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From our friends at Lexis:

We’ve just made the LexisNexis^® Tax CenterSome of the highlights are noted below. 

• Convenient access to all forms of authority relevant to tax practice that are available on lexis.com
• Customize your My Tax Center page with your favorite sources and more
• Sources include primary legal, news, forms, and premium analytical material
• Easy access to Get a Document and Shepard’s^® Citations Service
• Specialized linking features for easy comprehensive research

You’ll find it under the Research Tasks tab.

Lexis has decided not publish a print directory for 2008. Rather, the link to the Searchable Directory of Online Resources: www.lexisnexis.com/sources should be used.  Here are some key points:

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If you missed our highly rated Prepare for Summer Research Bootcamp, here’s your second chance!  To sign up, please see the program website at http://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/training/summer/bootcamp.html

The library’s summer research assistant orientation & training program for Law Faculty RAs begins Wednesday, May 28 at 11am with orientation. Come learn about special services for law faculty RAs and learn about specialized training. 

Please register for services and orientation at http://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/surveys/summra/RAregistration.html

Check out these blogs where BU Law Alumni show off their blogging chops!

• Andrew Sinclair – http://andrewsinclair.org/
• Daily Kos – http://www.dailykos.com/ 
• Technology Blawg – http://www.techblawg.com/2008/02/about-author.html
• Jeremy Colby — http://abuffalolawyer.blogspot.com/ 
• Brandy Karl — http://www.brandykarl.com/   

Hello! - We’re just about at the one-year anniversary of the creation of our library-sponsored domain bulawinteractive.org (where our blogs are) and, thanks to everyone at BU Law, the results are somewhat astounding.

Since May of 2007, we’ve had over 240,000 hits on our domain, and in April 2008, we set a new record with over 30,000 hits!

Thank you very much for all your support and help in making our blogs so popular.  A full summary of our stats for the year is at the link.

Blog Stats

Lexis: LexisNexis offers students the opportunity to extend your full access privileges during the summer to August 1, 2008.  In order to do so you must register for summer full access through the Summer Access Registration link.  The registration process requires you to certify a legitimate use over the summer to be granted full access.

Legitimate Uses

• Summer School
• School-Related Research Assignment
• Moot Court Research
• Law Review or Journal Research
• Working as a Professor’s Research Assistant
• Non-Profit Externship
• Unpaid Internship/Externship
• Bar Review

If you do not register, your LexisNexis law school ID will be limited to only career materials as of June 1, 2008.

Graduating students must register for summer access to extend their IDs to August 1, 2008.

For more information and to register, go to: http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/help/saccess.asp

Westlaw: Westlaw will provide full access to continuing students upon registration and upon meeting certain conditions. Legitimate uses include:

• Continuing 2L members of law journals and law review
• Summer research assistants (”project for a professor)
• Incoming members of Moot Court boards and teams
• Students performing unpaid/non-profit public interest internship/externship or pro-bono work required for graduation.  

For more information and to register for summer access, go to: http://lawschool.westlaw.com/registration/summerextension.asp

If you have any questions, please come by the reference desk in the reading room.

Lexis and Westlaw are offering graduating students special access to their services.

Lexis: Upon registration, full access will be granted until August 1, 2008

• Go to: http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/help/saccess.asp

Westlaw: Special graduate passwords will be provided allowing 5 hours of access per month during the months of June and July 2008.

Also, graduates have one full year of job search access with their regular law school Westlaw passwords (passwords will change to job search access on May 31, 2008).

• If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Steve Donweber at 3-8854, donweber@bu.edu, or in Room 342.

The Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries recently announced the availability of the Massachusetts Reports (Mass.)volumes 1-238 via Google Books.  Because the search interface is a challenge, they did one better: the library provides an easy way to find the cases by volume.

The Supreme Court’s opinion in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, which affirms the validity of the Indiana Voter ID law, is now available.