26 February 2015
Greenwire
The Law Library has recently acquired access to EnergyWire, ClimateWire, Environment & Energy Daily ( E&E Daily), GreenWire and E&E News PM for the BYU Law School community. Each of these sources provide …
26 February 2015
New database: AILALink
Immigration is one of the most significant hot button issues in the U.S. today as interested parties engage in heated debate regarding appropriate avenues of reform. The Law Library has recently acquired access …
14 January 2015
Westlaw Password Change
Over the next few weeks, Westlaw is requiring all of its academic account users to change their Westlaw passwords. As of now, Westlaw does not have a specific date for our school, but when the …
25 November 2014
American Law Institute Library
The Restatement of Torts was a prominent part of one of the oral arguments when the Utah Supreme Court visited the Law School a few weeks ago. Restatements are influential secondary sources that …
13 November 2014
HeinOnline Alumni Access
Earlier this year the BYU Law Library entered into an agreement to provide BYU Law Alums with access to HeinOnline's law journal database. This database contains PDF versions of over 1,900 law reviews …
10 November 2014
Rex Lee and Oyez
Attendees of the Rex E. Lee Moot Court Competition Finals were encouraged to listen to the Supreme Court oral arguments of great Supreme Court advocates like Rex Lee, Paul Clement, and Seth Waxman …
06 November 2014
XChange
The Law School is lucky to have had the Utah Supreme Court with us this morning to hear arguments in two cases. In the first case one of the attorneys referenced XChange and …
05 November 2014
World Treaty Library
The Law Library is pleased to announce the latest addition to our electronic collection, HeinOnline's World Treaty Library. This new library allows users to search across all the major treaties in the world …
29 October 2014
New York Times Access
Earlier this year the Law Library entered into an agreement with the New York Times to provide its faculty, staff, and students with access to the New York Times website and smartphone app. …
22 September 2014
Key Numbers in WestlawNext
When WestlawNext originally launched a number of years ago, I found it interesting that Topics and Key Numbers were less visible than they had been in Westlaw Classic. It's not that Topics and …
17 September 2014
Happy Constitution Day!
September 17 is Constitution Day, a day we celebrate the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787 in Philadelphia. As a researcher, I'm drawn to thinking about the history and the sources …
18 August 2014
New Library Website
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 …
13 August 2014
Lexis Advance Revision
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 …
04 August 2014
New CALI Website
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 …
26 June 2014
Hein Search Tip Update
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 …
19 June 2014
Hein Search Tip
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 …
13 June 2014
Tax Research
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 …
10 June 2014
Low-Cost Legal Research
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 …
