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