Post on 23-Dec-2015
Information Technology within the Law School
Deveral CappsSUB 0012c
d.capps@northumbria.ac.uk0191 227 3027
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
IT handout
Please have your IT handout to hand for the duration of this lecture
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
Computers in the Law School
The Law School has its own computer lab in room SUB 022.
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 in.ithelpline@northumbria.ac.uk
Student Email
Within Northumbria
• Start Microsoft Outlook
Outside Northumbria
• Use Web mail – http://student.unn.ac.uk
• Use Desktop Anywhere
Your email account
Your first two emails should be:
1. Your email address
2. Your Athens username and password.
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.
Online Legal Databases
• Criminal Law Week• Westlaw• Lexis Nexis
Professional• Butterworths Direct• Lawtel• Bailii
• Medical Litigation Online
• Justis• Casetrack• Estates Gazette
Interactive
Online Databases
You should access the online legal databases via the Law School’s legal links page.
http://law.northumbria.ac.uk
BAILII
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute.
This is a free database and can be accessed without a username or password.
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.
Casetrack
A premium service offered by Smith Bernal.
Available via the Justis website.
Criminal Law Week
Specialist Criminal Law Website
Non Athens password – see the IT Community on the e-learning portal.
Estates Gazette Interactive
This is the leading online property law database.
Gore Brown
Reputedly the best online company law database available.
Access to this database is non athens
Justis
Justis will provide access to
• Daily Cases
• Family Law Reports
• Justcite
• Weekly Law Reports
• Mental Health Law Reports
• Times Law Reports
Lawtel
Lawtel is a very popular online database for legal professionals.
Access to Lawtel is via Athens
Lexis Nexis Professional
Lexis is a very large database.
Help with using Lexis is available from the Butterworth’s Student Associate.
Medical Litigation Online
A very useful database dealing primarily with medical law.
Westlaw
Westlaw is a huge online legal database
You can search for cases, legislation and also journal articles.
Which Database should be used?
Practice makes perfect
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.
CD ROMS
Some legal databases are not available on the Internet but on CD ROM.
IOLIS
Oyez Forms
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.
Student Printing
Each student will receive 1000 free print credits per academic year.
Unused credits will not be rolled over.
Desktop Anywhere
Useful service that will allow a student to be ‘virtually’ located within the University.
‘U’ Drive
Every student has access to 80 mega bytes of network storage
Wi Fi
Most of the University is capable of wireless networking.
IT problems
Contact the IT helpline if you have any problems with IT when a student at Northumbria.
0191 227 4242
in.ithelpline@northumbria.ac.uk