[Yulpub] RE: [Lnacademic] News International Content Temporarily Suspended from all LexisNexis Services (fwd)

[Emily Horning]

More detailed information from Lexis-Nexis about the removal of Times 
(London) content.

Emily
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:53:40 -0500
From: "Fraim, Meg (LNG-BET)" <meg.fraim at lexisnexis.com>
Reply-To: Discussion of academic services of LexisNexis
    <lnacademic-lnacademic.com at lists.lnacademic.com>
To: 'Discussion of academic services of LexisNexis'
    <lnacademic-lnacademic.com at lists.lnacademic.com>
Subject: RE: [Lnacademic] News International Content Temporarily Suspended
    from all LexisNexis Services

Temporarily suspended means that all content has been temporarily removed
from all LexisNexis services due to an interruption in the rights to
electronically distribute the content. LexisNexis is actively pursuing
renewing the rights. We are modifying the Source List entries for News
International publications within LexisNexis Academic and by tomorrow, they
should indicate "temporarily suspended" in the coverage field. 

Five publications were temporarily removed:
1) The Times and Sunday Times 
2) News of the World
3) Times Higher Education Supplement
4) Times Education Supplements
5) The Sun

Although you cannot search the LexisNexis Academic source list by publisher,
there is an online directory of all sources licensed by LexisNexis located
at http://web.nexis.com/sources/. Although this directory includes titles
not available through LexisNexis Academic due to licensing restrictions, it
does provide a way to search by publisher. I know many other academic
librarians have indicated that they find it to be a useful tool to augment
the source list within the product.   

As to your final question, the "search by publication" functionality within
LexisNexis Academic does admittedly leave a bit to be desired for titles
that include common words since it is searching by title. I can't give you a
timeframe for resolution, but I can tell you that I heard encouraging news
at the end of last week about some infrastructure changes that may enable us
to modify the search logic as early as next year. We will keep you apprised
of any developments. 
Meg Fraim
LexisNexis

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From: lnacademic-lnacademic.com-bounces at lists.lnacademic.com
[mailto:lnacademic-lnacademic.com-bounces at lists.lnacademic.com]On Behalf
Of Bob Duncan
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:09 AM
To: Discussion of academic services of LexisNexis
Subject: Re: [Lnacademic] News International Content Temporarily
Suspended from all LexisNe xis Services


At 09:28 AM 03/25/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>We regret to announce that the London Times and other news content licensed
>via News International has been temporarily suspended.. . .


Or, as we all have come to know and love it in LexisNexis:  "Times 
(London), The".

I'm sure we all appreciate updates like this and understand the lack of 
control LexisNexis has in these sorts of situations, but it would be 
helpful to have more useful information, especially in light of the fact 
that users won't have a clue because the "About this title" page has not 
been altered.

(1)  What does "temporarily suspended" mean?  Has all content for "Times 
(London), The" been removed, or is new content just not being added?

(2)  I don't know of any way to search the LN source list for 
publishers;  can you give us an indication of what might comprise "other 
news content licensed from News International"?

(3)  One can still limit a search to "Times (London), The", but results 
returned are from the Financial Times (or, as we've all come to know and 
love it, "Financial Times (London)").  Any idea on a resolution to this 
awkward situation?

Bob Duncan (aka, "Duncan (Easton, PA), Robert")


~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~
Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
David Bishop Skillman Library
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
duncanr at lafayette.edu
http://www.library.lafayette.edu/ 

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