Lexis Nexis Statistical

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• Sources
• American Statistics Index (ASI)
• U.S. government sources
• 1973 to present
• Statistical Reference Index (SRI)
• State and private sector sources
• 1980 to present
• Index to International Statistics (IIS)
• International Intergovernmental Organizations
• 1983 to present

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• Search tips
• Boolean
• AND
• OR
• AND NOT
• Truncation
• ! (e.g. environment!)
• (womn)
• Advanced Search Strategies

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• Index by Categories
• ASI SRI

• Index by Categories IIS

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• Tables Research Edition (TRE)
• Searches ONLY full-text items (i.e. tables)
• Content Monographic series with data from
• 200 Federal Agencies
• 50 State Governments
• 100 International Intergovernmental Organizations
• 500 Private/Academic sources

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• Tables Research Edition (TRE)
• Access to over 130,000 individually indexed
  tables
• Tables formatted as GIF images
• Excel spreadsheets available (20)

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• Tables Research Edition (TRE)
• Dates
• coverage runs from approximately 1997 present
• some data is available for earlier dates
• Indexed by
• title
• row headings
• column headings
• subject descriptors
• subject descriptors synonyms

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Sample Table
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• Tables Research Edition (TRE)

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• Abstracts
• Searches entire database
• Dates
• ASI (federal) 1973 - present
• SRI (state/private) 1980 - present
• IIS (international) 1983 - present

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• Abstracts
• Documents indexed at publication level, not
  full-text
• Not all search results contain tables
• Tables are linked when available
• Abstracts describe the content of a publication
• Links provided to full-text source documents and
  tables, when available.

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Sample Abstract
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• Abstracts

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• Documents
• Availability
• Full-text for some documents in database (2004
  to present in ASI)
• In print or online through Chinook
• In microfiche
• ASI Microfiche Library (Gov Pubs)
• SRI Microfiche Library (Gov Pubs S,U Business
  A,B,C,R)
• IIS Microfiche Library (Gov Pubs)

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• Further help
• GovPubs Help Guide
• http//ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/dbhelp/ln
  statistical.pdf
• LexisNexis Statistical User Guide
• http//www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/stat/Stat
  UUserGuide.pdf
• User Guide to ASI
• http//www.lexisnexis.com/academic/3cis/cise/ASIus
  erguide.pdf
• User Guide to SRI
• http//www.lexisnexis.com/academic/3cis/ciss/SRIus
  er.pdf
• User Guide to IIS
• http//www.lexisnexis.com/academic/3cis/cisi/IISus
  er.pdf