General Information:
LexisNexis Academic provides full-text documents from over 350 newspaper, 300 magazines and journals, over 600 newsletters, radio and television transcripts, polls and surveys, legal sources, business data, medical and health information, and non-English language sources.
Search Tips:
General Search Tab
- Easy Search – this is the default screen
- There are 6 foms on the Easy Search page allowing you to search for the following:
- Search the News (1980 to today)
- Choose which sources to search (Major World Publications, Newspapers, Magazines, Wire Services, Broadcast Transcripts, Blogs, or All News)
- Look up a Legal Case (US & state cases)
- Get Company Info (43 million companies)
- Research Countries (socioeconomic profiles & news)
- Research People (covers public figures)
- Combined Search (search multiple kind of content)
- You can search within your results
- Left side of the screen gives the number of articles by category of sources such as newspapers and newsletters
- Power Search – click to access for more in-depth research
- Type in your topic in the Search Terms box
- Select sources by Type or Name
- Select date from drop-down menu
- Searching tips
- Select Natural Language to search for phrases – use quotation marks
- Select Terms and Connectors to use the following
- Connectors – use AND, OR, AND NOT to combine search terms
- Truncation – use ! to replace one or more letters at the end of a word
- Wildcards – use * to replace a letter within a word
- Search a specific source(s), for example Florida newspapers
- Click on Browse Sources
- Under Browse Sources click on News & Business Topics
- Select United States from Countries drop-down menu
- Select Florida from All Regions drop-down menu
- Click on folder for General News Sources
- Click in the box to the left of desired title(s).
- Select newspapers to search
- Click on OK - Continue. Sources are added to Power Search form.
- Click on Search
For More Help:
There is a Help link in the upper-right corner of every page with general searching information. Each tab also has a Help link with more specific information.