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MEL’s Database of the Week for 1/15/10

January 15th, 2010

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL).  These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

This Week’s Featured Database: LexisNexis Academic, from LexisNexis, Inc.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.

Description/focus: LexisNexis Academic provides access to a suite of resources from LexisNexis including News,  Accounting, Company Dossier, Country Profiles, Statistical, and Legal.

Start with this hint: As we have pointed out in previous emails about LexisNexis, the interface is unadorned.  The opening page lands you at Search > General > Easy Search which is where we recommend you begin searching for your topic.  Do use the date filter and select appropriate publications from the checklist.  When your results are presented, you can further narrow your search with another term or you can select from the filters on the left side.  If you want to tweak your results, don’t use the back arrow on your browser but  use Edit Search and Go in the field above the list of results.   If you switch from Easy Search to Power Search you have more options for narrowing your search.

Why you should know this database: LexisNexis Academic, though not our most sophisticated interface, contains a broad range of information from general news to legal.  The information in Country Profiles, accessed through  Search > Business,  can give you risk reports, political and economic news.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: A search for a recent topic in News can give your students an up-to-the minute international perspective on any subject.  For a current example, do a search for Haiti.

Cost: LexisNexis Academic is a subscription service paid by the Libraries annually; for more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.

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Database of the Week comes to you from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know.  If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu.  Database of the Week is archived  at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/mgmt/database/.  For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).

If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.