SIMPLE GUIDES TO

LEXISNEXIS® ACADEMIC

LexisNexis Academic provides fulltext

documents from over 5,600 news, business,

financial, legal, medical, and general

reference publications with a variety of

flexible search options.

To the law community, the database is used

to search for legal articles in law reviews

and journals. The sources are grouped

together according to countries like US, UK

or Canada. It is also group together by

subjects.

Provided in this brochure is the basics of

constructing effective LexisNexis Academic

search request. For other searching

techniques, please contact your librarian or

attend any of the online databases training

provided by your library.

Access the IIUM Library Homepage (http://lib.iiu.edu.my)

Click “Online Databases”

Choose “LexisNexis Academic”.

Click “Legal”

Enter keywords at the Search Terms. Then select the Sources to look into, either US, UK

or Canadian Reviews and Journals

Explanation of the record

Printing, Saving and E-mailing of the Case

Results. Click on any of the citations to view

the full article.

Article Title

Journal Title

Keywords highlighted

Finding a Specific Case Using Citation Click “Sources”. Enter the Journal Title.

Customer Services Division

June 2010/yab/Promo52

Enter the Title of the Article. Result: The Specific Case as Searched

Tick on the Title of the Journal. Then click “Continue”.