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Third Quarter 2010

Welcome to …LexisNexis® Corporate Information Professional Update!This complimentary, quarterly newsletter is designed just for you—”power users” in businesses of all kinds, from competitive intelligence specialists to corporate librarians. Update gives you details on nexis.com® (and some lexis.com®) resources and/or shows you how you can use them to help solve information issues facing your business. Also find links to how-to-literature, tips and power-user Webinars.

Check the article archive for topics of interest. Back issues as well as other corporate information professional resources are available at http://law.lexisnexis.com/infopro/Corporate-InfoPro-Resources.

In this issue:Cut Through Clutter to More Precise Results:New nexis.com Enhancements Offer Increased EfficiencyCut through clutter—and strengthen the accuracy of your research. Specify what you need up front and reduce extraneous results with three new features available at nexis.com.

Found (Not Lost) in Translation ... A New Innovation on Nexis DirectFrom Afrikaans to Yiddish—and 55 other languages—now on-screen text at NexisDirect can be translated! And this novel translation enhancement for NexisDirect is now available—at no additional cost. See how it works!

What Happened Here? Link News to Your Graphics with New LexisNexis Statistical DataSets FeaturePut statistics—your Statistical DataSets charts, interactive graphics, etc.—into better perspective. Now just click the portion of the graphic you want to explain and identify related news stories and other documents that tell the tale of the graphic’s spikes.

LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard—Content OverviewThis report product synthesizes information from more than 30 LexisNexis resources—major news & business, legal and public records group sources. Here’s an overview of what you research … every search.

What’s New at nexis.com : More Sources From Around the GlobeWhat’s new on nexis.com? LexisNexis is continually adding sources and features. But these new resources stand out …

Have article ideas for future issues of LexisNexis Corporate Information Professional Update? Care to comment on articles? Contact Barbara Byrd, Managing Editor of LexisNexis Corporate Information Professional Update at [email protected].

LexisNexis, lexis.com, nexis.com, Nexis, Lexis, Shepardize and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks and FOCUS and LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology are trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Directory of Corporate Affiliations is a trademark of Reed Publishing (Nederland) B.V. Other products or services may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Preview lexis.com® Interface Enhancements Coming this Fall

Legal professionals told the LexisNexis® product developers they wanted their research interface to be more streamlined. The lexis.com interface enhancements coming later this fall are designed to do just that. Take a look …

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Cut Through Clutter to More Precise Results:New nexis.com Enhancements Offer Increased Efficiency Cut through clutter and strengthen the accuracy of your research with the latest enhancements to nexis.com. Three new features let you efficiently manage your search results for greater time and cost savings. Specify what you need up front, eliminating extraneous results with the following new features:

Hone Results with FOCUS™ by Date Now when your result list displays, look in the upper-right corner for the FOCUS by Date option.*

With FOCUS by Date, there’s no need to execute multiple searches to track the chronology of an issue. Just click on the drop-down menu, select a date range to further hone your answer set and click Go. It’s just that easy.

And, as part of the FOCUS™ feature, there’s no charge for using this date function to create subsets of results.

Reduce Similar Documents with Enhanced Deduplication Feature Now available for use with all news content, you can determine how closely documents must match and avoid reviewing duplicate documents. Whether you print a result list or full documents, you get what you need faster.

New Search Form: The option to “dedupe” displays on any new search form, and you determine its use. The dedupe setting from your previous search will be used for your next search unless you change the setting or turn off the dedupe function. Note: While you can change the duplicate setting in results, this will not change the search form setting.

Search Results: An icon displays to alert you that duplicate documents were found in your research results. “Lead documents,” documents that represent groups of duplicate documents, are identified on the results list by an icon and by an extra line in the cite display indicating the number of duplicates as well as a hyperlink that lets you see the duplicates. Also, at the bottom of a results list page, the number of results analyzed and the number of duplicate documents is displayed.

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Lead Documents: In your Preferences, you can define how the research system selects the document that represents a group of duplicates in a results list. There are four options:

• FirstOnline:Fromagroupofduplicatedocumentsthesystemwillselectthedocumentthatwas the first to become available to our online system.

• LastOnline:Thesystemwillselectthedocumentthatwasthelasttobecomeavailabletoour online system.

• MostinCommon:Thesystemwillselectthedocumentthat,onaverage,ismostlikealltheothers. When the same story runs in multiple publications, but some publications cut a paragraph here or there for length, then the system generally selects the fullest version of the story.

• Appearsfirstbasedon…sort:Thesystemrepresentsthegroupofduplicateswithwhatever document would have been highest in the results list in whatever sort order the user had picked. This preference setting is the default.

View Duplicates: You can gain access to all identified duplicate documents through the duplicates-found icon to make sure that what’s been identified as a dupe isn’t something you want to consider for your answer set.

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Does Your Organization Use NexisDirect?Create Helpful Summary Analysis with Results Groups Download

NowyoucandirectlydownloadyourResultsGroupclustersintoMicrosoft® Excel® or CVS files, placing what you want where you need it for easy reference.

