What is Lexis-Nexis?
Lexis-Nexis is one of the world’s largest online database services. Online database services are like supermarkets of databases. These services provide access to many different databases through a single search interface. Often, other companies–called database producers–create the databases which are then made available through one or more database service. All types of databases may be available from database services, often including many very specialized databases that are not available from other sources. Generally, users of a database service are required to have an account with the service before they can do any searches. Lexis-Nexis contains thousands of publications which provide extensive sources of information in the areas of law, news, business, finance, government, medicine, technology and other subjects. Most publications in Lexis-Nexis are available in full-text, but very few academic journals are included. The only two subject areas in which Lexis-Nexis does have exten
