Library Provides Campus Access to Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, a full-text database containing articles from over 5,600 publications, is available to University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students beginning September 1. It is best known for providing current and archival stories from major newspapers worldwide but also contains the full text of television and radio transcripts, wire service stories, magazines, newsletters, and other publications. In addition, it provides basic sources for business, medical, and legal research. This web-based resource, made available through the University Libraries, can be accessed on campus and from remote locations at the following URL: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe. It represents a major addition to the electronic resources available on campus, expanding the number of publications available and making others available in a much more accessible format.
The news files for Academic Universe cover major English language newspapers (national and international) as well as regional U.S. and foreign language (Dutch, Italian, French, German & Spanish) newspapers. Among these are the New York Times (abstracts 1969-1980 and full-text from 1980 to the present), Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Times (London), El Pais, Le Monde, Asian Wall Street Journal, Daily Yomiuri, and the Wall Street Journal (one of the few sources that is abstracts only). Magazines (over 400), newsletters (over 600), and campus news sources (including the Daily Iowan), news transcripts (including ABC, CBS, NBS, and NPR), and the wire services are also included in this section of the database.
Company and industry information are included in the business files. Sources include news, financial data, and S.E.C. filings for U.S. publicly traded companies and descriptions and financial data for private U.S. companies and international firms. The legal source coverage includes case law (Supreme Court, federal, state), codes and regulations, patents and international legal materials. Medline citations, journal articles and other textual information related to health and medical topics are included in the medical files. Finally, there are a number of reference sources in full-text for biographical information, country profiles, state information, almanac data, etc.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe contains the majority of data currently available in the Telnet version of Lexis-Nexis. The advanced search screen ("guided search") allows users to search as they would in the older system.
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