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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

 

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:

    • 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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