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NexisUni (formerly LexisNexis): How to use it

This guide is prepared for Stetson students. It explains how to access and use the Library's NexisUni proprietary database.

Advanced Searching

Many times, searches will return too many or too few records. When there are several records returned from a search, it can take a lot of time to evaluate these sources for relevancy. The database can perform an advanced search using controlled vocabularies such as Booklean operators to narrow down a search.

For our AI research paper (see General Search tab), we want to learn how the developers of Apple used aritificial intelligence, AI-powered tools, to enhance the iPhone user's experience. We can expand our search beyond scholary articles and look for news articles, press releases, trade articles and events, etc., to gather information on our subtopic.

To pull information for a specific date range, we can narrow down dates by using the date limiter, as shown in the screen shot below.

In this example, we are searching Apple AND Artificial Intelligence. Using the Boolean operator AND tells the database to pull all sources that only mention Apple AND Artificial Intelligence. 

To learn more about advanced searching techniques, see video below. 

VIDEO: Nexis Uni: USING THE ADVANCED SEARCH FORM FOR PRECISE SEARCHING

Tools

We can navigate accross the tool bar at the top of the page and select the desired icon to print, email, save, share or create a library of selected sources.