{"id":19638,"date":"2014-04-03T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=19638"},"modified":"2014-04-03T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:17:21","slug":"summer-use-of-westlaw-lexis-and-bloomberg-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2014\/04\/03\/summer-use-of-westlaw-lexis-and-bloomberg-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer use of Westlaw, Lexis and Bloomberg Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law students: if you are taking classes this summer you can continue to use Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law to conduct class related research.\u00a0 Lexis and Bloomberg Law also permit you to use your law school passwords to conduct research for your employers!\u00a0 \u00a0Westlaw has restrictions against using your law school Westlaw password.\u00a0 See specific information below.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lexis Advance &#8211; Unlimited Access this Summer<br \/>\n<\/b>Use Lexis Advance for any purpose this summer, including work you perform at a law firm, corporation, government agency or law school.\u00a0 For summer 2014, students\u2019 access to Lexis Advance is automatic.\u00a0 You do not have to do a special summer registration. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexisnexis.com\/lawschool\/lsp\/b\/weblog12\/archive\/2014\/01\/21\/unlimited-summer-access.aspx?lnsi=0cb70c40-97d0-4a9c-9060-861194329d66&amp;aci=ls&amp;rmflag=true&amp;lc=LawSchoolPortal\/Signin\">More information<\/a><\/span>.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Bloomberg Law<\/b> \u2013 <b>Unlimited Access this Summer<\/b><br \/>\nAccess throughout law school, including during <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bna.com\/bloomberglaw\/students\/\">summer employment<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Your Bloomberg password stays active throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><b>Westlaw \u2013 Summer Restrictions Apply<br \/>\n<\/b>1. You can use Westlaw during the summer for summer classes or another academic use.\u00a0 You cannot use Westlaw to conduct research for a law firm, corporation or other entity that is paying you. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lawschool.westlaw.com\/shared\/marketinfodisplay.asp?code=MI&amp;id=473\">List of what is considered academic use<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2. You must extend your Westlaw password to continue your access this summer by filling out this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lawschool.westlaw.com\/registration\/summerextension.aspx\">Summer Extension form<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 If you do not fill out this online form, your access to Westlaw will automatically be reduced to just two hours per month (June-July).<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>For questions concerning proper use of your legal research passwords, please contact Lynn Lenart, <a href=\"mailto:llenart@uakron.edu\">llenart@uakron.edu<\/a> , 330-972-6357.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law students: if you are taking classes this summer you can continue to use Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law to conduct class related research.\u00a0 Lexis and Bloomberg Law also permit you to use your law school passwords to conduct research for your employers!\u00a0 \u00a0Westlaw has restrictions against using your law school Westlaw password.\u00a0 See specific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2014\/04\/03\/summer-use-of-westlaw-lexis-and-bloomberg-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer use of Westlaw, Lexis and Bloomberg Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-law-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19638\/revisions\/19646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}