Moving from Westlaw Classic to WestlawNext

Making the Move to WestlawNext

Sol Blatt Jr. Law LibraryLisa Smith-Butler

May 8, 2014

How Do I Get There? Log onto http://www.lawschool.westlaw.com/

The Home Page

Features

• Browse Content• Use Terms & Connectors & Fields with Advanced Search• Creating & Using Folders• Find & Print• KeyCite• News & Insights• Practitioner Insights• Practical Law• Favorites• Customize Page

Browsing

What Do I See & What Can I Do?

Moving Around• You can annotate and add notes to your case, statute, or law review.• You can add the annotated item to a specific folder that you create.• You can search within the document, i.e. focus, using the search icon,

search within.• You can go to selected portions of a document.• You can change your display options to view a document. • You can deliver your document via print, email, download, or to a Kindle. • You can then create an Alert that notifies you whenever changes are

made.• Court filings, forms, briefs, jury verdicts and settlements, and public

records are included in the document retrieval if available.• Filters can be applied on the side to further limit search results by

jurisdiction, date, keyword, topic, judge, attorney, party or docket number.

Tools: Folders & Notes

Focus/Search Within

Go To

Display Options

Delivery: Email, Print, Download, Kindle

Create Alerts

Court Filings

Filters

Browsing Statutes

• You can:– browse the Table of Contents;– find via a citation;– use the USCA editor created index;– use the Popular Names Tables; – use the Conversion Tables with the STATUTES AT

LARGE, Public Law Numbers, etc.; or– check the historical changes back to 1990.

Terms & Connectors & Fields: Advanced Search

Party Name

Terms & Connecters

Narrow Results? Use the Filter(s)

Make a Folder?

View Your Folder?

Find & Print

KeyCite

Negative Treatment

History

Citing References

Narrow or Limit Your Results by Applying Filters

News & Insights

Practitioner Insights for Health Care Law

Practical Law

Practice Areas

Resource Types

Make Another Folder?

Favorites

History or Research Trail

More?! Customize Your Own Page

Is the Digest Still Available? Yes. Check It Out Under the Tools Tab.

Is There More?

• Yes. West continues to add content and tweak. WestlawNext is a continuously evolving project.

• For more information about using WestlawNext, check out the User Guides @ https://lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/marketinfodisplay.asp?code=SG&id=1 .

Questions?

• Contact your library liaison or the Reference Desk @– 843.377.4020– reference@charlestonla

w.edu– Please stop by! We’re

glad to help.