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.

Update: As of 7/6/11 it looks like the problem is fixed.

LexisNexis has (inadvertantly?) changed the menu format on law school accounts. Luckily, this is easy to change back. At the top of the screen there is a " Change Menu" option. Simply selected "LEXIS-NEXIS law school" and you'll be back to the same LexisNexis that you know and love.

ALM Material is now available exclusively on LexisNexis. . .but what is ALM?

You may not be familiar with the name ALM (American Lawyer Media) but you've likely heard of some of their products such as the:

Westlaw and LexisNexis may not be available to you in the summer unless you are taking a course, working at an agency or non-profit, or working as a TA. (Full details are available on the first screen after logging in for both Westlaw and LexisNexis.)

However, there are many other resources that are available to you off campus as a UNH Law student. For example:

LexisNexis Academic

Another forray from LexisNexis ino the Web 2.0 social content world : more than 50,000 legal professionals and law students gain access to free news summaries, commentary and resources via LexisNexis Communities. And now they can get more information—and get to it more easily.

See the new design with sidebar navigation and tabbed organization at www.lexisnexis.com/communities and a synopsis of the features at http://bit.ly/bhnCX6

LexisNexis is again providing limited free access to students and graduates working in public interest. While LexisNexis has always provided summer access to students working in the public interest over the summer, access for graduates is a new development.

Eligibility includes:

"All spring 2010 graduates who pursue verifiable public interest work, including:

• Deferred fall associates pursuing public interest
• 2010 graduates pursuing public interest work while searching for employment
• 2010 graduates who pursue public interest work as a continuing profession
• NEW!  Rising 2Ls and 3Ls who pursue verifiable public interest work."

For full information see the official LexisNexis Aspire page here.

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Creating links to Westlaw and LexisNexis can be tricky. Copying and pasting the long URL will not work. Luckily both Westlaw and LexisNexis have developed solutions for this problem. Information on creating links in LexisNexis is available here and information on creating Westlaw links is available here. Enjoy!

The ABA Journal unveiled exclusive screenshots of the upcoming new versions of LexisNexis and Westlaw.

Both Westlaw and LexisNexis continually evolve each year but the new format of both reflects a revolutionary change based on the format of a certain search engine. (that sounds like Ooogle). Boolean searching (and, and not, or) is no longer necessary to effectively search and the design of both websites is much simplified.  

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