Nexis Uni: Basic Search

In Nexis Uni Homepage, there are 4 options to search or browse. 

Option 1: Basic Search: enter search terms (with boolean operators or connectors) in the search box, e.g. ("Climate Change" AND "Greenhouse Gas")

Option 2: Use the Guided Search. 

Option 3: Discover a specific topic. 

Option 4: Before searching, you could narrow your search coverage by clicking "All Nexis Uni" and select your desired coverage. 

Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)

• Use AND to retrieve documents containing both terms.
  e.g., bank AND interest rate
   
• Use OR to retrieve documents containing either or both terms.
  e.g., tall building! OR skyscraper!
   
• Use AND NOT to exclude documents containing the given term.
  e.g., trust AND NOT charitable

Parentheses

• Use Parentheses to specify the order of execution of the connectors.
  e.g., (internet OR WWW OR web) AND (youth OR young)

Wildcard and Truncation

• Use ? in the midst of a word to substitute for any character except the first three.
  e.g., wom?n will find "woman" or "women."
   
• Use ! to retrieve variant endings of a word. (There must be at least 3 characters prior to the !)
  e.g., recycl! will find "recycle," "recycling" and "recyclable."

Within word number, paragraph, or sentence

• Use W/[n] to specify the distance between terms in any order.
  e.g., financial secretary W/15 budget speech will find documents with "financial secretary" occurring within up to 15 words of "budget speech."
   
• Use W/p to find documents with terms occurring within the same paragraph.
  e.g., floods W/p deforestation
   
• Use W/s to find documents with terms occurring within the same sentence.
  e.g., ethnic minorities W/s china

Preceded by a certain number of words, word/words appear a certain number of times

• Use PRE/[n] to find documents with the first term preceding the second term by not more than the stated number of words.
  e.g., bill PRE/3 clinton
• Use Atleast to specify the number of occurrences of keywords.
  e.g., atleast5(air pollution) will find documents that contain "air pollution" at least 5 times. 

To know more about Nexis Uni search term connectors, click here.