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Brief Description: Basic sections include: General, News, Legal, Business, and People.

Access Restrictions: Students, faculty, and staff may use. Alumni and walk-ins may not use.

Citing Articles
Basic Steps
Company Financial Info
Advanced Search Tips
Viewing & Printing Options
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Citing Articles

APA Style Example:
Bellmann, M. (2001, June). Freeing managers to innovate. Harvard Business
Review, 76(6), 32-33. Retrieved June 21, 1999, from LexisNexis Academic: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe.

For additional APA examples, see the APA website.

MLA Style Example:

Bellmann, Matthias. "Freeing Managers to Innovate." Harvard Business Review
June 2001: 32-33. LexisNexis Academic. LexisNexis. Babson College Horn Lib., Babson Park, MA. 8 July 2003 <http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe>.

For additional MLA examples for cases, see LexisNexis Citing Reference help or visit the  MLA website.

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Basic Steps

Choose content below the search box and type in search terms.  When
changing the red menu button, narrow search by choosing categories in right-hand column.  To return to the home screen, click on Start (upper right).

A General/Easy Search is appropriate for new searchers, while a
General/Power Search provides more connector and section selections for
the more experienced searcher desirous of greater precision.

If you would like to learn more, try the How Do I? (right-hand column) for a
list of questions and answers, or View Tutorials.


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Company Financial Information 

Select Business (top red menu bar).  Click on categories in right-hand column
for additional choices.  Access Company Dossier selections, in addition to Company Profiles, SEC Filings, Accounting and Country Profiles.

Company Profiles (searchable by company name, ticker, or SIC code)

  • US Public and Private company directories - InfoUSA and other company directories and reports
  • Various international company directories and reports 
  • Bankruptcy Reports: news clips and data from the Bankruptcy DataSource
  • Hoover's Company Reports: same as Hoovers.com
  • Standard and Poor's Corporate Descriptions + News: provides debt, stock, financials and brief 3-yr historical Compustat data and financial statements

NOTE: With some of the tables in the financials section, you may have to cut and paste into Word and format with 18, 10, or 12 point Courier font to have the data line up correctly. You can also save and import the data into Excel format.

Company Financials

  • Disclosure Reports: same as Worldscope and Compact/Disclosure, with financial information on US and global public companies.
  • NAARS - Annual Reports from 1972-1995: Audited reports

SEC Filings and Reports - includes Annual Report to Shareholders (in text format with no images). Securities and Exchange Commission filings such as 10-K (some back to 1987), 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F (foreign companies traded in U.S.), proxy statements, prospectuses, and registration statements plus Williams Acts filings. 



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Advanced Search Tips

Search Syntax

Search Type

Format

Example

Boolean Searching
AND
OR
( ) to group synonyms or similar terms
entrepreneur! and team!
entrepren! or intrapren!
(entrepren! or intrapren!) and interviews
Truncation! (exclaimation point)entrepreneur! (searches for entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, etc.)
Proximity - Same orderpre/X market pre/2 share
Proximity - Any order w/X market w/2 share (would search for "share of the market")
Forces number of words or phrases present in each resultatleast4(keyword)atleast4(home depot)
Wildcard - replaces one letter* (asterisk) wom*n

Note: For additional connectors, click on View Connectors link below search box.

Segment or Field Searching

Databases use different codes to allow you to search by specific field. This can help to narrow your search to a specific publication, author, or date. In LexisNexis Academic, use Guided Search for a form based menu which allows you to do a more precise search.


Type of Search

Formatted Example

Source or Journal/Magazine Titlepublication(financial times)

Note: For additional fields or sections, in Power Search, click on the Show link (above date
box).

Searching an Individual Publication/Title

To search a single publication/title:

  1. Click on Sources tab and next on Find Sources (in tool bar).
  2. Select Source Name (A-Z).
  3. Choose a letter of the alphabet to browse.
  4. The i-page icon preceding a title provides individual publication information.
    Select desired publication from list.
  5. Click on red OK (at far right of screen).
  6. You are now ready to search for articles only in this particular publication.

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Viewing & Printing Options

Click the desired title to view the full text document. Search terms will appear in bold text. When viewing the full text of a document, Keywords in Context can be easily seen by pulling down and setting the view box to KWIC.

Mark documents for printing (or downloading or emailing or exporting to the bibliographic software Ref Works).  Initiate printing (or selected transmission mode) by clicking on the appropriate icon (at far right above search results).

In addition, you can print, download or email when in the full text view.


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Scope

LexisNexis Academic web access to popular files of LexisNexis. Basic sections include:

  • General: major U.S. and world publications, major world publications
    (non-English), news wires, TV-radio-broadcast transcripts, blogs,
    web publications, company, SEC filings, legal
  • News: news wires, news transcripts, news, business, legal, university, healthcare, media reviews
  • Legal: law reviews, state/federal cases & codes, tax law, international
    legal materials, patents
  • Business: find a company, Dossier create a company list, Dossier
    compare companies, company profiles, SEC filings, accounting,
    country profiles
  • People: biographical sources for business, entertainment, law,
    government (U.S., UK, Canada), selected Who's Who, obituaries


Access Restrictions:Students, faculty, and staff may use. Alumni and walk-ins may not use.
List of Titles:Indexed and Fulltext

Years of Coverage:varies, New York Times back to 1980.
Number of Simultaneous Users:Unlimited
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Updated July 23, 2007
By Mary Gavett-Orsi

 

 

 

 

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