You can now download any displayed Results Groups cluster directly into Excel or CSV files. This option is available for all sources available via the Nexis service and NexisDirect. Spreadsheet downloading of results clustering data allows you to easily capture and manipulate summary analysis of search results.

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Found (Not Lost) in Translation … A New Innovation on Nexis®Direct From Afrikaans to Yiddish—and all 55 languages listed in between—now your on-screen text can be translated into the language you select!

NexisDirect has always offered a simple “Internet-type” interface for researching the vast, premium news and business content on the Nexis® service. Now, NexisDirect further extends research convenience with this novel enhancement of translation—and at no additional cost for the service.

Need to translate an industry report to Chinese for a colleague in Beijing? Not a problem. On site with a client who needs to share news results with fellow executives who speak Hindi? It’s as simple as making a menu selection. Translation support is available for 57 languages allowing for efficient on-screen translation for any business purpose you have.

How Translations on NexisDirect WorkTranslations on NexisDirect are generated by Google Translate™ machine translation technology developed by Google. However no proprietary or identifying information is transmitted to Google, no data is cached, and Google has no access to search logic.

The machine translator tool interprets all search forms, results lists, results groups and documents (when the documents are accessed) in your language of choice.* There are, however, exceptions in that this tool does not translate:

• LexisNexis® Company Dossier results• Webpagesandexternallylinkedcontent• Documentsand/orresultslistsviastandarddeliveryoptionsavailablethroughthe LexisNexis® services• Alerts• Searchrequests/queries

Your World of Translation ChoicesAlbanian, Hebrew, Welsh? The answer is yes (or Po, Ken, Ydw, respectively) to translation in these languages and so many more on NexisDirect. Circle the globe with a selection that includes:

Afrikaans Croatian Georgian Italian Polish ThaiAlbanian Czech German Japanese Portuguese TurkishArabic Danish Greek Korean Romanian UkrainianArmenian Dutch Haitian Creole Lativian Russian UrduAzerbaijani English Hebrew Lithuanian Serbian VietnameseBasque Estonian Hindi Macedonian Slovak WelshBelarusian Filipino Hungarian Malay Slovenian YiddishBulgarian Finnish Icelandic Maltese SpanishCatalan French Indonesian Norwegian Swahili Chinese Galician Irish Persian Swedish

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Easy … No Matter How You Say ItWith the intuitive use you’ve come to appreciate from NexisDirect, the language translation is effortless to activate.

After you sign in, select from the drop-down translator menu on the right of the screen to set your language preference.

View on-screen text—all results lists, results groups and documents—displayed in your selected language.

Translation remains in effect throughout a research session, with all screens and documents displaying in the chosen language until you log off or until you turn it off.

For more information about using the translation tool on NexisDirect, ask your LexisNexis representative.

*Note: A translation generated by machine-translation software is no substitute for a professional human translator. LexisNexis does not take responsibility for the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any translation; the results of any translation are “as is.” LexisNexis offers no customer support for translations generated using the Google Translate Tool. LexisNexis makes no guarantees, representations, or warranties of any kind with respect to product or article translations on NexisDirect and disclaims any liability, loss or damages suffered based on the user’s reliance of any kind or for any purpose with respect to the content of translations.


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Preview lexis.com® Interface Enhancements Coming this Fall The LexisNexis product developers collaborating with legal power users got clear guidance: lexis.com users wanted their research interface to be more streamlined while still providing the depth of information they’ve come to expect from the LexisNexis services. And they needed to maximize the value of their current subscriptions.

The lexis.com interface enhancements coming later this fall are designed to do just that: You can reduce the clicks between you and the information you need. Save research time and help ensure you don’t miss important facts. You’ll even find selected open Web information through Lexis® Web, incorporated into the interface—no extra charge.

Best of all, no action is needed to upgrade to the lexis.com interface enhancements.

• Basiclexis.com features and functions stay the same—no system upgrades or modifications.• Current lexis.com preferences (under the Preferences link) will carry over automatically.• Therewillbeno changes to current subscriptions. • Andno price change for these enhancements.

LexisNexis will proactively contact organizations slated to receive the enhancements with access and interface details.

You can get more information regarding the enhancements at the lexis.com Interface Enhancements Information Center at www.lexisnexis.com/lexisenhancements Viewscreens,getanswerstofrequentlyaskedquestions,download literature, sign up for Webinars and gain access to recorded Webinars as soon as they’re available.

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A. Fewer tabs help you get to the information you need with fewer clicks and in less time. Please note that former Search sub-tabs—including librarian favorite by Dot Command as well as by Topic or Headnote and by Guided Search Form—are still available.

B. New “More” tab: Find related products and services such as Lexis® Transactional Advisor, LexisNexis® Total Litigator, Counsel Selector, LexisNexis® Dossier, etc., in the same place.

