06 November 2014
XChange
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 …
03 June 2014
Armed Conflicts Database
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 …
20 May 2014
Digital Collections
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 …
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