Library Updates

Westlaw is instituting new password security requiring more-secure usernames and password for all. This will disable the use of any old Westlaw Passwords (e.g. 1384536VMJB), and folks already with OnePass usernames and passwords will need to update them to meet the new requirements.

Though most have until January 31, 2010 to make the password changeover, those who use the Westlaw “Remember Me” feature to log in must make these changes immediately. The first time you try to log in all your remembered information will be turned off, and you will get an e-mail explaining the new requirements and how to get signed back in.

Follow these steps to return your Westlaw access, or to ensure that your access is not interrupted.

1. Go to the Academic Registration – Update Account page

2. Enter your OnePass Username and Password

• If you have never created a Username/Password enter your 11-character password in the “Westlaw Password” box
• Not sure if you’ve ever created one? Enter your email address at the Manage OnePass Account page
• If you have forgotten your OnePass Username and/or Password (or if it asks for OnePass info even after entering your old Westlaw Password):
  – Click the “Forgot your Username and Password” link
  – Follow instructions to receive your username and/or password via
  email
  – Now enter them both in the OnePass Username and Password boxes

3. You should now be at the “Academic Westlaw Registration – Update account” page

• Update or enter a new Username, one which is at least 8 characters and contains at least 2 of the following:
  – Uppercase letters
  – Lowercase letters
  – Numbers
  – Any of these symbols: .(period) @(at sign) -(dash) _(underscore)
  Tip: User your email address – unique and satisfies these rules
• Update or enter a new Password, one which is at least 8 characters and contains at least 3 of the following:
  – Uppercase letters
  – Lowercase letters
  – Numbers
  – Any of these symbols: .(period) @(at sign) -(dash) _(underscore)

From now on you will only be able to access Westlaw and TWEN using your new OnePass Username and Password.

Westlaw provides this page with more information and demos on the new OnePass security requirements.

For help and questions you can contact Rob Truman, Assistant Director for Electronic Information Services, at rtruman@lclark.edu or 503-768-6780. You can also always contact Westlaw directly at 1-800-WESTLAW (say “OnePass” when prompted), our Account Manager Alex Scribner at alexander.scribner@thomsonreuters.com, or view the OnePass Customer Support Page.

The Boley Law Library will be open during the Thanksgiving holiday with altered opening and closing hours.

Lewis & Clark Law School and College students, faculty, staff and the legal community

General public and Patent and Trademark Depository Library

Check all of our Law Library Hours, or see when the Watzek Library will be open.

Have a great Thanksgiving holiday.

We are very pleased to join the Intellectual Property Student Organization (IPSO) in co-sponsoring a talk and campus visit by Carl Malamud on October 22, 2009.

Should America’s Operating System Be Open Source?
Carl Malamud, President and Founder of Public.Resource.Org
Thursday, October 22 at Noon. Room 7.
There will be pizza.

Who owns the law? A thicket of copyright restrictions has arisen around the primary legal materials of the United States. Statutes, regulations, hearings, Attorney General Opinions, building codes, and the other materials that make up the raw materials of democracy all face restrictions. In this talk, Carl Malamud will look at the question of who owns the law, tracing the issues back to early Supreme Court decisions, looking at how the law of the law has been applied in the modern era, and will pay particular attention to a set of issues regarding ownership of the law in Oregon.

Carl Malamud is the President and Founder of Public.Resource.Org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has been instrumental in placing over 90 million pages of primary legal materials on the Internet. They were in the lead in the effort last year to convince the Oregon Legislative Committee to waive copyright on the Oregon Revised Statutes, and have been particularly at the federal level, conducting audits of PACER, helping the Government Printing Office publish the Federal Register in XML, and convincing C-SPAN to waive restrictions on use on their footage of government proceedings. Malamud was previously Chief Technology Officer at the Center for American Progress, and prior to that created the Internet Multicasting Service – which ran the first radio station on the Internet, and put the SEC and U.S. Patent Office on the Internet.

Due to serious problems we are having with launching and controlling our Mediasite (podcast/videocast) server, we are upgrading the server on Friday, October 16th. Users will not be able to access videos from noon until at least 7:30pm. This includes links sent by email for recorded classes and to “open” videos on the library website.

The library apologizes in advance for any inconvenience and thank you for understanding.

Training for first year law students on Westlaw and LexisNexis begins October 5, 2009. Westlaw training will be the week of October 5, with LexisNexis the following week of October 12. All sessions are being led by the companies’ account managers.

