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Dear Lexis®Library subscriber, e-burst brings you up to date with the latest improvements in your LexisNexis® online services. Some of the sources and titles mentioned below are subscription dependent. Please contact your account manager or call us on 020 7400 2984 if you would like to discuss adding any of these services to your existing subscription. Merged Headings Merged Headings You will soon see a fantastic new enhancement to the display of content on LexisLibrary, which will significantly improve your experience of browsing and searching some of our major titles online. Up until now the presentation of our content has meant that, in many cases, the title of a document or section sits in a page on its own with no paragraph attached to it. In response to your feedback we have made a change to our content to ensure that such headings are no longer a problem and always appear together with their relevant text. Old display (single heading):
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This new display has initially been rolled out to the following major titles: De Voil Indirect Taxes More of our commentary titles will be improved by this enhancement over the coming weeks - watch this space for more details! Login to LexisLibraryUK Journals Index Enhancements So far this year we’ve made some big improvements to the UK Journals Index. We are now indexing and writing essential abstracts for well over one hundred magazines and journals from all the major publishers, and that number is increasing. We’ve improved the timing of all journal and magazine abstract publications, letting you know first what will be relevant to you. Abstracts are available for all 26 Lexis magazine and journal titles and indexed with links to the full text on LexisLibrary. New Law Journal, Taxation, Tax Journal and Criminal Law & Justice Weekly abstracts are now published online at the same time as the hard copy – way ahead of the competition. More developments are planned for later in 2010 so watch this space! Login to LexisLibraryTop Tip! There’s now an RSS feed on the practice area page dedicated to Private Client, keeping you easily up to date with the latest articles and developments in that practice of law. Subscribe to the feed today by clicking on the distinctive orange icon and keep up to date at the click of a button! Login to LexisLibraryDid You Know? The first law librarian trained on the Lexis service was Diane Raper, from Norton Rose Botterell & Roche (now Norton Rose) - the first law firm to sign up to access the full text online service. They were closely followed by Gillian Mayrick and Lillian Stevenson, part of the library team. The service was launched in April 1980 and the pioneers attended the Lexis Training School shortly after. They were trained on red dedicated Lexis terminals, with special function keys, which were designed especially to help inexperienced users access the service. Up until then, very few lawyers had used a keyboard! In order to connect to the service, it was necessary to link up to the database by a direct telephone line and a modem the size of a shoe box – both having to be ordered 3 months in advance from the Post Office! Part I of the training took 3 1/2 hours and focussed on an understanding of how full text searching worked and how to research cost effectively to retrieve relevant information. This was followed up by regular visits for further training in their library. What do you want to hear about?
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