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Re: Lexis/Nexis UNIVerse
Carole and others: I replied to Faye and the list earlier. There is a single press release on the L/N web site, but you have to use their internal search engine to find it. I spoke with our law school L/N account rep and he told me a few things about Universe: It is similar to a product that they have been marketing on a limited basis to business schools. Compared to the commercial and law school product it does not include LEXSEE and LEXSTAT--the citation finding tools, and AUTOCITE and SHEPARDS citation services. Many of the grouped and topical databases are not available--although that does not necessarily preclude access to the individual databases that make up the grouped sets. Many databases are not available although our rep did not have a specific list. He mentioned things like state administrative regulations and contractually provided on-line treatises (CCH, BNA, etc.) I doubt it would contain any public record information either--that is not even available under the law school contract. Of greater concern to us in the law school was the level of service. We would not receive most of our training support, 1-800 reference attorney support, hardware and software support, printing support, and personalized passwords for faculty and students. General customer service would be very limited. However, he made it clear that I still retained a lion's share of L/N databases and considering the undergraduate market that UNIVerse is marketed to, it still seems like a good product. But I agree their information is limited. George Pike Director, Barco Law Library University of Pittsburgh School of Law 3900 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 pike@law.pitt.edu At 06:04 PM 10/20/97 -0400, you wrote: >I am very interested in getting information about L/N Universe. Is there >a Web page? > >Faye Abrams >Head, Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery, >University of Waterloo, >Library, tel: 519-888-4567 x3520 >Waterloo, ON fax: 519-746-5151 >N2L 3G1 email:fabrams@library.uwaterloo.ca > > >[MOD NOTE: Yes, there is a web site. For general information about >Lexis-Nexis, see: http://www.lexis-nexis-com]
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