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    INTRODUCTION TO THE WestlawNext iPad APP

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    Improve Your Research Skills and Earn One Credit!

    Fact Based Research is a course under the Law Practice Information Literacy umbrella and covers non-legal research skills that are critical to today's legal practice. Students learn practice ready skills not covered in Legal Skills or other research courses and the course guides students in learning information literacy beyond Westlaw/Lexis. Topics include:

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    Westlaw Next Top Tips for 2012: Five Quick Tips for Saving Time

    FIVE QUICK TIPS FOR SAVING TIME  

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    Lexis Advance

    Behold: LexisNexis Advance!

    Initial impressions: cleaner, more Westlaw-Next-y, iLexisNexis, colorful, and organized.

    Lexis has emailed passwords to students directly (a different password than the one used for lexisnexis.com/lawschool) and training is coming during the Spring 2012 semester. More details here.

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    Building Legal Research Capacity using the Open Web

    Professor Cavicchi to teach the Graduate Students how to bridge the gap to the open web in a post Lexis and Westlaw world.

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    HeinOnline App for iPhone & iPad

    HeinOnline now has an app for iPhones and iPads! Just like Angry Birds, only with full text PDFs of journals, legislative history, treatises and more instead of smug pigs in helmets. Oh and there's millions of pages of text instead of birds launched from a slingshot.

    More information on the app here, and check out all the Hein libraries here.

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    Almost 200 students attend patent searching classes this Fall

    It was a banner Fall for the Patent Certificate Program. Close to 200 students attended training sessions offerend by Professor Cavicchi, Lexis, Westlaw and Thomson Innovation. Several students have earned the certificate. The series will continue in the Spring.

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    Two Spring Research Courses Available!

    This Spring semester the library is offering two 1-credit mini courses. Each course meets for 8 weeks on Wednesdays from 1:00 - 3:00. Factual Research meets during the first half of the semester while Advanced Legal Research meets during the second half. Take one or both!

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    Museum Law Tools & Strategies: Capacitizing Yourself as a Professional

    Professor Peter McGovern's Museum Law class will premier Professor Cavicchi's research pathfinder, Museum Law Tools & Strategies: Capacitizing Yourself as a Professional in class this Wednesday. The presentation covers all aspects of law and fact research including Web 2.0 and social media tools.

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