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Tutorial Links:
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Library Research TutorialWilliam Hessel Library |
| AND | Links words or phrases that must both appear anywhere in the same document. | Example: doctor and malpractice |
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OR |
Links synonyms, alternative forms of expression, acronyms, and so on. | Example: doctor or physician |
| AND NOT | Excludes documents that contain certain words or phrases. | Example: doctor and not malpractice |
| W/n |
Links search words and phrases to create concepts.
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Example: doctor w/5 malpractice -- finds doctor within five or fewer words of malpractice, regardless of which word appears first |
| PRE/n | Requires both words to appear in the document with the first word preceding the second word by n words. | Example: southwest pre/2 air or airline -- finds Southwest Air or Southwest Airlines |
| W/s | Looks for documents with search words in the same sentence. | Example: doctor w/s malpractice |
| W/p | Looks for documents with search words in the same paragraph. |
Example: doctor w/p malpractice Example: clinton w/p bush |
| Phrase search |
Do not need to enclose quotations marks. If using a phrase with a stop word such as and, or, replace the reserved word with a space. |
Example: first class Example: sink swim -- for sink or swim |
The following shows the screen to the Quick News Search. This is the first screen that comes up once you have selected Lexis-Nexis. Only up to two years of searching can be done in Quick News Search. You can not do any special commands (AND, OR, w/n, etc.) in the Quick News Search. This search also will search all categories; therefore, you might find sources to news transcripts, newspapers, as well as legal journals. For a more comprehensive search (more specific with longer date range), use the Guided News Search.
Using the Guided News Search with sample search.
The advantage of using the Guided News Search is that it allows you to limit your search by category, as well as search documents published more than two years ago. The search example demonstrated here shows that the News Category has been selected. You must next select a more specific news category. For this example, General News will be selected. Do note the other possible News Categories available such as News Transcripts and News Wires (Associated Press).
On the following screen, notice that at Step One, the General News Category is selected. At Step Two, a decision needs to made on what news source to select. For this example, it will be Major Papers.
The sample search below at Step Three is for clinton and book in the General News Category, news source is Major Papers. These keyed in words must both appear in either the headline or lead paragraph(s) of the document. The search will look for major papers. There are about 60 major newspapers that can be searched on Lexis-Nexis. These include: New York Times, Washington Post, Denver Post, LA Times, and even some overseas newspapers (in English). Step Four indicates a date range that can be selected. You can also limit this search to one publication (Step Five).
Below are the search results. How many documents were located?
Below is part of a full-text article. Can you identify the newspaper the article is from? What is the date? Can you find the tab to email the article? The print tab?
Lexis-Nexis provides information on how to cite using Modern Language Association (MLA) style and American Psychological Association (APA) style. Use the Help Link (right hand corner) at the top of Lexis-Nexis to find the citation examples.
The Help Link provides assistance to Citing References but also to Finding Information, Researching, and Search Tips and Samples for specific areas like Case Law or News Articles. See below for all the help links:
The link to Citing References has been selected. Here is the screen with examples. There are more Citing References examples not shown.
If your instructor has assignments about Lexis-Nexis, go to Blackboard or practice searching on Lexis-Nexis.
