WestlawNext Command Searching
These commands were new to me, so I thought I would share them on the blog. DO NOT type parenthesis or any type of brackets when you use these. Also most of these require a colon : after the operator …
Category: Lexis, Westlaw & Bloomberg
Inside Higher Ed Reports on What Students Don’t Know About Using the Web and Research
From our friends at Inside Higher Ed: “The ERIAL (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) project — a series of studies conducted at Illinois Wesleyan, DePaul University, and Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois’s Chicago and Springfield campuses …
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Lexis v. Westlaw, LexisAdvance v. WestlawNext
The library’s Lexis and Westlaw Feature’s Compared Guide has been updated. It now includes a separate page, Shepards and Keycite Compared, which includes comments about Shepards on LexisAdvance and Keycite on WestlawNext. There is also a LexisAdvance and WestlawNext Features …
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Databases for Summer Use- Wexis Alternatives
This is the same list printed in the library’s column in April edition of The Gavel. Note one update: LoisLaw, will likely be going away in about a month. Alternatives to LexisNexis and Westlaw available for summer use (as well …
