Academic Universe

Connect to Academic Universe

Academic Universe is a Internet interface to the Lexis-Nexis news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information, and more.

The NEXIS service began in 1979, starting with news content, as a companion to the LEXIS® service. NEXIS has grown to become the largest news and business online information service with not only news, but company, country, financial, demographic, market research and industry reports.

The NEXIS service is unmatched in depth and breadth of information, offering more than 13,800 sources of news and business information.

120,000 new articles are added each day from worldwide newspapers, magazines, news wires and trade journals.

Sources include the New York Times, CNN, The Economist, AP and NPR. Academic Universe also offers legal statutes, business directories, biographical information and corporate profiles.

Academic Universe is not the best place to look for scholarly or biomedical articles, but is an excellent source for current events/news, legal and government information, as well as business news and corporate information.

Academic Universe is available through the library home page under Databases & Article Searching.

How to Search Academic Universe

The main menu of Academic Universe contains a series of links that point to a specific "search form" or topic. The search forms each differ slightly, providing appropriate choices for source lists and dates, depending on the topic. The search forms provide a place for you to specify the subject (News, Business, Legal Research, etc.) to research. The forms also allow you to enter additional terms to further refine your search. Additionally, search forms provide drop-down menus from which you may choose to limit your search to a particular source or group of sources and/or a particular time frame (e.g. six months, one year, all years). These options will vary depending on your search topic and its associated search form.

1. Choose the kind of information source you want. See how
2. Enter your search in the form. See how
3. Use truncation to increase the number of hits. See how
4. Use proximity limiters to decrease the number of hits. See how
5. Limit to a particular publication. See how
6. Limit to a particular date or range of dates. See how
7. Viewing Results and Revising Searches. See how
8. Download, e-mail or print the story using your Web browser. See how

• Tips for doing better searches
• Have you found everything you want?

• Academic Universe is among the most comprehensive full-text news resources available

• You cannot search full-text -- all searches must have a "topic" or word that appears in the headline or lead paragraph

• Deceptively simple search form

Help Files

• Guide to Searching Academic Universe
• List of Sources in Academic Universe

Sample Questions

1. When did the New York Times announce that David Kessler would be leaving his post as head of the Food and Drug Administration to become Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine?

Answer

2. I'm looking for recent magazine articles about the possible crises that hospitals are experiencing with managed care.

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3. I'm looking for articles about apple cider that is contaminated with the e. coli bacteria.

Answer

4. Does Nexis carry opinion polls ? I need to find the questions asked by the CBS News Poll regarding the President and Monica Lewinsky.

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5. Can I find articles on the Compaq/Digital Equipment merger that appeared in Business Week?

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6. I need the most recent annual report for Ben & Jerrys.

Answer

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