In line with the “Open Science” policy, our aim is to ensure that the public has unrestricted access to a vast literature. CEDIS thus contributes, with national funds from FCT, I.P., to the NOVA School of Law Library, a public library that provides books, journals, databases and other online resources. Our library serves not only our researchers, but also all citizens, and is widely used by students, legal professionals, researchers and organisations outside our institution.
The Library’s homepage can be accessed at this link.
I) Documentary fund
CEDIS has contributed to building up the Library’s document collection, which currently comprises around 40,000 titles of monographs and a commitment to digital support; 255 titles of periodicals, 153 of which are foreign publications. Mainly centred on the area of Law, you can nevertheless find works on Philosophy, Political Thought, Sociology, Economics, History, etc. Legal and general reference works (dictionaries and encyclopaedias) are also available for local consultation.
The Library Catalogue can be accessed at link.
II) Digital database
CEDIS has also contributed to making digital databases available. Several of these databases require subscriptions, most of which are paid for by CEDIS using FCT funds. Some of them are as follows:
Cambridge Core. Cambridge Core is a sophisticated, high-performance online platform that provides readers with the main academic output of Cambridge University Press. Here you can find books, articles and other publications online, as well as other content published by member publishers such as Edinburgh University Press, Facet Publishing, the University of Adelaide Press, among others.
Kluwer Arbitration. KluwerArbitration.com is the world’s leading online resource for international arbitration research. It contains a wealth of comments from specialised authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. What’s more, as a subscriber, you get access to exclusive materials, including ICC cases and awards. The plataform Kluwer Law Online contains:
- Complete collection of academic journals;
- A growing selection of papers;
- Navigable tables of contents;
- Bibliographic information in HTML format;
- Full-text documents in PDF format (to view and print PDF files, please install the free Adobe Reader);
- Advanced navigation and search functionality within and between titles;
- Available online 3 to 4 weeks before print publication.
