From Facebook to Edward Snowden to just about everything else, keeping up with the online world is a challenge, especially when it comes to the law surrounding it. This law is constantly developing in order to address concerns about data collection and privacy, defamation, e-commerce, and more. All of this makes it a fascinating area…
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While outlining your courses is the most prevalent form of studying for exams, don’t underestimate the value of doing practice questions (I’m sure you haven’t; just consider this a gentle reminder). If they’re available, work on your professors’ previous exams. Check out our exams on reserve through eCommons. Even if your professor hasn’t provided any…
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Been wanting to learn Japanese? Arabic? Spanish? Maybe you already know a second language (like English), and you just need to check your translation skills. Visit the JMLS Library online language-learning center powered by Mango Languages. This service offers lessons in more than 60 languages, including English lessons in 17 different languages. Check out Mango…
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Beginning June 30, Westlaw will discontinue free printing. Dedicated Westlaw printers will be removed, and Westlaw print jobs will need to be routed to JMLS network printers. You will be charged the standard JMLS rate per sheet for Westlaw printing. Lexis will maintain both free printing and the dedicated Lexis printers.
Read law review articles published nationwide by our faculty from the John Marshall Institutional Repository. Launched two months ago, the IR has been quite a success! To date, we’ve uploaded nearly 350 article PDFs, and most are available for full-text download. For those that aren’t, we provide citation information. The JMLS Institutional Repository promises to…
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Students and faculty at JMLS now have access to Bloomberg Law. You may be familiar with Bloomberg’s financial and news services, but with last year’s acquisition of BNA, Bloomberg is now a full service legal research platform. Bloomberg Law provides access to primary legal materials (cases, statutes and regulations) in addition to its own citator…
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JMLS students, faculty and staff now have access to thousands of e-books. Users can locate e-books by searching the library catalog, where search results now include both print and electronic books. The e-books can be viewed in a web browser; no e-reader (Kindle, Nook, etc.) is required. Users can also download the books to be…
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The Index to Legal Periodicals, previously available through the WilsonWeb platform, is now available through EBSCOhost. What does this mean for you? You can now search for legal and non-legal articles in the same place! The library subscribes to EBSCOhost for the popular Academic Search Complete, a comprehensive database featuring scholarly articles from a wide…
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The JMLS Library now has a mobile web site with hours, help, and our library catalog. You can access it at http://catalog.jmls.edu with your mobile device, or scan the QR code pictured here. The Search box takes you right to our library catalog, where you can find out what we have in our collection. You…
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Last week we introduced MindManager, a new software program available at JMLS that helps visual thinkers organize their notes. This week we would like to highlight some of the audio resources available at the library for students who prefer to learn by listening rather than reading, for those students with dyslexia or other learning challenges,…
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