JustCite (Legal Reference and Citator Service)
| Name of Product/Service | JustCite (Legal Reference and Citator Service) |
| Company Name | Justis Publishing Limited |
| Company Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Company Website | http://www.justispublishing.com/ |
| Product/Service Website | http://www.justcite.com/default.aspx |
| Status | Commercial Service |
| Launch Date | January 2002 |
| PSI Sector | Law and Regulation |
| Main Source of PSI Re-used | JustCite is a legal reference search engine and citator service that provides a fully cross-referenced index to an extensive collection of authoritative UK and European information. It indexes and links to content from a range of publishers including BAILII, Casetrack, Informa Law, Justis, LexisNexis, Westlaw and CELEX, the official legal database of the European Union and shows how they relate to each other. The service provides access to:
Covering: Case Law
Legislation
Materials date from 1950 to date and include official EU documents including:
Indexed Journals, Articles & Support Material JustCite indexes can be used to find supplementary sources in instances where topics are not fully explored or explained in the more formal documents. These are also that are also indexed and cross-referenced. |
| Value Added to PSI | The services provided by JustCite include: Legal citation search engine Peerless reference recognition technology searches an ever-growing index of 430,000 authoritative cases from 1.7 million documents going back to 1163.
Snapshot of the value of law Information screens on JustCite are set out to indicate the value of precedent for each case, and guide users to the relevant record or to cases and legislation cited, as well as subsequent cases that can be investigated to give a full picture.
Links to full-text legal resources Each citation provides a drop-down list showing the various electronic resources that hold the full text. Customisation facilities are available and vary with subscriptions level.
A reference source for offline research For users with limited subscription JustCite can be used to find references for documents so that they can visit a library with a full list of relevant cases to photocopy. In additional the service also provides a suite of tools to help search and link from external media to information on JustCite. |
| Description of the Business and Role of PSI | Justis Publishing Ltd (formerly Context Publishing Ltd) is an independent publisher of electronic legal information, concentrating in particular on United Kingdom and European Union legal, official and business information, with over 20 years of experience working with legal and information professionals. Justis Publishing’s customers are from legal and financial professions, government and the academic community worldwide. The company has and has been publishing titles online and on CD-ROM since 1986, In October 2006, the latest edition of the Justis service was launched online. |