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Searching the News in LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides a wealth of News, Business and Legal information, including:• Company financial statements• Company SWOT analyses • Information on business leaders • Securities and Exchange Commission filings • Competitive information and industry reports• Newspaper and magazine articles• Journal articles• Media and government transcriptsMuch of this information is available by using the Search the News function in LexisNexis Academic.
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• To access Lehman databases, go to the library home page and click on Databases.
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• Click on Database A-Z List.
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• Then click on the first letter of your database, such as L for LexisNexis Academic…
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• …and click on the link to the database.
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• To Search the News on a company, click on this dropdown menu and enter your topic and the type of publication you want to search, such as Major World Publication.
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Searching the News in LexisNexis Academic• You will mainly get articles in high-quality newspapers.
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• If instead you select Newspapers…
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• …the results come from a broader selection of newspapers.
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• If you choose Magazines,…
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• …you get articles in both general and industry-specific magazines.
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• Search under Wire Services…
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• …and you retrieve primarily news reports and press releases.
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• Under Broadcast Transcripts...
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• you can read the company’s remarks at conferences or earnings conference calls, as well as reports from broadcast journalism.
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• Blogs and other web-based publications…
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• …include analyst reports and other investment commentary.
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• If you have any questions about searching the news in LexisNexis Academic, please don’t hesitate to email Madeline Cohen, Head of Reference, at madeline.cohen@lehman.cuny.edu.
• Or please feel free to visit the Reference Desk at Leonard Lief Library. We’re here to help you.
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