Thursday 18 July 2019

Westlaw - finding articles you can't access

Westlaw have recently updated their interface. We have had some feedback from students saying that they are now seeing lots of articles which they cannot get access to (because the library does not subscribe to that content), as in this example.


















On querying this with Westlaw we have discovered that this is actually an intentional feature of the new site, and we cannot get rid of it. It seems to happen particularly when you are searching the Journals tab, rather than with other content types.

The only way to avoid seeing these results, is to use the filters to filter them out of your results list:




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