LexisNexis Continues to Grow Legal Industry-Leading Collection of News, Business Resources; Legal Practitioners Have Access to Nearly 21,000 Sources, the Most Offered by Any Online News and Business Information Provider

Business Wire, July 1, 2005

DAYTON, Ohio -- Continuing to deliver the most complete offering of news and business resources to the legal market, LexisNexis U.S. today announced it has further enhanced its collection of selected full-text publications and abstracts available on the lexis.com(R) service. Through LexisNexis, which is a leading provider of legal, news and business information, legal practitioners now have access to nearly everything they need to successfully complete their researching tasks.

As part of an exclusive alliance with Factiva(R), a Dow Jones & Reuters company, 257 selected full-text publications as well as 433 publication abstracts will now be available through the lexis.com service. Beginning July 1, 2005, these sources will be added to the company's legal industry-leading collection of news and business sources, a collection that is double that of its nearest competitor.

"When conducting legal research, reliable news and business content, such as that provided by LexisNexis, is paramount. It is for this very reason that LexisNexis continues its pursuit to provide the legal market with the premier collection of news and business resources," said Renee Citera, vice president and managing director of Large Law, LexisNexis. "With these latest additions to our collection, LexisNexis has nearly everything a legal researcher could want and need."

Within the legal market, LexisNexis has the largest online collection of news, business and financial resources available, nearing approximately 21,000. These resources include:

--Thousands of daily publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, New York Post and Orlando Sentinel.

--Wire services such as Dow Jones and Reuter's newswires, The Bulletin's Frontrunner and VNU Entertainment Newswire.

--Other daily financial resources, including specialized Dow Jones newswires, MarketWatch, Moody's Investors Service Press Release and Moody's Investors Service Ratings Delivery Service.

--Over 6,500 unique international sources, including The Times (London), Financial Times, The Independent (London), The Guardian, South China Morning Post, and The Australian.

These are but a few of the tens of thousands of resources available to assist legal professionals globally in making informed decisions and enhancing their business practices on a daily basis.

"I use the News and Business files on lexis.com as a cost-effective and quick way to find news stories and company information for the attorneys at my firm," said Anne Garrett, library manager for Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P. "I can easily narrow my search to a particular publication, and the attorneys in the firm frequently comment on how quickly they receive the information they need."

For more information on LexisNexis and its legal industry-leading collection of news, business and financial resources, as well as a complete list of newly available publications and abstracts, visit http://www.lexisnexis.com/factiva/factiva.asp.> About LexisNexis

LexisNexis(R) (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis(R) and Nexis(R) research services, the company includes some of the world's most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.

In the United States, LexisNexis(R) Total Research System (www.lexisnexis.com) offers an extensive range of online and print legal and regulatory information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals reach confident decisions and comply with the law.

About Factiva

Factiva(R), a Dow Jones & Reuters company, provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva's unrivalled collection of more than 9,000 credentialed sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, D&B, and Bureau van Dijk company profiles.

Factiva's innovative, XML-based and Web services-enabled technology platform provides access to this rich content collection via Factiva's role-specific products or through customized enterprise, group or personal solutions. Executives, information professionals, marketers, salespeople, and other professionals can easily monitor and understand the latest news, market trends, and business challenges relevant to them - directly from the Microsoft Office and job-specific applications they use every day.

For more information visit: www.factiva.com/press.>

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