Use the Right Current-Awareness Tool for the Job

We know that different firms have different information needs, and we offer several different current-awareness tools. One of them is bound to meet the needs of your firm. We thought it was a good time for a comparison of features and applications. 

Here’s the basic scoop on when a particular current-awareness tool is appropriate: 

Key features to know:  

LexisNexis® Alerts

• Searches any source and delivers results on a schedule you select—one to three times daily, one to three times on business days, weekly on the day and at the time of your choosing, monthly on the date and at the time of your choosing
• Delivers your results via e-mail or saves them online. 
• Filters out duplicate documents. 
• Notifies you, if you choose, when there are no new results for a scheduled update. 
•  Lets you watch for news to break—you can set up an Alert search even when your original search retrieves no documents.  

• Delivers results within five minutes of release. 
  
• Delivers results online, via e-mail, or via BlackBerry wireless handheld device. 
  
• Searches more than 10,000 Factiva sources—including The Wall Street Journal®, Dow Jones Newswires(sm)—and even broaden your search to include Web content. 
  
• Filters results with Factiva Intelligent Indexing™ terms covering subjects, companies, industries, regions, and languages. 
  
• Removes irrelevant results, such as duplicate stories and/or recurring market pricing data. 
  
• Searches full-text documents—or just the headlines and/or lead paragraphs or author segments 
  
• Uses relevance level settings to specify the scope of your search—low relevance for every mention or high relevance for articles meeting a minimum of 85% relevance. 
  
• Articles remain in the archive for 14 days or until 250 documents have accumulated.  
  

• Delivers targeted news, business, and legal content to firm’s intranet, portal, Web site, e-mail, or BlackBerry handheld device. 
• More than 20,000 LexisNexis legal, news, and business sources are available for internal access and more than 4,000 sources are available for public Web sites. 
• Results can be delivered via Javascript, HTML, XML, or RSS. 
• Content can be archived for 1, 7, 30, 60, or 90 days. The default is 90 days*, with optional renewal up to 180 days. 
• Archives are searchable. 
• E-mail notification is available. 
• Customization with your firm’s logo, links and colors.
• Available as a portal component.   
  

• A data analyst works with your firm to tailor the topic to your firm’s needs to ensure the most on-point results. 
  
• Duplicate and irrelevant documents are removed. 
  
• Access is via your intranet. 
  
• Crawling is supported.
  

• Your firm gets more flexibility to meet its needs.
  
• Updates can occur multiple times a day and set to deliver to the site automatically. 
  
• Firm members can comment on particular articles or add annotations. 
  
• Crawling is supported.  

*See Terms & Conditions for use of LexisNexis services and Supplemental Terms for Specific Material for special requirements.


LexisNexis® Total Alerts powered by Ozmosys®  

• Centrally managed platform that automates distribution of 100+ subscriptions.
  
• Delivers a single, consolidated customized e-mail containing all the information users need to know each day using the underlying Ozmosys technology. 
  
• Provides powerful personalization for each member of an organization. 
  
• More than 2,000 basic Web alerts available for selection including LexisNexis Publisher, Web site content, client/prospect Web sites, RSS feeds, and other premium providers. 
  
• Continually updates information received by providers and an “Update Now” button in the e-mail allows you to get the newest information any time you desire. 
  
• Delivers information as titled links with content displayed from provider’s system. 
  
• Delivers information via e-mail, RSS, intranet, or portal.
  
  
  

• Pulls news and legal updates from LexisNexis® Publisher*, CourtLink® Alerts/Tracks, Mealey’s™ newsletters, and WSJ.com. 
  
• Receives direct distributions from premium information providers such as BNA® and Institutional Investor®.*
  
• More than 2,000 highly relevant Web Alerts, including U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific regulatory agencies, blogs/blawgs, and Federal Register.
  
• Delivers customized information directly your recipients’ e-mail addresses. 
  
• Lets you send relevant information directly to key clients in an engaging and readable format. 
  
• Lets you create intranet- or portal-based newsletters to post on your intranet or portal. 
  
• Lets firm members add value to the accumulated information with their own content and insights.
  *LexisNexis Publisher and other premium content are sold separately.

• Provides timely, consolidated news headlines that affect the legal profession every day.
  
• Part of your subscription—no additional cost—all you have to do is register. Click here to register now! 
  
• Includes information from many top sources, including select Mealey’s News Briefs, legal news podcasts, WSJ.com Law Blog, Web articles covering news from the top 100 law firms, select LexisNexis sources covering client development, attorney’s fees, law firms, and more, Web articles from key legal publication Web sites and the ABA, and Martindale-Hubbell® Legal Articles.