{"id":2363,"date":"2010-03-22T11:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:34:41","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-next-for-westlaw-and-lexisnexis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2010\/03\/22\/what%e2%80%99s-next-for-westlaw-and-lexisnexis\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next for Westlaw and LexisNexis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch for big changes in 2010 for Westlaw and LexisNexis.\u00a0 First up is Westlaw\u2019s new search interface with a projected roll out to law students in the fall.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WestlawNext<\/strong> &#8211; This new platform, tentatively called \u201c<strong>Westlaw Next<\/strong>,\u201d is changing everything \u201cfrom the interface users see on their computer screens to all the technology that makes it work behind the scenes.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/exclusive_inside_the_new_westlaw_lexis_bloomberg_platforms\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Source<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 Westlaw Next has new search algorithms and the results can be filtered in a variety of ways.\u00a0\u00a0 Storing and organizing your research will also change for the better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new <strong>LexisNexis for Microsoft Office<\/strong> is due out later in 2010.\u00a0 \u00a0Lexis will be integrated into Microsoft Office products allowing users to access Lexis materials from within a Word document.\u00a0 No longer will the user have to open a browser to log into Lexis to conduct a search.\u00a0 The Lexis materials will display to the right of the Word document.\u00a0 It includes a toolbar that lets you Shepardize while still in Word with the Shepard\u2019s results also showing up on the right.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/exclusive_inside_the_new_westlaw_lexis_bloomberg_platforms\/\" target=\"_blank\"> ABA Journal article<\/a> online.\u00a0\u00a0 Watch your e-mail for announcements from Westlaw and LexisNexis for when their new products will be available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Lenart<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Law Librarian for Reference Services<\/p>\n<p>The University of Akron School of Law Library<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:llenart@uakron.edu\">llenart@uakron.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>330-972-6357<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch for big changes in 2010 for Westlaw and LexisNexis.\u00a0 First up is Westlaw\u2019s new search interface with a projected roll out to law students in the fall.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WestlawNext &#8211; This new platform, tentatively called \u201cWestlaw Next,\u201d is changing everything \u201cfrom the interface users see on their computer screens to all the technology that makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2010\/03\/22\/what%e2%80%99s-next-for-westlaw-and-lexisnexis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What\u2019s next for Westlaw and LexisNexis?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-law-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}