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Lexis-Nexis Cheat Sheet |
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Lexis-Nexis Cheat Sheet |
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| Boolean Operators | Order of Operations | Wildcards |
| Plural v. Singular | Capitalization |
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What you type |
What it does |
Example |
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OR |
either |
doctor or physician |
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W/N |
both words, any order within N words of each other |
hillary w/3 clinton |
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AND |
both |
affirmative action and new york |
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W/S |
Both words, any order, same sentence |
sanction w/s frivolous |
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W/P |
Both words, any order, same paragraph |
rule w/p sanction |
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PRE/N |
Both words, first word has to be first, within N words |
cable pre/2 television or tv or t.v. |
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NOT W/N |
First word HAS to appear, second MAY but cannot be within N words of first |
Rico not w/5 puerto |
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NOT W/S |
First word HAS to appear, second MAY but cannot be in same sentence |
Market not w/s share |
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NOT W/P |
First word HAS to appear, second MAY but cannot be in same paragraph |
cable not w/p tv |
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AND NOT |
Used to exclude words |
jordan and not michael |
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AT LEASTN |
minimum times (N) search term has to appear |
atleast5 antenuptial |
| Order of Operation: | |
| Explanation:
The connectors are evaluated in the order shown on the left. If you have a search term such as: drug w/5 kingpin OR drug w/5 dealer and death penalty Lexis Nexis will first combine kingpin OR drug first because the OR operator is processed before the W/5 processor. The phrase should be entered using parenthesis: (drug w/5 kingpin) OR (drug w/5 dealer) and death penalty |
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| 1. | OR |
| 2. | W/N |
| 3. | PRE/N |
| 4. | NOT W/N |
| 5. | W/S |
| 6. | NOT W/S |
| 7. | W/P |
| 8. | NOT W/P |
| 9. | AND |
| 10. | AND NOT |
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FINDS |
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* |
replaces one character, can be used more than once, anywhere except 1st |
wom*n |
woman or women |
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bernst**n |
berstien or berstein |
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bank*** |
bank or banking or banks |
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replaces one or more characters at end of word |
computer! |
computer or computers or computerization, etc. |
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FINDS |
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Lexis automatically searches singular, regular plural, singular possessives and plural possessives |
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company |
company or companies, company's |
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HOWEVER you must specify irregular plural endings such as children, knives and oxen by using OR |
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To turn the automatic plural v. singular off use: singular ( ) or plural () |
singular ( william ) |
william |
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plural ( williams ) |
williams but not william's |
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Lexis is NOT case sensitive unless you instruct it to be |
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law |
Law or law or LAW |
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Law |
Law or law or LAW |
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caps ( Apple ) |
Apple but not apple or APPLE |
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nocaps ( law ) |
law but not Law or LAW |
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allcaps ( AIDS ) |
AIDS but not aids or Aids |
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