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Nexis Uni: Navigating and Using Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic): Home

Database guide covering how to search for content in Nexis Uni.

Nexis Uni

Nexis Uni is an easy-to-use academic search engine. It delivers relevant content that makes scholarly research more efficient, and it provides personalization, discovery, and collaboration features that students and university faculty want in a student research tool. Explore more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources in our Nexis Uni® academic research database. 

Guided Search

Nexis Uni® offers Guided Search options which are located on the Search Home page under the search box. The following options are available:

  • News
  • A Publication
  • Cases
  • Law Reviews
  • Company Info
  • Country Info

Guided Search options vary by content type and are designed to quickly access content. Search strings entered as phrases will be processed as Natural Language searches first. Search strings containing connectors will be processed as a Terms & Connectors search. You can switch between Terms & Connectors or Natural Language under the Actions menu on the results page.

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