Lexum is pleased to announce Qweri 1.13. Here’s what’s new: Customizable Metadata Fields Qweri 1.13 introduces customizable metadata fields to facilitate searching and sorting of documents. You can now create any number of metadata fields based on dates and strings in Qweri accounts. Creation of personalized metadata fields is completed from the new Metadata tab added to Qweri's administrative interface. Fields can be assigned to any given document from the Document tab, along with the corresponding value(s). Improved Dashboard Not only has the look for the Qweri Dashboard been... Read more
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Why you Should Move Beyond PDF for your Technical Manuals
If you’re producing a reference document of some sort, whether it’s professional documentation, a product manual or collective agreements, you’re most likely making it available to your stakeholders in PDF format.You know you could do better, but you have stuck to PDF until now because a portion of your user base consistently tells you they […] Read more
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Lancaster House Launches New Contract Clauses Service Based on Qweri
Lancaster House recently announced a new online service providing guidance to collective agreement language for negotiators on both sides of the table. The Contract Clauses Service includes actual contract clauses from current collective agreements negotiated across Canada in both the public and private sectors and provides authoritative commentary. It provides access to 1,700 clauses on 65 topics from current collective agreements, as well as checklists, expert analysis, commentaries and reviews to assist practitioners in drafting their own clauses. Lexum is proud that Lancaster House... Read more
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Students: Protect your research and academic integrity with Lexbox
It’s that time of year again: final papers are underway, and law students everywhere are scattering to get all necessary research out of the way in time to get their thoughts on paper. But there’s never enough time. The clock is always ticking. And with information as widely available as ever, there is so much […] Read more
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Qweri new platform for AQTIS agreements
We are pleased to announce that the Alliance québécoise des techniciens de l'image et du son (AQTIS - Alliance of Image and Sound Technicians) has chosen Qweri as the online delivery platform for its collective agreements. You can access AQTIS agreements at: www.aqtis.qc.ca/en/relations/agreements/ Qweri will allow AQTIS members and representative to add notes and collaborate on agreements, in turn... Read more
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Lexbox Now Out of Beta Phase
We are excited to announce that Lexbox is now officially out of its open beta phase. Released July 2015, Lexbox has changed the way we research freely accessible online legal materials. Lexbox has continued to push forward its promise of convenience, and the statistics show. In just nine months, Lexbox has grown in the following […] Read more
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Decisia 4.0: New UI and so much more
We are proud to announce the release of our latest Decisia update, version 4.0. Decisia 4.0 improves upon user experience and efficiency. New features include: New modern user interface (UI) Guided by the prevalent ergonomic practices, the new design-inspired interface of Decisia 4.0 make the overall research and navigation functions more discoverable. Deep linking to numbered paragraphs With 4.0, users can deep link to numbered paragraphs by adding #parxx (ex: http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/15859/index.do#par20 ) at the end of the decision URL. This feature will help... Read more
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Additional Content from Quebec on the CAIJ and CanLII Websites
Lexum is proud of its contribution to the processing and publishing of important databases in Quebec law that are now available on the websites of the CAIJ and CanLII. This collaboration between two important clients of Lexum dramatically increase online access to legal information in Quebec. The recently published databases on one or the other sites include: The annual Statutes of Québec since 1996 Federal Annual Statutes since 2001 A selection of decisions published between 1869 and 1969 in the Revue légale Decisions published between 1983 and 1996 in the Recueils de droit judiciaire (RDJ)... Read more
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Host a Lexbox Webinar!
The attention paid to innovations in legal research has increased significantly and Lexbox is on the cutting edge of that trend. By partnering with legal associations around Canada, Lexbox is making its legal research expertise accessible through webinars. We are pairing with legal organizations of all size to educate members and participants on how to […] Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Qweri: From Legal Publishing to Technical Publishing
Lexum started investing efforts into what would eventually become Qweri in response to the demand of online legal publishers in need of a better solution for the delivery of secondary legal information. It has become obvious that large PDF files are inadequate for the online publishing of complex text-heavy documents used as reference material. Read more