Introduction
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information. The online service is divided into 5 sections:
- News - provides the full text of today's news or search back more than 20 years
- Business - provides full text company news and financial information
- Legal Research - provides full text U.S. federal, state and international legal materials
- Medical - provides full text and abstracted medical and health information
- Reference - provides general reference sources on biographical information, country profiles, polls and surveys, quotations and world almanac
Legal research by LexisNexis Academic
Search Method:
1. Select a search form using either of the following methods:
i) On the left of the LexisNexis Academic home page, select a category under Academic Search Forms, then select a sub-category.
ii) Click on Site Map on the top of the screen. Site Map displays all search forms for selection.
2. To search for documents from a particular source:
i) Click Sources in the top menu bar.
ii) Search or browse to locate the source.
iii) Click Search This Title
Example: News Search 3. Use Guided News Search to create a more complex search:
Use the following operators and commands when entering search terms if necessary.
Phrase Searching- Enclose the phrase in quotation marks, e.g. "Legal reform"
Search Operators
Wildcard and Truncation Symbols
Display and Output Results