LIBRARY NEWS

• April 2008:
  Lexis & Westlaw Access
  
  Summer Extensions for Non-graduating Law Students
  
  Don’t forget to register your Lexis & Westlaw IDs for summer access. Student IDs that are not registered for summer access will default to restricted access on June 1st and full access will be returned on August 1st.
  
  To register your Lexis ID, sign-on at www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool, and click the “Summer Access” banner/link. Law School Lexis IDs may only be used for educational or non-profit purposes. During the registration process, you will be asked to certify your educational need for unrestricted summer access. Permissible purposes include: summer classes, moot court, law journal, faculty research assistant, non-profit externship, and unpaid judicial clerkship, among others.
  
  Eligible students can register their Westlaw ID for a summer extension at www.lawschool.westlaw.com. Students must agree that they will use their password for educational purposes. Summer activities qualifying for an extension include: summer classes, law review or journal work, project for a professor, moot court, and unpaid/non-profit public interest internship/externship or pro bono work required for graduation. Courts and government agencies are not non-profit or public interest entities, therefore students with unpaid internships/externships are not eligible for the extension. Additionally, students who are provided stipends, grants or funding by their schools or organizations for non-profit work over the summer are receiving compensation and are not eligible for a summer extension. Students not qualifying for a password extension will be given two hours of Westlaw access for the months of June and July. 
  
  Graduate Password Program: May ’08 Graduates
  
  Students graduating in May will continue to have access via their law school ID through August 1, 2008. As with all other student IDs, you will need to register, as noted above, if you will require access beyond career-oriented sources this summer.
  
  Westlaw provides graduating students that extend their passwords ten hours of Westlaw access during the summer months (5 hours of access in June and another 5 hours in July). Starting August 1, passwords are restricted to job search access only. One year after graduation, Westlaw student passwords become inactive.
  
• January 2008: The Jacob Burns Law Library publishes Volume 1, Issue 4, of Burns Express (a newsletter for the library).
• December 2007: The law library now has online access to international arbitration materials as part of its CCH subscription.  The arbitration materials are included in a standalone database, KluwerArbitration.com, that's accessible from the CCH Business Internet Research Network platform.  KluwerArbitration.com is published by Kluwer Law International in conjunction with the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), and the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). This is a fully searchable database allowing for targeted searches through its country index. Coverage includes full text access to primary and secondary materials including legislation, case law, institutional rules, treatises, and commentary from authorative sources such as ICCA publications and the ASA Bulletin. Access to this database is available through the library's CCH Internet Research Network subscription and by selecting the International Business tab.  KluwerArbitration.com will open in its own browser possibly requiring adjustments to a user's pop-up settings.
• November 2007: The Jacob Burns Law Library publishes Volume 1, Issue 3, of Burns Express (a newsletter for the library).
• September 2007: The Jacob Burns Law Library publishes Volume 1, Issue 2, of Burns Express (a newsletter for the library).
• September 2007: The Jacob Burns Law Library recently subscribed to two new digital collections offered by HeinOnline: U.S. Congressional Documents Collection and American Law Institute Collection. The U.S. Congressional Documents Collection provides complete online access to the bound Congressional Record and its predecessor titles, as well as the American State Papers and Journals of the Continental Congress. The U.S. Congressional Documents Collection is scheduled for completion in 2008. Additionally, through a special partnership with the American Law Institute (ALI), HeinOnline’s American Law Institute Collection now provides online access to projects and documents impacting modern law. This collection provides access to ALI Reports, Proceedings of Meetings, as well as publications such as the Model Penal Code and Uniform Commercial Code. The American Law Institute Collection is a growing collection with continual expansion. Access to documents through HeinOnline is provided in an image-based (PDF) fully searchable format.  Access to authorized users is available through the HeinOnline interface.  Links to this resource are available on the library's Internet Resources webpage and JACOB, our catalog.
• September 2007: Now available through the Oceana Online platform: Constitutions of the Countries of the World. The library’s latest database subscription offers constitutional and comparative law researchers online access to 187 country constitutions. Expert commentary from leading world scholars and English translations enhance the value of this database. Additionally, researchers have the capability to search for topics across nations.  Links to this resource are available on the library's Internet Resources webpage and JACOB, our catalog.
• September 2007:  Welcome new students! Check out the library's "New Student Welcome" web page  to see how the library can help you to a great start.  The page highlights features of the library and its website that are of most use to new students.
• August 2007: Constitution Day is September 17, 2007.  Visit the library's web page for links to documents related to the United States Constitution.
  