Dates, Times and Rooms:

Westlaw
Account Manager: Alex Scribner
E-Mail: Alexander.Scribner@thomsonreuters.com
No Registration Required

Monday, October 5, 2009
12 noon – 1 pm, Room 8
5 pm – 6pm, Room 8

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
9 am – 10 am, Room 5
12 noon – 1 pm, Room 8

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
12 noon – 1 pm, Room 8

Thursday, October 8, 2009
9 am – 10 am, Room 5
12 noon – 1 pm, Room 8

LexisNexis
Account Manager: Megan McCombs Hays
Email: megan.mccombshays@lexisnexis.com
Register at the Lexis-Nexis LawSchool Homepage or by emailing Kirk kfs-@-lclark.edu or Jee jhl-@-lclark.edu

Monday, October 12, 2009
12:30 pm – 1 pm, Fundamentals of Case Research. Room 8
1 pm – 1:30 pm, Fundamentals of Case Research. Room 8
5 pm, Fundamentals of Case Research and Shepard’s. Room 8

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
12:30 pm – 1 pm, Shepard’s, Room 8
1 pm – 1:30 pm, Shepard’s, Room 8

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
12:30 pm – 1 pm, Fundamentals of Case Research, Room 8
1 pm – 1:30 pm, Shepard’s, Room 8

Friday, October 16, 2009
7 pm – 8 pm, Fundamentals of Case Research and Shepard’s. Room tba

Need a LexisNexis or Westlaw password? Just stop by the Reference desk in the library.

We are pleased to introduce our latest resources page, the China (People’s Republic of China) Law Resources.

Created by the Boley Law Library’s Foreign & International Law Librarian Wendy Hitchcock, China Law Resources provides quick access to a number of invaluable sources for your research:

• Overviews of Chinese Law
• Research Guides
• Subscription Databases

Included are rich explanations of the content available along with research tips to help you get started with each resource.

For assistance with these or our other resources please be sure to contact Wendy Hitchcock at (503) 768-6763, or any of our reference librarians at (503) 768-6688 or lawlib@lclark.edu.

The Boley Law Library, very much like the rest of Lewis & Clark Law School, will be closed for the Labor Day holiday on September 7, 2008.

Any reserve items may be checked out before the library closes on Sunday, August 6 and returned the morning of Tuesday, September 8.

As always, you can find all of the Law Library hours here.

Have a great Labor Day!

We’ve run into a bug with Westlaw that starts opening a seemingly endless (until your computer crashes, that is) number of windows as soon as you login to your Westlaw (or TWEN) account.

This problem is only affecting folks using Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista. Windows XP and Mac OS X do not seem to be affected, and neither do IE 6 nor 8.

Here is the quick fix:

• Open Internet Explorer
• Click Tools – Internet Options
• Choose the Security Tab
• Click the Internet Zone
  - Be sure the “Enable Protected Mode” check box is checked
• Click the Trusted Sites Zone
  - Be sure the “Enable Protected Mode” check box is checked
• Click OK

While you are in there, be sure to also make sure that you’ve checked your cookies (all browsers), pop-up blocker (all browsers), trusted sites (IE only), and download (IE only) settings. Otherwise you may not be able to print, download, or even view PDFs on Westlaw.

Go to our Fixing PDF Problems and Printing/Downloading Settings for Westlaw for easy instructions.

Course Links

Fall 2009 Course Pages

We have posted an updated page of links pointing to the latest online course materials provided by your professors. These online course sites may be on TWEN, a Law School web page, or a professor’s own site.

Course Pages is always located in the Students section of our web site.

TWEN Instructions

Need to sign up for a TWEN online course component? It’s easy. Just get out your Westlaw password and follow these instructions:

1. Login to TWEN using your Westlaw password
   – If the first time, you will have to Register your Westlaw password
2. Once in TWEN click on the Add a Course link in the "My Courses" navigation bar
   – Ask your professor for the course password if required
3. Once added, your course will always appear when logged into TWEN

For more info see this Student’s Guide to TWEN (pdf) or this TWEN tutorial

Tis the time of year that we get lots of early questions about where and when students can pick up passwords for Westlaw/TWEN and LexisNexis. Here are the answers:

• 1Ls, new transfer and visiting students will all receive both Westlaw/TWEN and LexisNexis passwords in their orientation packets. We highly recommend that you go ahead and register them as soon as you can. You’ll create your own username and password for both.
• LL.M students can pick up passwords from Lin Harmon.
• Any continuing students who don’t have a Westlaw/TWEN and/or LexisNexis password can stop by the reference desk in the law library. We’ll have password cards starting Friday, August 21.

Finally, if you cannot remember your username or password, check out our lost password info page.