Online Services
LexisNexis Butterworths is the new service giving access to legal and UK news materials from both the trusted Butterworths and LexisNexis sources.
A one stop shop for your legal research, LexisNexis Butterworths has been, and continues to be developed using ongoing consultation with customers, including students and academics. Many favourite features and sources from previous services have been retained, with added functionality to enhance and improve your online research during your course. Popular features include:
• A comprehensive legal index allows searches to be run and results to be viewed by topic, as well as traditional search terms
• Content specific search pages encourage use of key information to retrieve your chosen document with ease
• 'Next Steps' options allow fluidity of research with an easy way to find related content
• Improved results functionality clarifies source and other useful information such as court or published date
• A 'My Research' tab saves your recent research history and allows you to set up and save your personal searches and alerts
• Easy to use online help options include Help icons, online Tutorials and e-learning modules
Whether you need to read up on an area of law in Halsbury's Laws of England for a seminar, track down a journal article, or study a case in depth through Casesearch and the All England Law Reports, LexisNexis Butterworths can help you achieve your research and career goals.
LexisNexis KnowHow is a practical, online legal information solution that's updated every working day with the latest developments in dispute resolution and employment law and practice.
Combining expert insight and practical guidance, KnowHow gives vocational students quick and easy access to the 20% of the law they will need 80% of the time, with click-through links to the deeper research resources of the LexisNexis® Butterworths online service. The service also provides students with 'At a glance' summaries, worked examples and checklists and tables.
Using KnowHow can help students studying vocational courses deliver fast, efficient and accurate responses to assignments - saving them time and helping to reduce inaccurate answers.
LexisNexis KnowHow includes a comprehensive current awareness service, called KnowNow. Drawing on our extensive court reporting and news-gathering resources, KnowNow goes one step further than other current awareness services - specialist lawyers fast track students straight to the changes that make a difference to their understanding of the law.
Rely on KnowHow to save them time and trouble in staying on top of the latest developments. To make sure they don't miss out, alerts are posted on a daily-changing news section, a weekly email alert service and a separate news archive for each topic area.
Nexis provides global information from thousands of sources allowing you to access the most comprehensive and authoritative business information and news from around the world.
Previous users of LexisNexis (Executive) will be familiar with the wealth of business data available alongside global newspapers, newswires, blogs and trade press that Nexis provides. With hugely improved functionality Nexis provides an easy single source research tool to help you study, whatever your course.
Fast access to reliable information will speed up your research and increase your confidence. Simple search pages allow you to search one type of content at a time, and enter specific pieces of information so you get what you need, quickly.
Useful sources include:
• The Financial Times and other key international newspapers, each with a searchable archive
• Company profiles, and downloadable tables of financial data
• International industry related information
• BBC Worldwide monitoring and risk reports
• Biographies including Debrett's and Who's Who
A Power Search and easy to browse source directory enable you to group your favourite individual publications and search them together as one. Save your groups onto your ID and they will remain visible until you change them.
In addition to the breadth and depth of coverage on offer, use up to the minute, personalised alerts to help you maintain your competitive edge and stay one step ahead in tutorials and assessments.
