[PW] Lexis/Nexis question

[Ellen Cousins]

Hello Donna,

I wasn't sure from your post whether or not you were able to retrieve 
the article you needed. If not, or if you have a similar problem with 
the Miami Herald in the future, you might try this.

It is really the circuitous route, and you may have tried it, but it 
worked for me for MH articles from as early as 1983 when going directly 
to the Newslibrary was unsuccessful:

If you know the headline or other unique terms in the article you want, 
do a search for those using the Google News Archives search. You can 
choose specific years, too. You should get a link to your article within 
the Miami Herald Newsbank system. You will get a bit of the text, along 
with a citation for free. Then retrieving the article costs $2.95...or so.

Ellen C.

Donna Halper wrote:
> At 07:23 PM 1/11/2008, Beuerlein, Pat (Edm Journal) wrote:
>> On 1/11/08 Donna Halper wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Yeah, I originally thought "Tasini Decision"... but the mystery is 
> the entire Miami Herald isn't included on Lexis/Nexis at all-- go to 
> the Florida newspapers, and it's gone.  And Newsbank only has 1993 
> and onward-- L/N used to have the Herald till the recent set of 
> "updates."  I wonder how these decisions are made.
> 
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