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Westlaw International was decommissioned and replaced by WestlawNext in 2012.
WestlawNext was renamed Thomson Reuters Westlaw in January 2016.
Thomson Reuters Westlaw was renamed Westlaw Classic in October 2020.
You can still access Westlaw from all of the following web addresses:
The inactivity time out period is 120 minutes. Before timing out a message will be displayed.
The “Additional Terms” search box only becomes active when a Smart Term is selected.
No. Groups need to be created manually in Westlaw.
OPML is a file format used by feed aggregates.
90 days.
Westlaw will automatically de-dupe when searching or alerting on multibases. If individual news sources are selected and searched, results will not be de-duped from the individual sources.
No, alerts can not be de-duped against each other.
When you type a search in the text box at the Westlaw Classic, special rules govern which searches are processed as Boolean Terms and Connectors searches. A search is processed as a Terms and Connectors search if it includes a grammatical, numerical, or BUT NOT connector; a root expander or universal character; or a field restriction.