TEXTS AND ANNOTATIONS ENHACNED DOCUMENT DISPLAY, TABLE OF

CONTENTS and LEGAL TOPICS

Frequently Asked Questions – EXTERNAL USE

INTRODUCTION

On November 29th, enhanced Texts and Annotations Document Display and enhanced

Persistent Table of Contents features on WestlawNext Canada will be released. This FAQ has

been prepared to inform you about these enhancements.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Q: What are the Texts and Annotations Enhanced Document Display, Persistent Table of

Contents and new Legal Topics enhancements?

A: This set of enhancements allows you to seamlessly read documents in a single display with a

new reading mode for individual texts and annotations, and provides a browsable and linkable

Table of Contents. The Legal Topics enhancements allow users to obtain results across a variety

of content types and link to content such as case law, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, expert

commentary from across content collections on WestlawNext Canada, including Legal

Memoranda, select Litigator documents, commentary, and eLooseleafs on ProView.

FEATURES & FUNCTIONALITY OVERVIEW:

Q: What are the main features of the Texts and Annotations enhancements on WestlawNext

Canada?

A: The main features include:

Enhanced and Persistent Tables of Contents

o Each Text and Annotations title on WestlawNext Canada features a re-designed

publication landing page with enhanced Table of Contents functionality. The

Table of Contents for each title will be persistent and easier to navigate with

display features allowing users to know exactly where they are in the

publication as they navigate the TOC. Browsing from one section of the text is

easier and more efficient. The New ‘tree’ style Table of Contents on the landing

page for individual Texts and Annotations allows you to browse and search the

Table of Contents on one page.

o A new Reading Mode allows you to navigate an individual WestlawNext Canada

Text and Annotation publication like a book. The Table of Contents moves as

you move through a particular section or title and each succeeding section

follows via the continuous scrolling feature.

Enhanced and Browsable and Navigable Indices

o Easy access to Indices for more Texts and Annotations. These enhancements

include persistent ‘ABC’ navigation links within the index for convenient

browsing, and the ability to search the indices for a particular text and

annotation title. You can also search the index for a particular publication for a

word or phrase.

New Auto-fill feature on the Library Page

o Allows you to zero-in on the specific publication you are looking for from among

the full list of all available texts and annotations titles. With this feature, you

can quickly locate a specific title in the library by beginning to type the title of

the book or author name in the search query box at the top of the page. As text

is typed, titles of text and annotations publications containing words or phrases

matching what is typed appear in the drop-down menu. The user selects the

particular publication sought from this drop-down and is taken to the landing

page for that specific publication.

Browse Legal Topics

Q: What is Browse Legal Topics?

A: Browse Legal Topics is a new way to do legal research. Where topical browsing has

already existed for case law digests and with individual table of contents for discreet

text, this new enhancement allows researchers to receive results that are editorially

identified as being relevant to particular issues or topics

Q: What content is included in Legal Topics?

A: At launch the following content is included within the legal topics: cases and

decisions, legal memorandum, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Texts and annotations on

WLNC (topical areas will be added in phases after launch) other than annotated acts.

Q: What content is coming to Legal Topics in the future?

A: After launch we will be working to add a selection other content types including

Proview eLoosleaf titles to Legal Topics. As content is added, this will be communicated

to customers.

Q: How are egal topics different from the Canadian Abridgment?

A: The taxonomy or organization scheme used to identify the legal topics is powered by

the Canadian Abridgment and is based on the Canadian Abridgment Key which is used to

classify our abridgment digests currently. However, browsing the Canadian Abridgment

digests will only lead a researcher to caselaw digests. Browsing legal topics will allow

researchers to identify a variety of material on the same topic when conducting their

research.

Q: How can I access material identified by legal topics?

In order to browse legal topics you can access the table a variety of ways as follows:

From the main WLNC home page there are two links as follows:

From individual documents you can access the specific legal topics (and more material

on those topics) as follows:

CED

Legal memoranda

Texts

AVAILABILITY

Q: When will the enhanced features appear on WestlawNext Canada?

A: The features will begin to appear for certain WestlawNext Canada texts and annotations

titles beginning on November 29th.

See announcement here:

http://www.westlawnextcanada.com/blog/insider/category/announcements/new-

enhancements-to-westlawnext-canada-browse-legal-topics-and-enhanced-text-and-

annotations-910/

Q: Who will have access to these features?

A: All WestlawNext Canada users will have access to these features, as well as Canadian

international users who access materials on the US platform. Note that the Legal Topics feature

will only be available for texts and annotations on WestlawNext Canada.

Q: Is there any additional charge for these features?

A: No. these features are functionality based features and are provided to all subscribers with

no price increase.

Q: Will users have access to all eLooseleaf (formerly eReference Library) titles automatically

as part of their WestlawNext Canada subscription?

A: No. Access to individual eLooseleaf titles shown in the library will require a separate

subscription to each of those titles, though they will show up in the search results.

Q: How will customers know if they have access to an eLooseleaf title or not?

A: An “out of plan” banner will appear to the right of eLooseleaf title in the list of publications

to which the customer does not currently subscribe. The absence of such a banner indicates the

customer subscribes to this title and can access it via the Texts and Annotations page.

Here is a screen capture showing an example of out of plan publications on the Texts and

Annotations page:

Q: Who do I contact for product related questions?

A: Contact Research Support at 1-800-387-5164, option 3. The Research Support team may also

be reached via email at carswell.reference@tr.com.