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LexisNexis has long been recognized as a leader inthe online information world, offering services usedby legal, government, and business informationprofessionals and researchers needing quick accessto current, comprehensive, authoritative content.LexisNexis Academic, a Web-based service used bymore than 1,600 colleges and universities across thecountry, is a product specially tailored for the aca-demic market.

LexisNexis Academic delivers fast access to thousands of credible sources. In fact, the servicefeatures more than 5,800 publications spanningnews, legal, financial, medical, and general refer-ence information.

With this service, students and faculty can:

• Monitor current events by following continuouslyupdated wire services or the most current editionsof publications from around the world

• Delve into primary or secondary legal sources toperform legal research

• Locate detailed financial information for a publicor private company

• Read about medical advances as reported inmedical journals, such as the Journal of theNational Cancer Institute

Technical support for librarians.Toll-free technical support isavailable to librarians at subscribinginstitutions. Our representatives are available to handle questionsregarding the product’s content as well as technical issues.

Commitment to growth.LexisNexis Academic & LibrarySolutions is committed to the robustness of LexisNexisAcademic. New sources are con-tinuously being added to the serv-ice to ensure that it remains aleader among general referencedatabases. In 2002, a special effortkicked off to increase the numberof regional and ethnic newspaperson the service. To learn about themost recent updates, visitwww.lexisnexis.com/academic.

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Premium, full-text content.More than 5,800 full-text sources,including foreign and U.S. news-papers (among them The NewYork Times), magazines and tradejournals, broadcast transcripts,company financial information,industry and market news, federaland state case law, law reviews,medical news and abstracts, stateand country profiles, and more!

An easy to use interface.Researchers use simple fill-in-the-blank search forms on astandard Web browser while stilltaking advantage of the powerfulLexisNexis search engine. Theservice will also satisfy moreseasoned users by enabling themto use Boolean logic, segmentsearching, and a host of other“advanced” options.

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LexisNexis Academic is organ-ized into five broad researchcategories: News, Business,Legal Research, Medical, andReference. Learn more abouteach of these areas over thenext several pages.

If your institution doesn’t have access to LexisNexis™ Academic, here’s what you’re missing:

• Non-English language newssources available in Spanish,French, German, Italian, andDutch; includes both news-papers and magazines.

• Hard-to-find broadcast tran-scripts from the major televisionand radio networks, includingNational Public Radio, ABCNews, CBS News, and CNN.Also offered are politicaltranscripts from Federal NewsService and eMediaMillWorks(formerly Federal DocumentClearing House).

• Campus news including TheChronicle of Higher Educationand more than 400 individualcollege/university papers.

Whether you’re looking for current news information or information going back 20 years,LexisNexis™ Academic supplies a wide variety of authoritativesources, including:

• More than 350 newspapersfrom the U.S. and around theworld, many same day ofpublication, plus the mostextensive archives availableanywhere of Financial Times(dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating backto 1980), and The WashingtonPost (dating back to 1977). Fora complete list of sources, visitwww.lexisnexis.com/academic.

• More than 300 magazines andjournals and over 600 newslet-ters, with content ranging fromgeneral interest to specificsubject areas. Examples ofmagazines include: AmericanJournalism Review, BusinessWeek, The Economist, LibraryJournal, The New Republic,New Scientist, Newsweek, andU.S. News & World Report.

News

for rudimentary keyword—orphrase—searches. The GuidedNews Search form is available formore refined searching. There, allnews content (not simply the twomost recent years) can be searched,particular sources can be selected,or searches can be limited by field(segment) or by date. Having twovery different access points enablesusers to select the search form thatbest suits their information needs.

• More than 50 wire services,updated several times a day,including respected names suchas the Associated Press, AgenceFrance Presse, Business Wire,and PR Newswire.

• More than 400 policy paperswith carefully consideredperspectives on timely issues.Examples include CongressionalResearch Service’s Terrorism,the Future, and U.S. ForeignPolicy and the NationalBioethics AdvisoryCommission’s Cloning HumanBeings: An Assessment of theEthical Issues Pro and Con.

There are two access points forNews content within LexisNexisAcademic: a Quick News Searchform on the home page as well asa Guided News Search form. TheQuick News Search form searchesthe previous two years of theEnglish language full-text newssources included in the service.This search employs relevancescoring to retrieve documents andis meant to provide users with aone-box interface that can be used

Two Ways to Search for News

Whether you’re looking for com-pany financial information fromgovernment or private sources,business news, market research,industry reports, or actual SECfilings, LexisNexis™ Academicdelivers. Sources include:

• Business news journals such asAccountancy Age, Ad AgeGlobal, Brandmarketing,BuyOuts, Consumer Trends,IPO Reporter, Mergers andAcquisitions Journal, TelecomMarkets, and more.

• Company financial information:Executive and detailed financialinformation for U.S. and foreigncompanies, bankruptcies andcorporate affiliations. Sourcesinclude Standard & Poor’sCorporate Descriptions,Hoover’s Company Reports,Disclosure Reports,International CompanyReports, Stock Reports, and more.

To learn more about any of the sources within LexisNexisAcademic, you can use theSource List within the product.The Source List will enable youto determine how far back aparticular publication’s onlinecoverage extends, how fre-quently it is published, howquickly it is available on theservice following publication,who publishes or provides thesource, and what typical con-tent you can expect from it. Thesource shown below, Standard& Poor’s Daily News, is one of the sources available throughthe Company FinancialInformation search form.

Business

• SEC filings and reports: SEC10-Q Reports, SEC 10-KReports, SEC 8-K Reports, SEC 20-F Reports, SEC AnnualReports to Shareholders, SECFilings—Proxy Statements, SEC Filings—Prospectuses, SEC Filings—Registration, and SEC Filings—Williams ActFilings.

