LexisNexis® Quickcard
The LexisNexis® Quickcard helps you using our research tool LexisNexis® – quickly and
easily. We show you how to create efficient search strings using the most important
search operators.
Your guide for quick and easy search enquiries with LexisNexis®.
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Connectors / Wildcards / At least search
Connectors
Wildcards
or
gm or general motors
By using wildcards you can find variations of a word or different
To find documents that contain either
spellings of a term and make your search definition easier.
or both of the terms or phrases.
and
!
acqui! finds acquire, acquired, acquisition, acquiring etc.
beiersdorf and nivea
Use the ! to replace an unlimited number of letters fol-
To find documents that contain both terms or
lowing a word root. Use the ! at the end of the word root.
phrases.
and
not
Note: German Language News allows you to search with !
ford and not harrison ford
at the beginning of a word, e. g. !versicherung! finds
To exclude documents that contain certain words or
Versicherung, Lebensversicherungsprämie etc.
phrases. Always use this connector at the end of your
search.
w/n
organi*ation finds organisation or organization. Use an
asterisk (*) to replace characters anywhere in a word,
merger w/15 automotive industry
except the first character. Use one asterisk for each
To find documents that appear within “n” terms of
character you want to replace.
each other. The letter “n” stands for a number from 1 to
255. w/n does not specify a word order. Use w/n to link
search words and phrases to create concepts.
pre/n
*
At least search
atleastn
atleast5 (globalization)
pay pre/3 television
Use this command when you want your search
Requires both words to appear in the document with
terms to appear at least a defined number of
the first word preceding the second word by “n” words.
times in a document. The letter “n” stands for a
The letter “n” stands for a number from 1 to 255. Use
number from 1 to 255.
this connector when a different word order would
change the meaning.
Special characters
Hyphens are interpreted as space. An ampersand (&) is
interpreted as “and”.
Section search
Section search
Note: Please check the source information (blue information button next to the publication name) to see which document
sections can be searched for the source you have selected.
In the News:
headline
hlead
headline (economic and risk)
publication
publication (european cosmetic
Source: e. g. All English Language News
markets)
To find all documents where search
Source: e. g. All English Language News
terms appear in the headline.
To find documents of a particular publication included in a group file.
hlead (pharma! and launch!)
Source: e. g. Healthcare News
length
length > 500
To find documents where search terms
To find only documents with more than 500
appear in the headline or lead paragraph of a
words.
document.
byline
byline (barbara quint)
Source: e. g. All English Language News
To find articles written by particular author.
In Industry sources:
industry
pub-region
headline
headline (german! and beverage)
industry (beer or wine or beverage)
Source: e. g. Euromonitor
and
To search for information on
pub-region (china or japan or asia)
German beverage.
Source: MarketLine Industry Reports
To search for market reports for a specific
industry or region.
Note: Further special interest magazins focusing on specific sectors are available on the tab Sources and the Industry Directories & Profiles.
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In Company sources:
company
country
company (lexisnexis)
Source e. g. MarketLine – Company Profiles
To search for a specific company profile.
To search for companies with revenue greater
than “n“.
country (italy)
employees
employees > 20
To search for companies
Source: e. g. Dun & Bradstreet Market
located in specific countries.
Identifiers
To search for companies with
city (frankfurt)
Source: e. g. Worldscope
To search for companies located
more than “n” employees.
sic
sic (2111)
Source: e.g. Dun & Bradstreet
in specific cities.
zip
revenues > 10000000
Source: e. g. All Company Information
Source: e. g. Hoover‘s Company Profiles
city
revenues
Market Identifiers
zip (1! or 2!)
To search for companies in the cigarette
Source: e. g. Dun & Bradstreet Market
industry by using the SIC classification.
Identifiers or Creditreform
To search with ZIP code.
description
description (metalmining)
Source: e. g. Dun & Bradstreet Market
Identifiers or Worldscope.
To search for company business description.
Plural and Singular / Capitalization
Plural and Singular
Capitalization
The LexisNexis services automatically search singular, plural
The LexisNexis research services are not case sensitive,
and possessive endings for search words. For example: A
so for most searches you do not need to worry about capitali-
search on the term company finds company, companies,
zation. There are times when capitalization or non-capitalizati-
company‘s, and companies‘.
on does affect the meaning of a specific search term. Use the
following commands when you need to specify capitalization.
To find irregular plural endings use the OR connector:
child or children.
allcaps
allcaps (pet)
To search for words with only capital letters.
However, sometimes you may only want to search for a particular plural / singular term:
plural
plural (trees)
discussing just the plural term.
letter.
nocaps
nocaps (debis)
To search for words without any capital letters.
singular (aid)
To search for documents discussing just the
singular term and not articles regarding AIDS.
Furthermore the LexisNexis services automatically search for
German inflections, e. g. searching for haus also finds Häuser,
searching for bank also finds Banken.
To find only singular or plural endings, you can also use the
quotation marks, e. g.:
“allianz”
“allianzen”
caps (apple)
To search for words with at least one capital
To search for documents
singular
caps
To find Allianz only.
To find Allianzen only.
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