Searching Using KeySearch

In West km for Litigation, KeySearch retrieves documents at your organization that are relevant to a legal topic. The following techniques are used to ensure that KeySearch retrieves comprehensive, reliable, and relevant documents at your organization:

Automatic Classification: Thomson Reuters categorization and recommendation engine (CaRE) automatically indexes and assigns your organization’s documents to KeySearch topics.
Manual Classification: Your administrator can manually assign documents to KeySearch topics. In addition, your administrator can customize the existing KeySearch hierarchy of topics to meet your organization’s needs.
Full-Text Searching: Terms and connectors queries crafted by Thomson Reuters attorney-editors and your administrator leverage full-text searching to retrieve documents related to KeySearch topics.

To search using KeySearch, click the KeySearch tab at the top of the page. Select where you want to search using the Library Groups (All) button. This allows you to restrict your search to particular groups of documents. A list of topics is provided, some with numbers after each topic indicating the number of unique documents at your organization that were either automatically or manually assigned to that topic and its subtopics. Select a legal topic and/or subtopic to narrow your search. (This count does not include documents retrieved using full-text search.) At any time, you can type a KeySearch term into the search field and press Enter or click the search button to search a specific topic.

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Your administrator can assign you the role of KeySearch Editor. As a KeySearch Editor, you can classify documents to a KeySearch topic or remove documents from a KeySearch topic; as well as add, edit, copy, show, hide, and delete KeySearch topics. For more information, see Working with KeySearch Topics.