About Search Results Lists
The following video gives a brief preview of how to navigate your search results page. The information below it provides additional information:
Narrowing Your Results
After you display the results for a specific content type, the Narrow By heading appears in the left pane, followed by any jurisdiction, legal topic, or source filters you applied to the search. Below that, a list of headings appears, and you can select them in order to filter your results further. For example, you can enter additional terms in the Search Within Results search box to narrow the currently displayed results to only documents containing those terms. Note that the headings that appear can vary, depending on the content type you are viewing
As you select additional filters, they are immediately applied to the currently displayed results and are listed below the Narrow By heading, the same as any filters you may have selected when creating the search. You can clear any filter by selecting the delete filter icon (
) to the right of the filter name, or you can clear all filters by selecting Clear. You can also select the Favorite icon (
) to save the filters as favorites for use in future searches. For more information on narrowing results lists, see Narrow or Filter Search Results.
Accessing Documents Outside Your Subscription Plan
If a document falls outside your subscription plan, either a Get It Now! link appears in the results list below the document title or an Additional Charges Will Apply icon (
) appears below the title to the left of each of the parallel citation links. If you select the Get It Now! link, you will be accepting the listed charges, and the document will appear. If you select a parallel citation preceded by an Additional Charges Will Apply icon (), the Additional Charges Will Apply page appears, where you either accept the charges and access the document or cancel the transaction.
Creating Alerts
You can select the alerts (
) icon at the top of the results list to save your current search as a search alert. A search alert is a search you schedule to repeat automatically at periodic intervals. You can use search alerts to check for new results over time. For more information, see Working with Alerts.
Selecting Specific Documents Within Your Results List
Each document in your results list has a checkbox next to it. Above your list of results is a main checkbox with a drop-down list attached to it called a "Tray" that allows you to view only the documents you have checked. You can select documents on multiple pages of your results list. It also allows you to make sure the documents you selected are within your plan. Once you are satisfied with the tray you want to view, you can click on View Selected to narrow your search results down to only the documents you checked. From there, you can easily save these documents to folders or deliver them to colleagues through email, Dropbox, or whatever way is most convenient for you.
Click Clear All to uncheck the documents in your tray.
Saving Results to Folders
In addition to downloading results, you can save them to folders. For more information, see Saving Research to Work Folders.
Delivering Results
You can select the delivery options button to print, email, or download results. You can also send results to Dropbox.
Sorting
By default, when you display the results for a specific content type, they are listed in order of relevance. You can select options in the Sort by drop-down list to sort the list in different ways, depending on the content type.
Including or Excluding Legal Phrase Equivalents
In the Settings Page option, if you specified that your searches should include legal phrase equivalents, you can remove them from your results by selecting Exclude legal phrase equivalents from the Actions list at the top of the results list. Or, if you specified your searches should NOT include legal phrase equivalents, you can include them by selecting Include legal phrase equivalents.
Natural Language and Terms & Connectors Searches
When you run a search, Nexis automatically determines whether to run a natural language or terms & connectors search. If the current search is run as a natural language search, then after the results appear, you can select Run as terms & connectors from the Actions drop-down list to run it as a terms & connectors search. Likewise, if the search is run as a terms & connectors search, you can select Run as natural language to run it as a natural language search. For more information on these different types of searches, see Search Types.
Note: When you run a natural language search, either standard (only the top) results or expanded (all) results appear in the results list, according to the specification that is selected in the Settings option. If standard results are specified, then you can select Expanded results from the Actions list at the top of the results list to view expanded (all) results. Or, if expanded results are specified, you can select Fewer results to view only the standard (top) results.