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www.lexisnexis.com/academic Give your students and professors access, at all hours, to full-text news, legal, business, medical, and reference information from more than 6,000 sources! LexisNexis® Academic

LexisNexis® Academic: 

LexisNexis® Academic More than 6000 premium sources, most of it full-text An incredibly powerful search engine, the same as that used in products sold to corporate and legal markets Easy-to-use interface - guided and basic search forms - job preparation for students of journalism, law, & business Campus-wide access allows researchers to search anywhere, anytime Customer service is available 24/7, and LexisNexis offers librarians a variety of training options Over 1,600 colleges & universities use LexisNexis® Academic

About LexisNexis Academic: 

About LexisNexis Academic 95% of content is full-text or selected full-text - Only 5% of content is in the form of abstracts Frequent updates - Some newspapers available day of publication; some wires updated multiple times per day Renowned search engine - Precision searching for novice and advanced users Logically organized content in 5 subject areas - News - Business - Legal Research - Medical - Reference

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Full-text of more than 350 newspapers U.S. and international The New York Times (1980 -) The Washington Post (1977 -) 300 magazines and journals, and 600+ newsletters Business Week The Economist Library Journal Television and radio transcripts ABC, CBS, NBC FOX, CNN NPR News Sources Campus newspapers Chronicle of Higher Education Hundreds of individual college/university papers Wire services Associated Press Business Wire PR Newswire Foreign language newspapers and magazines Spanish French German Italian Dutch

Home Page: Quick Access to Commonly Requested Information: 

Home Page: Quick Access to Commonly Requested Information News Company Information Legal Cases

News: 

News Guided News: Step-by-step instructions help users pinpoint relevant sources

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Step One: Select a News Category

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Step Two: Select a News Source

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Step Three: Enter Search Terms

LexisNexis Connectors: 

LexisNexis Connectors Basic Connectors AND OR AND NOT W/n W/S W/P Advanced Connectors PRE/n NOT W/n LexisNexis® Academic Guided News Search Form

Search Results: Four Display Options: 

Search Results: Four Display Options Document list: Displays documents’ basic bibliographic information in a numbered list. Expanded list: Displays a numbered list with each search word in context surrounded by approximately five words KWIC™: Displays each of your search terms highlighted, with a small block of text on either side (approx. 25 words). Full: Displays complete text of the document.

Search Results: Document List: 

Search Results: Document List

Search Results: Expanded List: 

Search Results: Expanded List

Search Results: KWIC: 

Search Results: KWIC

Search Results: Full View: 

Search Results: Full View

Segments in News : 

Segments in News Fields appear in black bold type, to the left, followed by colons

Sample Segment Search Syntax in News: 

Sample Segment Search Syntax in News Dateline (Toronto) in Full Text – Only works in Newspapers or Wires, and not all newspapers/wires have this field section (editorial) in Full Text body (north korea w/10 nuclear) in Full Text Type (review) in Full Text Series (iraq!) in Full Text Graphic (niagra falls) Length > 1000 in Full Text Length < 800 in Full Text Length = 533 in Full Text anchors (brokaw) in Full Text - Only works in Transcripts guests (mccury) in Full Text - Only works in Transcripts show (All Things Considered) in Full Text – Only works in Transcripts

Example of Segment Search: 

Example of Segment Search Search: section (obituary) and hunter w/3 thompson

Business Sources: 

Business Sources Business News Publications, including Accountancy Age, CFO, Employee Benefit News, and Mergers and Acquisitions Journal    Company Financial Information, including Standard & Poor’s Corporate Descriptions, Hoover’s Company Reports, and Disclosure Reports SEC Filings and Reports Industry and Market News Accounting Materials from Sources such as the SEC, AICPA, and John Wiley Note: additional Business Content can be added through optional Company and Country Modules

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Click on Source List to see titles

Legal Research: 

Legal Research 300+ News Sources 500+ Law Reviews Shepard’s for 1789 - present

Medical: 

Medical The Medical area provides full-text of news, written at the lay level, as well as more complex issues with full-text in Medical & Health Journals. Abstracts from medical journals dating to 1966 are provided in the National Library of Medicine’s Medline® database.

Reference: 

Reference Easy access to key references resources, including: Polls and surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Biographical information Country and state profiles World Almanac and Book of Facts

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Questions?

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If you have questions… Contact Us! For More Information 1-800-638-8380 academicinfo@lexisnexis.com