Friday, November 10, 2006

LexisNexis Academic

LexisNexis Academic enables you to search for news stories about the company you are interested in, to find business information about the company, and to find legal news stories that involve the company.

To use LexisNexis Academic (Open up a new browser):

From the UNL Libraries home page at http://iris.unl.edu/ select “E-Resources”.
Choose L and scan the resulting list for Lexis-Nexis Academic.

For company business news select the “News” tab. Enter your search term in the top search box. You can leave the drop down box as “Anywhere in the Document” or select another appropriate field from the drop down menu.
Under “Specify Date" notice the default selection for date range is “Previous 3 months”. Depending on your question you many want to change the date range.
Click the search box and look at the resulting record list. By clicking on any title you can bring up the news article.
Notice in the upper right side, Lexis-Nexis Academic has print, e-mail, and download icons and a “Narrow Search” box to add a term to narrow your search.
Note that if you enter another search term in the second box, your two terms will be connected depending on your choice in the drop down menu for the connector box (“and” is the default).

For a legal news search, click on the "Legal" tab , select "Legal News" and enter the company name or other term in the search box. Be sure to change the time period you desire.
For additional suggestions, click on the "How do I..." and "Help" links.

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