Global Legal Resource Offers Features to Take You "Around the World" in 1,000 Sources
By Leanne Battle
Now boarding … LexisNexis® flight 2007 with stops in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom!
Global legal research can be some of the most challenging research you will ever encounter. Trying to get native documents from a source across an ocean—or two—can be frustrating, especially when you add in the time differences. But now you have a reliable source for legal materials, available at your fingertips whenever you need it: LexisNexis® Global Legal Sources.
Gain access to these materials from a number of places on lexis.com®: the main Legal tab, the International Law menu and the International Trade menu. (Just select those areas of law from Areas of Law – By Topic.)
The new Global Legal Sources includes more than 1,000 resources from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom. More than 800 of these sources are new to the LexisNexis services—and not available otherwise on lexis.com. This collection of sources is presented through an integrated global platform, allowing you access to all of these materials without visiting multiple sites. And this new platform uses the same search engine as lexis.com, so you get the same pinpointed results you expect from lexis.com.
Source selection in the Global Legal Sources varies from lexis.com. There are several ways to approach source selection:
- choose from the drop-down list of commonly used sources;
- browse sources by type and/or by topic; or
- find sources by searching with keywords.
Once you have identified the relevant sources for your research, you can create your own combined sources. Simply check the boxes to the left of the source titles. See Selected at the right of the screen above the source list to keep track of selected sources. Need to review your selections? Just click View. When you finish selecting sources, click OK and return to the search screen.
LexisNexis Global Legal Sources also include some unique features to help you manage your research results efficiently. For example:
- View results by type, publication or language and sorted by relevance or by date.
- Narrow search results by using the Narrow Search box, a feature we know as FOCUS™.
- Tag documents for easy identification or delivery. View tagged documents in a consolidated list by clicking View Tagged. To return to the complete results list, just click View All Results.
Plus, the LexisNexis Global Legal Sources History tab includes a search history, a document history and a Saved Searches section. The Recent Documents section of the History tab keeps a list of all documents that have been viewed in full text. The documents are available for 28 hours. The Saved Searches section allows you to construct and keep up to 100 searches for your research convenience.
This is just a quick review of your LexisNexis Global Legal Sources itinerary. If you need additional information to make your research trip to LexisNexis Global Legal Sources more comfortable (and effective), don’t hesitate to contact your LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant or your LexisNexis account executive. Then sit back, relax and enjoy your flight.
