Picked up some good tips at Lynn’s Lexis-Nexis session. My favorite: segment searching in Lexis-Nexis Academic.
One of my frustrations with this db was the limited range of search fields: full text; caption; author; headline.
However, you actually can use “segments” or field searching to search common journalistic segments such as bylines, company, person, sections of the paper (ie, news). All documents are divided into searchable fields, which you can see in bold at the top of documents, like this:
To search a particular field, use the format below (remembering to select “fulltext” in the pulldown menu:
The field codes are given in this Advanced User Guide, p.7, along with other tips.