[PW] Lexis/Nexis question

[Beuerlein, Pat (Edm Journal)]

On 1/11/08 Donna Halper wrote:

> ... I needed an article from Florida newspapers and ... 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?

If the item was written by a freelancer instead of a Herald staffer, it may
have been removed for legal/copyright reasons -- see the Tasini case
ruling on payment to freelancers for electronic reproduction rights. The
decision affected a lot of material from before freelance contracts covered
use in outside databases, Web sites, CDs and such, and many stories were
removed from the databases of aggregators like L/N. The citations for the
stories are still included, but the complete content has to be gotten from
microfilm or the original paper. They probably can't sell you the individual
story, but they might sell a copy (print or PDF) of the original entire
page. Try checking the Miami Herald's website for more info.

Patricia Beuerlein 
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