Subject: New Campus Site License for Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Date: 1 Mar 1999 17:51:01 -0600
From: Joan Roca <roca@mnsu.edu>
Organization: Mankato State University
To: msu.announce.faculty-staff@mnsu.edu
Newsgroups: msu.announce.faculty-staff


As of today, MSU, Mankato has a campus site license to access all the
databases in the Academic Universe package from Lexis-Nexis.  This license
has been brokered regionally by MINITEX as part of a nationwide contract
between academic libraries and Lexis-Nexis.

Academic Universe indexes thousands of publications in many languages and
may be accessed from the MSU Library home page
(http://www.lib.mnsu.edu) by clicking Databases or directly from
the Lexis-Nexis web site, located at: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe.

PLEASE NOTE: To access these from an off-campus location you must dial into
the MSU dialin server.  At this time, they are not available when you dial
via third party Internet Service Providers.

More information is provided on the Lexis-Nexis web site.  For any
questions on using these, please call the Reference Desk at 5958 or send
your question to askref@mnsu.edu.

Thanks!


---------------  Search Areas available in Academic Universe ----------------

Top News
Get today's news and news from the past two weeks from selected news
sources from around the world.

General News Topics
Need to know about a topic or an issue? This search form covers it all! Get
today's news, or glance back more than 20 years.

Company News
Want to find news about a company? With a company news search, you can find
out the latest information about a specific company such as Microsoft, Time
Warner, or General Motors.

Company Financial Information
Get the "need to know" information about a company. Find out where a
company is located, the names of its executives, financial information, and
much more!

Industry & Market News
Learn about industry forecasts, trends, and the forces driving an industry.

Government & Political News
Obtain legislative news from a national and regional perspective.

News Transcripts
Transcripts from television news programs, radio broadcasts and more.

Legal News
Check in legal newspapers, magazines and newsletters from across the
country to find news information about the US legal industry and legal
profession. National and State issues of legal significance are analyzed in
the leading law journals.

Foreign Language News
Search Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language sources.

Country Profiles
Obtain business analysis and country information.

State Profiles
Review concise and objective facts and statistics on most U.S. states from
World Almanac of the U.S.A.

Biographical Information
Get background information on a politician, movie star, sports great or any
other person.

Reference & Directories
Search the Business Reference library which contains company directories
and reference publications. You can also find information on business
opportunities and biographical information on political candidates,
congress members, celebrities and international decision makers.

General Medical & Health Topics
Browse the full-text of medical journals and newsletters providing
information on drug interactions, cancer, poison, disease, trauma, and
medical administration.

Medical Abstracts
Search bibliographic information from the National Library of Medicine for
more than 3500 worldwide clinical and research journals dating back to
1966.

Accounting, Auditing, & Tax
Search a comprehensive selection of accounting information sources to get
the information that counts.

Law Reviews
Search more than 200 law reviews and law journals concentrating on national
and state issues of legal significance.

Federal Case Law
Search case law opinions from all the major United States federal courts.

U.S. Code, Constitution, & Court Rules
Search federal statutory and administrative law from a variety of
authoritative sources such as: United States Code Service, United States
Constitution, and Code of Federal Regulations.

State Legal Research
Search the case law, constitution, statutes, and other legal materials
related to a specific state.


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