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Law Research Assistants Materials: Research Project 5

training resources for Law Research Assistants

Journals

Databases

 

[See below for sample searches] 

Legal: Legal Journals Index  |  LegalTrac  |  AGIS Plus Text  |  Linxplus (Content type=Journal article)

Non-law: Scopus  |  Web of Science | Google Scholar

Books: WorldCat  |  Google Books

Keywords

 

Regional Seas Regimes Law

regional
transboundary

Mediterranean
Caribbean
Arctic
Pacific
North East Atlantic
Indian Ocean
East Asian Seas
Caspian Sea
Black Sea

 sea or seas
ocean*
marine
maritime
coast*		 regime*
program*
policy or policies
framework*		 law or laws
regulat*
convention*
treaty or treaties
protocol*
rules
agreement*

OSPAR
HELCOM
UNEP regional seas program* or
United Nations Environmental Program* regional seas program*

  

 

Sample Searches

 

Legal Journals Index (70+ results)
Terms and Connectors Option: 
(regional transboundary) & (sea ocean! marine maritime coast!) & (regime program! policy framework) ospar helcom
Dates: After 1999
(LJI automatically searches for plurals)

LegalTrac (20 results)
Advanced Search:
  regional or transboundary
    AND
  sea! or ocean* or marine or maritime or coast*
    AND
  regime* or program* or policy or policies or framework*
     OR (use "Add a Row")
  ospar or helcom or ((unep or "united nations environmental program*") and "regional seas program*")
Publication date(s): After December 1999
Important: check results under both the Academic Journals and Magazines tabs

AGIS Plus Text (16 results)
  regional or transboundary
    AND
  sea or seas or ocean* or marine or maritime or coast*
    AND (use "Add More Terms")
  regime* or program* or policy or policies or framework*
Date range: 1999 to 2009
[Note that the following gives 0 results, so can be omitted: ospar or helcom or ((unep or "united nations environmental") and "regional seas")
Also note that AGIS does not allow truncation within a phrase, e.g. search "regional seas" not "regional seas program*"]

Linxplus (9 results)
(regional or transboundary) and (sea or seas or ocean! or marine or maritime or coast!) and (regime! or program! or policy or policies or framework!) or ospar or helcom or ((unep or "united nations environmental program!") and "regional seas program!")
Content type: Journal article

Scopus (700+ results; many not relevant, so need to Refine search)
  (regional or transboundary) and (sea or ocean* or marine or maritime or coast*) and (regime or program* or policy or framework)
    AND
  law or regulat* or convention or treaty or protocol or rules or agreement
Published: 2000 to present
Then Refine Results, e.g. by Source Title
(Scopus automatically searches for plurals and some variations such as program/programme)

As a separate search (3 results)
  (unep or {united nations environmental program}) and {regional seas program}
Published: 2000 to present

Web of Science (400+ results; many not relevant, so need to Refine search)
  (regional or transboundary) and (sea$ or ocean* or marine or maritime or coast*) and (regime$ or program* or policy or policies or framework$)
    AND
  law$ or regulat* or convention$ or treaty or treaties or protocol$ or rules or agreement$
    OR
  (unep or "united nations environmental program*") and "regional seas program*"
Timespan: From 2000 to 2009
Databases: untick Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Refine Results: Source Titles
 

 

Google Scholar
Choose "Advanced Scholar Search" and set Publication Date from 2000; tick relevant Subject Areas; click OK. Note: "and" is assumed between search terms; "or" must be indicated by capital OR.

Example searches (in the ordinary search box):
regional sea OR seas OR ocean OR oceans OR marine OR maritime OR coastal OR coasts regime OR program OR policy OR framework law OR regulation OR convention OR treaty OR protocol OR rules OR agreement

unep OR "united nations environmental program" OR "united nations environmental programme"  "regional seas program" OR "regional seas programme"

WorldCat
For all searches:
Limit to: Year 2000-2010
Limit type to: Books
Subtype limits: not Juvenile (Audience); not Fiction (Content)
 
400+ results
    (regional or transboundary) and (sea+ or ocean?2 or marine or maritime or coast?2)
  AND
    regime+ or program?3 or policy or policies or framework+
  AND
    law+ or regulat* or convention+ or treat?3 or protocol+ or rules or agreement+
(Gives very broad results; but looking in detail at relevant items or in the following search, can find useful subject terms)

Separate search (144 results):
    (unep or "united nations environmental program*") and "regional seas program*"
  OR
    ospar or helcom
 
Subject terms of relevance:
Law of the sea
Marine resources conservation
Environmental law, International
Environmental policy -- International cooperation
 
Example search using subject terms: (90+ results)
  law of the sea [Subject Phrase]
    AND
  marine resources conservation  [Subject Phrase]

 

Google Books
Choose "Advanced Books Search" and set Publication Date from 2000 to 2010; click OK. Note: "and" is assumed between search terms; "or" must be indicated by capital OR.

Example searches (in the ordinary search box):
regional sea OR ocean OR marine OR maritime OR coastal regime OR program OR policy OR framework law OR regulation OR convention OR treaty OR protocol OR rules OR agreement

unep OR "united nations environmental program" OR "united nations environmental programme"  "regional seas program" OR "regional seas programme"