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LexisNexisAcademicNew
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by Starr Hoffman 14 years, 2 months ago
New 2010 LexisNexis Academic Interface
Six Different Search Widgets (boxes)
- news, legal case, company info, countries, people, and combined search
- designed to be easy, top-level searching (not in-depth)
- limited to 3,000 search results; it will retrieve up to 1,000 documents in certain products
"Search the News"
- default: natural language searching (an implied "and" like Google)
- search by source type
- or by source title (name of newspaper, etc.)
- as you type, the system searches for that word in various titles (live search results)
- searches in all areas of title (not just titles that begin with that word)
- in results screen, on the left there are facets to narrow results by sources, subjects, etc.
- while in a document: # of hits (at bottom right) = number of times the search term is listed in the document (you can jump to search terms using the arrows)
"Look Up a Legal Case"
- case summary at the beginning of the case document
- case law goes back to the beginning of that court, that jurisdiction (all cases)
- search by citation
- (see the 333 N.W.2d 67 opinion that is a poem!)
- by parties
- you don't need to know both party names or to know their order
- short party name of court may not include all parties; search includes all party names (even if not included in case title)
- landmark cases like Roe v. Wade may be hard to find/distinguish; edit on left-hand menu of top interface page: US Legal: Landmark Cases
- not a list of all Supreme Court cases; simply landmark cases
- by topic
- "free speech and first amendment"
- LN Headnotes: lists the various legal issues/topics that are relevant to the case (this is the part of the document in which "topic" searches for keywords)
- arrow by each headnote, takes you to the portion of the case that deals with that topic (click the "HN" citation to get back to the Headnotes section)
- for the old-style limiting by federal & state cases, statutes & codes, etc. see the left-hand blue box "US Legal"(below)
"Get Company Info"
- searches Company Dossier
- covers over 50 million companies, public and private
- also brings back: legal, financial, corporate structure information, and news on that company
- search by name of company or ticker symbol
- parent/subsidiaries are hyperlinked to company info pages
- can download tables to Excel spreadsheets
- also at far right: "older data" (up to six years total financial info)
- legal: US & foreign case law
Left-Hand Navigation (blue boxes)
News
- all news
- by type, by source name
- can limit search to small portion of newspaper (editorials, reviews, etc.)
- can search news transcripts by one or several networks
- foreign language news (by all non-English, or by specific language)
- search terms need to be in that language (no translation)
- can also search college/university newspapers
US Legal
- can limit by federal & state cases, statutes & codes, etc.
- "all states highest courts" = not all states call their highest court "supreme court"
- new: states statutes & codes = laws are codifed (grouped by subject matter, such as divorce law)
- select "state," "statutory code," then "browse"
- go to "Texas Family Code;" click on plus sign
- open "Title 1: Marriage Relationship;" ...drill down until you get to "dissolution of marriage"
- includes secondary sources that interpret that statute (or that cite other statutes or cases)
- law reviews: (same as law journals)
- can mix & match topics here
Subject Areas (new content!)
- can search specific sources for environmental studies
- health & medical now has its own search form
- government & politics: Executive Orders, Presidential Papers, White House Bulletin, etc.
- Executive Orders: example, "obama & stem cell" (terms & connectors instead of natural language)
Companies
- three separate products:
- Company Dossier:
- sources are cited beneath each separate section (linked to the full-text source)
- Dossier Create a Company List
- Dossier Compare Companies
Sources
- Browse Sources
- can browse all LexisNexis sources by state, etc.
- Find Sources
- lets you find a particular publication (on any topic) using keyword, to easily see if LexisNexis covers that source
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