C. Tools researchers, including law librarians, use most: Recently Used Sources, Get a Document, Shepardize® and Find a Source display in an easy-to-access location on most pages. You can move to your favorite source combinations fast. Or enter search terms—a citation, publication name or source (library/ file) name, legal concept, etc.—and click the appropriate tool. Also find LexisNexis Quick Search.

D. Lexis Web, the LexisNexis open-Web product: Incorporated right into Quick Tools. You and your researchers can benefit from the combination—better, validated Web content and reliable LexisNexis content—in a single research system.

E. History and Alerts: Just click the convenient links in the top-right corner of the screen.


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What Happened Here? Link News to Your Graphics With New Statistical DataSets FeatureYou may be familiar with LexisNexis Statistical DataSets, the Web-based interface that lets you access over 14 billion data points for your vital statistical research. Whether or not you’re a numbers person, finding and comparing criteria to help develop the big picture is probably a critical component of your job.

Now LexisNexis Statistical DataSets helps you to get even more from your results with its new What Happened Here feature. This new feature lets you put your statistics into better perspective, identifying news stories and other documents that relate to your selected statistical time series.

Target Time to Determine TrendsYou can expand on the Statistical DataSets solution by creating relationships with information repositories, using linked-in content provided via a Yahoo!® search. Link to external information by double-clicking a point within a trend graph. Statistical DataSets uses the information gathered from the selected criteria to formulate a search that is executed within the Yahoo! search engine. Yahoo! News results are returned, adding context to the information found in the graph, i.e., detailing the cause of a spike or a decline and explaining “what happened here.”

To access the What Happened Here feature, double-click on any point within a trend graph.

What Happened Here uses the information gathered from the selected criteria to formulate a search within the Yahoo! search engine.

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Then just click on a Yahoo! document link, which will open the document in a new window. (Or use the Previous and Next arrows to navigate to additional documents.)

To further refine your results, you simply modify the pre-formed Yahoo! search by typing terms into the search and clicking Update. And because these Yahoo! documents are opened in a separate window, you never leave the Statistical DataSets site so you can easily return.

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Maintain an Intelligent Lead for Your Company Stay In-the-Know on LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard Resources with These Thumbnail Descriptions

Business Locator uses public records data to provide address, FEIN & phone number information for a company of interest.

Corporate Filings contains information on records of corporation and limited partnerships from 49 states (which excludes the state of Delaware); “Doing Business As” name filings or assumed business name filings that are collected from the Secretary of State, county courthouses, departments of revenue, departments of taxation, and local business and legal journals; and a franchise index compiled from national and state register disclosure lists and covering 30 primary industry franchise types. Also included is the CaliforniaStateBoardofEqualizationSalesandUseTax Permit Holder Information, California Contractors State License Board Information, and Texas Comptroller’s Office Sales and Use Tax Permit Holder Information.

Company Information includes profiles of companies and company executives, annual reports and other SECfilings,bankruptcyreports,mergerandacquisitiontransactions, and earnings reports; all U.S. public companies, more than 200,000 private U.S. companies, and many thousands of companies around the world.

D&B® FEIN contains a partial listing of the Federal Employer Identification Numbers (FEIN) assigned by the federal government to business entities expected to file federal tax returns. Find business name and address, companyexecutive,parentandheadquartersinformation, and SIC code.

D&B Global Market Identifiers for U.S. and non-U.S. records, as well as public and private companies in over 220 countries, with standard information that includes:•Companyname•D-U-N-S® numbers•Telephoneandfaxnumbers•Address•NationalID

Additional information may include:•Executivenames&titles•Organizationalstatus/Companytype•Parent/Headquartersinformation(whereapplicable)•Annualsales•Yearstarted•StandardIndustrialClassificationcodes(SICcodes)•Numberofemployees

D&B Minority & Women Owned Businesses, the most extensive file of socio-economic and women-owned businesses in the nation. Whether you are diversifying your business, looking to penetrate a new market, or wanting to target a market with great potential, this compilation of businesses that are 50 percent owned and operated by a woman and/or minority is the definitive source.

D&B Private Company Insight provides key business and financial information on the top 250,000 private companies and allows you to make non-credit business decisions without confusing scores and risk indicators as well as help you understand basic private company

Due diligence is vital. It’s what you do so well to protect your company, providing critical intelligence that reduces risks, identifies new opportunities and updates everyone in your organization on competitors. That’s why you rely on LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard.

Beyond news and business information, the LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard provides you with unparalleled depth and breadth of content—multiple insights from Dun & Bradstreet®, business reports, affiliations, sanctions and so much more.

To help you remain on top of your game, here’s a description of the resources that comprise the Dashboard:

Note: Source information is current as of September 2010. Please contact your LexisNexis account representative for updates.

