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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.
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