The LexisNexis® Academic service offers several ways for you to search using the category tabs on the Search page. Each of the approaches has similarities, but each is designed to search a particular type of content. For information on how to construct a search, see Developing a Search.

• Power and Easy Search™
• News Search
• Legal Search
• Business Search
• People Search

General Search -- Easy Search™ and Power Search

• The Easy Search™ form provides a very easy way to search when you want a fast result to a simple query. It is also recommended for new users who may not be familiar with searching methods and source selection. You may enter any terms or phrase, with or without connectors, and Easy Search™ will determine the best searching method (terms and connectors or natural language) based on what you entered.
  
  
• The Power Search form provides broad flexibility that you won't find on other search forms. You may browse and select specific sources that might not be available on other forms, search sections within a document, find terms and companies within the LexisNexis® SmartIndexing Technology™ feature, choose between natural language and terms and connectors searching, etc. It is also helpful when you have a general query, are searching in an unfamiliar area, or are searching across multiple content types.
  
  

News Search

Search across large groups of sources such as all English-language news or all U.S. newspapers, or select one of the individual titles included in the drop-down list such as The New York Times. (Many more titles are available on the Sources tab.)

Enter your search terms and:

• Build a search containing search terms, document sections, and connectors using the simple fields provided.
  
  
• Add index terms to your search from the Industry, Subject, or Region fields.
  
  
• Restrict your search to specific sources.
  
  
• Restrict your search by date.

Click Search to view your results.

Legal Search

Use the Legal tab to search within law review journals, federal and state cases or codes, tax law, and international legislation. Click the links to the left of the form to switch between the legal search forms. Use the Sources tab to restrict your search to a specific jurisdiction.

Enter your search terms and:

• Restrict your search to specific sources, sections within a document, etc.
  
  
• Specify additional optional search criteria such as Citation, Title of Article, Title of Journal, Year, Citation Number, Judge's Last Name, and other fields on specific forms.
  
  
• Restrict your search by date.
  
  

Click Search to view your results.

Business Search

Use the Business tab to search for information such as corporate news, financial and business information for specific companies. Click the links to the left of the form to switch between the Business search forms.

Enter one or more values in the available fields on each form, then click Search to view your results.

People Search

Search for biographical information about individuals using the Biographical search form.

To use the Biographical form:

• Enter a first and/or last name.
  
  
• Enter additional terms, for instance if you want to use terms and connectors.
  
  
• Restrict your search to a specific source.
  
  
• Restrict your search to a specific date range.
  
  

Click Search to view your results.