New York, United States
LexisNexis, a leading provider of information services and solutions, has announced the addition of more photos and graphics to its most comprehensive collection of global news, business, and legal information on the market.
"These additions complement the LexisNexis text archives and the images that we added from McClatchy-Tribune in February of this year. There are many rich and unique graphics, illustrations, maps, charts, and photos in these collections that our customers can now conveniently search in one location alongside our deep news collection," said Dawn Conway, vice president of Licensing and Content for the U.S. Corporate Markets of LexisNexis. "With the visuals accompanying the text, it helps to tell a story, which is important for investigative and competitive research."
With the addition of the Newscom and World Picture Network (WpN) collections, the photos and graphics collection covers more than 75 countries. The coverage will continue to grow, along with the addition of other prominent news collections to the LexisNexis(R) service in the coming months.
-- With this alliance, Newscom (www.newscom.com) now provides LexisNexis customers access to pictures, graphics, and illustrations from the world's premiere publishers of global content, such as Ai Wire, Congressional Quarterly, Roll Call, and WENN. Newscom represents more than 100 of the world's foremost publishers of visual content, including Getty Images, Color China, Nucleus Medical Arts, and Grupo de Diarios America, a consortium of the 11 leading newspaper publishers spanning all of Latin America. Breaking news photos and historical images range from behind-the-scenes White House coverage and visuals from the ground in Iraq, to images of the Kremlin. Newscom's sports coverage includes action from the British Open, cricket and rugby, as well as Formula 1 racing, the World Cup, the Olympics, and the rest of the sporting world. Newscom also boasts a comprehensive collection of the people and events that drive the entertainment industry.
-- With World Picture Network, (www.worldpicturenews.com), LexisNexis customers gain access to a deep collection of primary image categories, such as news, sports & entertainment, business, science & technology, and lifestyle. WpN represents some of the world's top photojournalists, photo agencies, and newspapers. In addition to their own photographers in 72 countries, the international coverage is augmented by sister agencies in England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, the Middle East, China, India, Kenya, Namibia, and Brazil.
Conway added, "We have also made it easy for our customers to search through the images and directly link to these third-party providers to license the photos. It's an ideal solution to find relevant visuals and information faster."
Several key features of image searching within LexisNexis will be presented to the user, including the commingling of images with traditional text search results, which provides a more complete view of a particular topic. Additionally, once a search is run, the user will have the ability to delineate between image and non-image results in two ways: 1) Via a camera icon in the search results list clearly designating that the cite contains an image; 2) Via an "images" category, which is driven by LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology(TM), allowing the user to drill down within their search results and only view those results that have images.
Subscribers to Nexis(R) and lexis.com(R) can pay per transaction to access each photo or graphic for USD 6; however, there is no charge to view a thumbnail. Each image is accompanied by a caption, author, and other applicable information related to the image.
In February 2007, LexisNexis also added photos and graphics from McClatchy-Tribune. See press release.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading provider of information and services solutions, including its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. A member of Reed Elsevier (NYSE:ENL)(NYSE:RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.
About Newscom
Newscom (www.Newscom.com) is a world leader in providing customers with high-quality content from a vast array of global sources. Newscom offers customers one-stop access to more than 18 million rights-managed and royalty-free photos, graphics, illustrations and stories from more than 100 of the world's foremost publishers and content creators. Customers around the globe count on Newscom to meet their creative and editorial needs each and every day, providing them what they need, when they need it.
About World Picture Network
World Picture Network LLC (WpN) (www.worldpicturenews.com) represents some of the world's top photojournalists, providing local coverage in 72 countries. WpN also distributes the image production of over 40 newspapers covering every region of the U.S., and has reciprocal arrangements with sister photo agencies throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The company maintains a deep and growing image archive spanning the spectrum of News, Sports, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Health, Science and History. WpN prides itself in presenting quality images and stories that are topical, visually striking and unlike those available elsewhere.
Source: Business Wire (Business Wire India)