LexisNexis^® Publisher

Reliable information for increased productivity and profitability

Make all relevant news available to your entire staff or external clients/prospects through your intranet, web site, portal, email, or via a BlackBerry® wireless device with Publisher, an easy-to-use content management and current awareness tool.

Five Reasons for Law Firms to Use Publisher:

• Deliver targeted information throughout your firm - Publisher mines relevant content from an array of respected news sources including Factiva® content - more than 14,000 for your intranet or portal and more than 4,000 for your web site.
• Get maximum flexibility and time savings- New set-up options in Publisher give you even greater searching flexibility:
  1. QuickPicks Topics - for those who need a fast and easy search selection and coverage of broad topics. QuickPicks Topics lets you choose from a list of more than 2,000 topics, based on LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology^™ - the perfect solution for companies that need a standard, non-customized set of data.
  2. YourPicks Topics - allows you to customize searches for more precise results.
  3. ProPicks Topics - an option for those who need custom searches provided with the assistance of LexisNexis professionals.
• Strengthen your competitive advantage - Publisher delivers crucial insight and information on everything from industry trends and competitors to your own company’s current news and brand awareness issues so you can quickly and completely compile competitive intelligence that can impact your bottom line.
• Easily retrieve and archive your results - Automatically push information to your firm at a frequency convenient for your firm’s schedule. Select from hourly; once, twice, or three times per day; once per business day; weekly; or monthly. Publisher for your intranet allows you to archive your results for 1, 7, 30, 60, or 90 days, and you may renew the archive for 90 days (for a total archive of 180 days). Publisher for the Internet can be archived for 90 days.
• Additional archive options allow increased flexibility for document manipulation so your firm’s Publisher editor can choose to:
  1. Vary the number of days materials are retained in a topic
  2. Allow one or more topics to be extended to a two-year retention period
  3. Specify a date for a specific document within a topic to expire
  4. Search archives for valuable background information
• Effectively maximize your productivity - Publisher provides access to vital, targeted information with easy-to-use features that allow you to:
  1. Easily incorporate information into your intranet, portal, or other internal applications with a flexible array of mark-up languages to suit any environment: JavaScript™, HTML, XML, and even RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
  2. Make your topics available to BlackBerry wireless device users
  3. Seamlessly integrate new materials into your firm’s particular style with a JavaScript option (for example, write your own script to create streaming news feeds)
  4. Use RSS feeds to keep track of topics available via RSS readers
  5. Fully customize display formats for Topic List, Document List, and Article Full Text, including font, colours, logos, navigation options, and more
  6. Include pictures, logos, or URLs to internal/external content to provide additional information or background
  7. Choose full-text display with or without segment names in the text
  8. Redistribute full-text documents to your users via email or newsletter (intranet only)
  9. Review and select which documents are published via the manual publishing feature
  10. Conduct multiple searches per topic, enabling you to use varying search logic for different content types (news vs. legal), but still see results combined as a single answer set
  11. Do one-step publishing of multiple documents to multiple topics
  12. Select from many options for updating topics, including hourly updates
  13. Add your content to topics as appropriate to your publishing rights
  14. Use Publisher-supported crawling capability
  15. Receive frequent updates
  16. Use reports to identify the topics most frequently viewed

See for yourself how Publisher can deliver relevant, reliable information across your organization.