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Outline of Lecture
• Where are the computers at Northumbria?
• Your username and password.
• Your student email account and how to access it.
• Athens• A short explanation of
the online databases.
• CD ROMs
• Blackboard
• Student Printing
• Desktop Anywhere
• Wireless Networking
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IT handout
Please have your IT handout to hand for the duration of this lecture
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Where are the computers?
Open Access PC Labs can be found in:
– Trinity Building– Library
There are also open access facilities available at Coach Lane
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Computers in the Law School
The Law School has its own computer lab in room SUB 022.
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Your Username and Password
Your unique username and password are printed on your enrolment slip.
If you lose/forget/don’t know your username and password, contact IT services on 0191 227 4242 or by email [email protected]
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Student Email
Within Northumbria
• Start Microsoft Outlook
Outside Northumbria
• Use Web mail – http://student.unn.ac.uk
• Use Desktop Anywhere
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Your email account
Your first two emails should be:
1. Your email address
2. Your Athens username and password.
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Online Databases
As a student at Northumbria you will have access to a vast amount of legal information electronically.
This will in effect give you access to a law library from the comfort of your own home.
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Online Legal Databases
• Criminal Law Week• Westlaw• Lexis Nexis
Professional• Butterworths Direct• Lawtel• Bailii
• Medical Litigation Online
• Justis• Casetrack• Estates Gazette
Interactive
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Online Databases
You should access the online legal databases via the Law School’s legal links page.
http://law.northumbria.ac.uk
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BAILII
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute.
This is a free database and can be accessed without a username or password.
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Butterworths Direct
The Law School subscribes to some of the services offered on Butterworths Direct, but not all of them.
The IT handbook contains a list of the databases we subscribe to.
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Casetrack
A premium service offered by Smith Bernal.
Available via the Justis website.
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Criminal Law Week
Specialist Criminal Law Website
Non Athens password – see the IT Community on the e-learning portal.
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Estates Gazette Interactive
This is the leading online property law database.
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Gore Brown
Reputedly the best online company law database available.
Access to this database is non athens
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Justis
Justis will provide access to
• Daily Cases
• Family Law Reports
• Justcite
• Weekly Law Reports
• Mental Health Law Reports
• Times Law Reports
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Lawtel
Lawtel is a very popular online database for legal professionals.
Access to Lawtel is via Athens
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Lexis Nexis Professional
Lexis is a very large database.
Help with using Lexis is available from the Butterworth’s Student Associate.
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Medical Litigation Online
A very useful database dealing primarily with medical law.
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Westlaw
Westlaw is a huge online legal database
You can search for cases, legislation and also journal articles.
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Which Database should be used?
Practice makes perfect
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Free legal Information
There is a large amount of free legal information available on the Internet.
Many of these sites are listed on the legal links page on the law school website.
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CD ROMS
Some legal databases are not available on the Internet but on CD ROM.
IOLIS
Oyez Forms
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E-Learning Portal
Northumbria University students have access to an e-learning portal.
http://e-learning.northumbria.ac.uk
This was formerly known as Blackboard.
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Student Printing
Each student will receive 1000 free print credits per academic year.
Unused credits will not be rolled over.
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Desktop Anywhere
Useful service that will allow a student to be ‘virtually’ located within the University.
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‘U’ Drive
Every student has access to 80 mega bytes of network storage
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Wi Fi
Most of the University is capable of wireless networking.
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IT problems
Contact the IT helpline if you have any problems with IT when a student at Northumbria.
0191 227 4242