Nexis Uni: Advanced Search

The first example of Advanced Search is to find past 5 years The Independent (United Kingdom) news articles related to Brexit and Economics.

1) Click “Advanced Search” to access the Advanced Search Interface

 

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2) Click the tab "News"

<a> Select "Headline and Lead Sections" for the search fields

<b> input Brexit and Economics

<c> Select "date between" and set 5 year as search time frame.

<d> scroll down and search the specific source(s) you want to explore, e.g. The Independent (United Kingdom)

<e> Click search

To understand more about the options in the search field,  "Search Field Example" in the side bar

 

 

The second example is to find US patent law cases which Google involved.

1) Click “Advanced Search” to access the Advanced Search Interface

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2) Click the tab "Legal" and select “case” and “US cases” in the drop down menu.  

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3) Click "All fields" to select a specific field to search. In this example, "Party" and "Core Terms" are selected as first and second field.

To understand more about the options in the search field,  "Search Field Example" .

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4) Using boolean operators or connectors (AND) to connect search terms, input "Google" in the first search field and "Patents" in the second one. Perform Search.

 

 

Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)

• Use AND to retrieve documents containing both terms.
  e.g., bank AND interest rate
   
• Use OR to retrieve documents containing either or both terms.
  e.g., tall building! OR skyscraper!
   
• Use AND NOT to exclude documents containing the given term.
  e.g., trust AND NOT charitable

Parentheses

• Use Parentheses to specify the order of execution of the connectors.
  e.g., (internet OR WWW OR web) AND (youth OR young)

Wildcard and Truncation

• Use ? in the midst of a word to substitute for any character except the first three.
  e.g., wom?n will find "woman" or "women."
   
• Use ! to retrieve variant endings of a word. (There must be at least 3 characters prior to the !)
  e.g., recycl! will find "recycle," "recycling" and "recyclable."

Within word number, paragraph, or sentence

• Use W/[n] to specify the distance between terms in any order.
  e.g., financial secretary W/15 budget speech will find documents with "financial secretary" occurring within up to 15 words of "budget speech."
   
• Use W/p to find documents with terms occurring within the same paragraph.
  e.g., floods W/p deforestation
   
• Use W/s to find documents with terms occurring within the same sentence.
  e.g., ethnic minorities W/s china

Preceded by a certain number of words, word/words appear a certain number of times

• Use PRE/[n] to find documents with the first term preceding the second term by not more than the stated number of words.
  e.g., bill PRE/3 clinton
• Use Atleast to specify the number of occurrences of keywords.
  e.g., atleast5(air pollution) will find documents that contain "air pollution" at least 5 times. 

To know more about Nexis Uni search term connectors, click here.