The ELAIS S1 field was observed by GALEX in both its Wide Spectroscopic and Deep Imaging Survey modes .
This field was previously observed by the Infrared Space Observatory and we made use of the catalogue of multi-wavelength data published by the ELAIS consortium to select galaxies common to the two samples .
Among the 959 objects with GALEX spectroscopy , 88 are present in the ELAIS catalog and 19 are galaxies with an optical spectroscopic redshift .
The distribution of redshifts covers the range 0 < z < 1.6 .
The selected galaxies have bolometric IR luminosities 10 < Log ( L _ { IR } ) < 13 ( deduced from the 15 \mu m flux using ISOCAM ) which means that we cover a wide range of galaxies from normal to Ultra Luminous IR Galaxies .
The mean ( \sigma ) UV luminosity ( not corrected for extinction ) amounts to Log ( \lambda . L _ { 1530 } ) = 9.8 ( 0.6 ) L _ { \sun } for the low-z ( z \leq 0.35 ) sample .
The UV slope \beta ( assuming f _ { \lambda } \propto \lambda ^ { \beta } ) correlates with the GALEX FUV-NUV color if the sample is restricted to galaxies below z < 0.1 .
Taking advantage of the UV and IR data , we estimate the dust attenuation from the IR/UV ratio and compare it to the UV slope \beta .
We find that it is not possible to uniquely estimate the dust attenuation from \beta for our sample of galaxies .
These galaxies are highly extinguished with a median value A _ { FUV } = 2.7 \pm 0.8 .
Once the dust correction applied , the UV- and IR-based SFRs correlate .
For the closest galaxy with the best quality spectrum , we see a feature consistent with being produced by a bump near 220nm in the attenuation curve .