Research Map
In addition to saving your search history for 90 days, Lexis Advance has created a Research Map that allows you to not only recall what you have recently searched, but also compare those searches and their results. This allows you to see, for instance, overlapping results in each search. Lexis Advance additionally will help you to find similar documents to the search you ran.
To access the Research Map, click on My Workspace > History > Go to Research Map.
Shepard's quick access
If you simply want to Shepardize something (pull up the citator report), click the Shepard's button below the main search bar; this will add a special command to the search bar, and if you enter your citation after that command, you will be taken directly to that document's Shepard's report.
In Lexis Advance, basic and advanced searching is done from the main search bar. Here you can enter search terms or citations. To see what terms and connectors you can use in Lexis Advance, you can click on the Search Tips link to the right of the search button, or see the last page of this research guide, Constructing Searches.
Pre-search filter options:
These filters can also be applied to your search results; post-search you will be presented with even more filtering options, such as date.
As an alternate to beginning your research with a keyword search, Lexis Advance offers several options for browsing their content, accessible from the two tabs to the right of the Search tab.
Browse Topics
The Browse Topics tab presents you with a list of legal topics, such as Administrative Law and Insurance Law. Clicking on one of these topics will bring you to a list of sub-topics. Does the topic you seek not appear in this list? At the top of the list, there is a small search box where you can search topics. If you search for a topic that is not in the original list, the results will show where your topic falls as a sub-topic within the original list.
Once you reach the sub-topics (many of which are further broken down), clicking on a topic will bring up a box with the option to Get Topic Documents, Add Topic to Search, Favorite this Topic, or Create an Alert. Topic Documents will bring up any documents in Lexis Advance associated with that topic; these results will be organized the same way that keyword results appear. If you add the topic to your search, it will show up below the main search bar as a pre-filter, the same way filtering by jurisdiction or content type would. Adding a topic to your favorites will give you quick access to it to add it to a search in the future - your favorites live below the main search bar.
Browse Sources
If you're looking for a specific source, this browse feature is the way to go. Within this tab, there is a small search box to Search Sources. You can also narrow by content type and jurisdiction, and the sources are listed alphabetically.