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• Description and Coverage
• Sources / Publications
• General Search
• News
• Legal
• Business
• Useful Keyword Search Commands
• Edit Search
• View Search Results
• Mark/Export Results

Description and Coverage

LexisNexis Academic provides full-text access to over 6,000 news, business, and legal publications. The coverage highlights are:

• News - US and international newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, wire services and broadcast transcripts.
• Business - Business and financial news, US and international company financial information and US Securities & Exchange Commission filings.
• Legal - International law cases (covering Hong Kong, UK, US, EU, Canada, etc.), statutes of Canada, US and EU, and law reviews.

Sources /Publications

Click the Sources tab.

Browse Sources

1. Browse sources by: Publication Type, News & Business Topics, Industry or Area of Law.
2. Set the filters if required.
3. Expand a category folder to display any sub-folder and to view individual source titles.
4. Select sources by clicking the check box next to a source.
5. Click to return to your search form and begin a search limited to the selected sources.

Find Sources

• By Keyword: Type the name of the source, or words contained in the name or select filtering options by checking the appropriate boxes and click .
• By Source Name A-Z: Locate a source via its initial alphabet.

General Search

Easy Search

Use this search form if you are not familiar with advanced searching methods or if you are not sure which sources to use.

You can input a few words or phrases describing your topic of interest with or without Boolean connectors. Easy search will automatically create a natural language or Boolean search based on your input.

Power Search

Use this form to search for documents in a variety of news and business publications:

1. Enter your search terms. The "Terms and Connectors" option allows you to combine search terms with connectors such as AND, OR, W/p. Click the "Tips for using search connectors" link to display a list of connectors with examples. See Useful Keyword Search Command.
2. Or select the "Natural Language" option to search using a sentence, a question or a few simple phrases.
3. Optional - Click the "Add keywords (Index Terms) to your search..." link to add terms from several browsable and searchable indexes.
4. Use the pull-down menu to select sources.
5. "Show options to search specific document sections" allows you to restrict your search terms to particular sections of documents such as HEADLINE, BYLINE and PUBLICATION. Click when finished.
6. Specify date range.
7. Click .

News

Natural Language

Choose this to search using simple phrases and sentences. Connectors or wildcards will be ignored.

Terms and Connectors

1. Type search terms or phrases in the search boxes. See Useful Keyword Search Command.
2. Specify where the terms should appear.
3. Select connectors.
4. Optional - Select any combination of index terms to be added to or excluded from your search.
5. Specify Sources and date.
6. Click .

Legal

Choose from a list of search forms to the left of the screen:

• Law Reviews - in-depth articles from US, Canada and UK law reviews.
• Federal & State Cases - US law cases at federal and state levels, including US Supreme Court Cases and US Courts of Appeals Cases.
• Federal & State Codes - US Codes Service, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register and State Codes.
• European Union, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations - Law cases from Hong Kong, UK, the commonwealth countries, EU cases and legislation.

Example of finding a known case from Hong Kong Cases:
HKSAR v Wong Chi Yuk [2000] 2 HKC 158.

Business

Choose from a list of search forms to the left of the screen:

• Company Profiles - financial details and profiles of public and private companies around the world.
• SEC Filings - EDGAR filings from 1991, some filings from 1987.
• Accounting - AICPA accounting and auditing publications.
• Country Profiles - news and research reports on a particular country, covering political, economic and socio-demographic information.

Useful Keyword Search Commands

You can make use of the following commands in the Terms and Connectors search forms:

Use * in the midst of a word to substitute for any character except the first one.
e.g., wom*n will find "woman" or "women."

Use ! to retrieve variant endings of a word.
e.g., recycl! will find "recycle," "recycling" and "recyclable."

Use AND to retrieve documents containing both terms.
e.g., bank AND interest rate

Use OR to retrieve documents containing either or both terms.
e.g., tall building! OR skyscraper!

Use AND NOT to exclude documents containing the given term.
e.g., trust AND NOT charitable

Use W/[n] to specify the distance between terms in any order.
e.g., financial secretary W/15 budget speech will find documents with "financial secretary" occurring within up to 15 words of "budget speech."

Use W/p to find documents with terms occurring within the same paragraph.
e.g., floods W/p deforestation

Use W/s to find documents with terms occurring within the same sentence.
e.g., ethnic minorities W/s china

Use PRE/[n] to find documents with the first term preceding the second term by not more than the stated number of words.
e.g., bill PRE/3 clinton

Use Parentheses to specify the order of execution of the connectors.
e.g., (internet OR WWW OR web) AND (youth OR young)

Use Atleast to specify the number of occurrences of keywords.
e.g., atleast5(air pollution) will find documents that contain "air pollution" at least 5 times.

Use Length to specify the length of documents.
e.g., length>1000 to find documents containing more than 1,000 words or length<500 to find documents containing less than 500 words. You can only use this in full-text searching.

Edit Search

When viewing a hit list or a full-text document, you can:

• Type additional terms in the Search within results box and click the GO button.
• Choose Edit Search and click the GO button.
• Choose New Search and click GO to bring up a clean search form.

View Search Results

• Use the pull down menu to choose a display format.
• Sort results by publication category, subject, industry, company, geography, etc.

Mark/Export Results

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