Tag Archives: Lexis Nexis Butterworths

Supreme Court of Canada judgments freely available

The Supreme Court of Canada and LexUM announced just before Christmas that the Court’s Decisions website now contains all decisions since 1907, and judgments in leave applications since 2006. The collection is updated within minutes of the public release of the judgments by the Court. “All published judgments since 1876 from cases which were appealed… Read More »

Accessing databases off campus: Use the new Oxlip+ service as an alternative to VPN

By Angela Carritt The Library Service now has a brand new way of accessing online resources: Oxlip+ This new service will allow you to access all legal databases (including Westlaw and Lexis) from off campus without using the VPN. All you will need is your Oxford single sign on (webmail) username and password. Please note –… Read More »

Use databases? Passwords change on 31 July.

By Angela Carritt The Athens service will be withdrawn on 31 July 2008. Here’s what you need to do to ensure that you can access legal databases afer 31 July. If you’re on campus: You will not need a username and password for Lexis or Westlaw during the next few weeks. However, the web… Read More »

Cancel your Lexis alerts – or keep them for life!

By Angela Carritt Do you have Lexis alerts, scheduled searches or updates? If so, you need to cancel them before 31 July or you may end up keeping them for ever. Your Lexis alerts (aka scheduled searches and updates) are associated with your Athens ID which will be withdrawn on 31 July. Unfortunately whilst your… Read More »

All change please! Passwords for legal databases changing over the vac!

By Angela Carritt From 31 July we will no longer be able to use Athens to log on to legal databases. By October we will have a new system which will make logging on painless. However during the summer we will be in a transition phase. During this time routes through to some databases (and particularly Lexis, Westlaw and HeinOnline)… Read More »

Lexis, Westlaw or Justis for UK and EU?

By Angela Carritt Many students ask me whether they should use Lexis, Westlaw or Justis. Unfortunately, it’s more complicated than that and in reality you will need to use all three, plus a whole heap of other resources if you want to be thorough. However, here are some tips which might help you to decide… Read More »