Academic Subscriptions on Westlaw International

Mahendra ChaturvediThomson Reuters (Legal)New Delhi

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

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

WLI General Academic Subscription

Who is likely to subscribe?• Universities with a law faculty or strong interest in legal research• Law SchoolsWhy?

• 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

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.

Main Jurisdictions Covered for Legal Materials

Legal materials from:

USA

EU

UK

Australia

Canada

Hong Kong

Jurisdiction Cases Legislation JournalsLegal

UpdatesText

booksTreaties

UK Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IP

Australia Yes Yes Yes

Canada Yes Yes Yes Yes

Hong KongYes Yes Yes Yes Yes

USA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

EU Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Main Legal Content by Jurisdiction

Graphical View of Westlaw Content

WLI Content Cases

Briefs

Litigation Info

Treatises

Forms

Journals

Legal Updates

News & Business

US Public Records

IP Filings

Company Records

Securities

Legislation

Note - picture is for illustrative purposes to indicate variety of materials on Westlaw - not to scale

Westlaw Advantage New Directory

• 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

WESTLAW ADVANTAGE

• Add Related Terms ; Include relevant synonyms• Expand Search: Get more results from related databases

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

Westlaw Tabbed Research Pages

• West reference attorney is available 24/7

• West Law Advantage : True copies

• Westlaw Advantage : Editorial Enhancements i.e. Headnote , Case Synopsis, Statute annotation

WESTLAW ADVANTAGES

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

Journals

Treatises/Books

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

Browse Treatises Using Table of Contents

Search, or browse treatises using Search, or browse treatises using table of contentstable of contents

Search, or browse treatises using Search, or browse treatises using table of contentstable of contents

Legislation

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

Cases

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

Beyond Case Law

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Beyond Case Law

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Legal Developments

Recent Legal Developments - Topical Highlights, Current Awareness & Litigation Monitor

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News

News

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Search thousands of Search thousands of newspapers and newswires newspapers and newswires

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Search thousands of Search thousands of newspapers and newswires newspapers and newswires

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Campus News

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

Campus Journals

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

Academic Subscriptions

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