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Accessing and Managing Your Search History

Never lose your work in vLex Library. Learn how to view your search history, find past documents, re-run queries, and pause tracking for a session.

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Summary

Review your past activity in vLex Library by accessing your History. This feature allows you to quickly find previously viewed documents and re-run past searches, ensuring you never lose track of important research.

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Why This is Important

Your search history is a critical time-saving tool. It allows you to instantly return to a key document without having to reconstruct a complex search query, ensuring a seamless and efficient legal research workflow.

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How to Use Your History

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Viewing Your Recent History

  1. Click the History (clock) icon located to the right of the Smart Searchbar at the top of the page.

  2. A dropdown menu will appear showing your most recently viewed documents and executed searches.

  3. Click on any item to navigate directly to it.

Access your most recent activity directly from the History icon.

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Viewing Your Full History

For a complete record of your activity, click View all history at the bottom of the dropdown menu. This will take you to a dedicated page with your complete, dated history.

Click View all history for a complete record of your past activity.

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Pausing History Tracking

If you need to conduct research without recording it to your history for a specific session:

  1. Click the person icon in the top-right corner of the screen.

  2. Select Stop history tracking for this session from the menu.

  3. You can re-enable it at any time by selecting Resume history tracking from the same menu.

Pause history tracking for a session directly from your profile menu.
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Personal Account Required : The History feature is only available for personal accounts. If you are accessing vLex Library through a generic institutional account (e.g., a university-wide IP login), your history will not be saved.

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Best Practices & Pro Tips

  • Re-run, Don't Re-type: Instead of typing a complex search again, find it in your history and click it to get the most up-to-date results for that query.

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