Winning Research Skills - Westlaw

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Tabbed Pages
Tabbed pages in Westlaw are organizational tools that help you focus your research and save
time. The tabbed Law School, Westlaw, and Business and News pages are starting places for
your research. Each tabbed page provides shortcut links to common research tasks. Many
tabbed pages offer a Search section, which enables you to enter search terms, select a database,
and run your search from a single page, or a Resources section, which contains links to a variety
of databases.
Several tabbed pages are designed specifically for law students with particular interests, such as
the tabbed Law Review, Summer Associate, and Moot Court pages.
Other tabbed pages can be a convenient starting place for your research
■ in a particular practice area (e.g., criminal, environmental, intellectual property, or products
liability law).
■ in a particular U.S. jurisdiction (e.g., an individual state or a federal circuit).
■ focusing on materials from the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, or other
jurisdictions outside the United States.
Customizing Your Research Environment
You can customize your research environment by selecting other tabbed pages, each of which
you can use as a starting point for your research. Each page you select is represented by a tab on
the toolbar.
To select a tabbed page, follow these steps:
1. Click Add/Remove Tabs at the top of any page. A list of available tabbed pages is displayed. To
preview a page, click the page name.
2. Select the check box next to the name of each page that you want to have available when you sign on
to Westlaw.
3. Click Next. A list of the tabbed pages you’ve chosen is displayed.
4. Select the tabbed page that you want to be your default page (the page that is displayed when you
access Westlaw).
5. Click Save.
You can repeat these steps any time during your research to add or remove tabbed pages.
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