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LEXIS-NEXIS ACADEMIC TUTORIAL
Hot Tips for retrieving entertainment news in Daily Variety and The Hollywood
Reporter from Lexis-Nexis Academic!
Lexis-Nexis Academic offers full-text information from over 5,600 news, business, legal,
medical, and reference sources. Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from major television
and radio networks, outstanding newswires and newspaper sources like The New York
Times (dating back to 1980), and more than 400 magazines and journals create onestop shopping for the latest film and television industry news. Specialized entertainment
sources include Daily Variety, Variety (weekly international publication), Variety New
York Entertainment Town Supplement (irregular publication), and The Hollywood
Reporter (daily publication). Leatherby Libraries subscribe to the print versions of The
Hollywood Reporter and Variety (weekly international publication), located in the
Periodicals section on the first floor of the library. This tutorial focuses on tips for
retrieving entertainment news from Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter from
Lexis-Nexis Academic.
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NAVIGATING TO LEXIS-NEXIS ACADEMIC DATABASE
On the home page of Chapman University, go to “QuickLinks” and select “Libraries”
from the drop-down menu, and then click link to “Leatherby Libraries” or go to
http://www.chapman.edu/library/. On the Leatherby Libraries home page, click FIND
ARTICLES and scroll the alphabetical list of databases to Lexis-Nexis Academic; click
the link to open the database.
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SCROLL TO LEXIS-NEXIS ACADEMIC
Tip
If you click FIND BY
SUBJECT on the Leatherby
Libraries home page and
select “Film/Media Arts,” you
will be taken to various other
database choices and
guides in your subject area,
including Lexis-Nexis
Academic.
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SOURCE INFORMATION
Daily Variety
Once in Lexis-Nexis Academic, click SOURCES located on the top navigation bar, type
“Daily Variety,” click FIND TITLE, and then click ABOUT THIS TITLE to retrieve
information about its content and frequency, including:
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online availability is “same day” (some information may be on a load-date
lag, that is, the date that Lexis-Nexis loads the information into the
database may be later than the actual date of publication);
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coverage is from April 27, 1992; and
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exclusions are Nielsen rating charts, Entertainment Data, Inc. movie gross
charts, Index Inside box, Showbiz stock boxes, and stock transaction
charts.
You will be able to retrieve some box office information. More about that later.
You can view Box Office Top Ten
(Movies) and Top
Shows/Networks (TV) on the
home page of www.variety.com
for free. See
www.hollywoodreporter.com for
free access to Box Office Charts.
Both Web sites provide some
access to entertainment
information for non-subscribers.
Tip
The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE INFORMATION ABOUT HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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Go back to SOURCES, and type “Hollywood Reporter” to retrieve information about the
content and frequency of this title, including that its online availability is
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within 1 week of publication; usually online within 5 days of date of
publication;
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coverage is from May 15, 1991 (excluding December 4, 5, 10, 11, 17, &
18, 1991 and August 2, 1999); and
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exclusions are Advertisements/Classified, Obituary Columns, Calendars,
Advisories, Story Schedules, George Christy Column, Births, Weddings,
People on the Move, Stock Market, Charts, Stories Originating Wholly or
in Part from a Wire Service, Letters to the Editor, In Production Charts,
and additional Special Issue Sections from Domestic and International
Editions.
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GENERAL SEARCH TIPS FOR DAILY VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
SEARCH VARIETY FOR BOX OFFICE INFORMATION
To search either or both publications, go to the Lexis-Nexis Academic home page and
click the GUIDED NEWS SEARCH Tab.
1. STEP ONE: Select a news category
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Select ARTS AND SPORTS NEWS from the drop-down menu.
2. STEP TWO: Select a news source
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Select ENTERTAINMENT NEWS from the drop-down menu. Or select
BOOK, MOVIE, MUSIC & PLAY REVIEWS for reviews.
3. STEP THREE: Enter search terms
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Type search terms.
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o Type “box office” to retrieve box office information.
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Reminder: You do not need to place terms in quotations.
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Daily Variety reports a full Film Box Office Weekend Wrap on
Tuesdays; online availability is usually by Wednesday or Thursday.
o Type “reviews” to retrieve film/TV reviews.
o Type “news” to retrieve film/TV news articles.
o Type “obituaries” to retrieve obituaries in Daily Variety.
4. STEP FOUR: Narrow to a specific date range
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Select date from drop-down menu or type date range.
o Click TIPS link to the right of GUIDED NEWS SEARCH Tab for date
range formats.
5. STEP FIVE: Search this publication title(s)
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Type “Daily Variety” OR “Hollywood Reporter” or type either title to retrieve
information from one of the publications.
o Reminder: If you initiate search by browsing for publications through
the SOURCES link on the top navigation bar, you can click the
SEARCH THIS TITLE link. You will be taken to the GUIDED NEWS
SEARCH Tab. You can either keep the default BOOK, MOVIE,
MUSIC, & PLAY REVIEWS under STEP TWO or select
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS in the drop-down menu to complete your
search. Remember to input search terms under STEP THREE.
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Hint: If you go back to STEP TWO under GUIDED NEWS SEARCH
Tab and click link to SOURCE LIST (located to the right of the drop-down menu), you
will find a variety of entertainment news publications to add to your search, including
Billboard, Television Week, and other fun celebrity tabloid publications like Daily News
(New York). You may select up to five.
6. STEP SIX:
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Click SEARCH to submit your search and retrieve results.
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Your results will be listed in a document list.
RESULTS IN DOCUMENT LIST FORMAT
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o You can select other display formats such as
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KWIC (Key Words In Context), “showing each of your search
terms surrounded by a window of text of approximately 20
words of text. The KWIC format helps you quickly determine
whether or not a document applies to your research topic.”
