Thomson Reuters Westlaw
Thomson Reuters Westlaw is an international database containing primary and secondary sources in full text. While the focus is on US material, it also covers Canadian and UK material. Like Lexis Advance, you should search it if you want your research to be comprehensive.
Navigating to Law Reviews & Journals in Thomson Reuters Westlaw
- Go to Thomson Reuters Westlaw database homepage via the Library A-Z databases.
- On the Thomson Reuters Westlaw homepage under Browse - All Content select Secondary Sources.
- Under the By Type heading select Law Reviews & Journals
Note
To search for jurisdictions other than the United States (for example; Canada) you will need to select International Materials first.
Searching Law Reviews & Journals in Thomson Reuters Westlaw
- Select Advanced on the right of the top search bar.
- Use the Advanced search form to undertake a comprehensive search.
- To do keyword searching for articles on a topic use the Find documents that have form.
- To find articles with a specific title or author use the Document Fields (Boolean Terms & Connectors Only) form. This form only uses connectors and expanders, which are listed on the right side of the screen.
- As you enter your search terms into your chosen fields they will display in the top search bar. Select the magnifying glass icon next to the search bar to run the search.
Example of Find documents that have search
Here is an example of using Advanced search in Thomson Reuters Westlaw Law Reviews & Journals. This example shows the search terms graffiti /p copyright in the All of these terms field. This will search for articles where the word copyright appears in the same paragraph as graffiti.
Example of Document Fields (Boolean Terms & Connectors Only) search
Here is an example of using Advanced search in Thomson Reuters Westlaw Law Reviews & Journals. This example shows the search terms Legal graffiti & copyright in the Title field and the search term Epstein in the Author field.
Thomson Reuters Westlaw Law Reviews & Journals search results
After you have submitted your Advanced Search form, the journal article records will be listed in the centre of screen and sorted by relevance. You can re-sort by date or most-cited. You have multiple options to refine your search further on the left of your results.
Select from your results, and then use the delivery menu on the far right of the screen to either email, print or download them.
Refine your search results
If your search terms bring back a large number of results, you can use the Search within results option.
You can select the author field to search for a specific name - just enter the author's surname.
You can also limit to:
- a particular date,
- publication type,
- publication name.
