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LEXIS_NEXIS Academic Universe from LEXIS-NEXIS is a news, law, and business information service. It includes:
- News - up-to-date full-text articles from newspapers in the United States and around the world.
- Law - Comprehensive coverage of cases and statutes on the federal and state level as well as law review and legal newspaper articles.
- Business - Company and industry news from newspapers, trade journals, and other periodicals; company financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and Hoover's; archival SEC filings; and accounting, auditing, and tax literature.
 Accessing LEXIS-NEXIS |
- Go to the McKillop Library homepage at http://library.salve.edu
- Choose the link labeled "Electronic Databases."
- Under the Alphabetic Database Listing select LEXIS-NEXIS
Choose from one of five research categories on the LEXIS-NEXIS homepage: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical, or Reference.
Choose a subcategory for your research from the choices offered. For example, if you choose "News," your menu choices become: General News, Today's News, U.S. News, World News, Wires, Transcripts, Arts & Sports, Campus or Foreign Language News.
| Searching LEXIS-NEXIS |
At the search screen, enter your search terms in the required field on the form. You must enter text in each required field in order to retrieve results. You can enter a single term, a phrase, or combine terms (i.e. Cuba, Cuban refugees, Cuba and baseball, etc.) For additional help with searching, click the Tips button at the upper right-hand corner of each search form or refer to the LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Fact Book at http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/Catalog/universe/academic%20universe/acadufactbk.pdf
Although not required, you may use the "Narrow search with additional terms" box to include more specific words to help refine your search. Do not enter "and", "or" or "and not" before the terms you key in this box.
When date searching is an option, use the pull-down list choices, or click in the "From" and "To" boxes to enter your dates. Acceptable date formats include 09/03/99; Sept 3, 1999, 09/99; September 1999; and 1999.
To search for variations of a word, use an exclamation mark (!) to replace one or more characters at the end of a word. Example: Use negligen! to search for negligent, negligently, or negligence.
Click on the "Search" button at the bottom of the screen to run your search.
If an acceptable number of documents are found, review them for relevancy. If your search retrieved an empty answer set or too many documents, you can revise the search using: "Edit Search" . Edit Search will allow you to make changes to your search by adding terms, changing the source or changing a date. Or clear the form entirely and start over. "FOCUS" will allow you to add new search terms and conduct a search within your previous results set.
| Advanced Searching |
The advanced searching screen is labeled "More Options".
Enter keywords and select the field where you want the words to be found. For example, search options in the "News" category include Headline, Headline and Lead Paragraph(s), Author, Full Text and Caption.
Combine your search criteria using the connectors provided.
Limit your search to a specific publication by entering the title in the "Search this publication title" field.
A user can determine if LEXIS-NEXIS includes a specific source or publication by clicking on the Sources link on any Search form. The user may browse the source list and select a title to search, and then get a comprehensive description of the source. Source lists provide detailed information at the title level, and then link to the appropriate search form. "About this title" describes each source fully, including coverage dates and frequency.
| Results |
Search results display as a document list. You may change this display to an Expanded list, a KWIC (Key Word In Context) or full format.
Print, download or e-mail a citation list or selected documents to yourself using Academic Universe's capabilities. The service gathers the citations of the documents you select, assembles them on a single Web page, and displays them in a screen format that is most suitable for printing. Entire documents can also be printed, downloaded or e-mailed, one at a time, in either Full or KWIC (KeyWord In Context) format.
| Quick Reference |
| If you're Looking for… | Check this Research category | Use this source | Search would be |
|---|---|---|---|
| News articles from the current day's papers about the death of JFK, Jr. |
| Major Newspapers | Basic form: Keyword: JFK Jr. or John w/3 Kennedy Narrow search with additional Terms: Plane crash Date: Today |
| Automotive and transportation news about the Volkswagen Beetle within a very specific date range |
| Automotive and Transportation news | Basic form: Keyword:Volkswagen Beetle industry Type:Automotive and transportation news Narrow search with additional Terms: Date range Date: Date: 3/10/99 to 5/22/00 (Make sure that you have changed the default setting (previous six months) to the custom date selection, 3/01/99 to 5/22/99. To do this, click in the radio button next to the word, “From” below the date field pull-down menu.) |
| Stock information earnings per share |
| Stock Reports | Basic form: Company Name: : Microsoft Narrow search with additional Terms: EPS or earnings per share Source: :Stock Reports(Scroll down until this choice is highlighted in the pull-down list.) Date: Previous two years (Scroll down again until this choice is highlighted in the window.) |
| Retrieve the full text of a case by party name: Vacco v. Quill |
| N/A | Party name:: Vacco v. Quill Click "Search" |
| Patent information when all you have is a concept, i.e. flying saucer |
| All Patents | Basic form: Keyword:Flying saucer Narrow search with additional Terms: Glide or sail Patent type: : All patents Date: All available dates |
| Full text, recent medical information about cancer drugs |
| Medical & Health News | There is only one form. Keyword: Cancer drugs Narrow search with additional terms:(leave blank). |
Created by: cer 11/99
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Revised: December, 1999