Student access to Bloomberg Law, Lexis Advance and Westlaw is governed by our academic subscription plans.  Under these plans, your passwords to these services may be deactivated or limited in use beginning June 1, 2015. FOR CONTINUING STUDENTS: Bloomberg Law and Lexis Advance offer students unlimited access over the summer, for any purpose.   Westlaw […]

SCOTUSblog, a popular blog providing comprehensive coverage of the United States Supreme Court, recently announced the availability of a FREE iOS app. The new app provides mobile access to the content available on SCOTUSblog, access to its Twitter feed, and notifications alerting users to breaking Supreme Court news.  It will also “be rolling out new […]

THOMAS, the Library of Congress’s longstanding Web site for congressional and legislative research, is gradually being supplanted by a new research platform, congress.gov.  Although still in beta, congress.gov is intended to make searching for legislation easier and more convenient for the next generation of internet users.  The Web site’s responsive design adapts to tablet or […]

What’s Mendik Mobile?  It’s an App that will let you access some of the Mendik Library’s key services on your smartphone. It’s a free download and is now available for Apple, Android, Blackberry and a wide variety of other smartphone platforms. Want to see the App in action?  Visit the Library Reference Desk on Tuesday, […]

Technical problems are preventing users from accessing the Westlaw research website from computers in the Library’s lab rooms.  The NYLS Office of Information Technology is currently troubleshooting the problem.  Until it is resolved, lab users should launch the Firefox browser to access Westlaw.

If you’re a Westlaw user, you should make sure you have a current version of your web browser: Beginning in March, westlaw.com platforms no longer support Web browser versions earlier than the following: Internet Explorer 6.0, Netscape 7.0, Firefox 1.0, and Safari 1.1. The browsers that are blocked are no longer supported by the companies […]

We noticed this afternoon that access to the webcourse section of Lexis is extremely slow and  a trouble ticket has been opened LexisNexis. We’ll keep you posted.

Please make sure you register or update both your LexisNexis and Westlaw ID registration with your official NYLS e-mail address. During the semester, your professors will be using the e-mail component of both the LexisNexis and Westlaw web courses to send you course information. E-mail communication sent from the class web page is sent to […]

OCE drivers for your Mac laptop are now available for download from OIT. Download the installation instructions and drivers from OIT’s Wireless Printing page. Note: Make sure you are using a Truetype font, such as Courier. Otherwise, your quotation marks will not print out.