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LexisNexis Demonstrates Congressional Research Digital Collection
Expanding Collection and Cross-Searching Capabilities to Bring New Opportunities
CHICAGO, IL, June 23, 2005 - LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of news, business and legal information services, is expanding its current Congressional collections by bringing together 175 years of Congressional Committee Prints and Congressional Research Service reports that have never been available to the public from a single source.
A prototype of the new LexisNexis® Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) will be unveiled at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference to show how easy access to this information will benefit everyone from researchers, historians, and political scientists, to law students and professors. The database’s reach will span the years 1830 to present, allowing librarians and researchers to gain insight into public policy over time.
CRDC, housed within LexisNexis® Congressional, is a result of the LexisNexis vision to provide users with the ability to simultaneously search across related collections, such as hearings, House and Senate reports and documents, legislative histories, and the U.S. Serial Set documents and maps (1789-1969). The CRDC will be available to customers in the fall of 2005.
"The Congressional Research Digital Collection is a part of an ongoing commitment by LexisNexis to build a complete, easy-to-use repository of Congressional information," says Tim Fusco, LexisNexis vice president of Publishing Operations. "The ALA Annual Conference is the perfect place to demonstrate how this product will save time for librarians and researchers at all major institutions of higher learning."
Demonstrations of the new product will be given at LexisNexis booth #2011. For a special demo and interview with LexisNexis executives, please contact Jennifer Aleknavage, at (301) 951-4565, or visit Booth #2011.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis® and Nexis® research services, the company includes some of the world’s most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender®, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.
LexisNexis provides solutions for organization-wide information needs of corporate, legal, federal, and academic professionals. LexisNexis has been gathering and indexing Congressional information for 35 years and is now a recognized source for locating Congressional information.
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