The LexisNexis™ at www.nexis.com service offers a variety of search tools, many of which you may already be familiar with (Search Forms, Personal News, and Shared News, just to name a few). This training module offers a text-based version of the information provided in the separate, interactive, graphical version. It covers these search tools:
Searching from the home page is easy. You can find recent, relevant results on a subject, company, person, or industry using a few words or a short phrase. The new LexisNexis™ SmartIndexing Technology™ combines the precision of human review with the speed of automated processing to enhance the value of your results. To run a search, all you need to do is enter your search terms in the text box on the "Quick Search" tab and click the "Search" button. Search terms can include specific phrases, which you must enclose in quotation marks.
Depending on your subscription, you have the ability to search 60 days of news content as well as two years of Company, Legislative, and Web data.
This tutorial also describes how to review search results on-screen, refine your search results by entering additional search terms, print one or more documents, or save the search as a Personal News topic.
The "Subject Directory," listed on the LexisNexis™ at www.nexis.com home page, lets you retrieve documents based on a specific subject. As you click on one of the 34 topics, prefabricated searches developed by LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology experts retrieve results.
These results include a list of sub-categories as well as retrieved documents. You can click one of the sub-categories to narrow the list of documents. This tutorial also describes how to review search results on-screen, refine your search results by entering additional search terms, print one or more documents, or save the search as a Personal News topic.
Depending on your subscription, search forms are available in a variety of subjects including News, Company, People, Government, Public Records, and many others.
With these easy-to-use search forms, you can get results by entering simple search terms, complex Boolean-style searches, or something in between. After filling out the form, click the "Search" button to receive your search results.
This tutorial also describes how to review search results on-screen, refine your search results by entering additional search terms, print one or more documents, or save the search as a Personal News topic.
Very powerful yet easy to use, the Power search tool can be used whether you are running the most basic or the most complex search. You can build a Boolean-style search and run it against any collection of sources supported by your subscription.
Full-text searching lets you specify search terms that you expect to find in the target document. You can use standard LexisNexis™ wild-card characters (* and !) to find alternate spellings (wom*n finds both woman and women) or word variations (insur! finds insure, insurance, insurability, etc.). You can also include index terms in your search request.
After entering your search request using the "Power Search" tab, click the "Search" button to receive your search results.
This tutorial also describes how to review search results on-screen, refine your search results by entering additional search terms, print one or more documents, or save the search as a Personal News topic.
The results of your search are displayed in a document list. For each document, the list includes a brief description, a check box you can use to mark the document (perhaps to print later), and a link to its text. Search results might include documents related to news, legal, financial, or other types of information. Depending on the type of search, you might also find references to web sites.
Documents are listed in order based on their relevance to your search request. Next and Previous buttons let you view multiple-page document lists. To view a document, all you need to do is click its link. Once the text of a document is displayed, you can use the Next and Previous buttons to move through the list of documents.
Screens with search results have a "Search within these results" text box that lets you refine your results. By entering additional search terms in this text box and clicking the "Search" button, you'll get a set of documents from your original results that meet the refined search request.
To print your search results, click "Print" on the toolbar. This displays a screen where you can choose to print the current document, all documents, or a list of specific documents. You can also select a print format (list, full text, etc.).
When you've selected the document or documents and a format, click the "View Printable Page" button to display the documents in a printer-friendly format. Then use your web browser to print the displayed page.
After printing, use your web browser's "Back" button to return to your search results.
Once you've created a search that meets your needs and yields the desired results, you can save it as a Personal News topic. When you save a search as a Personal News topic, it runs automatically on a schedule that you specify.
To save a search as a Personal News topic, click "Save to Personal News" on the toolbar. A screen appears for you to give the topic a name, choose an update schedule, and specify whether or not you want results e-mailed to you. Fill out the necessary information and click the "Save" button.
If you choose to receive results in e-mail, you will receive a notification that contains information about your search, along with a link to the results.
You can also view Personal News search results in the nexis.com service. From the home page, click the "Personal News" link. Your topics appear in the left column, with results on the right. Click a topic to display its results.
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