Things I’d forgotten about WestlaweCarswell
We had our WestlaweCarswell trainer in yesterday to give a session on cost-effective searching. I learned a few things that I either didn’t know or I had forgotten about:
- The regulations citator (ability to note-up a section of a regulation) should be available in May 2008. I can’t wait! This will be especially handy for MV regs.
- You only get free access to items on your research trail if you access them from your research trail (outside the trail, simply revisiting a document you’ve already seen counts as another transaction).
- You can type a Boolean query into the default Cases template (don’t need to switch to “Terms and Connectors” template - just leave the “These Results Must Contain” dropdown as “Any of these terms”). You can also add fields and limits to a Boolean search in here. Cool - I thought you could only do a Boolean search from the T&C template. And I found that extra click very annoying.
- When viewing a section of an act, clicking “previous” and “next” to navigate to other sections does not count as a transaction. There’s a handy Thesaurus feature under the search button in the terms & connectors search template. I think I knew this but must have forgotten.