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Nexis Uni™ User Guide: The basics: searching and more

LexisNexis Academic is now Nexis Uni!

Nexis Uni replaces LexisNexis Academic .  LexisNexis touts it as "an exciting new research solution designed with the modern information seeker in mind. It enables quick discovery across all content types, personalized discipline pages for those who set up individual profiles, and a collaborative workspace for group assignments."

This guide can help you figure out the new search features of Nexis Uni.

Nexis Uni Search Page

COOL NEW FEATURES

  1. Search across ALL content types in a single search, with both natural language AND Boolean searches
  2. Advanced search templates for different categories, including news, company and financial directories, legal content
  3. Filter facets easily applied and removed WITHOUT redoing the search
  4. Annotation and notes features for documents
  5. Reading glasses icon lets you track what results you’ve already viewed
  6. Search History feature
  7. Create folders to save documents from your searches
  8. Share folders with others
  9. Tag your most useful sources
  10. Discipline pages to help begin your research with relevant topics, sources, news and documents (Business, Political Science, Criminal Justice available now; more to come)

Click on the New Features in Depth tab to learn more!

Still includes all the useful content of LexisNexis Academic:

  • Print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs
  • Local, regional, national & international newspapers
  • Extensive legal sources for federal and state cases (including Supreme Court decisions since 1790)
  • Extensive business information on 80+ million US and international companies

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Valery King, associate professor and Government Information/Business Librarian at Oregon State University Libraries & Press and to Chris Neuhaus, Research Consultant and Instruction Coordinator at Rod LIbrary, University of Northern Iowa, for material used in this guide.

Search basics video

Why Register?

ADVANTAGES OF REGISTRATION

The free self-registration option allows users to create a Nexis Uni account by providing their name and email address.Once you have self-registered, you can take advantage of several useful customization features, but you will still also have the option to use Nexis Uni in anonymous mode, if desired.

Some of the features available if you register:

  • Save searches, documents and notes and share them with other users
  • Set up alerts to track new content added to Nexis Uni
  • View search history to provide a quick overview of earlier research
  • Choose to set one of the discipline pages as your Uni home page. 

What Happened To...

Market and Industry Reports?

In the old LexisNexis - Companies, we were able to choose "Market and Industry Reports" as a topic for searching. This is still possible in Nexis Uni

On either the Home page or the Business Discovery page (a box found under Discover Topics),

  1. click on Advanced Search under the Search box
  2. enter your search terms in the new Search box
  3. under Select a specific content type next to it find Company and Financial
  4. under that click on Analyst Reports. Then do your search!
SEC Filings?

On the Advanced Search page, choose SEC Filings from the dropdown. In the old LexisNexis, you could click a box for any or all of the SEC filings such as Annual Reports, Proxy Statements, or various forms; in the new Nexis Uni, you must type in the form type in the box under Document Segments/Fields

 
 

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