How to Find News and Legal Information in Nexis Uni For Research

Come learn about your access to the Nexis Uni database, the premier academic research database by LexisNexis International, designed for research news, company information, market information, legal cases, law (U.S. federal, state, and international law), briefings, codes, and regulations, in higher education settings.

In this session you will learn about 

  • Navigating the Help Center and User ID Benefits
  • Understanding Sources
  • How to locate and filter sources within Nexis Uni.
  • Tips for identifying authoritative legal and news content.
  • Search rechniques
  • Working with search results
  • How to locate and read case law documents.
  • Introduction to Shepard’s® Citations: understanding case treatment and precedent.
  • Exploring embedded products
  • Overview, access, and use self-paced training resources 

Attendee Eligibility

The Nexis Uni databases are licenced commercial databases only free accessible for Rice affiliates. So this training is only open to the Rice affiliates.

Contact

This training session is organized by Anna Xiong, jax2@rice.edu, Head of Kelley Center for Government Information & Civic Engagement, also the Subject Liaison for Department of Sociology and Kinder Institute for Urban Research, in partnership with the representative from the Nexis Uni database company. 

Date/Time
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Location
This is online course via zoom. The zoom link will be sent after the registration.
Registration Form
Some short courses are offered multiple times each semester, please enter the course date/time you wish to register.
Rice Affiliation
* Denotes that Friends of Fondren Library membership is required for classes offered by the GIS/Data Center and Digital Media Commons. Government Information classes like Patents and Trademarks, Census and Microforms do not require a membership.
For example, Fondren Calendar of Events, Email blast, Events@Rice, Fondren digital signage, word of mouth