{"id":75,"date":"2010-04-16T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/04\/16\/lexis-westlaw-summer-access\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T15:38:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:38:35","slug":"lexis-westlaw-summer-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/04\/16\/lexis-westlaw-summer-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexis &amp; Westlaw summer access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the semester draws near, so it\u2019s time to start thinking about whether you\u2019ll need your law school Lexis and Westlaw accounts this summer.\u00a0 Full access to Lexis and Westlaw is turned off May 31 and does not reactivate until August.\u00a0 However, if you meet one or more conditions you can extend your password for the summer&#8212;maintaining the access you have while in school.\u00a0 These conditions cover various non-commercial activities, including public interest work, working as a faculty <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/WhatWeDo\/HelpStudents\/Research-Assistants.cfm\" title=\"Cornell Law Library research assistant page\">research assistant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/WhatWeDo\/HelpStudents\/Helping-Student-Organizations.cfm\" title=\"Cornell Law Library student organizations page\">journal or moot court research<\/a>, and bar review.\u00a0 A major new development this year is the addition of Lexis\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/law.lexisnexis.com\/webcenters\/lexisone\/lexisONE-Community-News-Headlines\/News-Headlines\/LexisNexis-ASPIRE-program-offers-free-services-to-law-school-graduates-working-in-public-service-while-law-firm-jobs-deferred\" title=\"Lexis ASPIRE program\">ASPIRE<\/a> program, which is specifically designed for students and graduates doing public interest work.<\/p>\n<p>Passwords must be extended by May 31.\u00a0 Basically, you\u2019ll complete an online form indicating to Lexis and West why you need full access during the summer.\u00a0 Complete extension details for both Lexis and Westlaw are provided <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/WhatWeDo\/HelpStudents\/Student_Summer_Access.cfm\" title=\"Cornell Law Library page about student summer access\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the semester draws near, so it\u2019s time to start thinking about whether you\u2019ll need your law school Lexis and Westlaw accounts this summer.\u00a0 Full access to Lexis and Westlaw is turned off May 31 and does not reactivate until August.\u00a0 However, if you meet one or more conditions you can extend your <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/04\/16\/lexis-westlaw-summer-access\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[316],"tags":[233,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}