17:610:530 Principles of Searching

Tefko Saracevic

LAB SESSION 2

LexisNexis

1. Repeat Exercise 4 on LexisNexis. Elaborate on Power Search and source selection.

2. Click on lexis.com (left side and sign in or got to http://www.lexis.com/research.

• under sources go to U.S. Supreme Court Cases...; enter copyright in teaching. Explore.

3. Under sources go to Combined Jury Verdicts and Settlements; enter fair use in classroom.

• also click on Suggest Words;

4. Click on Litigation (in Look for a Source). Then Legal Reference Materials, New Jersey Directory of Expert Witnesses & Consultants. Enter education. Then arthritis.

5. Back to Look for a Source. Then Public Records, Civil & Criminal Court Filings >Civil & Criminal Filings - Selected States > New Jersey > NJ Combined Civil Filings. Then under Search enter Bruce Springsteen

6. Under News & Business > News > News Group File, Most Recent 60 Days enter Bruce Springsteen, then click on Suggest Words and Concepts for Entered Terms, select E Street Band.

7. Back to Look for a Source. Then Legal > Reference > Medical > American Medical Information . Enter a physician's last name.

8. Enter Legal > States Legal - U.S. > New Jersey. Explore sources. E.g. Combined Jury Verdicts and Settlements. Enter library

9. If time: go back to nexis.com. (Click on top on LexisNexis, then Sign on to your service, then LexisNexis at nexis.com

10. In Quick Search enter library schools, and then "library schools"

11. In Power Search explore Find more Sources. In Find a source enter library.

12. In Power Search choose a source. Enter library pre/1 school!. In Focus enter Rutgers.

13. Go to Search Forms. General News. Enter Rutgers w/5 president. Or Iraq w/5 economy