Summer Access to Lexis Advance
Access to Lexis Advance will continue during the summer. As long as you are registered for Lexis Advance you do not have to do anything to continue using Lexis Advance this summer. If you have not registered for Lexis Advance, please contact our Lexis Account Manager, Jennifer Durkin at jennifer.durkin@lexisnexis.com.
Academic purpose restrictions still apply for the summer. Academic purposes include, but are not limited to:
- Summer course preparation and assignments
- Research associated with Moot Court, Law Review, or Law Journal
- Research associated with pursuing a grant or scholarship
- Service as a paid or unpaid research assistant to a professor
- An internship, externship or clinic position for school credit or graduation requirement
- Study for the bar exam
- Research skill improvement
Academic purposes do not include research conducted for a law firm, corporation, or other entity (other than a professor or law school) that is paying you to conduct research, or that is passing along the cost of research you conduct to a third party.
If you need access to materials that are still not available on Lexis Advance, you will need to contact our Lexis Account Manager, Jennifer Durkin (jennifer.durkin@lexisnexis.com), to get summer access to classic Lexis.
Students and graduates (including December 2011 graduates) engaged in verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work may apply for access to Cases, Codes, Law Reviews, Shepard’s, and Matthew Bender treatises on lexis.com through the ASPIRE 2012 program. (Log in and then click this link )
Summer Access to Westlaw
To access Westlaw over the summer, students need to register on Westlaw. Log onto Westlaw and click on the image that says summer access. Typically, it shows up on the right under the Weekly Poll feature. Academic use only restrictions apply for summer. Academic purposes include:
- Summer law school classes
- Law review or law journal work
- Project for a professor
- Moot court
- Unpaid, nonprofit public-interest internship/externship pro bono work required for graduation
Passwords may NOT be used for research for law firms, government agencies, corporations or other purposes unrelated to law school coursework. Students graduating this year can extend their passwords by following the special link for graduates.
Access to Casemaker continues year round. Law students do not have to do anything to keep summer access. Students can use Casemaker to conduct research for their employer. Casemaker does not have an academic password restriction!
For more information about summer or graduate access, see our new library guide – Legal Research Databases.