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.