What’s New at nexis.com®? Take a Look at These Top Picks
by Nancy Gallenson, LexisNexis Information Professional Consultant; Adrienne Kreger-May, LexisNexis Information
Systems Solution Specialist; and Robyn Tolle, LexisNexis Information Systems Solution Specialist
We consult with librarian customers regularly. And they always ask us: What’s new on nexis.com? What do I need
to know about?
LexisNexis is continually adding sources and features. But over the last quarter, these 11 new resources stand out. So
here’s a closer look at what they offer.
For more information on other recent nexis.com resources, go to http://www.lexisnexis.com/newsandbusiness/content/
TWEET! Now Follow Twitter Traffic Through nexis.com
The Newstex® Government & Politics Blogs source also offers “tweets.” That’s right. You can tap into the twittered
thoughts of political pundits. The Newstex Congressional Twitter Feed also provides tweets from 144 Congressional
Representatives(listed at the end of this article.) You won’t find this content currently on Factiva® or Dialog®.
Find out who is saying what on any politically charged issue. Use the PUBLICATION segment to home in on a
specific representative. For example:
SOURCE: Newstex Government & Politics Blogs
SEARCH: publication (hatch)
The PUBLICATION segment lists the representative’s name.
And the PUBLICATION segment can help you focus on tweets. Just as representatives’ tweets are marked with their names, tweets from published blogs include a “via twitter” notation, e.g., Capital Eye Blog via Twitter. Check twitter traffic from a particular time period, about a specific issue, etc. For example:
SOURCE: Newstex Government & Politics Blogs
SEARCH: Publication (twitter) AND health care AND public option
Check the AMA Newspaper Physicians Read
American Medical News is the newspaper for America’s physicians. Published by the American Medical Association, it’s one of the most widely read U.S. publications on news affecting the medical profession. American Medical News is not currently available via Factiva or Dialog.
The large circulation cuts across geographic regions, practice settings and medical specialties. It presents concise but detailed information not provided by the lay press, and a socioeconomic, practice-oriented slant not found in clinical journals.
Sections, including Government & Medicine, Professional Issues, Business, Editorials, Health & Science make it easier to find the news you need. For example, SEARCH: SECTION(government) AND hipaa
Eleven Additional Elsevier Science Medical Newspapers …
Also joined nexis.com. Now available as separately searchable sources:
- Cardiology News
- Clinical Endocrinology News
- Clinical Neurology News
- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Family Practice News
- Hospitalist News
- Internal Medicine News
- Ob/Gyn News
- Pediatric News
- Rheumatology News
- Skin & Allergy News
Here’s Breaking Medical News from 30 Countries …
Breaking medical news—plus exclusive medical stories, features and columns by physician experts. Also find medical journal summaries. Now at nexis.com, Elsevier Global Medical News (EGMN) is a worldwide daily medical news service syndicated in more than 30 countries, reaching physicians throughout North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Africa.
This syndicated medical news service supplies fresh news continuously to physician Web sites, e-newsletters and RSS feeds. Twenty-four specialized “channels”—including a top medical news channel—feed e-content to digital publications supported by pharmaceutical and healthcare manufacturers, medical societies, and academic institutions. The content is also available to corporate and enterprise intranets.
Search the full text—or use your favorite key words, (LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ terms), e.g., SEARCH: SUBJECT(multiple sclerosis). Another example:
Find articles from the top medical news channel with TERMS, e.g., SEARCH: TERMS (top stories) AND flu OR influenza
Capture the Views of the Government’s Financial Crisis Leaders
Financial Market Regulatory Wire, provided by CQ Financial Transcripts, gives you access to the public statements, interviews and Congressional testimony of key government officials who are responsible for the government’s intervention in the financial markets crisis. Also find testimony from economists, industry executives and more.
