Student Handbook 2024/25 (Cert IP / Cert Trade Mark Law and Practice AND MSc Management of IP)

20.13. Institute of Advance Legal Studies (IALS)

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library (IALS)

To join this library, you will have to show your QM student ID card and complete the online IALS Library Registration Form.

The IALS Library:

• Receives funding directly from QM to enable them to provide all PG Law students with excellent quality library support.
• Receives reading lists for all PG Law modules and undertakes to make available all core reading and a wide and interesting variety of supplemental literature.
• Is one of the largest and broadest single subject law libraries in Europe, with access to over a quarter of a million books and over three thousand serials, across a wide range of legal topics and jurisdictions.
• Actively monitors circulation statistics, and purchases multiple copies of heavily used course books.
• Will, where possible, obtain electronic access to key resources to facilitate students' research, and enthusiastically pursue a policy to make as many of our electronic resources as possible available to QMUL students offsite.
• Can offer expert advice, training and assistance in your legal research.
• Offers a postgraduate only working environment to facilitate your studies.

Contact:

• Laura Griffiths, Assistant Librarian
• Academic Services Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library
• University of London
• 17 Russell Square, LONDON WC1B 5DR
• Tel: +44 (0) 20 7862 5820
• Fax: +44 (0) 20 7862 5770
• Email: ials@sas.ac.uk
• Web: www.ials.sas.ac.uk