• Industry and Market News,including targeted informationon more than 25 industries.

• A range of accounting materials,such as the Miller GAAP Guide(Generally Accepted AccountingPrinciples) and material fromvarious American Institute ofCertified Public Accountants(AICPA) publications, includingfull-text articles from theJournal of Accountancy, TaxAdviser, CPA Letter, and theTax Division Newsletter

• A number of directories,including the SIC (StandardIndustrial Classification)Directory and Eventline—adirectory of congresses, conven-tions, symposia, major sportingevents, and more.

To augment the business research category within LexisNexisAcademic, consider purchasing additional content focusing on country analysis, companies, and industries. For more information on adding optional content to your subscription, contact your salesrepresentative or go to www.lexisnexis.com/academic.

LexisNexis™ Academic’s LegalResearch area sets it apart fromthe competition! Students can usesecondary source materials such aslegal news or law reviews to getbackground on a legal topic, ordive into primary source materialsuch as case law, statutes, and reg-ulations. They can even validatetheir case law research withShepard’s Citations for theSupreme Court. The LegalResearch area includes:

• Shepard’s Citations for all U.S.Supreme Court cases back to1789

• Law review articles from over500 publications

• Legal news from more than 300legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters

• U.S. Supreme Court decisionsfrom January 1790 to present,searchable by majority opinion,minority opinion, concurring opinion, counsel, or headnotes

• U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsdecisions

• U.S. District Court decisionsfrom 1789 to present

LexisNexis Academic makes iteasy for students to retrieve fed-eral or state case law. With aclear and intuitive “Get a Case”search form, simply enter partyname(s) or a citation and click“Search.” For quick access, thissearch form is also availabledirectly on the home page.

Legal Research

• Decisions from BankruptcyCourts; U.S. Court ofInternational Trade; Tax Courts;Courts of Customs and PatentAppeals; and Veterans,Commerce, and Military Courts

• State court decisions at all courtlevels for all 50 states andterritories

• The U.S. code, U.S. Constitu-tion, and federal court rules

• All federal regulations, includ-ing the Federal Register, Codeof Federal Regulations, U.S.Attorney General Opinions, and Federal AcquisitionRegulations and Supplements

• Codes for all 50 states andterritories plus constitutions,court rules, and AttorneysGeneral opinions from all 50states

• The IRS Bulletin, IRS regula-tions, ABA Tax Lawyer, AICPATax Adviser, and more

• A wealth of international legalmaterials, including:

■ Canadian federal legislation,statues, and regulations

■ European Union law from the CELEX database (thecomputerized documentationsystem on EU law which theEU institutions make avail-able to their officials and thepublic)

■ International Case Law from a number of countries:Australia, Ireland, Mexico,New Zealand, Singapore, theUnited Kingdom, and more

• All patents from 1971 forward,searchable by keyword, patentnumber, classification number,lawyer, assignee, inventor, orsummary

• Law school directories, includ-ing the Martindale-Hubbell Law School Directory and the NALPNational Directory of LawSchools

For researchers who want to know about medicaladvancements or issues, the “Medical” area ofLexisNexis Academic centralizes that information.

• Medical News features full-text articles frommedical and health news sources written at the laylevel. Sources include Biotechnology Newswatch,Consumer Reports On Health, Health AllianceAlert, Modern Healthcare, and NewsRx.

• Delve into more complex issues with full textarticles from Medical & Health Journals. Sourcesinclude American Family Physician, Journal of theNational Cancer Institute, Health Affairs, andPediatrics.

• In order to offer one convenient location to searchfor medical information, this area also features theNational Library of Medicine’s Medline abstracts.

Medical

The reference area of LexisNexis Academic includes anumber of useful resources:

Reference

• Biographical Information: A number of biographi-cal sources; people-related news sources; andselected biographical stories, obituaries, andbusiness related stories covering companyexecutives.

• Country Profiles: Concise facts and statistics aboutcountries.

• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: Quickaccess to polls covering politics and government,public institutions, international relations, business,social affairs, and consumer behavior andpreferences.

• Quotations: Search over 10,000 quotes fromSimpson’s Contemporary Quotations and 3,500Good Quotes for Speakers.

• State Profiles: Concise facts and statistics abouteach state.

• World Almanac: Quick facts on any subject fromthe World Almanac and Book of Facts.

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Citations or documents can easilybe printed, saved, or e-mailed.Users can select checkboxes nextto documents to “tag” documents,then choose to have the citationsof all checked documents dis-played on a single page to be e-mailed to a specified address,downloaded to their system, orprinted. Documents and citationscan also be printed, saved, or e-mailed one at a time withoutusing the tagging functionality.

Flexible display and output options.

By taking advantage of various display and outputoptions, users can tailor LexisNexis™ Academic to their own needs and preferences.

No matter which section ofLexisNexis Academic you selectfor your research, the service allows citations anddocuments to be displayed andoutput in a number of formats.

Display formats include:

1. Document List

2. Full

3. Expanded List

4. KWIC (Key Word in Context)

1 Results from searches areautomatically returned in the Document List format.Information displayed in eachentry on the Document Listincludes case name, title orheadline, author or byline, source, and date. Other infor-mation may appear, dependingon which of the sources weresearched.

2 Once a citation is selected fromthe Document List, the viewchanges to Full. Full displaysthe complete text of the docu-ment retrieved. From there, theuser can view subsequent (orprevious) documents in the Full View or return to theDocument List.

3 The Expanded List formatoffers the same data displayed on the Document List alongwith three to five words of textboth before and after the keyword(s) searched.

4 KWIC displays documents in the “Key Words In Context”format, showing each of yoursearch terms surrounded by awindow of text of approxi-mately 20 words of text.

Options for Output

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