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Singapore, 7 May 2003
Question: In a regular bricks and mortar university, where would a postgraduate student spend most of his time? Answer: In the library of course! Since postgraduate studies require extensive research work, a student spends even more time in the library than in his class.
Purple Train's Masters Programme students will only need to login to their Purple Train account and they are able to seamlessly access Lexis Nexis without having to re-key in their ID and password. The massive Lexis Nexis Academic e-Library includes but certainly not limited to the following:
Full text of more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world - many on the same day of publication. More than 300 magazines and journals and over 600 newsletters, including: American Journalism Review, Business Week, The Economist, Industry Standard, Library Journal, Nation's Business, New Republic, Newsweek. Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and NPR Campus news, including the Chronicle of Higher Education and nearly 300 individual college/university papers. Wire services, updated several times a day, including respected names such as the Associated Press, Business Wire and PR Newswire.
LexisNexis Academic provides a full range of credible sources for business information, including business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees. News sources include Accountancy Age, Ad Age Global, BuyOuts, Consumer Electronics, Chain Store Age, Design News, Electrical World, IPO Reporter, Mergers and Acquisitions Reports, Video Technology News and more. Financial information sources include Standard
& Poor's Corporate Descriptions, Hoover's Company Reports, Disclosure
Reports, international company and stock reports and more.
Students can use LexisNexis Academic to access primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations or dive into secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic.
LexisNexis Academic provides easy access to key references resources, including polls and surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, biographical information, country and state profiles, and the World Almanac and Book of Facts.
By taking advantage of various display and output options, users can tailor LexisNexis Academic to their own needs and preferences. No matter which section of LexisNexis Academic
is selected for research, the service allows citations and documents to
be displayed (and output) in one of four formats: Results are returned in a Document List format, which provides basic
bibliographic information. Once a citation is selected from the Document
list, the view changes to Full. The Expanded List and KWIC formats provide
an opportunity to see search terms in context, without reviewing the entire
document. (Expanded List shows search terms surrounded by three to five
words, while KWIC shows search terms surrounded by a window of twenty
words.) Citations or documents can be printed, saved, or emailed using
the service's easy-to-use interface. ABOUT PURPLETRAIN.COM By combining innovative technology with world-class training content, PurpleTrain.com offers companies and individuals a high value, quality and effective on-line training solution. Over 700 on-line courses are available, offering masters, degrees, diplomas and certificates in business and IT programs. Our online learning community now stands at over 67,000 users. PurpleTrain.com is a 100%-owned venture of Informatics Holdings Limited, a leading training and education provider listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Informatics Holdings Limited is a world class institute for quality lifelong learning services and made the ranking among Forbes Global's 200 Best Small Companies in the world. ABOUT INFORMATICS GROUP The Informatics Group, established in 1983, is a multinational corporation providing training and educational services in information technology and business management. Through its international franchising programme and strategic acquisitions, Informatics presently has a global network of more than 550 centres spanning over 45 countries. The company presently offers six franchise products: Informatics Computer School, Thames Business School, Informatics Professional Development Centre, CAL Computer Training Centre, Cambridge Child Development Centre and RACC. For more information, please visit http://www.informaticsgroup.com. For more information, please contact : Boey Taik Boon All trademarks and registered trademarks are property of
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As
a value-added-service to our Masters Programme students, PurpleTrain
has signed-on with Lexis Nexis to
provide them with full access to its Academic Suite. This flagship service
provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical
and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Our Masters Programme students can now access a world class e-library
24/7 anywhere from their PCs or notebooks.