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LexisNexisAcademic
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Training
09.12.2007
Lexis-Nexis Databases & Links @ UNT
Tutorials on this wiki...
Lexis-Nexis Academic
- "related products" at lower right links to all UNT's other Lexis-Nexis products
- changes / migration documented online
easy search tab
- able to search across all resources now (don't have to choose news/legal/etc.)
- now has a "did you mean" feature (steve fossett = state fossil)
- can narrow by newspaper title (and thus area)
- faceted; can also arrange by industry, category, geography, etc.
- can check multiple boxes, select print or email; can select which view you'd like to print (full document, etc.)
power search tab
- click "power search" tab
- click the plus sign
- drop-down of specific resources / larger sets
- most typical groupings of materials people want to search
- can limit by section of the document
sources tab
- overview of sources
- agency decisions
- publication type: administrative materials & regulations: agency decisions
- in the future, this source will appear as a search form option
In Lexis-Nexis Classic, but not in Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Index to Legal Periodicals
- American Law Reports
other main-page searches
- also specific searches: news, legal, business, people
under legal search:
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- right-hand column (may move to left)
- federal/state cases
- will list each individual state (next week)
- shepard's citations (includes guide to citations/abbreviations on that page)
- federal/state codes, etc. etc.
- will list each individual state (December 2007)
- default will be changed from "natural language" to "terms and connectors"
- finding law reviewd or articles on specific cases--lower right corner (related links)
under business search:
- Company Dossier ; new feature for Academic
- can compare companies
- pulls everything together -- snapshot, downloadable Excel spreadsheets, SEC filings, financial info, legal info, in news, patent/copyright, etc.
- links to older data (three years back and more)
- this pulls from the Company Profiles, as well
under news search:
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (right-hand column)
- polling data back to 1935
- good for public opinion needs/data
- gives question, results, who was polling, method used, polling body, etc.
general features
- view : choose expanded, list, etc. (left-hand top of results)
- next steps : edit search, etc. (right-hand top of results)
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