Legal Blog Watch Legal Profession WSJ Law Blog World News from Jurist.orgHyla Bondareff | April 23, 2013
BLOOMBERG LAW: Returning students have unrestricted access over the summer. Graduating students will continue to have unrestricted access for 6 months after graduation. If you have not already signed up for Bloomberg Law, go to bloomberglaw.com and “Register for a Law School Account.” LEXIS ADVANCE: Returning students have unrestricted access over the summer. Graduating students [...]
Hyla Bondareff | September 20, 2012
The Library of Congress announced a new free, fact-based Legislative Information site yesterday, http://beta.Congress.gov, which will eventually replace Thomas.
Hyla Bondareff | May 15, 2012
Be sure to extend your Law School LexisNexis and Westlaw passwords if you require access over the summer. Bloomberg Law is also now available to all law students and your password may be used over the summer without an educational purpose restriction. Bloomberg Law access and help is available at https://www.bloomberglaw.com/. To obtain an account, [...]
Hyla Bondareff | March 9, 2012
If so, you might consider the following free apps: With HeinOnline’s iPad/iPhone app, you can read an account of Susan B Anthony’s trial on the charge of illegal voting in the Presidential election of November 1872 (from the World Trials Library); check the Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (in the Federal [...]
Hyla Bondareff | February 14, 2012
We’ve purchased a new database: Legislative Insight. This database picks up where ProQuest Congressional leaves off … Also by ProQuest, Legislative Insight contains over 18,000 federal legislative histories with digital full text publications covering laws from 1929 to present. For federal laws between 1969 and current, coverage will be similar. However, Legislative Insight provides legislative histories [...]
Hyla Bondareff | November 8, 2011
American Indian Law Collection With more than 700 unique titles and 350,000 pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. This library also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible [...]
Hyla Bondareff | October 10, 2011
We’ve added a new Library to our HeinOnline Subscription: Spinelli’s Law Librarian’s Reference Shelf. As it sounds, the collection is intended for law librarians and it was put together by Dick Spinelli, a long time William S. Hein associate and friend to many a law librarian. The collection, though, contains interesting material for all. For [...]
Judy Stark | September 19, 2011
Shiver me timbers! It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Capt. Jack Sparrow makes a pirate’s life look fun, but most pirates were not as lucky as him. If caught, most pirates were hung immediately. Usually only the most notorious ones were captured and brought to trial. For a historical look at piracy and the [...]
Hyla Bondareff | August 24, 2011
Forgot your Westlaw and/or Lexis password? Are you a transfer student or a new LLM? Here’s what to do: Have account but forgot user name or password: Westlaw: call 1-800-westlaw Lexis: call 1-800-45-lexis Do not already have account: Westlaw: contact student rep (hours posted on 2nd floor outside the library restrooms) or our Account Manager, [...]
Hyla Bondareff | May 18, 2011
Do you need access to your Law School LexisNexis and Westlaw passwords over the summer? If so, you must (1) qualify and (2) make a request. Here’s how: Lexis: Go to http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/content.aspx?articleid=308&topicid=14&WT.ad=143 and fill out the required information. Your use must be for academic purposes which under the Lexis policy include, but are not limited [...]
Hyla Bondareff | December 9, 2010
The Intellectual Property Law Collection joins HeinOnline’s newest collection of libraries with a “google-like” approach to researching. Enter one search and it runs across all the IP resources. Narrow your set of results using the faceted options on the left. The database of 100+ legislative histories, books, and IP related primary law and will continue [...]
Dorie Bertram | September 17, 2010
Take a few minutes to celebrate View a “Video Short” from the National Archives. “Acting Chief of Reference at the National Archives Trevor Plante … takes viewers inside the National Archives vaults to see some of his favorite rarely-displayed documents.” Which of our nation’s founders are you most like? Take a quiz to find out. [...]
Hyla Bondareff | September 7, 2010
I hope you are all enjoying Westlaw Next … which you are now able to access via your normal Westlaw OnePass user name and password. If you go to lawschool.westlaw.com and sign in, you should see something like this: Across the top of your screen (blue background with white letters) you should have a choice [...]
Judy Stark | July 27, 2010
If you’re interested in learning more about the Dodd-Frank Act, there’s some library resources to help you. Check out CCH’s new title, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Law, Explanation and Analysis. Available through our CCH Intelliconnect database, this publication walks the reader through the entire Dodd-Frank Act. Useful commentary is included as [...]
Hyla Bondareff | July 27, 2010
WestlawNext is now accessible from the home (http://lawschool.westlaw.com) page and using your Westlaw OnePass password. You should see a familiar looking page … with the blue band across the top and that ability to choose TWEN, Research, etc. Now you have the choice to click on Home (where my cursor is sitting), Westlaw (traditional), WestlawNext, [...]
Hyla Bondareff | July 20, 2010
Discover the history of U.S. bankruptcy laws in Part III of HeinOnline’s Taxation and Economic Reform library: the History of Bankruptcy. This new database contains legislative histories of bankruptcy laws in America, other related documents and direct linking to relevant law review articles. Check it out: http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=bank&set_as_cursor=clear
Hyla Bondareff | June 4, 2010
Ok, so this isn’t such new news but then again the tabloids probably did not include the full text and reasoning of the court in Madonna’s case before the Supreme Court of Appeals in Malawi. [1] Nor did they report on our library’s newest database, Oxford Reports on International Law. Follow the link in the [...]
Hyla Bondareff | May 25, 2010
Have you heard of Loislaw? Fastcase? Casemaker? Each is a lower cost alternative to Westlaw and Lexis that appears to be a survivor in the legal research arena. You may be thinking, “why do we care? We have free access to Westlaw and Lexis.” Here’s why you care: Our access to Westlaw and Lexis is [...]
Hyla Bondareff | May 5, 2010
At the end of this month you will no longer be able to sign on to Westlaw using your original password. You must update it to a ‘OnePass’ user name and password. You should receive a prompt when you try to sign on to Westlaw and you can also get step by step instructions. What [...]
Hyla Bondareff | April 1, 2010
Did you notice the new CCH platform? All of our electronic CCH titles are now available via one direct link (http://www.intelliconnect.cch.com). No more trying to figure out whether you need to enter the tax library or the human resources library or the business library. And no more email address necessary before searching.