Lexis+Nexis+Academic+Tipsheet

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=This database is ideal for...= =__Database Description__:= Lexis Nexis provides full text news, business, legal, medical, reference and biographical information.
 * ...when you want both popular and scholarly sources
 * ...when you want to find articles from magazines, newspapers, or journals (national and international in scope)
 * ...when you want to cover a lot of territory in one place
 * ...when you want to find resources on current business information, legal information, current news topics, financial information, people in the news, (contains international, national, and regional) sources, etc.
 * ...when you need something right away - Lexis Nexis is 100% full-text!
 * ...when you want specific sources from: Ma jor US and World Publications, News Wire Services, TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts, Blogs, Web Publications, Company SEC Filings

=Wildcard / Truncation:= LexisNexis Academic uses the exclamation point (!) for truncation, or to replace an unlimited number of letters following a word root. Use an asterisk (*) for wildcard searching, or to replace a letter or letters in a word. You can use more than one asterisk in a word, but it cannot be the first letter.

=Plurals and Singulars:= LexisNexis services automatically search singular, regular plural, and plural possessive endings for search words. For example, a search on the term company finds: company, companies, company's, and companies'. But, if you use a noun with an irregular plural ending, you do not automatically get the plural and plural possessive. Use the OR Boolean operator to search for both singular and plural forms of a word. For example: child or children ; knife or knives; ox or oxen.

__ **Search Tips** __ **:**

**Boolean Operators:**
 * AND, OR, AND NOT **

word alone.
 * AND:** Finds records that contain both words, although not necessarily in the same sentence or in the given order. AND ties the two concepts together and provides a more narrow search than just a single


 * OR**: Finds records that contain either word or both words. Use OR for synonymous or related terms; this broadens the search.


 * AND NOT**: Finds records that contain the first word and that do not contain the second word.

=Proximity Operators:= You can use proximity operators to search for two or more words that occur within a specified proximity (either numbers of words or within the same sentence, paragraph, etc.)


 * W/n:** Links search words and phrases within a certain number of words. The letter n stands for a number from 1 to 255 and does not specify a word order. Example: doctor w/5 malpractice -- finds doctor within five or fewer words of malpractice, regardless of which word appears first.


 * PRE/n:** Requires both words to appear in the document with the first word preceding the second word by n words. Use this connector when a different word order would change the meaning.

Example: southwest pre/2 air or airline -- finds Southwest Air or Southwest Airlines.


 * W/sent:** Looks for documents with search words in the same sentence. Example: doctor w/sent malpractice -- finds doctor in the same sentence as malpractice.


 * W/para**: Looks for documents with search words in the same paragraph. Example: doctor w/para malpractice -- finds doctor in the same paragraph as malpractice.

=Field Searching:= The default (recommended) fields searched include the headline, lead paragraph, and terms. You can change the default and search the headline only, full text, captions, or author fields. = = =Locating Full Text:= All articles are available as full text. = = = View Tutorials on Lexis Nexis: =


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