Research for universities and libraries with Nexis®

The research tool especially for universities and libraries.

High-quality data for students, universities & libraries

The latest economic events

Overview of the latest economic events via press reports from all over the world.

Detailed company information

Company comparisons on the basis of sales or workforce size and other details of public and private companies.

Industry information

Facts on specific sectors such as automotive, banks & finance, legal.

International legal data

Research international legal data (primary and secondary sources).

What LexisNexis can do for Universities

The Nexis® research tool is particularly suitable for students, university staff and library users in search of national and international business, press and company information.

The research tools from LexisNexis enable these searches to be conducted more efficiently. LexisNexis Uni & Library Solutions is perfectly tailored to the needs of students, university departments and library users, providing access to comprehensive, high-quality and reliable material.

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A range of search options via a web-based interface

Webnews

Integration of industry-relevant web sources, including ones from China and Japan

Comprehensive company information

Numerous national and international providers of company information

LexisNexis® Smart-Indexing Technology™

Comprehensive search options with structured and pre-configured keywords

Benefits of LexisNexis for Universities

  • Online access
    via your university or library
  • Save time
    with accurate and easily generated search results
  • Enhanced accuracy of results
    with optimized search functions such as LexisNexis® SmartIndexing Technology™ and Boolean operators
  • Improved data quality
    as a result of sorting by relevance
  • Multiple languages and translation function
    Results can be translated into results can be translated into any one of 57 languages with Google Translate™ . Sources are available in a range of original languages including English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Russian and Chinese. The languages in which the interface of the research tool is available include German, English, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian.

Nexis® is a sophisticated research system for professional information gathering. The range of German-language and international sources provides our customers with a comprehensive information base.

Frank Daniel, Digital Services and Schools Service, Cologne City Library

In our annual review of the research databases on offer, Nexis® has for many years come out on top. In view of the extensive use that our scholarship holders make of the tool, we are always happy to opt for Nexis®.

Anna Friedl, Head of Marketing & Scholar Relationship Management, e-fellows.net

The comprehensive international news archive in Nexis® enabled us to conduct research based on full-text articles over a period of 15 years.

Sebastian Junge, Researcher and PhD student, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Note on logging in for students

You can access our research tool if your university has a contract with LexisNexis.

Please contact your university direct if

  • you are uncertain whether your university has such a contract.
  • you need to know how to access the tool.

Our support team will be happy to help you if you have questions about using the product or need assistance with research queries. Simply fill in the contact form at the bottom of this page or call us on: +31 20 485 3456

Partnership between LexisNexis and OCLC® WorldCat® Discovery Services

Enhance your academic research results

As a librarian, student or researcher you depend on crucial fully up-to-date information from a wide range of publications. LexisNexis for Universities provides an online research tool specially tailored to your needs.

More content

To make your search even more efficient, LexisNexis has partnered with OCLC® WorldCat® Discovery Services. By using OCLC’s unique search technology we can expand the available content on our research platform to include OCLC. Users of our research tool for universities already have access to 800 legal journals. As a result of our partnership with OCLC, an additional 4,000 publications can be viewed via OCLC.

No additional costs

To benefit from this offer, universities and libraries need access to both research tools – OCLC and LexisNexis. There is no charge for the integration of the two databases. For implementation please contact your OCLC customer advisor.

Here’s how it works

  1. Launch a search in OCLC® WorldCat® Discovery Services.
  2. You will receive results from newspaper and journal articles and many other sources. Beside each document you can see which database the article is in.
  3. You are automatically granted access to the documents from the LexisNexis database.
  4. Continue researching with LexisNexis or OCLC.

Recommended by researchers worldwide

LexisNexis has partnered with OCLC because librarians all over the world have for years trusted this service. As a result of this partnership we can offer our customers unparalleled content with unique search technology.

LexisNexis® Academic is one of the best research databases in the world. We are pleased to be working with LexisNexis to provide librarians and library users with access to these valuable sources on our platform, WorldCat® Discovery Services.

Chip Nilges, Vice President, Business Development, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

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