• August 2007: The Jacob Burns Law Library publishes Volume 1, Issue 1, of Burns Express (a newsletter for the library).
  
• July 2007: Researchers at the Jacob Burns Law Library now have access to two new digital collections from LexisNexis:  Congressional Reseach Digital Collection (CRDC) and Congressional Hearings Digital Collection (CHDC).
  
  The CRDC includes Congressional Research Service Reports (1916-present) and Congressional Committee Prints (1830-present).  The CHDC includes published and unpublished congressional hearings (1824-present).  Access to authorized users is available through the LexisNexis Congressional interface.  Links to this resource are available on the library's Internet Resources webpage and JACOB, our catalog.
  
  The data for the CRDC is scheduled to be completely loaded by summer 2007, with prospective materials being added monthly.  The data for the retrospective module of the CHDC is expected to be completed by December 2008.  The status of the CHDC content delivery can be tracked within LexisNexis Congressional by clicking on the "Help" link and selecting "New!" from the Contents menu.
  
• May 2007: LexisNexis and Westlaw Student Summer Access
  
  LexisNexis
  
  LexisNexis offers both graduating and returning students the opportunity to extend their full access privileges for unlimited educational use throughout the summer. Students must certify that they need continued summer access to legal sources for an educational purpose such as Law School coursework, bar study, journal or moot court work, research for a professor, work for a non-profit organization, or an unpaid Internship/Externship.
  
  To register for summer access: login to the LexisNexis Law School homepage at http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/ and use the 'Summer Access' icon on the right-hand side of the Law School Homepage.
  
  To ensure seamless access to all of the sources available on your LexisNexis ID through the summer, you must register by June 1st. As of June 1st, law school IDs that have not been registered will only allow access to career sources. Students may register for summer access at any point over the summer. However, registering after June 1st may result in a 24-hour delay before access to legal materials is restored.
  
  Full access for students resuming their studies at the Law School in the fall will be automatically restored on August 1, 2007. May graduates will have their ID deactivated on August 1, 2007.
  
  If you have any questions about LexisNexis summer access, or if your graduation date has changed, please email our LexisNexis account representative, Natalie Timmers, at natalie.timmers@lexisnexis.com.
  
  Westlaw
  
  Westlaw passwords for returning students will be reduced to two hours of access per month for June and July which will be automatically raised back to full access in August.
  
  Westlaw does provide password extensions for full summer access for students not graduating this summer and that are participating in a qualified program such as summer Law School classes, Law Review and Journal work, research for a Law School faculty member, Moot Court, or unpaid *NON-PROFIT* public interest internship/externship or pro bono work required for graduation.
  
  Use the ‘Westlaw password summer extension’ form to register your password for summer use. There is an icon for the form available on the George Washington University Law School web page at www.lawschool.westlaw.com.
  
  Graduating students will have access to job search materials for one year post-graduation including AJO located at www.lawschool.westlaw.com under “Job Postings.”   Graduating students should have also already received an email regarding an offer for a free summer bar study password with access to limited databases. If you have not received that email contact westlawrewards@gage.com.
  
  LLM candidates who are researching/writing thesis papers should contact John Lim at john.lim@thomson.com to extend their graduation date if needed.
  
  If you have any questions about Westlaw summer access, please email our Westlaw account representative, John Lim, at john.lim@thomson.com.
  
