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PIN Required to Access Scholar Record, OhioLINK Databases

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | February 28, 2007 - 09:38

Earlier this semester Associate Dean Michael Slinger advised that the University and Law Libraries were adopting a PIN (Personal Identification Number) requirement for access to Scholar records and OhioLINK databases. The PIN feature has now been enabled. You will be prompted for a PIN when you view your own record or request a locally available item through Scholar. To set up your PIN:

Go to View Your Own Record in Scholar. (A new browser window will open.)
Leave the PIN field blank on the first screen and click the Submit button.
You will receive a message on the next screen that says Please enter a new PIN.
Use that form to create your PIN by entering your chosen PIN twice to confirm the number. PINs may consist of any combination of letters and numbers. Please use at least 4-8 characters for your PIN. Remember your PIN.
If you are creating a PIN for the first time and are authenticating for off-campus use of library resources, you must log out of your library account before authentication will work.

For more information about PINs, see: http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/pin.html

The message Associate Dean Slinger sent you earlier is reprinted below. Please do not hesitate to ask any of us at the Public Services Desk for assistance if necessary. Jan

Dear Students,

Below you will find an important announcement about the adoption of a Personal Identification Number (PIN) requirement for access to certain Scholar and OhioLINK services. This PIN requirement is being instituted campus wide not just at the Law School. This step is being undertaken to protect your personal library records as well as the integrity of our database contract agreements. At the same time, we want you to know that the impact of the PIN requirement on your research habits will be minimal: you will not need to use the PIN to request books or access your Lexis or Westlaw accounts, for example. It will come into play only when you are accessing your library record on Scholar or when using Scholar or OhioLINK databases. Please take the time to read the message below, and when the PIN requirement is activated early in February, make sure to establish your PIN at the earliest possible time.

Personal Identification Number (PIN) to be Required For Scholar and the OhioLink Databases Access

The attempt by many unscrupulous persons from throughout the world to steal personal information has become an unfortunate part of everyday life. This invasion of privacy has required those entrusted with data protection to meet these threats by increasing the security necessary to safeguard personal information. Unfortunately, libraries, and the online information access they provide, have not been immune from the attempts of thieves to find ways to take personal information for their own purposes as well as gain illegal access to information resources. This has been an increasing problem for libraries throughout the United States, including those located in Ohio. Therefore, after consultation with the University’s Legal Counsel and IS&T, we have determined that it is prudent for the CSU libraries to add another layer of protection in order to safeguard personal information and library resources. Therefore, very soon all members of the CSU family will be required to create a PIN in order to access Scholar and OhioLINK databases.

This will be an easy process to accomplish and will ensure a higher level of protection for personal library records as well as for the information licensed for the exclusive use of the CSU community.

We expect to initiate the implementation of PIN in the next few weeks. At that time we will announce it via email. However, if you miss the announcements, it will be clear to you that implementation has begun when you attempt to view your own record, or access the OhioLINK databases. When that happens, you will be prompted for your PIN, you will then need to go into “View Your Own Record” in Scholar and enter a PIN (any combination of 4 to 8 letters and/or numbers). You will be prompted to enter your PIN a second time, to confirm your choice. Then you can logout to continue your database searching or other activities.

Once you have established your PIN, the most important thing for you to keep in mind will be to REMEMBER YOUR PIN. Your PIN is secure because no one but you will know your PIN. Your PIN will not be available to staff, it will be known only to you. However, in the event you do forget your PIN, you will have to contact the Law Library Circulation Desk X2250 to cancel your old PIN and set up a new one.

If you have any questions please let me or Associate Director of the Law Library Jan Novak (X6913) know.

Thank You.
Michael Slinger, Law Library Director
Glenda Thornton, Director of the University Library

Common Pleas Courts Rule State Law Prohibiting Residency Requirements Constitutional

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | February 27, 2007 - 09:19

On Friday, February 23, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Peter Corrigan ruled R.C. 9.481 ( 126^th General Assembly S.B. 82), prohibiting cities from imposing residency requirements for city employees, is constitutional. The declaratory judgment in City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio, Case No. 2006-590414 and State of Ohio ex rel. Cleveland Fire Fighters Assoc. Loc. 93 v. Jackson, Case No. 2006-590463 follows a February 16 decision by the Allen County Court of Common Pleas in City of Lima v. State of Ohio, Case No. CV20060518 also upholding the statute.

Canada's Supreme Court Limits Detention of Foreign Suspects

Schuyler M. Cook | February 24, 2007 - 14:26

Canada's top court has spoken and limited that country's authority to hold terrorist suspects. Today's New York Times contains an article describing the Supreme Court of Canada's unanimous judgment. (pdf version)

Earlier this week, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals announced its decision upholding the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (passed by the Republican controlled Congress and signed by President Bush) which inter alia denies detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, habeas corpus relief.

New Law - In Case You Missed It

Schuyler M. Cook | February 19, 2007 - 19:48

In case you missed it, an editorial in today's New York Times informs and/or reminds us that October of 2006 brought us change from the self described conservative Congress and Administration. The voluminous Fall enactment, Public Law 109-364 (TEXT PDF) aka "To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes." in fact contains some new definition for when the President can use the U.S. military for domestic police activites. (More)

Open Access Part III: Whither Legal Scholarship?

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | February 07, 2007 - 11:01

"That's the old world. Nostalgia. Law review articles and treatises. Exclusive publication rights. Card catalogs. The Index of Legal Periodicals. Even things that were new, not so long ago, are now like familiar pieces of furniture. Academic press books and peer-reviewed journals. Westlaw and LexisNexis. JSTOR and HeinOnline. But the old world is giving way. Radical change is already upon us - a new world. Short form. Open Access. Disintermediation." Lawrence B. Solum, Download It While It's Hot; Open Access and Legal Scholarship, 10 Lexis and Clark Law Review 841, 853-4 (2006). Read University of Illinois College of Law Professor Solum's radical and entertaining vision of the future of legal scholarship at http://papers.ssm.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=957237 or listen to him deliver the message at http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/index.php?s=open+access.

Open Access and Legal Scholarship Symposium Podcast

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | February 02, 2007 - 16:12

Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship, a symposium hosted by Lewis and Clark Law School in March, 2006, featured presentations by Dan Hunter, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton University of Pennsylvania , On the Prospect of Open Access to Infinite Content (in Law); Michael Carroll, Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law, The Movement for Open Access Law; Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Assistant Professor of Law, Case School of Law, Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw and the Law School; Lawrence B. Solum, John E. Cribbet Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, Download It While It’s Hot: Open Access, Intermediaries, and the Dissemination of Legal Scholarship; Ann Bartow, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law, Open Access, Law, Knowledge, Copyrights, Dominance and Subordination; Matthew Bodie, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law, Open Access in Law Teaching: A New Approach to Legal Education. Listen to any of these presentations as podcast at http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/index.php?s=open+access.

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PIN Required to Access Scholar Record, OhioLINK Databases

Common Pleas Courts Rule State Law Prohibiting Residency Requirements Constitutional

Canada's Supreme Court Limits Detention of Foreign Suspects

New Law - In Case You Missed It

Open Access Part III: Whither Legal Scholarship?

Open Access and Legal Scholarship Symposium Podcast

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