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background data and financials. Features include: Company information such as address, URL, phone and CEO, key facts such as sales, employee count, net worth, up to 3 years of financials, income statement data, key financial ratios, executive names, operations history, corporate linkage data, public records and SIC/NAIC classifications

Experian® Business Reports from Experian Information Solutions, Inc. is a commercial database that contains data on U.S. businesses and business owners. Experian collects data from 152 different sources and compiles more than 20 million lines of legal information (the U.S. Bankruptcy courts report all filings to Experian within 72 hours). Source information includes: The Days Beyond Terms (DBT Historical Payment Guide, Trade Payment Experiences, Additional Payment Experiences, Payment Totals, Payment Trends, Payment History & Public Records information.

Fictitious Business Names consists of “Doing Business As” name filings or assumed business name filings from all 50 states and the District of Columbia that are collected from the Secretary of State, county courthouses, departments of revenue, departments of taxation, local businesses and legal journals. Note: Fictitious business names filed by corporations generally are not included.

Mostrecordsincludethefollowing:- Business name and address- Business telephone number- Owner name and address- Business description- Filing date

International Company Profiles on non-U.S. company profiles covers more than 30,000 companies from Asia andPacificRim,Europe,MiddleEastandAfrica,andNorth and South America.

Directory of Corporate Affiliations™ contains profile information and corporate linkage for more than 182,000 public and private companies (including more than 62,000 parent companies worldwide). Domestic companies usually demonstrate revenues in excess of $10 million, substantial assets/net worth, or a work force in excess of 300 persons while non-U.S. based

companies usually demonstrate revenues in excess of $50 million.

The Directory of Corporate Affiliations offers you premier hierarchical information plus:

•CorporateIdentity:Name,private,publicor international status, ticker symbol and exchange, state of incorporation, address, telephone and fax number.•DescriptiveData:Yearfounded,numberof employees, ownership percentage, primary business activities, SIC Code(s), product brands, and computer systems in use.•CurrentFinancials:Sales,revenue,netincome/ earnings, net worth, general assets and liabilities, pension assets, and fiscal year-ends.•Personnel:Namesandtitlesformorethan 280,000 top executives, including CEOs, marketing vice presidents, financial officers, boards of directors, purchasing agents and more.•OutsideServiceFirms:e.g.,legalfirms,auditors, insurance carriers, bankers, pension managers, and transfer agents for the companies listed.

Exhibit 21 of SEC Filings (Subsidiaries of the Registrant) contains exhibits filed as attachments to 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, Proxy Statements and Registration Statements.

An exhibit may be filed only once with the SEC, but then, by a process of “incorporation by reference”, the same exhibit may be made part of one or more laterfilingsthatrequiresubmissionofthesamedocument.MostformsfiledwiththeSECwillcontaina filer-provided list of exhibits. Some of the entries on that list will refer to exhibits filed together with the form; other entries will refer to exhibits filed at an earlier date. Every exhibit filed with the SEC, regardless of the form type, is identified according to a standard naming con-vention.

Mergerstat® includes more than 50,000 international transactions, and covers U.S. transactions and cross-border transactions involving a U.S. parent company wheretheequityvalueisgreaterthan$1millionandrepresents at least a 10 percent interest.

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including, but not limited to press releases, business wirereleases,andSECfilings,Mergerstatidentifiestransactions and researches them daily. Each entry contains basic information on the buyer and seller, including: parent name, address, product line/business description, SIC codes, synopsis, terms, and where available seller financials, name and role of financial advisor, legal advisor and accountant.

Corpfin Worldwide is a comprehensive search engine and database of UK, European & USA Corporate Finance transactions, which is updated daily, covers 28 different deal types and holds detailed information on deals over £500,000 (approximately U.S. $750,000).

Each Deal Report provides all information available upon a deal. It includes an in-depth transaction report outlining the deal structure and pricing, advisor and investor details (including the appropriate office, role and team members where available). The main Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet items of the companies involved are included, together with Ratios and Multiples(whereavailable).

Mainadviserslistedinclude:LegalAdvisers,FinancialAdvisers, Capital Providers, Debt Providers, Brokers and Accountants.

Dealtypesinclude:Acquisition,Acquisition-TenderOffer, Demerger, Development Capital, Divestment, Employee Buy-In, Employee Buy-Out, Exit, Exit (Partial), Flotation, Insolvency, Investor Buy-In, Investor Buy-Out, Investor Buy-Out - Tender Offer, Leveraged Buy-Out, ManagementBuy-In,ManagementBuy-In/Buy-Out,ManagementBuy-Out,Merger,MinorityStake,MinorityStake - Tender Offer, Public To Private, Reconstruction/Refinancing, Reverse Takeover, Rights Issue/Other Issue, Secondary Buy-Out, Share Buy-Back, and Startup.

News—General contains English language, full-text news sources.

News—Negative contains the same information as News – General, but an algorithm determines if a news article has negative sentiment. The algorithm is exposed once the search is run in case a user would like to edit.

News—Company Distress contains the same information as News—General, but an algorithm determines if a news article has company distress sentiment. The algorithm is exposed once the search is run in case a user would like to edit.

News—Non-English contains all native language news publications.

Annual Reports to ShareholdersisnotarequiredSEC filing, but contains information (usually annual financial statements) that are referenced by the company’s 10-K filing. Also included in most annual reports is information about the company’s business, sales and marketing and analysis of the company’s condition made by the CEO.