  
• May 2007: With the release of its latest online library in March 2007, the W.C. Hein Company now provides legal researchers the opportunity to digitally access the English Reports, Full Reprint (1220 – 1865) via the HeinOnline platform. This collection allows the researcher to search or browse all 178 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint including two index volumes. The English Reports includes decisions of the English Courts prior to the publication of the Law Reports in 1865 including over 100,000 cases printed verbatim nd representing reprints of 275 separate series of reports arranged by various English Courts from 1220-1865. HeinOnline provides both ‘Case Locator’ and ‘Advanced Search’ functions to aid the researcher. Additionally, star pagination to the original text for reprints and parallel citations for reports of cases appearing in other series are provided. The English Reports, Full Reprint collection is accessible from the HeinOnline Library listing available on its homepage at http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome.
• March 2007: The library recently acquired a subscription to a new library module offered through the HeinOnline platform: Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD). The FILRD enhances online access to foreign and international resources for JBLL researchers. As documents are provided in an image based (PDF) and fully searchable format, the HeinOnline platform provides researchers with the ability to search across multiple international law titles in print format with one search query. Coverage of each title in the FILRD collection will be from inception through the most-currently available content allowed by Hein’s publisher contracts.  Hein’s first release of FILRD contains more than 500,000 pages of content and nearly 675 volumes. The first release of this collection includes International Yearbooks and Serials, U.S. Law Digests, International Tribunals/Judicial decisions, and other significant works related to foreign and international law such as the Proceedings of the International Conference American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes. Future content releases are expected to include works from notable researches such as Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant and additional yearbooks and periodicals.  The FILRD is accessible from the HeinOnline Library listing available on its homepage at http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome.
• March 2007: The library’s access to digital content has expanded to include state legislative materials with the recent acquisition of Hein’s State Session Laws Library. State session laws are available online through the HeinOnline interface. In February 2007, Hein went live with the initial content of the State Session Laws Library. This initial release included all state session laws covering the period 2003-2006. Hein intends to release current material on a bi-monthly schedule that corresponds with the availability of this content to subscribers of the State Session Laws microfiche product. The updates for Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Wisconsin were made available in HeinOnline with the March 2007 release. Hein’s goal is to make available electronically through HeinOnline the state session law materials back to the Colonial period. Hein intends to add retrospective content to the database concurrently with the current updates. However, the rate at which retrospective materials will be added has yet to be determined. The Hein Session Law Library is accessible from the HeinOnline Library listing available on its homepage at http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome.
• February 2007: EcoAmericas is a monthly report of articles on development and the environment in Latin America. Articles are available in English and Spanish and include detailed contact and resource information. A searchable archives covers November 1998 to date.  Access to authorized users is available from the library's Internet Resources web page.
• February 2007: International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) is a database of court decisions by domestic courts on important public international law issues. ILDC presently covers 60 jurisdictions and each decision appears in full-text in the original language with English translations of key passages available for all non-English language decisions. Headnotes are also included and each case is supplemented by expert commentary, references to other relevant materials, annotations regarding subsequent developments in the case, and a table of cases and instruments cited. Quick and advanced search options are available, and a browse mode allows searching by broad subject category. The database contains cases from 2000-present with 150 new cases being added yearly. Access to authorized users is available from the library's Internet Resources web page.
  
