Newscom and World Picture Network Images Now Available On LexisNexis

Alliances create a one-stop service for deep news articles, images, and stock photos

July 30, 2007 — 2007-07-30New York, NY, July 30, 2007 - LexisNexis, a leading provider of information services and solutions, today announced the addition of more photos and graphics to its most comprehensive collection of global news, business, and legal information on the market.

 “These additions complement the LexisNexis text archives and the images that we added from McClatchy-Tribune in February of this year. There are many rich and unique graphics, illustrations, maps, charts, and photos in these collections that our customers can now conveniently search in one location alongside our deep news collection,” said Dawn Conway, vice president of Licensing and Content for the U.S. Corporate Markets of LexisNexis. “With the visuals accompanying the text, it helps to tell a story, which is important for investigative and competitive research.”

With the addition of the Newscom and World Picture Network (WpN) collections, the photos and graphics collection covers more than 75 countries. The coverage will continue to grow, along with the addition of other prominent news collections to the LexisNexis^® service in the coming months.

• With this alliance, Newscom (www.newscom.com) now provides LexisNexis customers access to pictures, graphics, and illustrations from the world’s premiere publishers of global content, such as Ai Wire, Congressional Quarterly, Roll Call, and WENN.  Newscom represents more than 100 of the world’s foremost publishers of visual content, including Getty Images, Color China, Nucleus Medical Arts, and Grupo de Diarios América, a consortium of the 11 leading newspaper publishers spanning all of Latin America.  Breaking news photos and historical images range from behind-the-scenes White House coverage and visuals from the ground in Iraq, to images of the Kremlin. Newscom’s sports coverage includes action from the British Open, cricket and rugby, as well as Formula 1 racing, the World Cup, the Olympics, and the rest of the sporting world. Newscom also boasts a comprehensive collection of the people and events that drive the entertainment industry.

• With World Picture Network, (www.worldpicturenews.com), LexisNexis customers gain access to a deep collection of primary image categories, such as news, sports & entertainment, business, science & technology, and lifestyle. WpN represents some of the world’s top photojournalists, photo agencies, and newspapers. In addition to their own photographers in 72 countries, the international coverage is augmented by sister agencies in England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, the Middle East, China, India, Kenya, Namibia, and Brazil.

Conway added, “We have also made it easy for our customers to search through the images and directly link to these third-party providers to license the photos. It’s an ideal solution to find relevant visuals and information faster.”

Several key features of image searching within LexisNexis will be presented to the user, including the commingling of images with traditional text search results, which provides a more complete view of a particular topic.

Additionally, once a search is run, the user will have the ability to delineate between image and non-image results in two ways:

1) Via a camera icon in the search results list clearly designating that the cite contains an image;

2) Via an “images” category, which is driven by LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology^™, allowing the user to drill down within their search results and only view those results that have images.

Subscribers to Nexis^® and lexis.com^® can pay per transaction to access each photo or graphic for $6; however, the