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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

New Lexis Enhancements

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | September 04, 2008 - 11:35

Recent improvements to Lexis include:

  • LexisWeb is a web search engine, which has indexed over 4,500 legal websites. A nice feature is the list of search filters on the side. For example, a search for "death penalty" will allow you to filter by a generated list of keywords such as "moratorium pending" or "serious flaws". It is free to all -you do not need a Lexis account to access LexisWeb.
  • Improved Find a Source - Instead of just searching the publication name, Lexis now performs relevancy searches against selected segments of the online Guide. You can do a boolean search or natural language search.
  • Transactional Advisor - After logging in, click on the beige Transactional Advisor tab at the top of the screen. You can search for forms by type of transaction, without having to know which database to select. (Launched Winter 2008)
  • Suggested Content-When you select certain databases, for example, International Court of Justice Decisions, Combined, Lexis will suggest additional databases to search. The suggestions are based upon what sources previous users of that database also used. The idea is similar to Amazon.com's "Customers who bought this item also bought ...." This feature is currently operational for banking, securities, litigation, intellectual property and labor & employment databases.
Enhancements coming soon .... (More)

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Design Your Own Research Class With MyClass

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | September 04, 2008 - 09:20

Talk about options. You have the library’s popular Research Certificate Seminars and individualized research consultations, and now you and up to seven of your classmates can set up a MyClass session. A MyClass session is a personalized research class for 2-8 students on whatever law-related topic you’re researching. Some possible topics for MyClass sessions include administrative law and regulations, legislative history, health law, tax, statistics research, and more. To set up a MyClass session, there’s form on the Instructional Services page under Student Research Consultations and MyClass Sessions.


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Writing a Note or Paper? Get Help with an Individualized Research Consultation

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | September 03, 2008 - 09:08

Will you be working on a journal note or a paper for an upper-level writing requirement? As you work through the research and writing process this semester, you might feel –

  • like you haven’t got a clue on a topic
  • that you don’t know where to start with the research
  • that you’ve gotten along so far so good, but now you’re stuck
  • that there’s this killer source, but darn if you know how to get it; or
  • like Bluebooking is as easy as reading ancient Greek.

This is where an individualized research consultation with a librarian might come in handy. You can set up a time that fits your schedule and get personalized research help on your paper or note. You’ll find an online form to send us to set up a time on the Instructional Services page under Student Research Consultations.


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Faculty Course Page Options

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | September 02, 2008 - 15:00

As a follow-up to today’s faculty lunch presentation, don’t forget you can find additional information on the Faculty Services page under Course Page Options. The page should give you some more ideas on setting up your own course page, and it includes the handy Course Comparison Chart put together by Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, that lists the pros and cons of web pages with Contribute, blogs, wikis, TWEN, and Lexis Web Courses.

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CCH Databases are Here!

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | September 01, 2008 - 16:57

The library is pleased to offer access to CCH databases, available both on and off campus. CCH publishes outstanding reporter series, which contain clear explanations of the law, as well as relevant up-to-date cases, statutes and regulations. Now this information is accessible via easy to use databases. The system also provides current awareness emails on many topics, which can be customized with specific search terms. (directions for signing up for current awareness emails)

The library subscribes to two different CCH databases: CCH Business and Finance (Securities, Business Organizations, Intellectual Property & more) and CCH Health and Human Resources (Labor & Employment, Environmental Law, Health Care). For a list of topics, and a list of titles contained in these databases, see the Electronic Resources Page.

More reasons to use CCH databases:

  • Law firms typically do not pass research charges to clients for CCH usage. It is cost effective to start research with CCH rather than Lexis or Westlaw.
  • CCH is known for their fifty state charts. If you need to know the minimum wage laws in all the states, for example, CCH is a great place to look.
  • In addition to keyword searching capability, there are indexes to the CCH reporters accessible online. Using an index may be easier or faster than a keyword search.

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