Advanced Searches in the Lexis-Nexis Database

 

The "guided news search" option in the Lexis-Nexis database allows you to target keywords by field and Boolean operators. Use the top pull-down menus to specify "news category" and "news source." Then use the middle pull-down menus on the right of the keyword box to search in headline, headine and lead paragraph(s), full text, caption, or author fields. (Specifying "full text" will return the most sources). You can also use the pull-down menus to the left of the keyword box to specify the relationship between keywords: for instance, "and," "or," "not," as well as adjacency, or how close you want the keywords to appear to one another (for instance, choosing "w/5" from the pulldown menu tells the database to search for that keyword occuring within 5 words of the previously specified keyword). Below the keyword boxes, you can also specify the range of dates and the particular sources that you want to search.

 

 

If you find a reference to a book review by Gregory Feeley of Kim Stanley Robinson's utopian novel The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) and want to find a full text version online, you could use the Lexis "guided search" to target the article by searching for "feeley" in the author field and "robinson" in the full text and setting the date range to 2002.

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