Nexis Uni – Getting to the News
Nexis Uni is the largest news database – but it also contains huge quantities of legal and business information (data, laws, court cases).
To get to Nexis Uni …
Go to the UNI Rod Library website.
Click on Databases A-Z
Click on Nexis Uni
Limiting by publication or broadcast date:
It is possible to focus your Nexis Uni news searches to a specific date or range of dates.
First conduct a search (Nexis Uni is set to search for news by default).
Once you get your search results – you can limit your search to a particular time period by choosing the Timeline option on the left-hand side of the page.
Limiting by publication type:
It is possible to focus your Nexis Uni news searches to a specific type of publication such as newspapers or radio/television transcripts (News Transcripts)
First conduct a search (Nexis Uni is set to search for news by default).
Once you get your search results – you can limit your search to a particular type of publication by choosing the Publication Type option on the left-hand side of the page.
Limiting by source before you search
It is possible to focus your Nexis Uni news searches by searching within a specific publication or source such as the newspaper New York Times or the transcripts from the radio news program NPR All Things Considered.
To limit to a specific source before you search:
Click on the box labeled “A Publication”
Type in the name of a high-quality source in the “Find publication” box and then choose from the options presented.
Type in your topic in the “Search for something specific?” box. You can use LexisNexis commands like atleast5(your topic) and length>1000
Click on the blue Search box.
Limiting by source after you search
It is also possible to focus your Nexis Uni news searches by choosing specific publications or sources after you get your search results.
First conduct a search (Nexis Uni is set to search for news by default).
Once you get your search results – you can limit your search to a particular type of publication by choosing the Publication Type option on the left-hand side of the page.
e.g. "Middle East*" [full text]
water [full text]
Put a check in the "Articles" box under "Narrow By: Item Type"
Very important! Put checks in the Law and Political Science boxes farther down the page.
The * at the end of "East" e.g. East* finds: East or East's or Eastern
e.g. water [AB Abstract or Author Supplied Abstract]
"Middle East*" [AB Abstract or Author Supplied Abstract]
The * at the end of "East" e.g. East* finds: East or East's or Eastern
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Locates both journal articles and reports from institutes.
e.g.
[with all of the words] Canad* and water
[with the exact phrase] United States
The * used in Canad* finds Canada or Canada's or Canadian or Canadian's
Law Reviews provide remarkably readable - if lengthy - insights into the legal history and current legal landscape of a topic.
To search for law reviews simply:
e.g. the search: atleast14("data collection") AND atleast20(privacy) AND atleast10(internet) will find law reviews that contain the phrase "data collection" at least 14 times in the article, the word "privacy" at least twenty times in the article, and the word "internet" at least 20 times in the article.
Use ! in Nexis Uni (rather than the symbol * ) to find different forms of a word ...
e.g. the search: communicat!
... finds articles containing the word communicate, communication, communicating, communicates, communicated, etc.
