LiRN is pleased to announce that, in addition to providing vLex in courthouse libraries across Ontario, we are also providing remote access to LSO members in good standing whose practice is based in the communities listed below. Your LSO number will be verified.
vlex is available REMOTELY n 37 Ontario communities!
Following libraries offer vlex REMOTE access for their lawyers:
- Algoma District Law Library (Sault Ste. Marie)
- Brant Law Association Library (Brantford)
- Bruce Law Association Library (Walkerton)
- Cochrane Law Association Library (Timmins)
- Dufferin County Law Association Library (Orangeville)
- Elgin Law Association Library (St. Thomas)
- Frontenac Law Association Library (Kingston)
- Grey County Law Association Library (Owen Sound)
- Haldimand Law Association Library (Cayuga)
- Hastings & Prince Edward Law Association Library (Belleville)
- Huron Law Association Library (Goderich)
- Kenora District Law Association Library (Kenora)
- The Kent Law Association Library (Chatham)
- Lambton Law Association Library (Sarnia)
- The County of Lanark Law Association Library (Perth)
- Leeds & Grenville Law Association Library (Brockville)
- Lennox & Addington Law Association Library (Napanee)
- Lincoln County Law Association Library (St. Catharines)
- Muskoka Law Association Library (Bracebridge)
- Nipissing Law Association Library (North Bay)
- Norfolk Law Association Library (Simcoe)
- Northumberland County Law Association Library (Cobourg)
- Oxford County Law Association Library (Woodstock)
- Parry Sound Law Association Library (Parry Sound)
- Perth County Law Association Library (Stratford)
- Peterborough Law Association Library (Peterborough)
- Prescott & Russell Law Association Library (L’Orignal)
- Renfrew County Law Association Library (Pembroke)
- Rainy River District Law Association Library (Fort Frances)
- Simcoe County Law Association Library (Barrie)
- Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Law Association Library (Cornwall)
- Sudbury District Law Association Library (Sudbury)
- Temiskaming Law Association Library (Haileybury)
- Thunder Bay Law Association Library (Thunder Bay)
- Victoria-Haliburton Law Association Library (Lindsay)
- Welland County Law Association Library (Welland)
- Wellington Law Association Library (Guelph)
Who can Register for Remote Access
This is open to all lawyers in good standing with the LSO with a practice in the above courthouse library locations. There are only 4,000 spots available. Information about the remote access is available on our public pages: vLex Remote Access: Portal – LiRN.
How to Register a new user who requests access
Once someone has asked for access, here’s a template email you can send them with the registration information. Once they have followed the instructions in the email, they can then access vlex remotely through the LiRN portal.
Email Template
Hello,
Thank you for requesting remote access to vlex.
Access is provided through our funder, the Legal Information and Resource Network (LiRN). To set up your access to vlex, please follow the follow steps below to access it remotely.
- Register for LiRN’s website using this link: Register for LiRN Remote Access to vlex
- To register, you will need to
- Provide your name, email and LSO number
- Pick our library name from the Referring Library dropdown list
- Review and Agree to the vlex Remote Access Terms & Conditions
- Create a username and password
- Once registered with LiRN, visit the Participant Portal on LiRN’s website: vlex Remote Access Participant Portal – LiRN
- Click on the vlex link on that page to access vlex content remotely.
- [Insert Your Signature]
Insert Flyers with vlex Information in your email invitation to join vlex remote access:
- What is vlex flyer?
- vlex flyer
- vlex User Guide – check web for more recent versions
- vlex Irwin Law in your library flyer
- vlex AI in your library flyer
- e-LiRN Subject Resources flyer
- Emond Criminal Law series
Training Resources
- Trainer Contact: [email protected]
- vLex Resources for Librarians: Librarian’s Guide 2021
- Vincent Guide: https://vlex.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/VincentAI-Online.pdf
- Help Centre, FAQs, features: https://kb.vlex.com/en/
- Training for lawyers is eligible for CPD – Professionalism accreditation
- Video of how to use vlex for LiRN participants
What is vlex?
- vlex Core Canadian Content – the best in Canadian law books such as Irwin Law’s Essentials in Canadian law series covering most topics in Canadian law, available electronically.
- Over 500,000 Canadian cases and more
- Vincent AI Legal Assistant. Let Vincent AI at your documents and it’ll retrieve all related results and check that your citations are still good law.
- Emond Criminal Law series
Remote Access for all e-LiRN resources?
As we developed e-LiRN, we discussed the feasibility of providing remote access with our vendors. The cost of making the suite accessible outside of our libraries was—and unfortunately remains—prohibitive. Vendors’ pricing models are tied to the number of lawyers who would have access to the product. We continue to discuss new pricing models that would make remote access feasible. However, at the moment, remote access remains cost-prohibitive. For more information, please see: Remote Access for e-LiRN – Is this possible? – LiRN
Library staff do have remote access to all of E-LiRN’s suite of resources through your passwords. You can conduct research on behalf of lawyers and e-mail them the results.
Do you have a contribution about using vlex’s Remote Access?