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Summer Use Restrictions for Continuing Students

Each service has different rules for continuing usage if you qualify for an extension. (Also see Academic Use Restrictions for Lexis and Westlaw below.)

Lexis:

Lexis offers full access to Lexis Advance all summer to continuing students for the following educational reasons:

• Summer School;
• School-Related Research Assignment;
• Moot Court Research;
• Law Review or Journal Research;
• Working as a Professor's Research Assistant;
• Unpaid Internship/Externship including clerkship or clinical, as long as for credit;
• Research for Grant or Scholarship;
• Research skill improvement for educational (non-commercial) purposes

Students who are provided stipends, grants or funding by their schools or organizations over the summer are receiving compensation and are not eligible to use Lexis Advance for educational purposes.

Students with a registered Lexis Advance ID automatically will have full access for educational purposes through August 1, 2012. Access to Lexis.com will be limited to Career information as of June 1, 2012. Students who need access to specific content available only on Lexis.com (e.g., international materials), should contact Pam Lucken or Robin Schard.

Westlaw:

Westlaw passwords will remain active over the summer for limited research access in June and in July.

Students can extend access to full access over the summer if they have a valid educational need under one of the following provisions:

• taking summer classes;
• law review member;
• moot court member;
• faculty research assistant; and
• unpaid non-profit public interest internship/externship or pro bono work required for graduation.

(Students who are provided stipends, grants or funding by their schools or organizations for non-profit work over the summer are receiving compensation and are not eligible for a summer password extension.)

For full access, register at this link, OR log into Westlaw and look for the image that says "Need your Westlaw password this summer?" and click on the button that says "Go." By the way, Live Help for law school passwords will continue to be available all summer for WestlawNext, but it will be suspended for Westlaw.com on May 31st and will resume service on August 1st.

Subscription Databases

Continuing law students have off-campus access to the law library's subscription databases. A comprehensive list is available on the Subscription Database page. Once a student clicks on a database listed on the page above, he/she will be prompted to log-in. The user name and password are the same as the ones used to log into the law school network.

For Graduating Students

Lexis:

Lexis offers full access to Lexis Advance for graduating students for the following educational reasons:

• Bar Review

Students with a registered Lexis Advance ID automatically will have full access for educational purposes. Access to Lexis.com will be limited to Career information as of June 1, 2012. All graduating students' IDs will expire on August 1, 2012.

Usage is still restricted to educational purposes only as described below.

Westlaw:

Westlaw is offering graduating students limited Westlaw access in June and July to help prepare for the bar. Graduate access will expire on July 31, 2012 or sooner if Westlaw determines the student's usage exceeds "limited access."

Graduating students should have received an email from Westlaw allowing them to sign-up for the extension. If you did not receive this email and you are interested in the Westlaw summer access, log into Westlaw, and look for the image that says "Need your Westlaw password this summer?" Click on the "Go" button, and follow the instructions from there. In the alternative, you can go directly to this link.

Lexis Access for 2012 Graduates and Rising 2Ls & 3Ls Pursuing Public Interest Work

2012 graduates (and December 2011 graduates) and Rising 2Ls & 3Ls may continue their Lexis access IF they are doing verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work. To register for the LexisNexis Associates Serving Public Interests Research (ASPIRE) Program, go to http://tinyurl.com/LN-ASPIRE, log on, complete the form, and submit the required documentation. Eligible students will receive free access to federal and state cases, statutes, regulations, law reviews, Shepard's, and Matthew Bender treatises. Complimentary LexisNexis access will be provided (i) throughout the graduates' public interest employment periods, up until September 1, 2013 maximum, or (ii) from June 1, 2012 through August 17, 2012 for Rising 2Ls & 3Ls.

Eligible 2012 Graduates (and December 2011 Graduates) include:

• Deferred fall associates pursuing public interest work during their deferral periods,
• Graduates who elect to pursue public interest work while searching for employment, and
• Those graduates who pursue public interest work as a continuing profession.

For any questions regarding these services over the summer, please stop by the reference desk or call 305-284-3585, use Ask a Librarian, or e-mail Pam Lucken.

Academic Use Restrictions

Lexis and Westlaw educational passwords may only be used by law students currently enrolled at the University of Miami and solely for educational purposes. This includes work for law classes, student bar journals, or other law student activities. In addition, usage is permitted when students work as research assistants for faculty members. Any other use, including research for outside employers or clients, is strictly prohibited.