[PW] Lexis/Nexis question

Ellen Cousins ellen at smithie.com
Thu Jan 10 14:59:33 PST 2008


Hello Donna,

The Miami Herald provides their archives through Newsbank. I have had 
trouble finding their older materials elsewhere.

http://nl.newsbank.com

They go back to 1982 or so.

HTH

Ellen C.

Donna Halper wrote:
> First, a quick rant:  In addition to doing the general searches from 
> the top-25 cities, I often have to search for articles from 
> individual states and smaller markets. I found it much easier to 
> search Lexis/Nexis before they made their recent changes...I find the 
> new way of searching for state news much more complicated... but 
> maybe I'm just a Luddite.
> 
> Anyway, I needed an article from Florida newspapers and after going 
> through all kinds of machinations, I was surprised that the article I 
> needed from the Miami Herald was not listed -- I found a short 
> abstract, but no article.  Since the article I need (about talk radio 
> in Miami) is from 1993, shouldn't it still be somewhere on 
> Lexis/Nexis? I'm usually pretty good at finding articles 
> eventually... but this one, I can only find the abstract.  Donna is 
> very puzzled. 


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