Tuesday, September 25, 2007

LexisNexis Canada (Quicklaw )no longer offered free to US libraries

We were alerted last week to the discovery that LexisNexis Canada seems to be adopting the business model of its Butterworth products outside the US and giving US educational accounts just "slices" of the country information. While we could previously use separate passwords for the old Quicklaw system, these are now de-activated.
Along with French and Argentinian sources, commonwealth materials also need to be enhanced by separate subscriptions, and many of us have been disappointed that this structure has been adopted by LexisNexis. Our LLM students and others could benefit and continue to become familiar with these products under an educational subscription that would fold it all together, or at least allow law libraries to elect jurisdictional materials of interest. O Canada......

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