{"id":77431,"date":"2020-04-20T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=77431"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:36:05","slug":"summer-database-access-for-continuing-law-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/04\/20\/summer-database-access-for-continuing-law-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Database Access for Continuing Law Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>For students who will return to school in the Fall, you still have access to these databases:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summer Access to Lexis&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to Lexis will continue during the summer.&nbsp; As long as you are registered for Lexis you do not have to do anything to continue using Lexis Advance this summer. &nbsp;You may use Lexis for work or school during the summer. &nbsp;In the fall, usage reverts back to academic use only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summer Access to Westlaw&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Summer coursework<\/li><li>Research assistant assignments<\/li><li>Law Review or Journal research<\/li><li>Moot Court research<\/li><li>Non-Profit work<\/li><li>Clinical work<\/li><li>Externship sponsored by the school<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p><strong>Bloomberg Law<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;continues over the summer. &nbsp;You may use your Bloomberg Law password for any purpose during the summer as well as year-round. &nbsp;The court dockets and transactional resources may be particularly useful to those working at law firms over the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other databases<\/strong>&nbsp;accessible over the summer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casemakerx.com\/\">&nbsp;CasemakerX legal research database<\/a>. &nbsp;This database has good coverage for Ohio. &nbsp;Access for students is free.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/law\/about-us\/law-library-database.dot\">Law Library databases<\/a>&nbsp;such as HeinOnline and Proquest Legislative Insight.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Free Fastcase App<\/a>&nbsp;for iPhone or Android<\/li><li>For free databases on the Internet, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/law.uakron.libguides.com\/federallaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United States Federal Law \u2013 Free Sources<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/law.uakron.libguides.com\/ohiolaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ohio Law \u2013 Free Sources<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For students who will return to school in the Fall, you still have access to these databases: Summer Access to Lexis&nbsp; Access to Lexis will continue during the summer.&nbsp; As long as you are registered for Lexis you do not have to do anything to continue using Lexis Advance this summer. &nbsp;You may use Lexis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/04\/20\/summer-database-access-for-continuing-law-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer Database Access for Continuing Law 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":[1,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77431","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\/77431","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=77431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77743,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77431\/revisions\/77743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}