As you may know, the Law School recently moved to a new website. Until migration of the Library web pages has been completed, please use these links to access the Library’s resources:

Library home page
https://www.nyls.edu/academics/library

Library Catalog
https://lawlib.nyls.edu

Course Reserves
https://nylaw.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-course-reserves.pl

Electronic Resources
https://libguides.nyls.edu/electronicresources

Library Orientation Materials
https://libguides.nyls.edu/findingthelaw20

• Bloomberg Law, Lexis+ & Westlaw Edge Registration Information
• CALI
• Research Skills Workshops (RSW) Registration

Research Tools
https://libguides.nyls.edu/researchtools

Please contact us if you have any questions:

Circulation 
email: circulation@nyls.edu

Reference Desk
Email: reference@nyls.edu
Chat With the Reference Desk
Log in to Microsoft Teams with your NYLS network ID, and use Microsoft Web App to connect.

As the home of the 19th Amendment, the National Archives is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Constitutional amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Visit their website to view the records that tell the story, including petitions, legislation, court cases, and more.

New York Law School has significant ties to the amendment.  Bainbridge Colby, an 1894 graduate of the law school who served as Secretary of State to President Wilson, signed the proclamation announcing the Nineteenth Amendment’s effectiveness after it had been ratified by the states. An August 27, 1920 headline in the New York Times reads: “Colby Proclaims Woman Suffrage.”

Welcome Back!  Although a number of things will be different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Library will certainly still be supporting your learning and research efforts.  Please don’t hesitate to ask questions and let us know what you need.

In addition to reviewing our new hours, please review the new Reserve Collection policy. If you have any questions, please contact our Circulation Librarian, Elina Oyola (elina.oyola@nys.edu)

The Library staff hopes that you and yours are staying safe and well in these challenging  times. This summer, the Library will be offering a series of 30 minute long Research Skills Workshops via Zoom:

-The Bluebook
-Is All Your Research Up To Date?
-Power Googling
-Researching NYC Law
-Staying Current With The Law

The workshops, which all begin at 5:15, will be held each Tuesday and Thursday from June 9 through July 2.

For a more details and a complete schedule, please visit to https://libguides.nyls.edu/2020sumrsw

We look forward to seeing you.

Arrangements giving students free remote access to casebooks and texts, offered by publishers during the Spring Semester, are expiring, or have expired. This includes texts accessed online through the LexisNexis Digital Library, VitalSource, and West Academic.

Students enrolled in Summer Semester courses will not have free online access to required texts. Please keep in mind that the Mendik Library will remain closed during the Summer Semester, and that you will not be able to borrow physical copies of your course reserve items.

Summer Semester students are encouraged to purchase their required texts through the NYLS online bookstore. Several publishers offer ebook versions of texts to students who have purchased or rented print copies. These offers vary from publisher to publisher. Please take careful note of details when you purchase the books.

During the summer the publishers of The Bluebook will continue to offer online access, at no cost, to members of the NYLS community who do not have access to a print copy. If you wish to take advantage of this offer, please email the Library at reference@nyls.edu. Your request must come from a NYLS email address.

As you begin the process of course registration, make sure to consider these valuable Legal Research classes, Legal Research: Practical Skills (1-cr.) and Legal Research: Skills for the Digital World (3-cr.). Find more details here, Why Focus on Research Skills, which lays out the NYLS Student Competencies and Learning Outcomes.

 

 

 

Good news—Bloomberg Law has just announced that it will provide free, unrestricted access to 2020 graduating law students through June 1, 2021. That’s six months longer than either Lexis or Westlaw!

Be sure to take advantage of what Bloomberg Law has to offer, including access to:
• In Focus pages and legal news to stay on top of turbulent areas of law and legal practice
• Practical Guidance and other Legal Research tools to provide support in legal practice
• Company Screener and Litigation Analytics to research companies and law firms for potential employment
• A full library of on-demand training webinars

New York Law School’s temporary access to casebooks, texts, and some study aids on the LexisNexis Digital Library will expire on Friday, May 15. This includes works published by Carolina Academic Press and LexisNexis. (It does NOT include works published by Aspen, Wolters Kluwer, Foundation Press or West Academic.)

We very much regret this inconvenience. We contacted representatives from both LexisNexis and Carolina Academic Press, asking for an extension. They declined our request, stating that their policies around licensing and royalties are very strict.

Thus, if you are preparing for exams using ebooks published by Carolina Academic Press or LexisNexis on the LexisNexis Digital Library, your access will terminate on May 15. However, if your exams are after that date, there are two ways that you can preserve the content you need:

Method 1: Use the LexisNexis Digital Library’s print function for the sections of the ebooks that you need. When you navigate to a chapter, you have the option of printing a section, which is the full text of that chapter. Choose “print”, and then use the “print to PDF” feature. The PDFs that you create can be saved to your computer for permanent use. Unfortunately, you cannot choose to print an entire book; you can only go section-by-section, which is chapter-by-chapter for the chapters you need. Make sure to do this before May 15.

Method 2: Ebooks you download on LexisNexis Digital’s new platform will probably remain available to you for 14 days. If you haven’t used the new platform, you can go here: https://lexisdl.com/library/nyls Our institutional code is nyls. Remember to use your NYLS network ID, not your Lexis login credentials, to use this resource. The new platform works best on the Chrome browser. You can also use the new platform on the LexisNexis Digital Library app, available for free on Google Play and the App Store. Once you have chosen “Read” for an ebook, it is automatically downloaded to your mobile device. Make sure to do this before May 15.

The publishers’ representatives could not guarantee that Method 2 would actually work.

Also, please note that the May 15 expiration affects only the group of Carolina Academic Press and LexisNexis publications that were provided to us temporarily, in response to the COVID crisis. A large collection of other useful study aids and treatises will remain available to students indefinitely on the LexisNexis Digital Library. If you’re uncertain whether the works you need are expiring, don’t hesitate to contact us at reference@nyls.edu .