[Eril-l] NexisUni - missing content that was in LexisNexis Academic?

[Robert Heaton]

According to our rep, the final set of international legal content will be moved into the new platform by April 30. Under some pressure from us and after several weeks of waiting, they were willing to reactivate the old platform temporarily. (We also had professors using that specific content for classes, and the fact that it was course-related use seemed to be an important factor in persuading them to turn LexisNexis Academic back on.)

Robert Heaton
Collection Management Librarian
Utah State University Libraries

From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Kathleen Folger
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 3:23 PM
To: Diane Westerfield <dwesterfield at coloradocollege.edu>
Cc: eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] NexisUni - missing content that was in LexisNexis Academic?

Yes, we've noticed the lack of EU case law in NexisUni. We have a faculty member who has, for multiple years, given an assignment to her students to use LexisNexis Academic to compare U.S. and EU case law. She was dismayed to learn the EU content was no longer available and ended up having to change the assignment this semester since our access to Academic was finally cut off.

I was able to find title lists for both LexisNexis Academic (a file dated October 23, 2018 linked from this page<http://amdev.net/rpt_download.php>) and NexisUni <https://www.lexisnexis.com/doc/nexisuni/Nexis%20Uni%20--%20Content%20Listing%20--%20September%202018.xlsx> dated September 2018 which I used to create this google sheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rQyK9-_T8c3dYGPwbCvkRB3k0OeCPCXJ0yaNBgM3njU/edit?usp=sharing> of titles in one which wasn't in the other. A colleague reviewing the lists noted it appears that, for some legal files in particular, LN has simply reorganized and/or renamed some files, sometimes changing the amount of archival data available, etc., so it remains unclear exactly how much content is or isn't available in Nexis Uni that was available in LNA..  But, there has definitely been a reduction of important content.

-Kathleen
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 5:00 PM Diane Westerfield <dwesterfield at coloradocollege.edu<mailto:dwesterfield at coloradocollege.edu>> wrote:
Hi,

Has anyone noticed that E.U. and U.K. case law is not in NexisUni? A professor noticed it yesterday (he says it was in LexisNexis Academic Universe.) This is going to be a problem because he conducts research in this area as well as assigning students in a class to look up international case law. Only U.S. and Canadian cases are in NexisUni, that we could find.

I also noticed our link resolver has 10626 titles for LexisNexis Academic and 9696 for NexisUni, for a negative difference of 930 titles, or roughly 9%. I’ve not had time to do a serious analysis of the dropped titles. Has anybody else gotten reports of missing content in the new product?
Thanks,

Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt Library, Colorado College
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