Library Updates

Westlaw is a wonderful resource, but printing and opening PDFs on it are a real pain. Now it turns out that opening PDFs on Westlaw) is often defeated by a default setting in the browser.

Here is how to fix that problem once and for all, followed by the standard settings that allow you to print from Westlaw.

1. Fixing PDF Problem in IE7

The Problem: When clicking a “View Westlaw Reporter Image (pdf)” link in a document – which should give you a digital image of the original document – the screen flashes but nothing happens.

The Solution:

• Click Internet Options
• Choose Security Tab
• Choose Custom Level
• Under the heading Downloads (about halfway down list), click Enable below the subheading Automatic prompting for file downloads
• Click OK. At next screen, click OK again.

2. Settings to Allow Westlaw Printing & Downloading (all browsers)

These have been required for a couple of years now for using Westlaw’s print and download buttons. If you haven’t set them before or you are having problems getting print or download to work, give these a try:

1. Pop-Up Blocker (in browser)
   Add westlaw.com to your browser’s pop-up blocker exemption list. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari all have such lists. Check at the computer lab helpdesk if you need any assistance finding it.
2. Google or Yahoo Pop-Up Blocker (in browser toolbar)
   Lots of people use the Google or Yahoo toolbars. Not only handy for searching, but they also provide additional (probably unnecessary) pop-up blocking. You’ll also need to have that turned off. Generally, browse to lawschool.westlaw.com, then click on on the ‘pop-up blocked’ icon in the toolbar to allow Westlaw. You can also just turn off that pop-up blocker entirely.
3. Trusted Sites (IE Only)
   Just for Internet Explorer users! You have to make westlaw.com a “trusted site.” To do so:
   - Go to Tools
   - Internet Option
   - Security
   - Trusted Sites
   - Sites
   - uncheck the “Require server verification (https://) box
   - Type in *.westlaw.com. Then click Add.

3. Multiple Windows/Tabs Opening and Freezing Your Computer?

Westlaw opening a seemingly endless (until your computer crashes, that is) number of windows as soon as you login to your Westlaw (or TWEN) account? Here is the fix.

The Lewis & Clark Law School community now has access to another HeinOnline digital library, Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law.

The Selden Library presents searchable, exact reproductions of early English manuscripts, yearbooks, classic legal texts, digests, and encyclopedias, providing access to English and American legal history in an online format that has never been available before.

Highlights of Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law include:

• The Selden Society Annual Series
  Containing essential source materials of the common law, rolls, court records, charters, professional literature and more
• Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society
• Publications of the Ames Foundation
  Including Year Books from the reign of Richard II in 1377-1399 to the beginning of the seventeenth century, with English translations
• Over 200 English Legal History Classics
  Including works by Henry Rolle, Charles Viner, William Blackstone, Anthony Fitzherbert, John Comyns, Joseph Story, and Edward Coke
• Select Volumes from the Rolls Series
  The chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages
• Links to Law Review Articles Discussing English Legal History

Find links to the Collection on our Databases page. Direct links to contents by title and author will soon be available as well within the Lewis & Clark Catalog.

As with most of our subscription databases, access to the United Nations Law Collection from on- or off-campus. On-campus users will go directly to the digital library. Off-campus users will need to first enter their Lewis & Clark Law School username and password.

As always, for help with this and our other online and print resources be sure to stop by, call (503-768-6688) or email (lawlib@lclark.edu) a Boley Law Library Reference Librarian.

Course Links

Fall 2010 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, L&C’s Moodle, 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 check out the quick instructions on our How to Add a Course in TWEN post.

Where’s My Course?

Have a course with online content but it isn’t on this list? Our bad. Just send an email with your class name to lawlib@lclark.edu. We’ll add it fortwith.

Many L&C Law professors use TWEN to provide online access to syllabi, course materials, class presentations and more.

TWEN stands for The West Education Network, an online course management system connected to Westlaw that allows professors to post course information and materials online where students may retrieve it at will. Your professor will let you know if they have created a TWEN course.

First Step: Register Your Activation Code
To use TWEN you must first register your Westlaw/TWEN activation code. 1Ls will find their activation code and registration instructions in their orientation packets. Don’t have one? Just stop by the reference desk in the library.

To add a course in TWEN

At the beginning of each semester you need to “add” your TWEN courses to your Westlaw/TWEN My Courses page in order to see them. Just follow these steps:

• Go to https://lawschool.westlaw.com
• Login with your Westlaw/TWEN OnePass username and password
• Select the TWEN link at the top
• Click the Add a Course button
• For each course you are enrolled in, place a check mark next to the course title (some courses will require a registration password from your professor)
• Click the Submit button

Your courses will now appear every time you login to TWEN. See the Student’s Guide to TWEN for more information, and feel free to stop by the reference desk anytime for help with TWEN and Westlaw.

Summer Interim Hours for August 9th to the 22nd are 8am to 6pm Monday through Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday . For August 23rd to the 28th hours are 8am to 10pm Monday through Friday and 9am to 6pm Saturday.

For all hours visit the Library Hours page.

ClimateWire

We are pleased to announce the addition of our latest online database, E&E’s ClimateWire.

ClimateWire provides daily, in-depth coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society.

You can also sign up for daily e-mail alerts from ClimateWire and our other E&E subscriptions. When you sign up choose “I Have IP Access” for the Account Type.

ClimateWire topics include:

• Federal legislation and agency programs;
• State program development and implementation;
• Kyoto implementation;
• Post-Kyoto negotiations and nation-state positioning;
• International agency activities;
• Carbon market development;
• Alternative energy research and deployment;
• Financial community investment decisions;
• Corporate/multi-national response to climate concerns;
• Positions and lobbying by stakeholder groups;
• Consequences and lessons learned from GHG-reduction efforts;
• Science findings;
• Effects on water resources, species, ecosystems and agriculture;
• Trends and effects for traditional and non-traditional fossil fuel resources;
• Consequences for electric utilities;
• Economic effects;
• Costs to consumers;
• and much, much more.

Be sure to explore our other E&E electronic publications:

• Greenwire
  The one-stop source for those who need to stay on top of all of today’s major environmental and energy action
• Land Letter
  In-depth reporting on natural resource development and conservation issues
• E&E (Environment & Energy) Daily
  Track environmental and energy issues in Congress
• E&E News PM
  Late afternoon roundup covering news from Capitol Hill, the country, and around the world
• E&ETV
  Webcast program featuring in-depth interviews and analysis with compelling energy and environmental policy leaders

Find links to these and our other electronic subscriptions at our Databases page.

The law library will be closed for Independence Day on Sunday, July the Fourth. However, we will be open for business on Monday, July the Fifth for all your exam, bar study and summer course needs.

View all of our Summer Semester hours.

The Law Library will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday on Sunday, May 30 and on Monday, May 31. We reopen on Tuesday at 8:00 am.

View all of our Summer Semester hours.

School may be out (for now), but the Boley Law Library remains open.

View our summer interim library hours for May 15 – May 30, 2010.

Time again to clear out your record and your conscience with our annual Food for Fines program.

Between April 26 and May 19 we will waive your fines if you bring in an equivalent amount of non-perishable nutritious food. If your fine is $20.00 or more, you can purchase a gift card from Fred Meyer for the same amount of your fines.

All food and gift cards go to the Raphael House, a shelter for at-risk children and women in Portland.

Please bring food, gift cards or money to the circulation desk of the law library. Not sure of the need? You can check your library record online for a complete record of your fines.