{"id":57187,"date":"2018-04-26T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=57187"},"modified":"2018-04-25T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:01:46","slug":"summer-access-to-lexis-westlaw-and-bloomberg-for-continuing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2018\/04\/26\/summer-access-to-lexis-westlaw-and-bloomberg-for-continuing-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Access  to Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg for Continuing Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summer Access to Lexis\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access to Lexis will continue during the summer.\u00a0 As long as you are registered for Lexis you do not have to do anything to continue using Lexis Advance this summer. \u00a0You may use Lexis for work or school during the summer. \u00a0In the fall, usage reverts back to academic use only.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Access to Westlaw\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can use Thomson Reuters products, including Westlaw, Practical Law, and the Practice Ready solutions, over the summer for non-commercial research. You can turn to these resources to gain understanding and build confidence in your research skills, but you cannot use them in situations where you are billing a client. Examples of permissible uses for your academic password include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Summer coursework<\/li>\n<li>Research assistant assignments<\/li>\n<li>Law Review or Journal research<\/li>\n<li>Moot Court research<\/li>\n<li>Non-Profit work<\/li>\n<li>Clinical work<\/li>\n<li>Externship sponsored by the school<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You do not have to do anything to gain access to these tools over the summer. If you have any questions, please contact your Thomson Reuters Academic Account Manager.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloomberg Law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjOvbjNy4nMAhUFeD4KHZl6D8cQFggkMAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberglaw.com%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyWSPs3-u1cIMZZrSTQsOZmrOulQ&amp;sig2=lLAqCxxgtX4of3ik0ZXMfg\">Bloomberg Law<\/a>\u00a0continues over the summer. \u00a0You may use your Bloomberg Law password for any purpose during the summer as well as year-round. \u00a0The court dockets and transactional resources may be particularly useful to those working at law firms over the summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other databases<\/strong>\u00a0accessible over the summer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casemakerx.com\/\">\u00a0CasemakerX legal research database<\/a>. \u00a0This database has good coverage for Ohio. \u00a0Access for students is free.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/law\/about-us\/law-library-database.dot\">Law Library databases<\/a>\u00a0such as HeinOnline and Proquest Legislative Insight.<\/li>\n<li><a id=\"link_25239427\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Fastcase App<\/a>\u00a0for iPhone or Android<\/li>\n<li>For free databases on the Internet, see\u00a0<a id=\"link_22732169\" href=\"http:\/\/law.uakron.libguides.com\/federallaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Federal Law \u2013 Free Sources<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a id=\"link_22732177\" href=\"http:\/\/law.uakron.libguides.com\/ohiolaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ohio Law \u2013 Free Sources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer Access to Lexis\u00a0 Access to Lexis will continue during the summer.\u00a0 As long as you are registered for Lexis you do not have to do anything to continue using Lexis Advance this summer. \u00a0You may use Lexis for work or school during the summer. \u00a0In the fall, usage reverts back to academic use only. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2018\/04\/26\/summer-access-to-lexis-westlaw-and-bloomberg-for-continuing-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer Access  to Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg for Continuing Students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2490,"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":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187","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\/2490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57319,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57187\/revisions\/57319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}