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Easy Access
Campus-wide access using IP authentication, support for secure remote access methods, unlimited simultaneous users, and no search limits make LexisNexis Academic available to all your users.
Interoperability
LexisNexis Academic works with the systems you use to manage your electronic holdings and put the right content in front of your patrons.
- e-Journals systems
- Article linking
- Federated search/metasearch
- Citation export to RefWorks
Training and On-Demand Support for Librarians.
Professional training and 24 X 7 toll-free telephone support are available to librarians at subscribing institutions. Our Academic training team conducts on-site and web-based training sessions throughout the year. Our customer support representatives are on call to provide technical support and to answer your questions about content, product features, and search strategies at any time.
Powerful Source Selection
Search for a source by name or use the source taxonomy to identify sources by type, language, topic, geography, and other facets. The Source Information feature shows LexisNexis coverage details and enables you to determine how frequently it is published, how quickly it is available, who publishes or provides the source, typical content, and searchable document sections.
SmartIndexing Technology
LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology is at work throughout LexisNexis Academic to help guide users to the information they need. SmartIndexing applies controlled vocabulary terms for several different taxonomies to all LexisNexis news and business content. Sources are also indexed, making it easy to locate publications in the Source Selection tool by attributes such as publication type, language, geographic region, and main topics covered.
The taxonomies are built and maintained by the LexisNexis Taxonomies and Indexing team, comprised of information professionals, lawyers, subject matter experts, and analysts. Index terms are assigned using a unique approach that combines the best features of human and automated indexing practices. Index term rules are developed and tested by the Taxonomies and Indexing team. These rules are used to assign relevant index terms automatically to documents and sources. All news and business content is re-indexed every quarter to ensure that indexing is consistent, comprehensive, and up to date.
Results Clustering
Results clustering technologies have been steadily gaining popularity with information systems designers and users, and LexisNexis has created an exceptionally powerful implementation based on LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology.
Results clustering provides an instant, multi-faceted analysis of the distribution of hits in each result set. It is a powerful tool that allows users to filter their results sets and get to the information they need quickly and easily. It also has an important heuristic role. Results clustering familiarizes new users with the different classes of content in LexisNexis Academic and allows them to visualize the effects of different search strategies.
Flexible Display and Output Options
LexisNexis Academic offers flexible output options with full-featured tools that allow for printing, emailing and saving.
Results from searches are automatically returned in the Expanded List. Users can switch to a simple list, and can sort the result set by date or relevancy. Information displayed in each entry on the Expanded List includes the document headline, source and publication date, plus hyperlinked search terms in context. The Expanded List helps users to quickly determine if the document is relevant to the search and link to specific occurrences of their search terms within each document.
With Results Clustering, the user can switch between "All Results" from a search, or can rearrange the answer set by Source Category, Publication Name, Subject, Industry, Company, Geography, or Language.
Once a citation is selected from the Document List, the view changes to Full Text and displays the complete text of the document retrieved. From there, the user can view subsequent (or previous) documents in the Full View or switch to KWIC (Key Words in Context) view of the document to display each of occurrence of the search terms surrounded by approximately 20 words of adjacent text.
Print, email, or save one, all, or specific documents from the result set. Users can check off documents for output as they browse the result set, and then choose an output method. Convenient formatting options let users export a results list, full-text documents, or specific sections of documents. Documents can be saved in Word, HTML, plain text, and PDF formats.
Export Citations to RefWorks
Users with a subscription to RefWorks can export citations directly to their RefWorks account. See www.refworks.com for information on the RefWorks service.
To Order This Product
Contact your LexisNexis sales representative, call us at (800) 638-8380 or email us at academicinfo@lexisnexis.com. Money-saving offers include an annual volume discount plan, standing order discounts and deferred payment options.
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