Proxy Statements provide official notification to a company’s shareholders of matters to be voted upon at the company’s annual meeting. A vote of shareholders mayberequiredformanythings,butelectionofcompany directors, executive compensation plans as well as significant other proposals such as changes to bylaws are often brought to a shareholder vote. Updated financial statements often are included with a proxy statement.

Periodic Reports (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc.) contains the full text of EDGAR® filings from 1993, additional full-text filings of more than 4,000 U.S. companies from 1987, and abstracts of selected additional schedules and forms for all U.S. public companies from 1985.

Disclosure® Online Database contains business and financial information extracted from annual and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for over 10,000 publicly owned companies. New companies must have filed the appropriate Registration Statement.

Insider Trading Filings contains insider trading reports of all holdings and transactions of common shares reported on SEC Forms 3 and 4.

Material ContractsoffersExhibit10.MaterialContracts.

SEC No Action Letters & Releases contains Decisions, Orders, Releases, No-Action Letters, Exemptive Letters, and Interpretative Letters published by the Securities and Exchange Commission

Vickers Institutional Holdings contains institutional portfolios and security ownership reports for more than 40,000 U.S. common and preferred stocks.

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Sagient Placement Tracker PIPE Database includes three types of reports:

1. Transaction Reports—company name, location and industry; transaction type and gross

proceeds2. Investor Reports3. Agent Reports

HHS Excluded Individuals/Entities—For many years the Congress of the United States has worked diligently to protect the health and welfare of the nation’s elderly and poor by implementing legislation to prevent certain individuals and businesses from participating in Federally funded health care programs. The OIG, under Congressional mandate, established a program to exclude individuals and entities affected by various legal authorities, maintains a list of all currently excluded parties called the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities.

Sanctions & Regulatory Actions contains formal sanctions against members of financial and health care services industries by a comprehensive range of federal and state regulatory agencies. Abstracts are collected from various federal and state agencies, and individual reports contain the name of the individual or institution, jurisdiction, agency, date, case number, action taken, incident description, status and disposition.

OFAC & Other Lists contains the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s master list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists and entities with Blocked Persons, U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration Denied Persons List, Palestinian LegislativeCouncilList(PLC),FBIFugitives10MostWanted,MostWantedTerrorist,UnitedNationsSanction list, World Bank of Debarred Firms list, Politically Exposed Persons, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of Comptroller of Currency list of Unauthorized Banks, Interpol European Union MostWantedandBankofEngland.

WorldCompliance PEP provides a comprehensive database of “Politically Exposed Persons” (PEPs), their family members and close associates.

US District Court Civil & Criminal Filings contains civil and criminal docket summaries from 48 states, the

District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. Docket summaries from Alaska are not available.

Combined State Civil & Criminal Filings is civil filings from 20 states and criminal filings from 11 states.

Federal & State Court Opinions includes U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal District Courts and state caselaw for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories. Also included are specialty courtssuchasMilitaryAppeals,Customs,Patents,Tax,Trade, Commerce, Veteran Appeals and Bankruptcy.

Judgments & Liens contains judgment and lien filings from 50 states and the District of Columbia. This file doesnotcontainequityjudgments;onlyrecordswithamonetary award are included.

UCC Liens is UCC filings from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. The information is obtained from the financing statement information (UCC-1) and any amendments to the financing statements (UCC-3) filed with the office of the Secretary of State or other appropriate offices.

Bankruptcies offers personal and business bankruptcy filings from 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. All U.S. Bankruptcy District Courts are contained, with date coverage varying on the District Court.

ISS Corporate Governance Quotient contains data derived primarily from public disclosure documents, press releases and corporate Web sites, and goes through a rigorous verification process by ISS’ senior corporate governance analysts. Two CGQ ratings are generated on each company, and each company’s CGQ is compared with other companies in the same index and industry group. All scores are relative (percentile basis).

• CGQIndexScorecomparestorelevantmarket indexincluding:S&P500,Mid-Cap400,Small- Cap 600, Russell 3000, ISS Small-Cap, S&P/ TSX

• CGQIndustryScorecomparestoindustrypeer group using 24 Standard S&P “GICS” groups



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by Nancy Gallenson, LexisNexis Information Professional Consultant

I consult with nexis.com power users regularly. And they always ask me: What’s new on nexis.com? What should I know about? LexisNexis is continually adding sources and features. But these new resources stand out. So take a closer look …

For more information on other newer nexis.com resources, you can also go to http://www.lexisnexis.com/newsandbusiness/content/

GlobalProduct Launch Tracker—Product Launch Tracker is a service from Datamonitor providing detail on recent product launches within the consumer packaged goods industry globally. Each article contains top-line detail on the product, its pricing, the geographies that the product is being introduced into and detail on the manufacturer and distributor.

