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Zimmerman's Research Guide - An Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers
 
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In the Spotlight...
Rhonda Keaton
Matthew Wagner
Librarian Relations Consultant
Matt shares his expertise and experience in the Monthly Column. Also check out the weekly tip provided by the Librarian Relations Group.
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The InfoPro website will spotlight a LexisNexis® Librarian Relations Consultant each month in 2008.
 
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What resources on www.lexis.com offer downloading or printing to an Excel spreadsheet?

Research tips to include in your library communications and newsletters

Would you like an easy way to see all the changes made to a CFR section over the past year without having to use the paper LSA (List of Sections Affected)?

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Negative News Search Revisited

As we all know searching for just the negative stories about a person or company can be a daunting task. We have all been asked to find out “dirt” on a person or a company when the firm is considering taking them on as a client, or when the corporate attorneys are putting together information for an SEC filing.

Earlier this year one of my colleagues provided a search tip to assist you in finding negative news stories. The suggestion was to use the search template available on the Research Task Page for Securities.  This is still a good choice; but I have additional tips to share for this task.

The LexisNexis SmartIndexing team has developed some indexing “tags” that can help you conduct a search to retrieve just the negative stories.

Mega Negative News sources available under “Featured Content & Services” provides a link for “Negative News”, and a  choice for Mega News, Negative Business News or Negative Personal News.

Or, you can use the following SmartIndexing “tags” to formulate your search. Use #st0009fjk# to retrieve negative personal news and #st0009qd4# to retrieve negative business news.