Electronic Resources

Today we're happy to announce the launch of our new website!  A lot of hard work has gone into the new design, especially by our webmaster Laurie Urquiaga.  Please test it out and …

Lexis is currently working on an update to Lexis Advance that will bring some big changes to how the interface looks and add some nice improvements.  Unfortunately, the new release won't be available …

CALI ("The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction") has recently released a revamped version of its website (along with a whole new color scheme).  CALI still offers its great interactive tutorials that are excellent …

When customers speak, Hein listens and acts--quickly.  I recently received an email from HeinOnline's Vice President of Production Development, Shane Marmion, addressing some of the concerns I raised in a recent blog post …

I love HeinOnline.  It's a must-have for all academic legal research.  With that said, there are still a few minor things I've learned to work around to make my research experience better.  One …

Researching tax law can be tough.  We're lucky enough here to have a law librarian, Dennis Sears, who is a tax research expert.  To help tax law researchers, Prof. Sears has created and …

As school was coming to an end I blogged about student access to Westlaw/Lexis/Bloomberg for the summer.  While the access to Lexis and Bloomberg is wide open, some of you may not have …

The Law Library has recently subscribed to the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Armed Conflicts Database.  This database monitors current conflicts worldwide, "focusing on political, military and humanitarian trends in current conflicts, whether …

100,000 downloads.  That was the milestone our digital repository hit last week.  Pretty impressive if you ask us.  The Howard W. Hunter Law Library Digital Collections, which debuted at the end of last …

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …