{"id":2269,"date":"2010-03-10T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:54:48","slug":"lexis-and-westlaw-academic-password-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2010\/03\/10\/lexis-and-westlaw-academic-password-use\/","title":{"rendered":"LEXIS and WESTLAW Academic Password Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your law school passwords for LEXIS and WESTLAW must only be used for educational purposes directly related to coursework at the law school.\u00a0 Other use may be a violation of the Student Disciplinary Code and a breach of our contracts with LEXIS and WESTLAW.\u00a0 Using LEXIS or WESTLAW to do research in a paid<\/span> position as a law clerk, intern, or clinician working for a firm, governmental entity or a nonprofit organization would violate the Student Disciplinary Code.\u00a0 Also, you are not permitted to conduct legal research on LEXIS and WESTLAW for friends and family.<\/p>\n

In addition to sanctions by the School of Law, a contract violation can result in having to pay the vendors for the services misused.\u00a0 Repayment will be at commercial rates of about $2.00 – $5.00 per minute.\u00a0 Moreover, violators are likely to lose their privileges to use LEXIS and WESTLAW as students.\u00a0 A pattern of violations at our school could result in the vendors canceling our contracts, which would have a devastating impact on all students and faculty.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For a copy of Westlaw\u2019s and LexisNexis\u2019 policy concerning academic passwords follow the links on the Password Use web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Forget Casemaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

As an alternative to using Lexis or Westlaw, you may use Casemaker, the database available from the Ohio State Bar Association.\u00a0 All Ohio law students may join the Ohio State Bar Association<\/a> for free and your free membership includes access to Casemaker.\u00a0 Casemaker has no academic password restrictions so you can use it to conduct research for your summer jobs.<\/p>\n

Questions?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any question concerning what is proper or improper use of LEXIS or WESTLAW should be directed to Ms. Lenart or Mr. Richert.<\/p>\n

Ms. Lenart, Assistant Law Librarian for Reference Services<\/p>\n

330-972-6357<\/p>\n

llenart@uakron.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your law school passwords for LEXIS and WESTLAW must only be used for educational purposes directly related to coursework at the law school.\u00a0 Other use may be a violation of the Student Disciplinary Code and a breach of our contracts with LEXIS and WESTLAW.\u00a0 Using LEXIS or WESTLAW to do research in a paid position … Continue reading “LEXIS and WESTLAW Academic Password Use”<\/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-2269","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\/2269","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=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}