Pathways
A pathway is an ordered list of library articles — a study route you can work through in sequence, come back to, and reuse.
Pathways are part of the subscription. You can find yours on the Pathways tab of your Workspace.
Your pathways are private
A pathway you create is visible only to you. It is not listed publicly, it does not appear in search, and no other user can browse to it.
The single exception is a share link you create yourself, described below.
Building one
- Open the Pathways tab in your Workspace and create a pathway with a title.
- Add articles from the picker on the right of the pathway's editor. Filter it by title to find what you want.
- Drag the items to put them in the order you want to study them.
An article can only appear once in a given pathway. Adding it again does not create a duplicate.
If an article is later withdrawn from the public library, it simply drops out of your pathway rather than leaving a dead entry behind. The rest of the pathway is unaffected.
Copying an existing pathway
You can copy a public or institutional pathway into your own workspace. The copy is yours: editing it does not affect the original, and later changes to the original do not flow into your copy.
This is the usual way to start. Copy something close to what you want, then add and remove until it fits how you actually study.
Sharing
You can create a share link for a pathway. That produces an unlisted link — anyone who has the link can view the pathway, and nobody who does not have it can find it. It is not published, and it is not searchable.
Someone who opens your link sees the pathway's articles and can copy it into their own workspace if they are signed in. They cannot edit yours.
You can revoke a share link at any time. Once revoked, the link stops working; anyone who already copied the pathway keeps their own copy, which was theirs from the moment they made it.
Share a pathway with the same care you would apply to any unlisted link — treat it as "anyone with the link", not as "only the person I sent it to".
Studying a pathway with Tutor
On the Tutor page there is a Studying selector listing your pathways. Choosing one tells Tutor which pathway you are working through, so it can answer questions about the pathway itself — how many articles it holds, what order they come in, roughly how long it represents, and what the next step is. It can also point you to a related step when one looks relevant.
It does not change which library material Tutor searches when answering a legal question. Tutor draws on the whole library either way. This is deliberate: preferring your pathway's articles was measured and made answers worse when a question fell outside the pathway, which is exactly when you most need a straight answer.
So you can ask an off-pathway question with a pathway selected and get the same answer you would have got without it. Selecting a pathway adds context; it never narrows the library.
Deleting
Deleting a pathway removes it from your workspace. It does not delete any articles — a pathway is a list pointing at library material, not a copy of it.