Posts Tagged ‘law’
Friday, December 11th, 2009
A number of students and staff have asked for help with the – slightly tricky – process of logging in to a particular journal title within the LexisLibrary legal and news sources package, via the e-journals A-to-Z site.
So, we’ve created a step-by-step help guide which explains the process, with screenshots of each step. There’s a link to the help guide next to each LexisLibrary title on the A-to-Z.
LexisLibrary is a…
…legal and news/current affairs database providing access to a range of case law, legislation, commentary, current awareness, and newspaper services. Includes the full text of volumes 1-50 of Halsbury’s Laws of England (an authoritative narrative covering every aspect of English statute and case law), up-to-date legislation containing over 18,000 full text acts, and the All England Law Reports. LexisLibrary also provides access via a “News” tab to full-text newspaper articles from national, local and regional UK newspapers.
(We’ve also created a similar guide for accessing ScienceDirect journals from off-campus, which can be similarly troublesome.)
Q: which other e-journal packages do you find tricky to access?
Let us know, and we’ll try and demystify the process!
Also… don’t forget to fill in our survey…
Tags: A-to-Z, access, case law, e-journals, help guides, journalism, law, legal, LexisLibrary, logging in, newspaper services, newspapers, ScienceDirect
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
The login problems affecting access to Lawtel via the University Portal have been resolved.
Lawtel provides access to case law, legislation and articles, along with a daily updating service, full-text court transcripts and an archive dating back to 1951.
You can access Lawtel at:
(From off campus, you will need to log in using your network\accountID and password.)
Tags: case law, law, Lawtel, legislation, solutions
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Apologies that we are currently experiencing problems with access to the Lawtel database. Users are seeing the following error message:
You are being referred to the Authentication Point too often. This is likely to be a problem with the way cookies are configured on your browser.
Please check and correct the following:
- Check that cookies are enabled on your browser.
- Check that cookies are not blocked from either the domain of the service you trying to access, or from the athensams.net domain.
- If the problem persists, try closing all your browser windows, and logging in again.
We have reported the problem and we’ll let you know as soon as it’s fixed.
Tags: Athens, law, Lawtel, problems
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Media Lawyer, from the Press Association, is…
“A website for journalists, media lawyers, editors and all those concerned with media law. Media Lawyer is a bi-monthly legal journal which provides a round-up of key media law events and developments for all working in the industry. Online content is divided into categories: contempt of court, data protection, freedom of information, the Human Rights Act, etc.”
This is an essential resource for all journalism students. You can access Media Lawyer, on or off campus, via the University Portal. (From off campus, you will need to log in using your network\accountID and password.) Please remember to log out when you have finished.
Tags: e-Library, journalism, law, media, Media Lawyer, Press Association, resource of the month
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
We have received the following message from Westlaw:
Further to our previous emails, we can now confirm that access to Westlaw UK via Athens and Shibboleth has been restored. Once again, we apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused today.
You should now be able to log in to Westlaw via the University Portal in the usual way (from off campus, you will need to log in using network\username and password). Direct link:
Westlaw is the most up-to-date online legal research tool available. Includes current awareness, case reports and outcomes, legislation and journal articles, from three separate collections: Westlaw UK Journals, Commentary, and Common Law Library.
Tags: Athens, Common Law Library, law, online legal research tool, solutions, Westlaw
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Please note that we are currently experiencing access problems with Westlaw UK. The normal method of access (via Athens) is not working.
From off campus, you will need to log in using network\username and password. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused – we’ll let you know as soon as the problem has been fixed.
Tags: Athens, law, problems, temporary fixes, Westlaw
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
We’ve fixed a long-running problem with access to a number of important professional, business & legal electronic library resources, where the link on the University Portal was asking for a username and password (even if you were already logged in), but would not accept your University login details.
The problem was being caused by an out-of-date file within the Athens login process. Very many thanks to colleagues in University ICT services, and to Eduserv Athens, for identifying the problem and sorting it out – and we apologise for the length of time it’s taken to do this.
The resources affected were:
You should now find that it’s much easier to access those services, on- and off-campus, via the Portal.
As an aside, we’ve taken the opportunity to streamline the Athens registration process, so new users of electronic resources should find that there are fewer screens to click through when they first log in.
We’re always interested in feedback on our login and electronic access systems. If you come across any problems, or have any suggestions for ways we can improve things, please let us know!
Tags: Athens, business, electronic access systems, Euromonitor, FAME, Global Market Information Database, law, Mintel Reports, registration, solutions, Westlaw
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The Athens login facility, which provides access to many e-Library resources, may become unavailable tomorrow morning for a short period, at some point between 8:00am-12:00noon (Thursday 16th October).
Our apologies if you find that access to electronic resources is blocked during this period. You may find that you see an error screen (which looks like this).
This is happening so that the University’s Online Services Team can attempt to resolve an ongoing problem with Athens access to certain e-Library databases: FAME, Mintel Reports, and some legal databases.
If you have any questions, please contact your Academic Subject Librarian or email: athens@lincoln.ac.uk
Tags: Academic Subject Librarian, at risk, Athens, Athens login facility, e-Library, FAME, law, Mintel Reports, Online Services Team
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Now available via the e-Library pages on the University Portal:
“Oxford reports on international law (ORIL) is an online service bringing together decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals.”
You can log in to the Oxford Reports on International Law site from:
(From off campus, you will need to enter network\username and password.)
Paul
Tags: e-Library, e-resource, law, new e-resources, online service bringing together decisions, Oxford, Oxford Reports on International Law, public international law
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
We regret that the IOLIS legal study CD-ROM learning package service is currently unavailable, owing to a technical problem with our CD-ROM server. Please contact your Academic Subject Librarian for assistance.
Tags: Academic Subject Librarian for assistance, e-resources, IOLIS Law Courseware Consortium, law, on-campus, problems
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