Problems with Lexis Newspapers now resolved

The problems with searching Lexis Plus UK Newspapers  have now been resolved. Please let us know if there are any further issues.

Lexis newspapers - searches returning no results

There is currently a problem with the search function in the Lexis newspapers service. All searches are returning zero results. Lexis are working on it and hopefully this will be resolved soon. You might want to use NewsBank  for newspaper searching instead in the meantime. 

LexisNexis downtime on Thursday 30th and Friday 31st March

We've been warned that due to upgrades to LexisNexis, we will not have access to their services between about 5 pm on Thursday 30th March until about 2 am on Friday 31st.

LexisNexis planned downtime Saturday 13th May 5am-10am

We've been warned of planned downtime time for law databases on the LexisNexis platform, Saturday 13th May between 5am and 10am BST.

This includes:
Lexis Library
International GAAP online
UK Newspapers
and any other resources with lexisnexis.com in the URL. 

Improvements coming to Lexis Library - 5th December

Lexis are making a number of changes to make Lexis Library easier to use. The changes will take place on Saturday 5th December.

They are promising:

A more intuitive search experience. The Explore search box moves to the heart of the homepage and includes content filters.
A tidier, bigger, better display of results. Single results list opens up the page, with filtering in one place and the option to deliver multiple documents.
Glossary searches move to the home pageQuick access to over 3,300 legal terms.

There is a full guide to the new interface here.

UK Newspapers via Lexis Nexis - access problem and workaround

 

We're having intermittent problems accessing articles from UK Newspapers via Lexis Nexis - searching the database is OK, but when clicking on links to access articles we are sometimes getting this error message:

We have reported this to Lexis Nexis, and this is their reply:

This is currently a known issue and our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue. Their estimated time of resolution is on 16^th November.

As an interim measure, when students are on the search results list, at the top they will see an option to switch to Classic view. When they click the link the page will refresh to the old Lexis Library results format. They will be able to access the documents from that point.