LexisNexis Company Description
Users in more than 100 countries count on LexisNexis Group to flex its information muscle. A unit of publishing giant Reed Elsevier Group, the company offers subscribers access to thousands of sources -- including newspaper, magazine, and journal articles, and public records -- through the Internet, CD-ROMs, and books. The bulk of its content focuses on legal, tax, business, government, academic, and risk management information. The company's flagship Nexis service offers online access to more than 5 billion documents from some 40,000 sources. LexisNexis launched the Nexis news and business information research service in 1980; the company became part of Reed Elsevier Group in 1994.
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