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Introduction to Online Legal Research  (Westlaw and Lexis)
Professors Healey, Callister, Johnson, Williams & Ribstein & Ms. Denslaw

Session: Fall - Spring

How to register your ID and login.How to find the appropriate database to search.How to retrieve a document by its citation or name.How to print, download and email documents.How to construct terms and connector searches.
How to conduct searches within a searching using Lexis Focus and Weslaw Locate.How to use preformulated terms and connector searches on given topics using Westlaw Keysearch.Practice problems for Fall Session.line
Westlaw:  KeySearch
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On the other hand, if you select to search a secondary source such as American Jurisprudence 2nd, your query is translated by West editors into a pre-packaged terms and connectors query (which in some respects is designed to mimic the results in case law searches obtained from West's Key Number system).
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