Talk:Westlaw/Archives/2013

TWEN merged here
See Articles for deletion/TWEN. Johnleemk | Talk 12:04, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

International content or versions of Westlaw
After Thomson Corporation purchased West, it instituted projects to add sources from other Thomson companies, both domestic (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing; Clark Boardman Callaghan) and international (Carswell's eCarswell in Canada, Sweet & Maxwell under WestlawUK, Forlaget and Karnov in Denmark under Westlaw Danmark, Fakta in Sweden under Westlaw Sverige, and Aranzadi in Spain under WestlawES). Thomson also had arrangements with others for content for Westlaw.de (Germany), which, it subsequently announced, would be discontinued effective April 30, 2006. Thomson has interests in law book companies in Argentina, Australia, New Zeland, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, but I don't know if they have Westlaw or equivalent services. This is a link to Thomson Legal and Regulatory's "W" listings, which include various Westlaw offerings.

Busjack 20:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Dial up or Internet
Both Westlaw and LexisNexis started in the 1970s as dial-up services with dedicated terminals. The earliest versions used acoustic couplers or key phones; then smaller terminals with internal modems. Around 1989 or so, both started offering programs for personal computers that emulated the terminals, and when Internet access became available, an Internet address (such as westlaw.westlaw.com) became an alternative that could be selected within the "Communications Setup" option in the client program, instead of a dial-up number. West's program was known as Westmate. It was based on Borland C++ around 1997, and then changed to a program compiled on a Microsoft platform that incorporated portions of Internet Explorer. This was the first program to incorporate HTML; prior to that, Westmate had "jumps" indicated by triangles instead of "links." Shortly after that, both publishers started developing web browser interfaces (Westlaw's being notable for the use of web dialogs, saying that this duplicated piling open books on a table), and I believe that development of the separate client programs has ceased. Busjack 20:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

no discussion about the oligopoly or price rise problems
This WP article does not address two of the main concerns of many LexisNexis and Westlaw users and subscribers : the LN-West-Thomson oligopoly in the legal publishing industry and the huge annual price rise problem. These issues *are* documented on the Web. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.46.204.90 (talk) 21:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)


 * See Wexis, which does. Busjack (talk) 23:55, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Directory of corporate sites?
I searched around awhile, hoping to find a single directory of the various Westlaw corporate sites to replace the list we have. Does one exist, maybe within the Thomson Reuters website somewhere? --Ronz (talk) 15:39, 4 August 2011 (UTC)