[PW] Lexis/Nexis question

[Ted Nesbitt]

Donna:

Right on with the "new and improved" LexisNexis.  They're still including as one of their "how to search" examples a resource to which they no longer have the contract.  I've been trying since August to get them to remove it!

The Miami Herald is found in the regional news under "McClatchy-Tribune News Service."  Full text articles are from "October 11, 1996 through current."

Ted Nesbitt



>From: Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com>
>Date: 2008/01/10 Thu PM 04:48:51 CST
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>Subject: [PW] Lexis/Nexis question

>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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