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The provider-neutral JustCite citator now offers links to Lawtel, the legal current awareness service from Sweet & Maxwell.

Along with similar links to material from numerous third-party full-text online services, these clearly labelled hyperlinks appear on the dropdown menus embedded into citations in all relevant JustCite records, redirecting users to the Lawtel platform.

In part our response to customer feedback, this initiative has entailed significant development time. Despite such efforts, two small caveats remain.

The first is contractual: Sweet & Maxwell require Lawtel subscribers to seek written permission to link to their records from JustCite, which they will grant.

The second caveat is technical: in most instances, limitations on the Lawtel database prevent JustCite from linking directly into Lawtel’s documents. Instead, JustCite now runs an automatic query on Lawtel when users choose the Lawtel option from the citation reference dropdown menu. This returns a Lawtel results screen, providing links through to the full text, keeping the process simple, if adding one additional stage to your search.

If you feel none the wiser from that slightly involved explanation, do as ever feel free to sign up for a no obligation trial of JustCite.