Academic librarians’ perception of Lexis‐Nexis

Oulanov, Alexei; Pajarillo, Edmund J.Y.

doi:10.1108/02640470310470499

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“…Namely, the concern arose that for some countries that had carried out far-reaching economic reforms, EU membership might actually represent a step backwards economically, and thus have the potential to harm those who had done well during the transition. In Estonia, for example, it was claimed that EU membership would deliberalize the economy; one Estonian opponent described the EU as ‘a “Soviet Union in disguise” that will force the country to deliberalize its progressive economic policies, including a zero-percent corporate income tax’ (Johnson, 2002). In these limited cases we might expect a small subset of winners to come to oppose EU membership, and thus the size of the gap between winners and losers might also tighten a bit (or at least compared with other countries where support among winners would not be expected to drop).…”

Section: Attitudes Toward Eu Membership In Post-communist Countriesmentioning

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The dynamics of support: the winners–losers gap in attitudes toward EU membership in post-communist countries

Herzog

Tucker

2010

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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We examine the question of whether economic winners were more likely to support European Union (EU) membership than economic losers in post-communist countries. We include in our analysis every cross-national survey of post-communist countries with both a measure of individual attitudes toward EU membership as well as an appropriate measure of individual self-assessment of economic progress. The resultant data set contains data from 67 different surveys over a 12-year period (1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003) in all 10 post-communist countries that have joined the EU to date. Using a variety of analytical techniques, ranging from simple cross-tables and multivariate analysis of the individual surveys to multilevel models of a fully pooled data set, we show that the pattern of economic winners being more likely to support EU membership for their country is remarkably consistent across both time and space. At the same time, the dynamic component of the analysis allows us to show that the size of this gap varies over time, with winners being even more likely to support EU membership than losers when EU membership is a more realistic possibility.

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Section: Attitudes Toward Eu Membership In Post-communist Countriesmentioning

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The dynamics of support: the winners–losers gap in attitudes toward EU membership in post-communist countries

Herzog

Tucker

2010

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…This framework is based on the SERVQUAL service quality dimensions (Parasuraman et al, 1985(Parasuraman et al, , 1988 and usability attributes of Nielsen (1993). Oulanov and Pajarillo (2003) conducted a usability study based on user perception of the Lexis-Nexis database in an academic library environment. This library service was assessed in terms of retrieval techniques, measures of effectiveness, and user-effort, suggesting ways to improve the management of this library service.…”

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Business administration students' perception of usability of the Business Source Premier database

Oulanov

2008

The Electronic Library

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PurposeThe current article is a research study examining user perception of the usability of an online information system used by business administration students. The online database which it aims to examine is Business Source Premier, which is incorporated in a larger platform of databases called EBSCO. The findings of this research will help with the efficient management of this information service as well as improve the application of this database in an academic library setting.Design/methodology/approachConvenience sampling procedure was used for recruiting participants. The entire class of 22 students taught at Medgar Evers College of CUNY participated in this survey. Users evaluated this database using Oulanov's usability tool, which entails the following eight criteria: Affect, Adaptability, Control, Helpfulness, Efficiency, User Effort, Measures of Effectiveness, and Retrieval Features.FindingsBusiness Source Premier was rated highest in terms of efficiency. Some improvement might be necessary to increase the helpfulness of the system. User effort is another usability criterion that scored lower than the others. Other usability components, including affect, adaptability, control, measures of effectiveness, and retrieval features, were rated highly. The overall performance of Business Source Premier is high and possible paths for improvement are likewise offered.Originality/valueThis case study provided usability assessment of an online business information system used by business administration students, identifying its strong and weak points. This investigation showed that Business Source Premier is efficient and effective tool for conducting research in the field of business administration.

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“…A dependable online database that will be of interest to the legal researcher is the Lexis‐Nexis. It is considered a trusted search system for the (past) 26 years, with 2.2 trillion characters online, 2.5 billion searchable documents, 16,200 databases, 1.8 million subscribers and making probably over 400,000 searches per day (Oulanov and Pajarillo, 2003). It was the first commercial, full‐text legal information service started as LEXIS in 1973 specifically to assist legal practitioners in their practice.…”

Section: Legal Research Resources On the Internetmentioning

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“…The legal researcher can access Lexis‐Nexis database by keywords, Boolean operators or by subjects. In short, Lexis‐Nexis Academic Universe is a very versatile and comprehensive data file system, covering the expansive needs of a wide array of users (Oulanov and Pajarillo, 2003).…”

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Web sources, resources and strategies for legal research

Omekwu

2005

The Electronic Library

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PurposeThe central objective of this work is to examine internet sources, resources, and strategies, with particular reference to legal research.Design/methodology/approachThe approach adopted was to preface web‐based definitions of the internet and draw some features from the definitions. The next approach was to examine legal research resources on the internet. A web‐based survey and subject analysis of legal resources was then conducted.FindingsThe findings reveal the existence of diverse web resources on all subjects of law.Research limitations/implicationsDraws implications for legal research based on empirical data presented. Internet legal research is not simplistic; nor are all the web‐accessed materials to be accepted hook, line and sinker. It is, however, critical to state that to a large extent the internet would continue to create distributed research community for scholarship and research on a global basis. It concludes that, for legal research institutions, the need to install IT‐driven legal research facilities is no longer at the crossroads of policy tinkering but at the threshold of fundamental technological shift. Internet connectivity is the most critical need of legal research institutions of developing countries.Originality/valueProbably a first in emphasizing unequivocally that IT activity and expertise are an absolute necessity for the pursuit of legal research in the future.

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Academic librarians’ perception of Lexis‐Nexis

Cited by 7 publications

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The dynamics of support: the winners–losers gap in attitudes toward EU membership in post-communist countries

The dynamics of support: the winners–losers gap in attitudes toward EU membership in post-communist countries

Business administration students' perception of usability of the Business Source Premier database

Web sources, resources and strategies for legal research

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