Introduction

LEXIS NEXIS Academic Universe is a web-based information service which provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical and reference information.

 

Database Coverage

The database covers thousands of English language resources, which are mostly full-text. Information resources are divided into five categories:

• NEWS including general daily news, U.S. news, world news, arts & sports news, medical news, legal and business news. The News database covers more than 50 major newspaper titles from all over the world, such as USA Today, Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, South China Morning Post, China Daily and Xinhua News. Most of the titles are full-text with coverage more than 5 years.

• BUSINESS information includes business news, industrial and market news, accounting literature, company profiles, and U.S. governmental business opportunities.

• LEGAL RESEARCH covers legal information such as literature of legal news and law reviews, law cases, law codes & regulations, international legal materials, patent research information and career information.

• MEDICAL resources covers medical and health information from medical news and journals, as well as abstracts from Medline®.

• REFERENCE resources covers biographical information, U.S. states profiles, country profiles, statistical information, quotations and world almanac.

 

On-line Help

On-line Help is available at

http://support.lexisnexis.com/academic/default.asp