I’ve written about the Bloomberg Law Reports. They’re good. Very good. But they’re not good enough to justify the hoops we now have to go through to provide access to them. Up until mid-June (6/19 to be exact) I received via e-mail nice PDFs of each issue, and I then selectively forwarded the issues to faculty who I thought would be interested. Quick, easy — a nice library service.
But starting on June 25th I now receive (weekly?) notices such as this one:
Bloomberg Law Reports® can now be found at:Bloomberg Law Reports are comprehensive legal analyses targeted to the legal and financial communities. Bloomberg Law Reports examine recent legal and regulatory developments covering a wide array of topics including: Antitrust & Trade, Asia Pacific Law, Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy, Corporate Law, Director & Officer Liability, Employee Benefits, European Law, Executive Compensation, Health Law, Immigration Law, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Privacy & Information, Risk & Compliance, Securities Law, and Sustainable Energy.. . .Issues of Bloomberg Law Reports delivered by e-mail are currently provided on a complimentary basis. Please feel free to distribute them throughout your firm. To view enhanced versions of Bloomberg Law Reports, including hyperlinks to cited materials, please access the reports on the Bloomberg Professional� service (BBLR <GO>). For more information on BLOOMBERG LAWSM (BLAW) and the Bloomberg Professional service, please contact us: . . .
Each week the URL changes. This is far too much trouble for me or our faculty. And I don’t have the time to visit the website, download each report and then share it. So I’ve now stopped reading the Bloomberg Law Reports – there are limits to what I can do.
IP-based access works. Passwords work (although IP-based is better). Bouncing URLs don’t. And biometric B-units are a nuisance, for me anyway.
And these changes came without any explanation.
