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

[Kathleen Folger]

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> 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
>
> diane.westerfield at coloradocollege.edu
>
> (719) 389-6661
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