Lexis/Nexis and UnCover

This week we'll work with two other resources from the "Commercial Databases" menu on Liberty: a full-text database (Lexis/Nexis) and a current contents database (UnCover). Both have important uses in the process of developing search vocabulary and refining topics of the sort you're working on, and each has a search interface different from the other tools we've already looked at. You can find summaries of commands and search strategy here for Lexis-Nexis and for UnCover, but I'll explain each as we go.
Lexis-Nexis is in some ways far too much of a good thing. You CAN retrieve full text of articles from lots of newspapers, many magazines, even some scholarly journals. Its resources in the areas of law and business are awesome. But its search commands are anything but intuitive, full-text searching often produces vastly too much to make any use of, and our access has several limitations: