Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides fulltext to news, business and legal information. Newspapers date back to the 1970's. Please Note: The Washington Post is no longer included in Nexis Uni.The National Newspapers Core database includes the Washington Post.
Since Nexis Uni is full-text, in addition to using quotes around a phase and the * for truncation, use the following search strategies to bring your word/s close together to retrieve relevant articles
Using - and - between words - will usually end up with a large number of results and many will not be relevant.
Best to:
1. limit words to the same sentence or paragraph
/s for sentence
school* /s teacher* /s gun*
/p for paragraph
school* /p teacher* /p gun*
2. limit words to the headline and lead paragraphs using - hlead - in this search strategy you can use - and -
hlead(school* and teacher* and gun*)
Similar to Nexis Uni, because this is a full text database, using - and - to connect your concepts will, in most cases, result in a large number of items and many will not be relevant.
But, you can try
school* and teacher* and gun*
too many?
change the searach field from Anywhere to Anywhere but Full Text or Abstract
OR
bring the words closer together by using N/#
school* N/5 teacher* N/5 gun*
