Bloomberg Law account registration
How to register for an account on Bloomberg Law:
- To access Bloomberg Law, go to the library catalog. On the catalog page, make sure you click the link for "Off-campus users" to be brought directly to the registration page.
- Fill in your information, making sure you use your Cornell email address when signing up and select Cornell University Law School as your institution.
- After you submit Bloomberg will confirm your status as a Cornell student and send you an email to set up your username and password.
Bloomberg Law
In Bloomberg you can set up alerts for searches, and newsletters.
For search alerts:
- After logging in, you are brought to your homepage. Click "browse" in the top left corner of the page, click on "Practice Centers" and then "Labor and Employment" (or the area you are doing research in).
- Type your search terms into the search bar at the top of the page (e.g. discrimination AND employment), and you can narrow down the sources you get results for by clicking "Select Sources" at the end of the search bar and selecting the ones you want.
- Once you run the search, you can narrow the results further by using the delimiters on the left side of the screen.
- Once you have the search parameters you are looking for, click "Create Alert" that's above your search results with "edit search" and "add search to dashboard".
- Here you can tailor the alert for you; adding a title, tags, the frequency you receive the alert, and the email it's sent to.
For newsletter alerts:
- After logging in, click "My Work History" at the top of the webpage. Then click "Alerts" and then "Manage Alerts"
- This will bring you to your Alerts Management page. From here you can manage all the alerts you set up for your Bloomberg account.
- Click "Newsletter Subscriptions" and you'll have a list come up with all the different newsletters you can subscribe too, and just scroll down until you find the ones you want.
- Once you find a newsletter you want to subscribe to (e.g. Daily Labor Report) click the pencil image on the right side of the table. Here you can choose if you want Highlights or First Move.
- Once you choose the kind of alerts you would like just click save and you will start receiving the alerts.
News Sources
- Labor NotesLabor Notes is a monthly publication and organization devoted to the activities of grassroots labor and union activists. The web site offers selected articles from the current and recent (past year) issues, plus sells Labor Notes books and pamphlets.
- Labor Press"New York’s leading source of news for politics and economic issues affecting workers."
- LabourStartLabourStart is an online news service maintained by a global network of volunteers, which aims to serve the international trade union movement by collecting and disseminating information. Its features include daily labor news links in 17 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 630 trade union websites. News is collected from mainstream, trade union, and alternative news sources by a network of nearly 350 volunteer correspondents based on every continent.
- ILR in the NewsHighlights of ILR Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students in the news.
- Workplace Issues TodaySelected by the Catherwood Library Reference Staff each Monday through Friday, excluding University holidays, WIT is a free alert service, providing abstracts and links to workplace-related news stories covered in the major media.
- Current U.S. Labor Union PeriodicalsThis is an historical bibliography of U.S. labor union periodicals. (November 2010) It includes links to web locations for many of the periodicals. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of sources for labor union news and two brief studies on the 2010 state of union communications.
Other Resources
- FactivaFull-text online service for international news and business information. Covers over 28,000 sources in 23 languages in more than 150 countries. Some company and market research is included. Factiva includes full-text coverage of the Wall Street Journal.
- Nexis UniProvides access to full text resources on topics including current and general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; and regulations. Resources include TV and radio news transcripts.