Fresh Brewed Market Insights for Turbulent Times
Fresh Brewed Media—its logo says it’s always “hot, rich and bold”—leverages market news, economic forces, trading trends and equity research to produce short, current reports that identify specific tactics investors can use today. The reporting approach adapts to the current (and anticipated) market environment with conservative hedged reports, alerts and strategies tailored to a mainstream investor looking for an edge in uncertain markets. Fresh Brewed Media is not currently available on Factiva or Dialog.
Guess Who is Excluded From Federally Funded Health-Care Programs?
HHS Excluded List: Federal legislation prevents certain individuals and businesses from participating in federally funded health-care programs. The HHS Office of Inspector General maintains a list of all currently excluded parties called the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities.
At nexis.com, search the list by person/business name. Find details on the reason for exclusion, e.g., license suspension. The HHS Excluded List is not currently available on Factiva.
Read—in English—About China’s Business News
Chinese Business News provides business, financial and economic news of interest to investors and business executives worldwide. Articles are selected from the Chinese-language press and are summarized in English. Not currently available on Factiva.
Caucasas and Caspian Region News Coverage Expands
Trend News Agency is a leading news provider in the Caucasus and Caspian region. With its broad network of correspondents, it is also one of the largest private news agencies in Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The following two publications are not currently available on Factiva or Dialog.
Trend Daily Economic News targets news on individuals, newspapers, TV channels, NGOs, associations, embassies, government institutions, academic institutions, broker/security dealers, consulting firms, corporations, banks and investment companies.
Trend Daily News targets news on individuals, newspapers, TV channels, NGOs, associations, embassies and government institutions.
Follow the United Kingdom Entertainment Industry
Press Association Features Newswire (UK) is a premium service for the UK regional daily press, comprising more than 60 high-quality features and columns each week, delivered daily. Find all subject areas, from lifestyle to showbiz, from reviews to horoscopes, from TV highlights to topical news features.
Press Association Premier Showbiz newswire (UK) from PA Entertainment covers films, television and music. The expertise of PA reporters is comprehensive and wide-ranging with special correspondents covering TV and entertainment.
Neither Press Association Features Newswire nor Press Association Premier Showbiz Newswire is currently available on Factiva and Dialog.
More Emerging Market Vitals From IntelliNews Also Added
IntelliNews is published by ISI Emerging Markets, a leading provider of market and country reports from the emerging markets regions. These reports are designed for professional business analysts who need company and industry news to stay ahead of the headlines—and their competitors. All available IntelliNews publications are offered through the LexisNexis services.
Select IntelliNews sources by nation and by daily or weekly reports. Daily reports are distributed five days per week, and the news briefs include news, analysis, comments, forecasts, macroeconomics, politics, and financial and corporate news. Weekly reports are aimed at professionals who need a general “big picture” overview. They summarize all the main economic, financial, corporate and political news of that week.
Blogs, Video and Audio—in French! LexisNexis Now Gives You More News Options
The Nexis® service offers you thousands of resources. But coverage is only part of the story.
Big content numbers don’t mean much unless it’s the right content. So, just as you strive to stay close to your customers, LexisNexis keeps a keen eye trained on the information horizon so we can proactively license the must-have news your customers will need as their business evolves.
For example, in the last year LexisNexis has expanded:
- Non-U.S. news resources. Reflecting today’s global economy, nearly 40 percent of LexisNexis news content is published outside of the United States. That’s more than 7,300sources. (In just the first 90 days of 2009, 60 news and business sources from outside the United States were released.)
- Specialized resources that help your patrons understand the current economic crisis, such as the newly released Financial Market Regulatory Wire, covered at left.
Even media itself is changing, and LexisNexis is working to bring your library:
- Reliable blogs. The LexisNexis news collection now includes more than 3,000 blogs—all editorially selected for quality, content and update schedules. And archives are maintained so the source stays valuable.
- Video and audio coverage. Now find videoenabled and audio-enabled transcripts in the LexisNexis News collections.
