Westlaw and Lexis Survey

Please take a moment to complete the survey below regarding all aspects of Ivy Tech's legal research tools. While the length of the survey is dependent upon your reponses, the average time to complete the survey is under 30 minutes.

Print Media Section

* If print media is accessible and printible through online tools, do you believe that each library needs to also have the following print materials on hand:

• Indiana Cases
• Indiana Code
• Indiana Digest
• Indiana Encyclopedia

Yes - I do believe that these titles need to be available in hard copy in the Library no matter what the cost.

No - I believe that if the data is accessible online, it is NOT necessary for the library to keep hard copies.

As having hard copies of print media research tools in the libraries are important to you, please validate the importance of each of these choices:

'Academic' Research Access Section

* How do you feel about having research search tool access available to all students, (IE: LexisNexis Academic, Westlaw's Campus Research):

Yes - The College should provide this type of access to all of its students

No - It is not necessary for the College to provide this access to all of its students as most work of this level work can be done through Google, Yahoo or Bing

I Don't Care

* Which vendor would you choose to provide this access to Ivy Tech students:

LexisNexis

Westlaw

Paralegal Access Section

* Please select the Vendor that you wish to provide Ivy Tech it's PARALEGAL access:

LexisNexis

Westlaw

Final Thoughts

Using the scale below, please rank how important the following factors in making your decisions regarding Print, Academic and Paralegal legal research tool/vendor choices:

Would your vendor choice change for each of the areas (Print / Academic Access / Paralegal Access) if the cost was to be born by the program (Ie: Hit your budget):

If you have any comments, please place them here.