11 new sources from News Bites Pty. Ltd.—The North American and Global Round Up publications are tailored to the sell-side and buy-side of the securities markets, retail brokers, banks, accounting, legal and corporate advisory firms. These reports provide users with reliable, round-the-clock monitoring. Content is combined with trading data from North American and global stock, commodity and financial markets to provide customers with value-added analysis and a broad range of investment tools.

NewsBitesCanadianMarketsNewsBitesU.S.MarketsGlobal Round Up – ADRs and Depository ReceiptsGlobal Round Up – BondsGlobal Round Up – Bullish & Bearish SignalsGlobal Round Up – CommoditiesGlobal Round Up – CurrenciesGlobal Round Up – Exchange-Traded FundsGlobal Round Up – SectorsGlobal Round Up – Stock Exchange IndicesGlobal Round Up – Stocks

44 New Titles from AHC Media LLC, the largest publisher of health care newsletters in the world.AIDS AlertAlternativeMedicineAlertBiomedical Business & TechnologyBioWorld TodayBioWorld InsightBioWorld InternationalCaseManagementAdvisorClinical Cardiology AlertClinical Oncology AlertCritical Care AlertClinical Trial AdministratorContraceptive Technology UpdateDental Implantology UpdateDischarge Planning Advisor

What’s New at nexis.com®: More Sources From Around the Globe

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Drug Formulary ReviewED Legal LetterEmergencyDepartmentManagementEmergency Department NursingEmergencyMedicineReportsHospitalAccessManagementHealthcare Benchmarks & Quality ImprovementHospitalCaseManagementHospital Employee HealthHospital Home HealthHospital Infection ControlHospiceManagementAdvisorHospitalMedicineAlertHospital Peer ReviewHealthcareRiskManagementInfectious Disease AlertInternalMedicineAlertIRB AdvisorMedicalDeviceDailyMedicalEthicsAdvisorNeurology AlertOB/GYN Clinical AlertOccupationalHealthManagementPatientEducationManagementPediatricEmergencyMedicineReportsPrimary Care ReportsSame-Day SurgeryState Health WatchTravelMedicineAdvisorTrauma Reports

Transcripts from Bloomberg®—Bloomberg award-winning television & radio programming provides dedicated coverage on business and financial news worldwide.

Bloomberg: For The Record covers excerpts of interviews with CEOs and industry leaders who reveal what’s worked for them in their careers, offer insight on their companies and industries and much more.

Bloomberg: Political Capital with Al Hunt contains excerpts of interviews with Al Hunt and guests who analyze the political scene.Bloomberg: Venture covers excerpts of interviews with entrepreneurs and small business owners, focusing on

issuesandpolicythatimpactsthewayMainStreetdoesbusiness.Bloomberg: On the Economy with Tom Keene covers excerpts of interviews with high-profile guests as they

take an in-depth look at the economy and what is affecting it each day.Bloomberg: Surveillance Show covers excerpts from the program that professionals turn to for information

about their money.Bloomberg: TV covers selected newsmaker interviews airing on Bloomberg: TV.

37 new sources from SNL Financial LC—SNL is a great source for data, news and analytics on financial institutions, energy, real estate and media & communications.

SNL Bank and Thrift DailySNLBankM&AWeeklySNLBankWeeklyMidwestEdition

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SNL Bank Weekly Northeast EditionSNL Bank Weekly Southern EditionSNL Bank Weekly Western EditionSNL Coal ReportSNL Conversion WatchSNL Daily Coal ReportSNL Daily Gas ReportSNL De novo WatchSNL Electric Transmission WeekSNL Electric Utility ReportSNL Energy Finance DailySNL Energy Gas Utility WeekSNLEnergyM&AReviewSNL FERC Gas ReportSNL FERC Power ReportSNL Financial Services DailySNLGenerationMarketsWeekSNL Insurance DailySNLInsuranceM&ASNL Insurance Weekly Life & Health EditionSNL Insurance Weekly Property & Casualty EditionSNLKaganMedia&CommunicationsReportSNL Power DailySNL Power Daily NortheastSNLPowerDailywithMarketReportSNL Power Week CanadaSNLPowerWeekMidwestSNL Power Week SoutheastSNL Power Week WestSNL Real Estate DailySNL Real Estate WeeklySNL Renewable Energy WeeklySNLSecurities&InvestmentsM&ASNLSpecialtyFinanceM&A

North AmericaSEC Wire was created to provide daily information on the functioning of the Commission as they regulate the busi-ness of the Stock Exchanges and stockbrokers, monitor and regulate all authorized self-regulatory organizations in thesecuritiesmarketandinvestigateandinspectanyinquiriesspecifictoissuersordealersofsecurities,theStockExchanges and any self-regulatory organization.

