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Academic Subscriptions on Westlaw International

Academic Subscriptions on Westlaw International. Mahendra Chaturvedi Thomson Reuters (Legal) New Delhi. Westlaw Subscribers. Government Institutions ( Ministries & Courts) Academic & Research Institutions i) National Law Schools ii) UTD’s iii) Private Law Colleges

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Academic Subscriptions on Westlaw International

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  1. Academic Subscriptions on Westlaw International Mahendra Chaturvedi Thomson Reuters (Legal) New Delhi

  2. Westlaw Subscribers • Government Institutions ( Ministries & Courts) • Academic & Research Institutions i) National Law Schools ii) UTD’s iii) Private Law Colleges • U.N. Bodies • Corporations • LPO’s • Law Firms & Private Practitioners

  3. Academic Subscriptions • WLI General Academic Subscription • WLI General Academic Subscription + AllNews (EMEA, Australia, JP, KR, TW) • Campus News • Campus Journals For further info: http://support.westlawinternational.com/academic

  4. WLI General Academic Subscription Who is likely to subscribe? • Universities with a law faculty or strong interest in legal research • Law Schools Why? • Unparalleled collection of over 900 Legal Journals (both academic and practitioner publications - great resource for international legal topics)) • Wide range of books/treatises etc from respected publishers • Westlaw puts the law in context – cross linking you to other related cases and secondary materials • Citators – KeyCite and UK Case Locator let you know if cases are still good law • Westlaw’s Impressive IP collection

  5. Characteristics of General Academic Sub • Subscription gives access to the majority of Westlaw’s legal materials • Students access via IP Authentication link (i.e no password required, log into University Intranet using student ID) • Passwords are also issued for a limited period to professors, librarians and selected students for Moot Courts etc.

  6. Main Jurisdictions Covered for Legal Materials Legal materials from: • USA • EU • UK • Australia • Canada • Hong Kong

  7. Main Legal Content by Jurisdiction

  8. Graphical View of Westlaw Content Note - picture is for illustrative purposes to indicate variety of materials on Westlaw - not to scale

  9. Westlaw Advantage New Directory

  10. WESTLAW ADVANTAGE • Did You Mean ? i) Misspellings of common terms ii) Misspellings of legal terms iii) Terms that are spelled correctly but are used incorrectly in a legal context • Add Related Terms ; Include relevant synonyms • Expand Search: Get more results from related databases

  11. Other ways Westlaw helps improve your research • Automatic searching of plurals and possessives • Automatic searching of irregular plurals, e.g., child also retrieves children • Automatic searching of compound words, e.g., whistle-blower also • retrieves whistleblower • Automatic equivalents for common misspellings, e.g., judgement also • retrieves judgment • Automatic searching of all variations of acronyms, e.g., H.I.V. also • retrieves HIV, H. I. V. • Automatic retrieval of a database when you enter part of a database name • or database description

  12. Westlaw Tabbed Research Pages

  13. WESTLAW ADVANTAGES • West reference attorney is available 24/7 • West Law Advantage : True copies • Westlaw Advantage : Editorial Enhancements i.e. Headnote , Case Synopsis, Statute annotation

  14. Journals

  15. Journals • Great coverage of international law and law from all jurisdictions • - Harvard Law Review- European Competition Law Review- Criminal Law Review- McGill Law Review - Intellectual Property Quarterly - Law Quarterly Review- Melbourne University Law Review- Hong Kong Law Journal

  16. Treatises/Books

  17. Treatises, Commentaries, Encyclopaedia • Vast Collection of US titles including : - American Law Reports, - Corpus Juris Secundum & - American Jurisprudence • UK collection includes • Kerly, Terrel & Copinger IP Commentaries • Archibold Criminal Law • Palmers Company Law

  18. Browse Treatises Using Table of Contents Search, or browse treatises using table of contents

  19. Legislation

  20. Beyond Legislation – USCA & CFR • view section’s history • view documents citing this section • view graphic view of section history • view USCA table of contents • view annotations to this section • view encyclopaedia discussing this section • view citing cases’ • view citing journals and treatises • view legislative history • view federal administrative agency decisions and opinions

  21. Cases

  22. Cases • - United Kingdom from 1865- United States (Federal & State) from 1658- European Union from 1952- Australia from 1903- Hong Kong from 1905- Canada from 1825

  23. Synopsis KeyNumbers Headnote Beyond Case Law West’s attorney-editor written headnotes, summaries and KeyNumber taxonomy system allow you to identify and analyse relevant cases quickly and accurately

  24. Beyond Case Law Keycite Flags alert you to important citation histories

  25. Legal Developments

  26. Recent Legal Developments - Topical Highlights, Current Awareness & Litigation Monitor Just open the database to view latest developments

  27. News

  28. News Search thousands of newspapers and newswires from around the world simultaneously or individually View a patent’s litigation history in flow chart form

  29. Campus News

  30. Characteristics of Campus News • Affordable! • Access to newspaper archives from around the world • Access via IP Authentication only • No Passwords issued • No legal content included

  31. Campus Journals

  32. Characteristics of Campus Journals Subscription • Affordable! • Access to the World Journals database (900 Journals) • Should not be offered in the first instance - only as a last resort if the institution will not take the full WLI General Academic Subscription package • Access by IP Authentication Only • Can be sold in conjunction with Campus News

  33. Academic Subscriptions Thank you for viewing this presentation For further info: http://support.westlawinternational.com/academic Any further questions: mahendra.chaturvedi@thomsonreuters.com

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