Top 10 Nexis Uni™ Features to Explore
1 Search across all content types in a single search

2 Conduct advanced searches

Nexis Uni™ offers a search experience familiar toMillennials—broad searching across all content types.
Start your search on Nexis Uni using the top search box
and with a single-click search across all content types.
Or, you can select specific content categories, topics orfavorite sources.

For the more experienced researcher, Nexis Uni offers
several Advanced Search templates. For example,
selecting the News category in Advanced Search provides
options to search by document segment. Document
segments include headline, title, lead sections, publication,date, section, publication type, company name andclassification. Searching by document segment can be
helpful in finding specific results.

A TIP: Use connectors to get more relevant results.

When searching in Nexis Uni, a space is an implied “OR”
between two terms. This is different than LexisNexis
Academic, where a space was an implied “AND”
connector.

TIP: There are Advanced Search forms for numerous
content categories, including news, company andfinancial, directories and legal content.

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3 Filter using facetsOnce you run a search, you can use post-search filters,or facets, to narrow down your results set to the most
relevant documents. Multiple filters can be applied, andthey can easily be removed without needing to re-run thesearch.

3Clicking on the arrow next to the filter type will show
the options available for your results set. The facets
available to filter by include: Location (location of thesource), Publication Type, Subject, Industry, Geography(geographical region relevant to the content), Timeline,Sources, Practice Areas & Topics, People and Keyword.

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B TIP: Click on Select Multiple and a pick list will appear
for quickly checking off the relevant attributes to include.
C TIP: Adjust the timeline filter from the calendar or by
moving the slider bar to adjust the date range.

4 Annotate a document

Once in a document view, you have the ability to add
and save annotations. Simply select the text you wish
to highlight or annotate and you will be given the option
to add the selected text to a folder, add the text to yoursearch, annotate or highlight.
D TIP: Once notes have been added to a document, theyCDE

will appear on the right hand side under the Notes tab.
E TIP: Check out the Printer Friendly View for a clear,condensed view of the full document.
5 Look for the reading glasses

Keeping track of which documents you have viewed inyour research can be tricky, but Nexis Uni can help.
Once you have viewed a document, a pair of eye glasses
will appear next to the document in the results list. If
you saved the document to a folder, a folder icon will
also appear.

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5F TIP: Hover over the glasses to see when thedocument was last viewed.

F6 Add a document to a folder

From within the document view, you can also save thedocument to one or more folders. Additionally, you canemail a link, download or send the document to Dropbox.

67 Set and share Alerts

For some topics, you may wish to set an Alert so you canbe notified when new results are available. Alerts can be
set on searches or on publications. To set an Alert on asearch you have conducted, simply click the Alert iconfrom the results view.

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From there, you will be prompted to name the Alert, as
well as set the frequency and other specifics.
G TIP: You can also share an Alert that you have createdby simply entering the email address of the Nexis Uni
user you wish to share the Alert with. Alerts results canonly be accessed by Nexis Uni users.
8 Create and share folders

Folders are helpful for organizing and sharing relevant
documents. You can create folders for various topics,projects or classes. You can quickly access your folders
by clicking on Folders from the drop down in thenavigation bar.
Once in the Folder view, you can see folders you created,folders you shared and folders shared by others.
Clicking on a folder will show the documents, searches ortext that has been saved to that folder.
H TIP: Under Actions you can rename, delete, move or

share a folder. Similar to Alerts, only an email address isneeded to share a folder, but to access the folder theindividual must be aNexis Uni user. WhenH
you share a folder,
the end receiverwill receive an emailletting them knowthat you have shareda folder with them.
They will have 30 days
to accept the shareinvitation.

89 Tag favorite sources

At various points in your research, you may desire to only
search a select number of sources. Saving sources toyour Favorites can help quickly select these sources ofinterest. To favorite a source, type the source name into
the red search box and select the source you desire fromthe list of suggested matches.

9Selecting the source will add it as a filter to your search.
At that time, you can click the star to add to your favorites.
Recently used and favorite sources can be accessed byclicking on the drop-down arrow within the red searchbar and then selecting Recent & Favorites. Simply
click on the source or sources you wish to include inyour search.
I TIP: Recent sources that appear in this list can beadded to favorites simply by clicking on the star next
to the source name. Those with red stars are favorites;
those without are recent sources.

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10 Take advantage of discipline pages

In addition to offering broad and advanced searching,
Nexis Uni has developed discipline pages to help
students begin their research. Currently, discipline pages
for Business, Political Science and Criminal Justice areavailable, with more being added in the future.
The discipline pages are designed to curate relevant
topics, sources, tasks and documents pertinent tostudents within that area of study.

JJ TIP: A discipline page can be set as a home page byclicking the Set as Homepage button.

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