Lexisnexis® Information Professional Update ISSUE 5 the Newsletter Designed for Law Librarians MAY 2012
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LexisNexis® Information Professional Update ISSUE 5 The newsletter designed for law librarians MAY 2012 LexisNexis® Public Records sources help you get email and social site background on individuals In today’s world, people often leave “footprints” in more than one state, and clients are requiring law firms to perform faster and more thorough research. Now there are two LexisNexis® Public Records resources that will help you and your researchers as you: • Assess opposing parties, experts, witnesses or prospective clients • Locate hard-to-find individuals • Complete due diligence • Uncover potential conflicts of interest Track down individuals with the Email file Take advantage of a collection of more than 500 million email addresses nationwide. This source offers transactional pricing. For each search, the cost is only $4. There are two ways you’ll want to use this source: • You can find an email address for an individual. • You can uncover the name of the person associated For best results when you’re looking for an individual’s with a particular email address. email address, use the person’s first and last name For best results when you’re searching for a person’s along with their street address, date of birth or Social name by using his or her email address, make sure the Security Number. address you’re using is properly formatted. You can access the email file from many locations within lexis.com®, including the Public Records tab and the Public Records sections located within all of the state collections. The Email search form offers various search fields. Results may vary but may include: • subject name • appended* SSN • appended* DOB • email address • street address NOTE: The Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. sec 1681) prohibits use of information from the Email source to determine a consumer’s eligibility for credit or insurance for personal, family *The search queries many other LexisNexis data sources for facts about your subject and, or household purposes, employment, by using advanced technology and proprietary algorithms, it then appends what is believed or a government license or benefit. to be a potential SSN or DOB for the subject. Get a more well-rounded picture of an individual with the Enhanced Social Networking source Leverage over 35 social networking sites as well as the open Web to learn about an individual’s virtual identity and Web presence. An Enhanced Social Networking report will give you a list of all matching social network public-facing pages (URLs) for your search subject in cases where a match to the site’s registered email address is found. Note that gaining access to the subject’s social networking websites may be restricted dependent upon the end user’s company IT policy and the subject’s privacy settings. With an Enhanced Social Networking search, you can: • Take advantage of convenient “one-stop shopping” for available social networking sites and Web result information— all accessible via lexis.com—so you save time by conducting just one search, instead of dozens of separate searches on individual sites. • Be assured that your search will look for email addresses. Even though you may not have an email address, or may not know whether the subject uses additional email addresses, your search will check the LexisNexis Email source automatically and deliver any email addresses found for your subject. This source offers transactional pricing. Please contact your LexisNexis account representative for pricing information. There is no charge if your search finds no results, and there is no charge to look at the cite listing of your results. You pay only after you click on one of the links in the cite listing. For each click to a link in the cite listing, there is a $5 charge. You can gain access to the Enhanced Social Networking source from many locations within lexis.com, including the Public Records tab under the Find a Person heading and in the Public Records sections located within all of the state collections. As with other person-related public records files, the search form includes the following fields: Last Name Street Address ZIP Date of Birth First Name City SSN Email Address Middle Name/Initial State LinkID Results may vary but may include: subject name, street address, social networking site links and open-Web results. For example: Currently, Enhanced Social Networking checks the following social networking sites: Amazon® Wishlist Friendster® myYearbook® Los Angeles Times® Bebo® hi5® NBA® The Washington Post® BlackPlanet.com® Hotels.com® Netlog® TigerDirect.comSM CafeMom® Hyves The New York Times® Twitter® Care2® LinkedIn® Pandora® WordPress® Costco® LiveJournal® PerfSpot.com® Yahoo!® Dailymotion Match.com® Photobucket® Youku Facebook® Metroflog Plaxo® Flickr® Multiply™ Playlist.comSM Flixster® MySpace® Tagged LexisNexis will add more sites on a continuing basis. NOTE: The Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. sec 1681) prohibits use of information from this file to determine a consumer’s eligibility for credit or insurance for personal, family or household purposes, employment, or a government license or benefit. LexisNexis, lexis.com and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Other products or services may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2012 LexisNexis. All Rights Reserved. LB2012-5 0512.