Westlaw electronic journals

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A list of electronic journals available in Westlaw (more than 500 titles)

By following the link you are connected to this e-journal in Westlaw.
Tip: searching in more periodicals simultaneously is possible by putting the periodicals' abbreviation in one line, divided by colons.
For example: CNLILJ,CNLJIPP,CNLLR

 

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For the time being, please use with  ‘Registered User Login’ the emailadres E.Hoorn@rug.nl http://training.west.thomson.com/rc2/login_page.asp  

 

- Guide [PDF]

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- Westlaw boolean operators [DOC] 

 

Chinese Guide to Westlaw

Beknopte instructie in het engels:

Westlaw: Looking for journal articles in Westlaw  

1: Search for the journal in the catalogue Select the electronic version. 
     e.g: Harvard  international law journal

2: Use Natural Language
3:  Type in the title and the author (see this example)

UNPACKING SHOW TRIALS PETERSON  

 

Westlaw: search for a specific year   

1: Search for the journal in the catalogue Select the electronic version 
    e.g.: European law review

2: Use Terms and connectors.

3: Select the option This Year and Last Year from Dates

4: Type in something e.g. LAW 

Westlaw: search on topic Tip: Use Picarta first

1: Use all words to find articles in Picarta. 2: Select an interesting article.

3: Use the icon to be connected to the database wich contains the article.
4. If this database is Westlaw,search for the article in Westlaw.

Westlaw: Search on topic inside a journal

1: Search for the journal in the catalogue Select the electronic version

2:Use Terms and connectors. 3: Define your search terms.
4: Add connectors to compose your search string (see these examples).

Gr*w = Grew grow (represents one character)Drugs% (exclude search term)
Europ! = European Europe (use words with variant endings)

Europe/s drugs (within the same sentence)

Europe /p drug (within the same paragraph)
Europe /3 drugs (drugs within 3 terms of Europe)

“Matrimonial property” (terms appear in this order) & Netherlands (combined with Netherlands)