Tips of the Trade:Get More Efficiency From LexisNexis® Publisher
by Nancy Gallenson, LexisNexis Information Professional Consultant
Get more best practices and tips—and download a copy of the LexisNexis Publisher User Guide at the LexisNexis Publisher Resource Center located on the LexisNexis InfoPro Web site.
- Get the Latest News on LexisNexis Publisher Enhancements (It’s simple and without cost, of course.)
And get updates automatically. Here’s how: Under Editor Preferences—in the top-right corner of the LexisNexis Publisher home page—sign up for e-mail
notifications about product updates.
- Get Rid of Duplicate Documents Up Front
Turn on the Duplicate Detection feature for your account. (If it isn’t on, or you are unsure, contact your LexisNexis account manager.) You may set up duplicate detection for all topics at once by going to the Organization Preferences link in the top-right corner of the LexisNexis Publisher home page. (Also see Tip 4.)
- What are Your Customers Reading Most? Show Them!
Use the Report by Headline feature in LexisNexis Publisher to generate a list showing the number of times each article has been opened/read. Send out a list of top stories read this week! All the reports you can create may be found easily; just click the Administration tab on the LexisNexis Publisher home page.
- Use the Stage Tab—and Save Document Review Time
If you select articles for manual publishing rather than auto-publishing, set your scheduled alerts to send the articles to the Staged tab so the de-duplication process occurs before you must review the articles. Then review and select stories for publication from the Staged tab.
- Publish News—Available Via RSS Aggregator—on Your Organization’s Web Site
Go to the Topics home page. Click the Actions menu link for the topic you wish to include on your organization’s Web site. Click Show Topic URL. A pop-up box will display several URLs for the topic. To link to an XML version of a document accessible to RSS aggregators, use the RSS Version 2.0 URL. (Note: If you want users outside your intranet to gain access to the topic with an RSS aggregator, you’ll need to generate and append an MD5 token to the RSS URL.)
