24 April 2014
WL/LX/BL Summer Access
Finals are over! Congrats! Now that "summer" is here, it's time to answer a question that I get often throughout the school year. Can students use Westlaw or Lexis during their summer work? …
15 April 2014
End of Westlaw Classic
Westlaw recently announced that they will be retiring Westlaw Classic for law school accounts on July 1, 2014. WestlawNext will then be the only Westlaw platform available to the law school community. This …
01 April 2014
HeinOnline Alumni Access
The Howard W. Hunter Law Library is excited to announce that it can now offer BYU Law Alums access to HeinOnline's law journal database. This database contains PDF versions of over 1,900 law …
25 March 2014
New York Times Access
BYU Law students and faculty can wave goodbye to the 10 article monthly limit on the New York Times website. The Law Library has recently entered into an agreement to provide unlimited access …
05 March 2014
Lexis Advance Enhancements
A couple of weeks ago, Lexis released some changes to Lexis Advance. I wanted to run through a couple of them that I thought might be useful to you. The first is the …
26 February 2014
Law Journal Rankings 2013
The Washington & Lee Law Library has recently updated its Law Journal Rankings to include data from 2013. The rankings take into account citations to journals during the last eight years, with the …
25 February 2014
10th Circuit’s New Website
Government websites are a mixed bag. Some are quite modern, while others look like they're stuck in the '90s. The information on these websites is free, so attorneys and others come to them …
13 February 2014
Westlaw or Lexis?
One of the questions students frequently ask me is whether they should use Westlaw or Lexis. My answer is the always frustrating "both." Why? The fact is that you simply don't have much …
10 February 2014
Citations to Old Cases
Last week I blogged about the HeinOnline/Fastcase partnership. One of the things I've noticed as I've been looking at the cases provided by Fastcase in HeinOnline is that Hein's ScholarCheck (its version of …
05 February 2014
Cases in HeinOnline
A recent partnership between HeinOnline and Fastcase now provides access to cases within HeinOnline. Until now, HeinOnline users have only had access to cases from the U.S. Reports. The Fastcase integration allows HeinOnline …
29 January 2014
National Law Journal
The Law Library has recently subscribed to the electronic version of the National Law Journal, a legal news source. The National Law Journal is a great place to stay current on what's going …
14 January 2014
vLex for Foreign Law
Each year a number of our students do research on the laws of foreign countries. Finding these laws can be challenging, especially if you don't speak the language. To help, we're always looking …
07 January 2014
Paper Topics
Welcome back! It's a new year and a fresh start. I had a question at the reference desk yesterday about where to look for topics for research papers. This is a great question …
17 October 2013
Legal Research From The Bar
We talk a lot about Westlaw and Lexis in our legal research classes, but there are a number of other low-cost/free legal research resources that law students and attorneys should be aware of. …
30 September 2013
Downloading on HeinOnline
I noticed the other day that HeinOnline changed their printer icon for a download icon. This makes a lot of sense because the articles always had to be downloaded first before you could …
25 September 2013
Encyclopedia of Public International Law
If you're interested in learning more about public international law, the library's subscription to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is a great place to start. With over 1600 peer-reviewed articles …
24 September 2013
BYU Law Review Archive
The Brigham Young University Law Review and the Howard W. Hunter Law Library have recently partnered to provide full-text access to all issues of the Law Review back to its inception in 1975. …
16 September 2013
Annotations in WestlawNext
In our first year legal research class, we've recently discussed statutory research. An annotated code is an extremely useful tool when doing statutory research because it provides references to cases and secondary sources …