NewsTex Government & Politics Blogs
This source offers the “tweets” from these Congressional representatives: (more coming)
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Sen. Susan Collins
Sen. John Cornyn
Sen. Jim DeMint
Sen. Chris Dodd
Sen. John McCain
Sen. Jeff Merkley
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Sen. Bill Nelson
Sen. Ben Nelson
Sen. Harry Reid
Sen. Richard Shelby
Sen. Arlen Specter
Sen. John Thune
Sen. Tom Udall
Sen. Mark Udall
Sen. David Vitter
Sen. Orrin Hatch
Sen. Russ Feingold
Sen. Sam Brownback
Sen. Tom Coburn
Sen. Roger Wicker
Sen. Mark Warner
Sen. Robert Menendez
Sen. Claire McCaskill
Sen. Mel Martinez
Sen. Jim Inhofe
Sen. Chuck Grassley
Sen. John Ensign
Sen. Dick Durbin
Rep. Harry Mitchell
Rep. Jeffrey Flake
Rep. Trent Franks
Rep. John Boozman
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Rep. Darrell Issa
Rep. Duncan Hunter
Rep. George Miller
Rep. George Radanovich
Rep. Howard McKeon
Rep. John Baca
Rep. Kevin McCarthy
Rep. Maxine Waters
Rep. Mike Honda
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Rep. Ed Perlmutter
Rep. Jared Polis
Rep. Mike Coffman
Rep. Jim Himes
Rep. Michael Castle
Rep. Ander Crenshaw
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Rep. Kendrick Meek
Rep. Tom Rooney
Rep. Henry Johnson
Rep. John Barrow
Rep. Phil Gingrey
Rep. Thomas Price
Rep. Neil Abercrombie
Rep. Aaron Schock
Rep. Donald Manzullo
Rep. John Shimkus
Rep. Judy Biggert
Rep. Mark Kirk
Rep. Peter Roskam
Rep. Dan Burton
Rep. Mike Pence
Rep. Tom Latham
Rep. Lynn Jenkins
Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao
Rep. John Fleming
Rep. Chellie Pingree
Rep. Michael Michaud
Rep. Edward Markey
Rep. Candice Miller
Rep. David Lee Camp
Rep. Pete Hoekstra
Rep. Sander Levin
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter
Rep. Erik Paulsen
Rep. James Oberstar
Rep. Keith Ellison
Rep. Michele Bachmann
Rep. Gregg Harper
Rep. John Russell Carnahan
Rep. Roy Blunt
Rep. Dennis Rehberg
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry
Rep. Lee Terry
Rep. Dean Heller
Rep. Albio Sires
Rep. Frank Pallone
Rep. Ben Lujan
Rep. Charles Rangel
Rep. Gregory Meeks
Rep. Steve Israel
Rep. Christopher Lee
Rep. Patrick McHenry
Rep. Virginia Foxx
Rep. Walter Beaman Jones
Rep. Bob Latta
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Rep. Jim Jordan
Rep. John Boehner
Rep. Marcia Fudge
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy
Rep. Steven Austria
Rep. Tim Ryan
Rep. John Sullivan
Rep. Mary Fallin
Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Rep. Greg Walden
Rep. Kurt Schrader
Rep. Bill Shuster
Rep. Glenn Thompson
Rep. Jim Gerlach
Rep. Joe Sestak
Rep. Michael Doyle
Rep. Bob Inglis
Rep. Gresham Barrett
Rep. Joe Wilson
Rep. Zach Wamp
Rep. Joe Barton
Rep. John Carter
Rep. John Culberson
Rep. Kenny Marchant
Rep. Kevin Brady
Rep. Lamar Smith
Rep. Michael Burgess
Rep. Pete Olson
Rep. Jason Chaffetz
Rep. Eric Cantor
Rep. Glenn Nye
Rep. James Randy Forbes
Rep. Robert Goodlatte
Rep. Robert Wittman
Rep. Tom Perriello
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Rep. David George Reichert
Rep. Jay Inslee
Rep. Norman Dicks
Rep. Gwendolynne Moore
Rep. Paul Ryan
Rep. Cynthia Lummis
