BNA Databases: About
Subject List | A-Z List | E-Mail Updates | AboutThe Law Library now subscribes to the full BNA All electronic library, which provides over 100 BNA titles and web resources to the students and faculty of Lewis & Clark Law School. BNA (the Bureau of National Affairs), is one of the foremost publishers of legal and regulatory news, analysis, and reference titles in a wide range of legal subjects, including environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, business, corporate and finance, and tax law.
Access
The BNA All databases are available via the links at the top of this page. Off-campus users will need to provide their Lewis & Clark Law School e-mail username (everything before the @lclark.edu in your email address) and password. Students, faculty, and staff may access the BNA All sites from on-campus without providing their usernames/passwords. BNA All is available to any of our patrons at our public access terminals in the Boley Law Library. See below if you have any problems with off-campus access.
Westlaw & LexisNexis: The BNA electronic titles are also available now available on Westlaw and LexisNexis via your faculty/student Westlaw & LexisNexis IDs. Find them on Westlaw by provider or by topic. Find the BNA databases on LexisNexis by publisher.
E-Mail Updates
BNA provides e-mail highlights and alerts for most of their titles. These e-mails come out on the same daily, weekly, or monthly basis as their corresponding BNA publication, alerting you to the latest developments, cases, and reports in your area of law with a direct link to the full-text of the report from BNA.
You can sign up for any or all of the BNA E-Mail Updates via the our E-Mail Updates page. BNA E-Mail Updates are available to the students and faculty of Lewis & Clark Law School.
Benefits
- Expanded Access: 107 BNA publications, many of which are indispensible in their fields, such as the Environment Reporter, Family Law Reporter, Labor Relations Reporter, Tax Management Portfolios, U.S. Law Week, and U.S. Patents Quarterly.
- Multi-Platform : BNA All databases are available from BNA.com, Westlaw, and LexisNexis
- Off-Campus Access: Students and faculty can access the BNA databases from off-campus, anytime, via our BNA database links and their own L&C Law School e-mail usernames & passwords
- Full-text: All of the BNA databases are full-text, allowing expanded searching and easy access.
- Search: You can search by keyword, topic, table of contents, case name and by date. Plus, the same indexes and digests available in the print versions are available online
- Citation Access: BNA All via the web provides templates for easy retrieval of BNA reports and decisions by citation
- Print/Download: BNA All provides a mix of print and download options, with many documents available in their original format via PDF
- E-Mail Updates
Help
Help is at the ready at the Boley Law Library Reference Desk. Contact a reference librarian at (503) 786-6688 or email lawlib@lclark.edu for assistance with the BNA Databases on BNA.com, LexisNexis, or Westlaw, for help choosing a title or e-mail alert service, and for all of your legal research related questions.
Troubleshooting Off-Campus Access
Problems connecting from off-campus? Check to see if any of the following points are source of the trouble:
Links
Be sure to use the links from the pages on the Boley Law Library web site. Students, faculty, and staff of Lewis & Clark will not be able to access the various titles at BNA.com without being authenticated using our links.
Username and Password
Off-campus access to the electronic resources which the Boley Law Library subscribes to is available to current Lewis & Clark Law School students, faculty and staff. Authentication requires that you know your L&C Email username (account login) and password.
Your L&C email username is that part of your email address to the left of the @ sign. It is also referred to as your account name or login.
Your password is your L&C email password. It is case sensitive.
If your username and password are correct and authentication fails, please contact the Boley Reference Desk at (503) 768-6688 or email lawlib@lclark.edu.
Forgot your password? For privacy and security reasons we cannot access, nor send to you, your current password. Here is how to have a new password created, giving you full off-campus access to the research databases of the Law Library:
See Computing Services (Wood Hall, second floor), during weekdays. They can create a new password for you on the spot if you bring your Lewis & Clark ID, or
Email your request to Bruce Williamson at bruce@lclark.edu. Bruce will create a new password for you. You will then need to bring your Lewis & Clark ID to pick up the password, but provisions can often be made for after-hours or weekend pickup. Contact Carla if other arrangements are necessary.
Finally, you can always access all of our subscription electronic databases in the Law Library or from any computer on campus without any other required authorization.
Certificate Error Message
If you receive the following message while connecting from off-campus, click "OK." There is no security risk.
The Boley Law Library relies on SSL and digital certificates to protect the privacy of our faculty and students' usernames and passwords when accessing our online services from off-campus. Lawpx.lclark.edu is the library web server that securely verifies e-mail usernames and passwords before allowing off-campus access to the BNA services. Why the message? The program that enables secure off-campus access makes a change to the url which does not match our certificate. We are working on fixing this problem so that this security message will no longer appear.
Cookies
Your Web browser must be configured to accept cookies. If you have the cookies option disabled in your browser, you will have to enable this option to be able to use any of the Boley Library databases off-campus. Use these links to configure Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Netscape to accept cookies.
JavaScript
BNA All on the Web requires that JavaScript be enabled in your browser preferences.
Windows XP SP2
The SP2 upgrade to Windows XP, as well as pop-up blockers such as the ones built into Firefox or the Google Toolbar, may disable the pop-ups that BNA All uses. LexisNexis and Westlaw are similarly affected by the SP2 security enhancements. If you have Windows XP SP2 or a pop-up blocker enabled on your browser, follow these instructions:
BNA Fonts
BNA has created a set of fonts for some of their libraries that may or may not be necessary for your browser. If you see a large number of question marks or other unusual symbols on your screen while using the BNA web services, go to the main page of the library, look for and click a link for "First-Time User Setup," and follow the instructions for installing the BNA fonts.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Many of the BNA web titles publish cases and other documents in PDF format. Download and install the free Adobe Acrobat 7 reader here to view those documents.
