Hello Fritz:
It's my understanding that West developed KeyCite originally in order to
compete with Shepard's in the CD-ROM market, by creating a citator
integrated with a full-text product, which Shepard's was able to do
through a partnership with Michie -- another Reed subsidiary. As West
developed the databases and search software, they realized that they had a
product to compete with Shepard's online.
Yet Shepard's garners considerable revenue for Times Mirror and Reed by
making its online products available to the WESTLAW market, and WESTLAW
customers clearly value Shepard's Citations. It will be interesting to
see how WESTLAW customers respond to KeyCite, and how West, Times Mirror
and Reed negotiate WESTLAW access to Shepard's.
Rob
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On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Frederick R Snyder wrote:
> Because Shepard's Citations is owned by Lexis Law which is owned by Reed,
> can we assume that sooner or later Westlaw will not have Shepard's
> Citations on line? Presumably that is the reason, or one of the reasons,
> Westlaw developed KeyCite?
> Fritz Snyder, Univ. of Montana Law Library.
>
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