The New Nexis® Service is Open for Business: Now Serving All Users; New Web-Like Search, Advanced Tools Give Novices and Pros Easier, Faster Access to Unmatched LexisNexis® Content

Business Wire, March 7, 2006

DAYTON, Ohio -- LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of information and services solutions, today announced the launch of the New Nexis(R) service--new look, new features and new functionality--at www.nexis.com.

Now the unmatched content that LexisNexis is famous for--more than 32,000 authoritative sources--is brought to the surface to make it easier than ever to uncover new insights. Both experienced searchers and business users can now search to get a complete view on an issue across six major categories simultaneously: News, Company, Industry, People, Countries and Legal. It's only through LexisNexis that you can access this type of information--in one search--for a big picture view.

"Our goal was to create the best search experience possible so that an experienced researcher or a novice user could more quickly and easily find the answers they need to make informed business decisions," said Elizabeth Rector, senior vice president of Corporate and Federal Markets for LexisNexis. "For example, the advanced features are designed to help professional researchers, and the simple search tools will help all levels of users. It's the optimal connection between power and ease."

After users run a search, they will be able to view results in categories so they can further refine their answer set by source categories (i.e. Industry Directories and Profiles, Patents, Scientific Materials, Press Releases, or News Transcripts), Publication Name, Subject, Industry, Company, Geography, and Language. If they choose, they can also refine the answer set even further or launch new queries by clicking on relevant concepts. This interactive results clustering and navigation is made possible by the proprietary LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology(TM).

Incorporating customer-driven enhancements and technological advancements, the Nexis service includes:

--Robust Content is Surfaced--six simple check boxes allow users to simultaneously search across different content showing the big picture view.

--Natural language or Boolean connector search logic--anyone can easily search the service regardless of their level of expertise.

--Interactive Results in Groups--Automatically sort results by industries, subjects, companies, places, languages and publications so users can quickly analyze their answer sets.

--Link to Similar Documents via LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology(TM)--users can find connections between documents that they may not have otherwise discovered.

--Spell Checker--Nexis prompts users with a "Did you mean..." message for misspelled words.

For more information on the Nexis service, go to www.lexisnexis.com/businessonline/

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 Group plc (NYSE:ENL)(NYSE:RUK) (www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.

LexisNexis works closely with its customers to address job-specific and organization-wide information needs, driving productivity and confident decision making. LexisNexis has more than 30 years of experience in organizing enormous data stores and developing and delivering sophisticated search, integration, and analytic tools that can be tailored to a user's workflow. With breaking news, legislation and regulations, business intelligence, intellectual property and public opinion, LexisNexis provides access to the interpretive data and the facts and figures that impact peoples' business decisions across the globe.

LexisNexis, Lexis and Nexis are registered trademarks and LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology is a registered trademark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. (C) 2006 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.