68 ProQuest News Sources from ProQuest Information and Learning CompanyMonthlyWeatherReviewMiningEngineeringMarineTechnologyandSNAMENewsMarineBiologyLogistics SpectrumLC GC North AmericaJournal of Water Resource and Protection

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Journal of Tropical Forest ScienceThe Journal of Transport HistoryJournal of the Torrey Botanical SocietyJournal of the Geological SocietyJournal of the Entomological Society of British ColumbiaJournal of the Atmospheric SciencesJournalofSTEMEducation:InnovationsandResearchJournal of Software Engineering and ApplicationsJournalofServiceScienceandManagementJournal of GeosciencesJournal of Geoscience EducationJournal of Environmental HealthJournalofAppliedMeteorologyandClimatologyInternationalJournalofMathematicalCombinatoricsInternational Journal of Communications, Network and System SciencesInternational Journal of Communication Networks and Information SecurityIntelligent Buildings InternationalIndian Journal of Human GeneticsIndianJournalofCriticalCareMedicineIn Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology; PlantIn Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology; AnimalHuman Reproduction and Genetic EthicsGeneticsGenetic CounselingFolia OecologicaFoliaMedicaFirstlineFiresEuropean Journal of EntomologyEnvironmental Health PerspectivesEarth Talk; English ed.DVMDrugs & Therapy PerspectivesDrugs & AgingDrugsDrugSafety:AnInternationalJournalofMedicalToxicologyandDrugExperienceDIRTsportsDental Products Report EuropeDefense Transportation JournalCross-Cultural CommunicationCopeiaCompost Science & UtilizationCollection of Czechoslovak Chemical CommunicationsClinical EEG and NeuroscienceClinical Drug InvestigationClimate PolicyCastaneaCanadian Wood ProductsCanadian Journal of SurgeryBurrill Canadian Biotech NewsBritish Journal of Biomedical Science

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Automotive Body Repair NewsArchivesofPathology&LaboratoryMedicineAmericanMidlandNaturalist,TheAmerican Journal of Electroneurodiagnostic TechnologyAmerican Journal of Clinical DermatologyAmerican Journal of Cardiovascular DrugsAlliedAcademiesInternationalConference.AcademyofInformationandManagementSciences.ProceedingsAggregates & RoadbuildingActaMeteorologicaSinicaAcademyofInformationandManagementSciencesJournal

14 New Sources from The National Underwriter CompanyAgent Sales JournalAmerican Agent & Broker & AABBreakingNewsBenefits SellingBoomerMarketAdvisorCredit Union Times & CUTBreakingNewsFutures & FuturesBreakingNewsInvestment Advisor & IABreakingNewsLife Insurance Services SellingResearch & ResearchBreakingNewsSeniorMarketAdvisorTreasury & Risk & TRBreakingNewsWealthManager&WealthManagerBreakingNewsResourceInvestor

EuropeANSAmed isavitaltoolforthosewithinterestsintheMediterraneanarea.Itprovidesdailynewscoveragefromallcountriesinthearea,offeringaninter-Mediterraneanservicewitharound150dailynewsitemsandfeaturesinEnglishandItalian.Itcoverslocal,nationalandinternationaleventsfromandaboutMediterraneancountries.

Five new sources from Groupe Centre France – French language regional/local news covering the Auvergne and Limousin regions which includes towns as Clermont-Ferrand, Riom, Issoire, Thiers-Ambert, Limoges, Tulle and Brive.

La MontagneLe Populaire du CentreL’Yonne RépublicaineLe Journal du CentreLe Berry Républicain

Relaxnews is the first global newswire dedicated to leisure and lifetyle coverage. In French language, it publishes around 400 stories a week with pictures and a rotating schedule of 100 must-see events around the world.

Latin America Latin Portfolio is the leading provider of regulatory, compliance and tax information to global institutions investing in the Latin American capital markets.

Latin Portfolio Securities Regulation focuses on regulation of securities in the Latin American capital markets.Latin Portfolio Compliance Watchlist provides alerts on regulatory violations in the Latin American capital

markets.Latin Portfolio Financial Taxation covers taxation of financial instruments in Latin America.Latin Portfolio Risk Management covers regulation of financial derivatives in Latin America.Latin Portfolio Corporate Governance covers corporate governance in Latin America.

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Latin Portfolio 1000 Directory is a directory of asset managers, banks, law firms and regulators in the Latin American capital markets. It contains contact data and information on officers, directors, partners and auditors.

Africa Finedatta Company & Financial Information of East African Companies has in-depth credit reports on companies intheEastAfricaregion.ThecompaniesareregisteredinKenya,Tanzania,Malawi,Zambia,Congo,Rwanda,Burundi,Uganda,Sudan,Ethiopia,Eritrea,Angola,Mozambique,Seychelles,Mauritius,Madagscar,Chad,Cameroon,DRC,Algeria,Morocco,GhanaandNigeria.

African Press Organization offers researchers news releases issued by governments, political organizations, NGOs and branches of the United Nations across Africa concerning political, legal and social events and news from that continent.

