LexisNexis® Scholastic Edition

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

LexisNexis Scholastic Edition

Specifically designed to provide high school students with web-based, desktop access to authoritative research sources, LexisNexis Scholastic Edition is the "younger sibling" of the LexisNexis Academic service, accessible to nearly seven million students and faculty members at more than 1,600 colleges and universities in the U.S.

LexisNexis Scholastic Edition gives students experience searching for vital source material—including articles from major U.S. and international newspapers, non-English language publications, statistics, and Federal and state case law, codes and legislation—using the kind of technology they will invariably encounter as they progress to a college or university. Content within the service is broken down into four key areas:

• News
• Legal Research
• Legislation
• Statistics

FEATURES

Prepare your students for tomorrow's college-level research today

LexisNexis Scholastic Edition provides hands-on experience with the same type of Web-based research tools students will encounter at colleges and universities. The Search Forms are intuitive and easy to use, regularly producing relevant answers—even for novice researchers. Tips supply background information on sources and show how to build a successful search.

Content answers curriculum-based needs

LexisNexis Scholastic Edition can be used by teachers and students in myriad ways:

English Writing Assignments, Current Events Tracking, and Debate Research

For students who need to write about current events in the context of an English or Social Studies assignment or for debaters who need the latest developments, LexisNexis Scholastic Edition provides a rich repository of news information drawn from more than 50 newspapers, 40 magazines, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Full-text from publications such as the New York Times and the Washington Post date back to 1980. We also carry Business Week, ABC, CBS and NBC News transcripts, Associated Press, Business Wire, and PR Newswire. Debaters, in particular, will love the individually indexed 40,000+ statistical tables, drawn from key publications of Federal and State agencies and international intergovernmental organizations, that can be used to bolster arguments.

Spanish, French, German, or Italian Language Instruction

Foreign language instructors can take advantage of numerous foreign-language publications to create exciting research projects for their students. LexisNexis Scholastic Edition lets you search across the full-text of a variety of papers at one time using a simple keyword search.

Social Studies

Secondary-school students easily can follow the federal and state legislative process with the legislative materials included in the service, tracking both bills under consideration and bills passed. There are facts about members of Congress, the history of voting reports, U.S. and state bill tracking reports plus full text of the bills, and the Congressional Record with debates from the House and Senate floor. Legal research materials are also provided, from U.S. Supreme Court cases, State High Court, Law Review articles, federal laws from 1988 to present and state law digests from all 50 states.

Flexible Display and Output Options

By taking advantage of various display and output options, users can tailor LexisNexis Scholastic Edition to their own needs and preferences. The service allows citations and documents to be displayed (and output) in one of four formats:

• Document List
• Full
• Expanded List
• KWIC (Key Word in Context)

Results are returned in a Document List format, which provides basic bibliographic information. Once a citation is selected from the Document list, the view changes to Full. The Expanded List and KWIC formats provide an opportunity to see search terms in context, without reviewing the entire document. (Expanded List shows search terms surrounded by three to five words, while KWIC shows search terms surrounded by a window of twenty words.) Citations or documents can be printed, saved, or emailed using the service’s easy-to-use interface.

Remote Access

Access content wherever you are—24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Remote access is available to schools that can authenticate their students.

Technical Support for Librarians

Around-the-clock, toll-free customer support is available to school library media center staff and school technical support staff at subscribing institutions. Our representatives are available to help with

• Technical questions 
• Database content 
• Search formulation questions 
• Trouble-shooting error messages 
• IP changes 

Annotated links to web sites enrich the content included within the service.

Links to external web sites are grouped into seven areas: college, debates, government & politics, museums & exhibits, science & technology, students & teachers, and reference.

CONTENT

Content is organized into four areas: News, Legal Research, Legislation, and Statistics. For a complete list of sources available through LexisNexis Scholastic Edition, refer to this downloadable PDF.

News

Students receive access to up-to-the minute breaking news stories, as well as the most comprehensive news archive available through a rich variety of authoritative sources.

• More than 50 leading newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, many same day of publication, including extensive archives of the New York Times and the Washington Post, dating back to 1980.
• More than 175 regional newspapers
• More than 40 magazines with content ranging from general interest to specific subject areas. Examples include: Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, American Journalism Review, The Economist, Nation’s Business, Newsweek, and Variety.
• Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, including ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, National Public Radio and CNN.
• Wire services, updated many times daily, include such respected names as Associated Press, Business Wire and PR Newswire.
• Foreign language news sources are available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.

Legal Research

Provides authoritative information on landmark federal decisions and individual state laws that shape the way we live.

This section includes:

• U.S. Supreme Court cases (from 1789 to today) searchable by keyword, party name or citation
• State High Court cases from all 50 states searchable by keyword, party name or citation
• Law review articles from over 500 publications
• All federal laws from 1988 to the present
• State law digests from all 50 states

Legislation

Introduce your students to the excitement of government in action! With the Legislation area of LexisNexis Scholastic Edition, students can easily follow the Federal and state legislative process, tracking both bills under consideration and bills passed. There are facts about members of Congress, voting records, and much more.

Your students get:

• U.S. and state bill tracking reports
• U.S. and state bill text
• Congressional Record with debates from the House and Senate floors
• Profiles of members of Congress and Congressional voting reports
• State legislative calendars

Statistics

Find statistics fast from more than 40,000 indexed tables using LexisNexis’ PowerTables™ functionality. Students can easily retrieve statistical tables using simple keyword searches. Tables are drawn from federal, state, private, and international sources, including:

• Bureau of the Census
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Environmental Protection Agency
• World Bank
• National Science Foundation
• Small Business Administration

PRICING/SUBSCRIPTIONS

LexisNexis® Scholastic Edition, with its news, legal research, legislative information, and statistics, is our flagship service for secondary schools. Add this to your library's research resources, and help your students excel today.

Per Building Pricing

For Consortial pricing, call 1-800-227-9597, ext. 54846.