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Competitive intelligence at the Lexis-Nexis Group is described.

If you think that, as a searcher, you crave real, true, honest-to-god natural language search engines, think how today's search software must feel. You would have to look long and […]

Editorial Comment The other day I got a letter from an end user. It was so earnest, so well-considered, and so true that I decided to make it the basis […]

When the faxes and promotional materials from Mead Data Central started rolling into information centers around the country last year announcing a soon-to-be-released major restructure of NEXIS, a small knot […]

The fact that accountants are surfing the Web in record numbers hasn't escaped the notice of tax research publishers, large and small. Leading tax research publishers, including BNA, CCH, Lexis-Nexis, [...]

In 1973 Mead Data Central (MDC) began providing lawyers nationwide with electronic access to information. Over the next 18 years MDC experienced phenomenal growth and development. In 1977 their revenues […]

Under Allan McLaughlin's leadership, $1.9 billion information provider and publisher LexisNexis has aggressively redefined vendor relations. In the past year, McLaughlin has singled out low-value vendors and replaced them with […]

In my last column, I discussed changes in information functions within today's leading organizations. Information centers, market intelligence, and learning are converging to form knowledge management (KM) functions. Many information [...]

When the Internet made finding information easy and free, investors thought the world's largest information provider would have trouble selling its services. Ask Bill Pardue what the biggest misconception is [...]

Crispin Davis, the new Reed Elsevier CEO, outlined his strategy in his year-end report to shareholders. He has divided the company into three parts: Scientific, Legal, and Business-to-Business. The Scientific [...]

NEXIS and the Congressional Information Service Inc. (CIS) have been integrated under a single management team within the LEXIS-NEXIS Group, combining CIS editorial and marketing expertise with NEXIS technology and […]

Following his recent appointment as CEO of LEXIS-NEXIS, Bill Pardue has implemented a major staff reorganization on the NEXIS side of the business in an effort to refocus the struggling […]

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY indexing was developed well over a century ago to provide a consistent way for users to search for information. But human-assigned indexing has always been labor-intensive and thus [...]

Paula J. Hane, co-editor with Barbara Quint for NewsBreaks, is contributing editor of Information Today. Her e-mail address is paula.hane@cwix.com. The information industry is experiencing the same incidence of mergers, […]

Barbara Quint is editor in chief of Information Today Inc.'s Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals and a longtime online searcher Her Internet address is bquint@netcom.com. Traditional vendors must accept […]

LexisNexis' Total Search is in the midst of its initial implementation period, with a range of law firms having selected it for their knowledge management (KM) ventures. I first told [...]

LEXIS-NEXIS has announced the addition of a number of newsletters, directories, and other publications to its extensive online warehouse. Additions include the following: A collection of over 659 full-text newsletters […]

Competition and marketing problems will face whoever buys Mead Corp.'s Lexis/Nexis and Mead Data Central Inc. The database, which used to be an industry leader in the early 1980s, is perceived as an expensive and costly-to- produce online information service by many financial analysts. Notwithstanding its weaknesses, the divestment is expected to attract bids in the region of $1 billion or more.

Speed and More Speed to come With faster and fasrter moderns becoming cheaper and cheaper, telecommunication networks and their hosts continue to drive in the fast lane. CompuServe now supports […]

Reverberations still ring from DIALOG's announced decision to stop moving full-text, full-coverage regional newspapers over from VU/TEXT to the DIALOG service and to close VU/TEXT to public access at the […]

Corporate America spends more than $40 billion a year on employee training. Mead Corporation and Mead Data Central (MDC) contribute to this staggering sum. MDC is committed to training for [...]

LexisNexis U.S. and REEDFAX announced that Patent File Histories can now be ordered directly from lexis.com patent search results [www.reedfax.com; [...]

WASHINGTON: A new partnership will integrate the full-text libraries of LexisNexis with the analysis of Carma Immediate -- a move the companies claim will make media analysis easier. Scheduled to [...]

Communications to the author should be addressed to Marydee Ojala, Editor DATABASE, P.O. Box 70, Park City, UT 84060; 435/649-7652; marydee@xmission.com. Every year it seems there are significant online database [...]

LEXIS-NEXIS has announced that it has added Domino 4.5 server and Lotus Notcs 4.5 client to the array of delivery platforms used to receive its customized news and information products. […]

LEXIS-NEXIS has announced a significant expansion and redesign of country, business, analytical, and financial information from The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). EIU is a leading publisher of worldwide news, analysis, […]

Two units of Mead Data Central have announced a joint marketing strategy that will enhance the two companies' offerings to attorneys and other legal professionals. As of last month, Jurisoft […]

WordPerfect Corporation, the leading seller of word processing software to the legal market, continues to improve intergration of legal research from commercial legal database services. West Publishing and Mead Data […]

The online world is full of reminders that search redundancy is often more a necessity than a luxury. One of the most compelling I've seen recently is Mead Data Central's […]