juridica, Annual Survey of SA Law, Juta’s Business Law, SA Journal of Criminal Justice, SA Journal on Human Rights, SA Law Journal, SA Mercantile Law Journal, Stellenbosch Law Review and Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg.

Westlaw International (Please remember to sign off)

Comprehensive legal information from the UK, USA Canada and the European Union, including full text articles from over 500 leading scholarly journals.

Includes the Legal Journals Index.

Statutes, Government Material, Treaties and

Other Instruments

Arbitration CD: Resources On International Commercial Arbitration Provides full text access to:

UNCITRAL Model Laws National arbitration laws for several jurisdictions including South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Conventions such as the New York Convention (1958), European Convention (Geneva) 1961 and the Treaty on the Harmonisation of

Business Law in Africa (OHADA) Rules of International and Regional Institutions such as the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).

Bill Tracker (via Sabinet Legal) Full text access to Bills introduced in the South African National Assembly from 1998 to date. Also gives the current status and full text of all bills before Parliament.

Butterworths Products (Zimbabwe & Nigeria) Includes:

Index to the Legislation in Force in Zimbabwe on 30 November 2004.

Full text of the Zimbabwe Statutes.

Laws of Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

Foreign Tax and Commercial Laws of the World on CD-ROM Provides full text access to tax, commercial and labour laws for many countries including several African countries such as Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia as at 2004.

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Government Gazette (via Sabinet Legal) Full text of the South African Government Gazette from 1910 to date

and Provincial Gazettes since 1994.

Includes: Weekly Government Gazette Index Acts Bills (from

1998) Draft bills Green papers White papers Regulations

General notices Government notices Press releases Board

notices Legal notices Proclamations.

HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library

This database contains more than 18,000 records of treaties and agreements to which the US has been a party.

HeinOnline United States Code and Statutes at Large HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources Includes the current constitution for every country and substantial constitutional histories for a number of countries including the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, and Colombia. Ninety percent of the countries contain an English translation for the current constitution. In addition to the constitutional documents, it includes books, articles, bibliographic references and web sites.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 19th (1801-1900)

and 20th century (1901-2003/04 session) century collections Bills House Papers Command Papers Reports of Committees Reports of Commissioners Accounts (Statistical information) Papers (correspondence from ambassadors, governors, army officers abroad), census data, slavery and slave trade documents Hansard (1803-2005).

IR Network Comprehensive database on SA labour relations, including:

Acts International labour instruments Gazette Alert Labour law forms: list of forms prescribed by the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995.

International Bureau for Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) Online Publications Provides full text access to the Tax Treaties Database. Worldwide coverage including African countries.

International Legal Materials (ILM) via Westlaw International (select), JSTOR and HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library Full text of important international treaties and agreements, national legislation, resolutions of international organisations and other documents.

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Juta Law Online Publications Index to the Government Gazette.

Statutes of Namibia.

Statutes of SA.

Statutes relating to Labour via the Labour Library.

Statutes relating to Tax via the Tax Library

Statutes of Zimbabwe.

LexisNexis (South Africa) Provides full text access to: Statutes of South Africa, including

regulations Provincial legislation National Gazettes from 1920 to 2004

Provincial Gazettes from 2004.

LexisNexis Academic (Foreign and International) Full text access to: US Federal and State Statutes, Codes and

Regulations Statutes and Statutory Instruments of England and Wales

Canadian Statutes EUR-Lex EU Law Databases: Preparatory Acts, Treaties, National Provisions Implementing Directives.

Municipal By-laws(via Sabinet Legal) Provides full text access to Municipal by-laws from 1995 to date.

Netlaw: SA Legislation (via Sabinet Legal) Provides full text access to amended acts with rules, regulations and forms.

Westlaw International (Please remember to sign off)

Provides full text access to:

UK Acts and Statutory Instruments.

US Public Laws and Federal and State Codes.

EU Statutes.

Canadian Statutes and Regulations.

Treaties, conventions, agreements and other international instruments.

Case Law

Arbitration CD: Resources On International Commercial Arbitration

Provides full text access to court decisions applying conventions such as the 1975 Panama Convention and the 1958 New York Convention and those applying the UNCITRAL Model Law.

Butterworths Products (Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe Law Reports 1985 - 2001.

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The complete AIR Supreme Court on CD-ROM Provides full text access to the Indian Supreme Court Reports from 1950-2004.

