FULL TEXT DISPLAY

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The full text display is easy to navigate and offers an extensive range of linking possibilities to related material for broader and deeper research. It also provides a selection of display formats offering bibliographic information.

Functionality of the full text display

• status flags indicate repealed or modified legislation and superseded judgments and orders: = repealed/superseded, = modified
• records can be printed, downloaded or emailed » More information
• hold the mouse over a footnote reference to view the text » More information
• use the table of contents in the left hand pane to jump to articles or annexes within the document
• use the first, previous, next or last icons to move to other records
• click the summary icon to return to the summary list
• click back to search to return to your search query
• use the text navigation icons First hit on page, , Last hit on page to jump to search term(s) within the text. The software will automatically load and scan all next or previous pages until it finds an occurrence of a search term. If there are no further occurrences it will then display a warning message.

LINKING TO RELATED DOCUMENTS

OJ OnlinePlus is full of hypertext links to related records. Linking possibilities include:

• linking to documents cited in the text
• linking to groups of related material e.g. any available modifications, court decisions, national implementing measures or consolidated text
• one-to-one linking to a wide range of information by changing the display format
• linking to PDFs of Official Journals in all EU languages (since 1998)

Linking to groups of related material

This function can be used with any records that have a Celex number. The tabs will be activated if related material is available. To view a group of related records simply click on the tab for the type of link you require.

 

Modifications

Retrieves all records that directly have an affect on the displayed record, i.e. documents that amend, add, replace, adopt etc.

Consolidation

Retrieves the consolidated text of a record in pdf format. » More information

Court decisions

Retrieves any relevant Court decisions associated with the displayed record.

National measures

Displays details of national measures implementing a particular piece of legislation. This tab always appears for directives even if there is no data. Information is added as it becomes available. » More information

One-to-one linking

The full text display also provides a selection of other formats in which to view a record. These displays provide bibliographic and analytical information and are filled with links to related material (in Celex number format). In the Full analytical display for example, you can link to the legal base of a record, to other cited records and to records that have been modified by the current record or that have modified it.

• To change the format, click the Text pull down menu and select the format you require.

 

 

Tip: the Full analytical display gives a full overview of a record with links to a vast range of related material.

 

 

• Each link to a related record will display the full text if a single record is linked to or a summary list if there is more than one record.
• Each link is classified as a level with the original document being level 0.
• To return to a previous level click the back button .

Link to PDFs

Many documents are available in their original format as pdfs in other EU languages. In the full text display the bar below will indicate that pdfs for that record are available. » More information

 

• To save a pdf document directly to your hard disk: click the right-hand mouse button of the language you require and select "Save target as" and follow the standard Windows procedure for saving files.
• To open a pdf: click the icon of the the the language you require.
• Click the back button to return to the full text display.

Footnotes incorporated in the text

OJ OnlinePlus has a useful feature in Official Journal records from 2003 onwards. Footnotes, normally only listed at the end of an article, are also available within the text as a float-over. Hold the mouse over the footnote reference and a yellow box with the text will appear.

 

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