KSG E-mail Site

Once again, a patron asked if we blocked the KSG web mail site. He got an error message when he tried to use it. But I had him try it on Mozilla Firefox, and then it worked!

Westlaw and "full" LexisNexis access for undergraduates

Occasionally, as happened yesterday in an instruction session, I've had students ask me if Harvard has Westlaw access (or the "full" version of LexisNexis). Here's what to know:

1. While the Law School Library does subscribe to Westlaw, it does so only for its population. On site Reference questions are sometimes answered with Westlaw, but Law Librarians do not offer any kind of mediated searching for patrons and undergraduates shouldn't be sent there with that expectation.

2. At the Law School Library, the same policies apply for LexisNexis.

3. The KSG Library does have a terminal from which patrons can use the more robust version of LexisNexis. Librarians will help a student get started (since the dot commands take some getting used to), but there is no mediated searching offered.

The KSG terminal dedicated to LexisNexis is not attached to a printer, incidentally, so patrons you direct there should be prepared to email or should bring a memory stick with them.