| |
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. Sources include:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
LexisNexis Academic groups sources into five categories for easy reference:
1. News
LexisNexis Academic NEWS supplies a wide variety of authoritative sources, including:
- Full-text of more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, many same day of publication, plus the most extensive archives available anywhere of Financial Times (dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and The Washington Post (dating back to 1977)
- More than 300 magazines and journals and over 600 newsletters, including: American Journalism Review, Business Week, The Economist, Industry Standard, Library Journal, Nation’s Business, New Republic, Newsweek, and Variety
- Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and NPR, as well as political transcripts from Federal News Service and eMediaMillWorks (formerly Federal Document Clearing House)
- Campus news, including the Chronicle of Higher Education and nearly 300 individual college/university papers
- Wire services, updated several times a day, including respected names such as the Associated Press, Business Wire and PR Newswire
- Non-English language news sources available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch, including both newspapers and magazines
2. Business
LexisNexis Academic provides a full range of credible sources for business information, including business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees.
News sources include Accountancy Age, Ad Age Global, BuyOuts, Consumer Electronics, Chain Store Age, Design News, Electrical World, IPO Reporter, Mergers and Acquisitions Reports, Video Technology News, and more.
Financial information sources include Standard & Poor’s Corporate Descriptions, Hoover’s Company Reports, Disclosure Reports, international company and stock reports, and more.
SEC filings and reports include SEC 10-Q Reports, SEC 10-K Reports, SEC 8-K Reports, SEC 20-F Reports, SEC Annual Reports to Shareholders, Proxy Statements, Prospectuses, Registration, and Williams Act Filings.
3. Legal Research
Students can use LexisNexis Academic to access primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations or dive into secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic. They can even validate their case law research with Shepard’s® Citations for the Supreme Court. Legal research sources include:
- Shepard’s Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Law review articles from over 500 publications
- Legal news from more than 300 legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters
- U.S. Supreme Court decisions from January 1790 to present, searchable by majority opinion, minority opinion, concurring opinion, counsel, or headnotes
- U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decisions
- U.S. District Court decisions from 1789 to present
- Decisions from Bankruptcy Courts; U.S. Court of International Trade; Tax Courts; Courts of Customs and Patent Appeals, and Veterans, Commerce, and Military Courts
- State court decisions at all court levels for all 50 states and territories
- All Federal laws from 1988 to the present
- Federal regulations: Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and Federal Acquisition Regulations and Supplements
- Codes for all 50 states and territories, plus constitutions, court rules, and Attorneys General opinions
- The IRS bulletin, IRS regulations, ABA Tax Lawyer, AICPA Tax Adviser, and more
- Patents from 1971 forward, searchable by keyword, patent number, classification number, lawyer, assignee, inventor, or summary
- European Union law from the CELEX database and international case law from a number of
- Law school directories, including the Martindale-Hubbell Law School Directory and NALP National Directory of Law Schools
4. Medical
Students may use LexisNexis Academic to search both full-text and abstracted medical information in one convenient location. Medical News provides full-text of news, written at the lay level, as well as more complex issues with full-text in Medical & Health Journals. Peruse FDC Newsletters or search abstracts in the National Library of Medicine’s Medline® database.
5. Reference
LexisNexis Academic provides easy access to key references resources, including polls and surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, biographical information, country and state profiles, and the World Almanac and Book of Facts.
Basic Search Steps
LexisNexis® Academic provides the following Search Forms:
NOTE: |
Review the Tips for specific information on how to run your search on each search form |
1. Quick Info - Take the following steps to search news sources using key terms or phrases:
 
- Click Quick Info under Academic Search Forms on the left navigation bar.
- Enter search terms in the Quick News Search field.
- Select a date from the DATE drop-down list.
- Click Search.
|
NOTE: A Quick News Search does not search the full text of documents for your terms. Review the Tips to understand how Quick News functions and how to run your search. |
2. News - Take the following steps to search news sources:
- Click News under Academic Search Forms on the left navigation bar.
- Choose an item from the Select a news category drop-down.
- Choose an item from the Select a news source drop-down.
- Enter search terms in the Enter search terms field.
- Select an option from the Narrow to a specific date range drop-down list to the right of the Date field or click the button next to the From field to enter a date in the From and To fields. (Not all search forms have a Date field).
- Enter the name of a publication(s) in the Search this publication title(s) field if you want to narrow your search to specific sources.
- Click Search.
3. Business - Take the following steps to search for business information:
- Click Business from the Academic Search Forms list on the left navigation bar.
- Click a source or a category in Business field to retrieve a search screen.
- Enter your search terms.
- Select an option from the Narrow to a specific date range drop-down list to the right of the Date field or click the button next to the From field to enter a date in the From and To fields. (Not all search forms have a Date field).
- Click Search to run your search and open a document list that provides general information about the documents such as headline, source, date, and length.
4. Legal Research - Take the following steps to search for legal information:
- Click Legal Research from the Academic Search Forms list on the left navigation bar.
- Click a source or a category in the Basic Legal Research field to retrieve a search screen.
- Enter your search terms.
- Select an option from the Narrow to a specific date range drop-down list to the right of the Date field or click the button next to the From field to enter a date in the From and To fields. (Not all search forms have a Date field).
- Click Search to run your search and open a document list that provides general information about the documents such as source, date, and length.
|
NOTE: Some sources have more than one search option, such as Basic or Guided Search. The Guided Search offers more options for creating a strategic search. |
5. Medical - Take the following steps to search for medical information:
- Click Medical from the Academic Search Forms list on the left navigation bar.
- Click a source or a category in the Medical field to retrieve a search screen.
- Enter your search terms.
- Select an option from the Narrow to a specific date range drop-down list to the right of the Date field or click the button next to the From field to enter a date in the From and To fields. (Not all search forms have a Date field).
- Click Search to run your search and open a document list that provides general information about the documents such as source, date, and lengt
6. Reference - Take the following steps to search for reference materials:
- Click Reference from the Academic Search Forms list on the left navigation bar.
- Click a source or a category in the Reference field to retrieve a search screen.
- Enter your search terms.
- Select an option from the Narrow to a specific date range drop-down list to the right of the Date field or click the button next to the From field to enter a date in the From and To fields. (Not all search forms have a Date field).
- Click Search to run your search and open a document list that provides general information about the documents such as source, date, and length.
Flexible Display and Output Options
By taking advantage of various display and output options, users can tailor LexisNexis Academic to their own needs and preferences.
No matter which section of LexisNexis Academic is selected for research, the service allows citations and documents to be displayed (and output) in one of four formats:
- Document List
- Full
- Expanded List
- KWIC (Key Word in Context)
Results are returned in a Document List format, which provides basic bibliographic information. Once a citation is selected from the Document list, the view changes to Full. The Expanded List and KWIC formats provide an opportunity to see search terms in context, without reviewing the entire document. (Expanded List shows search terms surrounded by three to five words, while KWIC shows search terms surrounded by a window of twenty words.) Citations or documents can be printed, saved, or emailed using the service’s easy-to-use interface.
Output: Print, Email, or Save to Portable Memory Device
|
For additional help in searching, go to HELP on Lexis-Nexis tool bar.
|
