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