• December 2006: The library recently acquired a subscription to two companion databases from the Legal Information Center of the Peking University, ChinaLawInfo and LawInfoChina.  ChinaLawInfo, a Chinese language database, includes more than 250,00 national and local laws and regulations plus secondary legal information such as judicial explanations, research articles of legal studies, book reviews, links to online Chinese legal journals, a directory of Chinese law scholars, and information about law making and law enforcement.  LawInfoChina, an English language database,  provides access to approximately 5000 laws, regulations, and cases. The collection includes selected regulations from the People's Republic of China, basic laws adopted by the National People's Congress from 1949 onward, administrative regulations, rules, and orders, and local regulations and rules impacting foreign-related activities, technology investment incentives, and municipal economic development.  The database includes the capability of displaying documents in English and CHinese side by side.  Most translations are performed by individuals at the Institution of Legal Translation Studies of the Peking University. 
• September 2006: Beginning with the October 2006 Term, transcripts of oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court will be available on the Court's website the same day as the argument.  The Court's current contract reporting service will now utilize the services of a court reporter in the Courtroom and high-speed technology to transcribe the oral arguments more quickly. Beginning with the 2000 term, transcripts are archived on the Court's website.
• September 2006: Constitution Day, September 17, 2006 -- The United States Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. Visit the Law Library's United States Constitution webpage for links to selected resources.
• June 2006: Researchers at the Jacob Burns Law Library now have access to two new research databases, CCH Tax Research Network and CCH Health and Human Resources Research Network.  The Tax Research Network provides online access to primary and secondary material, including Aspen treatises.  Available content is broken down into tabs/libraries in the areas of, Federal Tax, State Tax, State Business Income Tax, Sales Tax, and Pension and Payroll.  The Health and Human Resources Research Network provides online access to primary and secondary material, including Aspen treatises, in the areas of Human Resources Management, Payroll, Benefits, Pension, Labor and Employment Law, Safety/OSHA, Health Care Reimbursement, Health Care Compliance, and Food and Drug.  Both of these CCH Internet Research Networks organize each publication into expandable/collapsable menus, similar to the CCH hardcopy version.  Information can be found by browsing through menu topics, retrieving a citation, or through keyword/phrase search functions.  Additionally, the Tracker News function allows the researcher to follow topics of interest in the news by providing daily updates with the ability to create personalized searches.  Access to authorized users is available from the library's Internet Resources webpage.
• June 2006: Researchers at the Jacob Burns Law Library now have access to RIA's Checkpoint Tax & Accounting Internet Research Service.  Checkpoint provides online access to RIA's Federal Analytical Reporter Library including the U.S. Tax Reporter and Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, RIA's Public Domain Library including federal tax case law, IRS rulings, and the RIA Citator 2d, Journal of Taxation, Corporate Taxation journal, Practical Tax Strategies journal, state and local tax materials for all 50 states, a tax alerts service, and RIA's Worldwide Tax Law including access to tax and commercial laws from around the World.  Access to authorized users is available from the library's Internet Resources webpage.
• June 2006: Researchers at the Jacob Burns Law Library now have access to the Making of Modern Law  and U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832 - 1978 from Thomson Gale.  The making of Modern Law is a digital archive of 19th and 20th century legal treatises broken down into 99 subject areas.  The U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs is a digital archive of historical U.S. Supreme Court materials providing online access to Supreme Court cases spanning 140 years.  Access to authorized users is available from the library's Internet Resources webpage.
• May 2006: The library is pleased to announce the release of its newest electronic subscription, TDNet's E-Journal Finder.  The E-journal finder is an online resource that allows the researcher to determine the electronic (online) availability and location of a particular title or to search across available electronic publications by topic.  The E-journal finder includes legal and interdisciplinary journals, periodicals, and newspapers collected by the Jacob Burns Law Library and other GW libraries.  The My TDNet function allows users to create a personal profile thereby enabling the user to define their own collection for viewing and searching or to create personalized weekly current awareness email alerts.  Access to the online content of many publications linked within the E-journal Finder is limited to GW Law users. The E-Journal Finder is accessible at http://www.tdnet.com/gwulaw
• February 2006: The Law Library of Congress announced its latest web product entitled  "The Trial of Saddam Hussein."  The intent of this website is to monitor, analyze and report legal developments related to the relevant trials.   The website provides both essential information related to the trials and a bibliography of reference materials that explain important aspects of the trials. "The Law Library of Congress does not endorse or attest to the authenticity of any such referenced materials or information."  This website is accessible at http://www.loc.gov/law/public/saddam/
• January 2006: The Winter 2005-06 issue of France Magazine features an article on the Jacob Burns Law Library’s French Collection. The article is available online: go to www.francemagazine.org, then click on “Patrimoine.”
  
  France Magazine is an elegant and lavishly-illustrated publication focusing on French culture, society, and business. Published by the French-American Cultural Foundation, it is issued quarterly by the French Embassy in Washington, DC., and distributed to francophiles throughout the world. The French-American Cultural Foundation’s mission is to foster cultural and educational ties between France and North America.
• November 2005: The Univerity of Michigan Law Library has compiled a web page devoted to the biography and writings of Samuel A. Alito, Jr., recently confirmed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. This page includes links to the full-text of his opinions, briefs, and articles as well as links related to the confirmation hearings.  This information is available at  http://www.law.umich.edu/library/news/topics/alito/alitoindex.htm
• July 2005:  Researchers at the Jacob Burns Law Library now have access to the U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection from LexisNexis.  Access to authorized users is available through LexisNexis Congressional. Just select the Historical Full Text option from the listing at: http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp .  Links to this resource are available on the library's Internet Resources webpage and JACOB, our catalog.  The collection is scheduled to be complete December 2005.  Current coverage information is available at:  http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/serial/status.asp
• July 2005:  Regarding online access to H.W. Wilson's Index to Legal Periodicals, the Law Library has upgraded to an improved web platform (WilsonWeb) and expanded its subscription to include retrospective citations from print editions published between 1918–1981. Access to authorized users is available through links on the library's Internet Resources webpage and JACOB, our catalog.