Current Legal Information (CLI) A comprehensive index and noter-up to UK case law:

Current law cases (1947- January 2005)

Current law case citator (1947- January 2005)

LRDI (Legal and Regulatory Developments Index)

HeinOnline English Reports, Full Reprint (1220 to 1867) Contains over 100,000 cases reprinted verbatim.

You can search or browse all 176 volumes of the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865.

Includes reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc.

Includes star pagination and parallel citations.

HeinOnline U.S. Supreme Court Library

Provides full text access to the official U.S. Supreme Court Reports.

HeinOnline Canada Supreme Court Reports

Provides full text access to the Canada Supreme Court Reports from 1876 to date.

IR Network Comprehensive database on SA labour relations, including: selected awards / judgments from IMSSA, the CCMA, AMSSA, Private Arbitration Awards, Pension Law Reports, the Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court as well as the old Industrial Court (pre-1995 LRA).

Juta Law Online Publications Full text and indexing of cases. The following law reports series are available:

Burrell's IP Law Reports (1997-2008). Burrell's Patent Law Reports (1953-1996).

Case Law of Zimbabwe (1980-2000).

Juta Privy Council Reports Taitz (1838–1915) via SA Appellate Division Reports.

Labour Law Reports via the Labour Library (1980 to date).

Namibian Law Reports (1990 to date).

SA Appellate Division (1910 to date).

SA Law Reports (1947 to date).

SA Criminal Law Reports (1990 to date).

Supreme Court of Appeal (August 1997 to date).

Tax Law Reports (1910 to date) and indexes to Juta Tax Law Reports via the Tax Library.

Tanzania Law Reports (1983-1997).

Zambia Law Reports (1963-1997).

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LexisNexis (South Africa) Provides full text access to:

South African Law Reports from 1828-1946 All South African Law

Reports (All SA) Constitutional Law Reports Labour Law Reports

Arbitration Reports Pension Law Reports South African Tax

Cases Reports Competition Law Reports.

Unpublished judgments via Judgments Online.

Gracie’s Index and Noter-up to South African Case Law.

All England Law Reports.

LexisNexis Academic (Foreign and International) Comprehensive full text coverage of both reported and unreported UK

judgments (including All England Law Reports).

Full text decisions from the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the Court of First Instance as contained in the CELEX database.

Comprehensive full text coverage of reported judgments for the US Supreme Court, Federal courts and State courts.

American Maritime Cases and Federal and State maritime case law from 1923.

Gatt Panel and World Trade Decisions.

Full text coverage of selected reported and unreported judgments from other foreign jurisdictions including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Law Reports of India Reported Series from January 1999 to December 2004.

Law Reports of India Unreported Series from January 1999 to 2001.

Supreme Court of India Cases Combined. Reported and unreported Supreme Court of India decisions from January 1999.

Taxindiaonline Judgments & Rulings from February 2011 to date.

TaxNET Access to South African tax cases reports.

Tax Treaty Case Law Database (via IBFD) Full text of judgments dealing with the interpretation and application of treaties for avoidance of double taxation. Includes editorial summaries.

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Westlaw International (Please remember to sign off)

Comprehensive full text coverage of reported and unreported UK judgments.

Case Locator database: summaries of UK cases, case histories, noter-up and case comments.

Comprehensive full text coverage of reported judgments for the US Supreme Court, Federal courts and State courts.

Federal Maritime Law Cases from 1789 and American Maritime Cases (AMC) from 1923.

Full text decisions from the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1954 to date) and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (European Union) (1989 to date).

Full text coverage of selected reported and unreported judgments from other jurisdictions including Australia and Canada.

General Reference Tools

Directory of Published Papers (DoPP) Lists conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia for which published proceedings are available. MInd: the meetings index lists forthcoming conferences, congresses,

meetings and symposia.

Nexus Database System Provided by the National Research Foundation, Nexus includes the following databases:

Current and Completed Research Projects Database This database includes abstracts of South African dissertations and

theses since 1919. A limited number of records contain links to the full-text.

National ETD Portal This portal provides access to the full-text of South African theses and dissertations.

NRF Funded Projects Database

Forthcoming Conferences Databases Provides information on forthcoming conferences nationally and internationally

South African Professional Associations Database.

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Oxford English Dictionary Online

Oxford Reference Online – Premium Collection The Premium Collection includes over 175 titles, such as the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries Series, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

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