Changes to the Nexis database search facilities

Due to new licensing conditions, the ability to search the Financial Times within source groups on the database Nexis has now been removed. You can still search within the Financial Times but it means that searches using any of the News groups such as All News, UK Broadsheets, UK Newspapers, UK National Newspapers or Major World Newspapers will exclude the financial Times. You must now either search the Financial Times on its own or add it to other source groups.

Please note that to search the Financial Times you must use the Power Search within Nexis.

Instructions

To search the Financial Times on its own:

After logging into Nexis select the Sources tab.

Select the Find Sources option and type Financial Times in the keyword search, then select the Find Sources button.

Select the Financial Times (London) from the list of sources and select the OK – Continue button.

The Financial Times will then appear in the list of Selected Sources within the Power Search.

To combine the Financial Times with other source groups:

After logging into Nexis select General Search from the red menu at the top of the page and then select the Power Search tab. Go to the Select Sources drop down list, scroll to the top and select Edit this Source List.

All your currently combined source groups will be displayed. Select Edit/Rename for the source group that need to include the Financial Times.

The sources currently included in this group will be displayed. To add a source choose the Select More Source button. You will be taken to the Source tab and the Find Sources option.

Enter Financial Times in the keyword search, select the Find Sources button, and then select Financial Times (London) from the list of sources. It will now be added to the source group that you selected. To view the sources in the group select View. To save this select the OK – Continue button.

Repeat these steps for every combined source group to which you would like to add the Financial Times. Select the Done button to return to the Power Search screen.

Alerts

Under these new arrangements it is currently not possible to combine the Financial Times with any other sources to update existing alerts or to create new alerts. Alerts will need to be set up specifically for the Financial Times as a single source. For information on how to create alerts please see the online help within Nexis (linked to from the top right of any page).