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Welcome to the LexisNexis Practical Guidance blog. This blog is dedicated to providing training tips, commentary and other relevant information for our new solution, LexisNexis Practical Guidance.

We invite you to "comment" on our blog, tell us what you think about LexisNexis Practical Guidance and to ask us questions about the service.

It's an open forum to share your ideas with LexisNexis, your colleagues and your peers.

This blog is moderated so you won't see your comments straight away; but they should be live within the hour.

You can find out more about the product at www.lexisnexis.com.au/practicalguidance.

Happy blogging!


The Third and Final Week

by fiona.tulloch 22. November 2010 17:43

Hello and welcome to the the third and final week of the pilot program!

Thanks again for all your feedback so far. It's been great to hear how you have been using LexisNexis Practical Guidance and how it can be of benefit. Thanks also for the suggestions on what we can do to improve the service. These comments are invaluable and enable us to provide the industry with a solution in a format that mirrors your workflow.

Happy blogging and please drop me a line if you have any questions at fiona.tulloch@lexisnexis.com.au

As always ... please click the 'comment' link below to post your comments during week 3.

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Week Two Has Arrived

by fiona.tulloch 15. November 2010 09:24

Firstly, a big thank you to all of our pilot participants for all of the comments and feedback on LexisNexis Practical Guidance last week.

We are already into week 2, how time flies. Please post your comments and feedack on LexisNexis Practical Guidance this week using the form below.

Thanks!

 

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Pilot Program - Hints and Tips - Week One

by fiona.tulloch 9. November 2010 15:00

Tip of the week

 

The Search Box


While LexisNexis Practical Guidance is structured in a way that allows you to easily browse to the content you need, you can also easily search for information directly, if you already know what you
‘re looking for.

Using the search box on your practice area homepage, you can either:

  1. Search across all documents using the “All” tab; or
  2. Search across documents of a particular type by clicking one of the other content type tabs.  

Keywords can either be searched for within the title or the body of the document using the radio buttons in the search box. Selecting “Title” will restrict the search to phrases that appear in the title of a document, while selecting “Full text” will search for those terms across the title and body of a document.

Multiple terms within a single search will be treated as an exact phrase. If you are searching for terms which may not appear as a direct phrase, you will need to use Boolean connectors.

Connector

Example

Results

And

medical and negligence

Will restrict the search results to documents where the terms “medical” and “negligence” both appear

Or

malpractice or medical negligence

Will restrict the search results to documents where
either of the terms “malpractice” or “medical negligence” appear

w/p

medical negligence w/p diagnosis

Will restrict the search results to documents where the term “medical negligence” appears within the same paragraph as the term “diagnoses”

w/s

medical negligence w/s diagnosis 

Will restrict the search results to documents where the term “medical negligence” appears within the same sentence as the term “diagnosis”

w/(n)

medical negligence w/5 diagnoses

Will restrict the search results to documents where the term “medical negligence” appears within 5 words of the term “diagnosis”

!

negligen!

Will restrict results to documents where any variation of the root term “negligen” appears. For example, this would restrict the search results to any documents containing the words negligent, negligence, negligently, etc.

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