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EXPANDED LIST displays document list with search term “in
context surrounded by approximately five words.”
RESULTS IN EXPANDED LIST FORMAT
o You can sort results by “Date” or “Relevance.” The default sort is by
date.
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PRINT OR EMAIL INFORMATION
PRINT CITATIONS
You can print or email your list of citations or open up a document to print or email.
“Tag” the boxes to the left of citations in DOCUMENT LIST and click PRINT or EMAIL
(located on the top right) to print or email citations. After you open a document, you can
click PRINT or EMAIL to do the same with the full text document.
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SEARCH STATEGIES
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You can enter specific search terms, including industry names and movie titles
(e.g., Casablanca, Steven Spielberg).
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After you retrieve your results, you can FOCUS/SEARCH WITHIN THE
RESULTS. For example, after retrieving results based on search “Steven
Spielberg,” you can type in the FOCUS box (located near top left side of screen):
“Jaws” to easily retrieve results based on this narrower search.
Hint: There may be a load-date lag to hot industry news stories. If
you find a story of interest on www.variety.com or www.hollywoodreporter.com and
cannot access the full story, perform a QUICK NEWS SEARCH on the home page
of Lexis-Nexis Academic, using key search terms from the story to retrieve results
from other news sources.
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You can select FULL TEXT from drop-down menu under STEP THREE from
GUIDED NEWS SEARCH Tab to search terms that you believe may appear in
the text of the article and not in the headline or lead paragraph(s).
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If you go back and view “About this Title” (Daily Variety) from SOURCES (located
on the top navigation bar), you will see a list of commonly used industry terms,
such as BIZ (business), B.O. (box office), SKED (schedule), and others to use in
your search strategies.
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o For example, you can type “B.O.” or “box office.” Be sure to change the
logical operator from the default AND to OR to retrieve articles with either
B.O. or Box Office in HEADLINE, LEAD PARAGRAPH(S), TERMS under
STEP THREE from the GUIDED NEWS SEARCH Tab.
This industry jargon will
work searching The
Hollywood Reporter.
Tip
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If you click HOW DO I? on the top navigation bar, you will find other helpful
general search tips.
PROXIMITY AND WILDCARD SEARCHES
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You can perform proximity searches with your terms under STEP THREE from
the GUIDED NEWS SEARCH Tab. Instead of selecting AND or OR, you can use
the drop-down menu to select W/5 (within 5 words on either side of term), W/10
(within 10 words on either side of term), W/25 (within 25 words on either side of
term), W/S (within same sentence), W/P (within same paragraph).
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You can use wildcard symbols such as the exclamation mark (!) to truncate a
search word to find multiple meanings, such as PROD! to find produce or
production, etc.
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You can use the asterisk (*) “to replace a letter or letters in a word. You can use
more than one * in a word, and you can use it anywhere in a word except for the
first letter,” such as WOM*N to retrieve WOMAN or WOMEN.
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SMARTINDEXING: SUBJECT SEARCHING
Lexis-Nexis Academic uses SmartIndexing to search relevant subject terms. Try typing
“subject (television ratings)” under STEP THREE from the GUIDED NEWS SEARCH
Tab and select FULL TEXT from the drop-down menu. You can view relevant
percentages on your subject search in KWIC or EXPANDED LIST formats.
SUBJECT SEARCH DOCUMENT ON “TELEVISION RATINGS” IN KWIC FORMAT
To see a list of film and television subject terms, go to
http://www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/smartindexing/ and click link to “Categorized List of
Topics” in “Finding Index Terms” box, scroll to “Media, Publishing & Entertainment” to
see terms, including TELEVISION RATINGS, CELEBRITIES, and MOVIE INDUSTRY.
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Hint: If you type TELEVISION RATINGS under STEP THREE from
the GUIDED NEWS SEARCH Tab and select HEADLINE, LEAD PARAGRAPH(S),
TERMS from the drop-down menu, you will retrieve the same subject search results!
SEARCH USING SMARTINDEXING SUBJECT TERMS
Tip
It may be more effective and
efficient to search broadly with
your first search before
narrowing your results with
proximity operators, wildcards,
or SmartIndexing.
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OTHER HELPFUL SEARCHES:
Lexis-Nexis is easy to use to find film and television company information. For example,
you can search for information about Warner Bros. by clicking BUSINESS under
ACADEMIC SEARCH FORMS (located to the left from the Lexis-Nexis Academic home
page or GUIDED NEWS SEARCH Tab).
ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY INFORMATION
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Click COMPANY PROFILES and type “Warner Bros.” in search box next to
COMPANY NAME. Instead of COMPANY NAME, you can use the drop-down
menu to search by SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) or TICKER SYMBOL,
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if you know it. You can select from either Hoover’s or Standard & Poor’s, among
other sources, to view information about company financials or executives or
competitors.
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You can click the QUICK NEWS SEARCH tab and type the company name in
the COMPANY INFORMATION search box, provided as an alternative method to
search company information.
QUICK NEWS SEARCH FOR COMPANY INFORMATION
Tip
Search for info
on production
companies and
agencies, too.
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If you click REFERENCE under ACADEMIC SEARCH FORMS, you can quickly
search BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION on executives, such as Barry M. Meyer,
Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Tip
Open up the
BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION search
date to “all available
dates” to retrieve the
greatest number of results
on hard-to-find executive
biographical information.
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If you need assistance, please visit the Reference Desk in the Leatherby Libraries or
call 532-7714. Or email [email protected] with questions, or if you discover any
other short cuts and more effective and efficient search strategies to share. Happy
searching!