New Online Civil Rights Archive

The Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute has launched Recollection: A Civil Rights Legal Archive. This digital archive is a collection of “legal case files, legislative advocacy materials, reports and publications, correspondence, photographs, videos, administrative and fundraising materials, documentation of LDF’s sustained efforts in community organizing and social science research, and oral history interviews.”

This is a valuable collection of primary materials for civil rights researchers, and we encourage you to check it out.

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New York Times and Wall Street Journal Online Available to UIC Law Community

The UIC Library provides access to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal online. Information on signing up for the Times is available at https://researchguides.uic.edu/newspapers/nytacademicpass. Note that you will need your NetID to sign up, and if you would like to use an email associated with an existing account, you will need to disconnect it from that other account.

You can register for the Wall Street Journal with your UIC credentials here, http://wsj.com/uic, and find further information and instructions here: https://researchguides.uic.edu/newspapers/wsj. Note that student access will expire after their graduation date, and faculty and staff will need to refresh their access on an annual basis.

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Fall 2024 Reference Services

This fall the library reference desk will be staffed by a librarian or student assistant Monday through Thursday. The reference desk is located on the 6th floor of the library. If the reference desk is unstaffed when you come by, we’re still available to help! Librarians are available virtually by email at law-library@uic.edu and through the chat widget on the library homepage Monday through Friday. On Fridays, it is best to reach us at law-library@uic.edu.

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Study Aids in the LexisNexis Digital Library

We have subscribed to a digital collection of study guides published by LexisNexis. These titles include the popular Understanding and Questions & Answers study guide series, as well as many legal treatises published by Lexis.

Please note that if you used the trial access to the library over the spring and summer, you will need to sign up again under our permanent subscription.

You can access the collection through your browser here (use your email address as the user name). Please see this handy guide for information on getting started with the Library. You can also download an app for offline reading.

If you have questions, please contact law-library@uic.edu or our Lexis consultant, Shelley Duncan, at shelley.duncan@lexisnexis.com.

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Access to West Academic eBooks Through the First Two Weeks of Fall Classes

West Academic provides access to their eBooks starting the week before classes start through the first two weeks of classes of the fall semester. To gain access, students can visit eproducts.westacademic.com and create an account (please type the url if you’re unable to click or copy and paste). More detailed instructions are available here.

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Limited Access to Law Library (Including Information for Non-Law UIC Students, Faculty, and Staff)

Update: As of February 20, 2023, we have reinstated our standard access policy.

Current students, faculty, and staff of UIC colleges and units other than the Law School may continue to visit the Law Library. They must comply with UIC Law’s updated building entry procedures and swipe their i-Card at the 300 S. State St. Security desk. Seating in the 8th floor Collaboration Commons is limited to UIC Law student use only. More details can be found here, here, here (information for students), and here (information for faculty and staff).

Other patrons, including alumni and non-UIC visitors, continue to be restricted from coming to the library.

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How Can HeinOnline Help You?

Looking for a law review article, an old federal statute, or a historical treaty? You can find all of these and considerably more in HeinOnline. HeinOnline is a database that is best known for its collection of law reviews and journals—to access a specific journal, click on the catalog tab above the search bar and enter the name of the journal you’re looking for.

As you can see in the image below, HeinOnline also provides access to a wide range of other primary and secondary legal material, including U.S. federal materials, practice area-specific resources, and cross disciplinary resources on topics such as women and the law and slavery in the U.S.A. and abroad. There is a series of helpful videos on Hein’s YouTube page, and if you have questions about using HeinOnline, please visit the reference desk, call us at 312-427-2737 x729, or send us a message using the “Ask a Librarian” function on the library homepage (available M-Th, 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays, 10:00-4:00 during the fall and spring semesters).

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Access to Library Resources During Campus Closure

While the UIC John Marshall Law School campus is closed, most law library resources continue to be available remotely. To access article databases or other specialized databases, use the links on the library website to log in with your JMLS username and password. You can continue to access Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, and CALI using the individual log-in you set up with those services.

Additionally, law librarians will continue to be available for remote consultation. You can reach us at library@jmls.edu, and we can host one-on-one web conferences as needed.

If you have materials checked out from the law library, do not worry! We have extended the due date on materials through May 31, and we will extend it further if needed.

Please see this guide for a collection of links and more information. If you have questions about specific resources or any other research concerns, contact library@jmls.edu.

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Information About the UIC Library and JMLS

A benefit of UIC’s acquisition of John Marshall is access to UIC library resources. In addition to being able to check out materials from UIC libraries, JMLS students, faculty, and staff can access UIC databases and journals. Note that you will need your NetID to access these.

JMLS users also now have access to I-Share. I-Share allows you to search for and request materials that we don’t have at JMLS from participating libraries. Think of it as an expedited interlibrary loan program.

If you have questions about these or any other library-related issues, please reach out to library@jmls.edu.

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Library Catalog Downtime Morning of Thursday, Sept. 19

The law library’s catalog will be down for routine maintenance from 2 AM (CDT) to 6 AM (CDT) on the early morning of Thursday, September 19th. Database access will not be affected.

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