61 Publications from AllAfrica, Inc.—AllAfrica aggregates and distributes the reporting of more than 130 media organizations. Their aim is to reflect the diversity of reporting, analysis and commentary from as many as possible of the influential media in every country. They include government and opposition-controlled papers, as well as the growing number of independent, professional news publications across the continent. In this way, AllAfrica provides accesstoafullrangeofwhatAfricansthemselvesaresaying,thinkingandpublishing—auniquecompilationofinformation that is valuable to policy makers, businesses, non-governmental organizations, scholars and journalists, as well as to the general public.

Addis Fortune Arusha Times (Arusha)Business Daily (Nairobi)Concord Times (Freetown)Daily Champion (Lagos)Daily Independent (Lagos)Daily Trust (Abuja)East African Business Week (Kampala)FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)Leadership (Abuja)Mmegi/TheReporter(Gaborone)Namibia Economist (Windhoek)NewDemocrat(Monrovia)New Vision (Kampala)The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)The Daily Observer (Banjul)The Herald (Harare)The Independent (Freetown)TheInformer(Monrovia)TheMonitor(Kampala)The Namibian (Windhoek)The Nation (Nairobi)The New Times (Kigali)TheTimesofZambia(Ndola)This Day (Lagos)Vanguard (Lagos)ZimbabweIndependent(Harare)

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ZimbabweStandard(Harare)Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé) EnglishCape Argus (Cape Town)AgenciadeInformacaodeMocambique(English)Garowe Online (Garowe) ShabelleMediaNetwork(Mogadishu)SW Radio Africa (London) Tunisia Online (Tunis) UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (Nairobi) UN News Service (New York) AllAfrica.comInter Press Service (Johannesburg)Public Agenda (Accra) The East African (Nairobi)AccraMailAgence Nouakchott d’Information Health-e (Cape Town) Infos Plus Gabon (Libreville) La Presse (Tunis) La Prospérité (Kinshasa) La Tribune (Algiers) LeMessager(Douala)Le Nouveau Réveil (Abidjan) Le Potentiel (Kinshasa) Le Soleil (Dakar) L’ExpressdeMadagascar(Antananarivo)L’Observateur Paalga (Ouagadougou) Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Notre Voie (Abidjan) PlusNews (Johannesburg) Republic of Togo (Lomé) FrenchSud Quotidien (Dakar) The Analyst

ITWeb Online is South Africa’s premier online news service for specialized IT and telecommunications industry content, ITWeb is read by over 100,000 discerning IT professionals, strategists and decision makers each month.

ITWeb Brainstorm is the most influential business technology monthly for South African executives, business and IT decision makers.

Middle East 12 Al Bawaba Batch 7 News Sources from Al Bawaba (Middle East) Ltd.

Algeria Press Service is the official government news agency of Algeria. Bahrain News Agency is the official government news agency of Bahrain.Iranian Students News Agency is published in Tehran.Mehr News Agency was established in Tehran in June 2003 to provide accurate and up-to-the-minute information to the public, with an emphasis on news about Iran and the rest of the Islamic world.ecPulse aims to enlighten the way ahead of investments, trading, foreign transaction and even day-to-day price fluctuations for all global traded financial instruments.

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Jamahiriya News Agency is the official Libyan news agency.Oman News Agency is the official government news agency of Oman.Palestine News & Information Agency is the official news agency of Palestine.Anadolu Agency is the Turkish state news agency commissioned with producing news releases pertaining to the country.Andy McTiernan Property & Economy Bulletin – Well-known Dubai-based property and economy journalist andbroadcasterAndyMcTiernansuppliesanindependenttwice-weeklypropertyandhighimpacteconomynewsservicecoveringtheMENAregion.AndyMcTiernanPropertyBulletinincludesfocusedstatusquoanalysison new and existing projects in all major asset classes.Campaign Middle East istheMiddleEast’smostauthoritativemagazinefortheadvertising,marketing&mediaindustries.Yemen News Agency is the official government news agency of Yemen.

AsiaFive new sources from Asia Pulse Pty. Ltd.

The Frontier Star is a daily newspaper published from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan that focuses on developments related to the province including the armed conflict with the Taliban.The Baluchistan Times is the leading daily newspaper published from Quetta, the capital city of Baluchistan province that borders Afghanistan and Iran.Daily Regional Times, Karachi, focuses on developments in Sindh, the province that is the home base of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party.The Statesman is a leading daily newspaper, published from Peshawar, the capital city of turbulent North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan.Pakistan Observer is a national daily newspaper published from Islamabad, the capital city, and in six other cities of Pakistan.

31 Titles from AII Data Processing Ltd.Russian Banks and Brokers ReportsRussian Central Bank NewsRussian Government NewsRussian Economic StatisticsRussian Stock Exchange NewsRussian Business Association NewsUkrainian Banks and Brokers ReportsUkrainian Central Bank NewsUkrainian Government NewsUkrainian Economic StatisticsUkrainian Stock Exchange NewsUkrainian Business Association NewsKazakhstan Central Bank NewsKazakhstan Government NewsKazakhstan Economic StatisticsKazakhstan Stock Exchange NewsKazakhstan Business Association NewsRomanian Banks and Brokers ReportsRomanian Central Bank NewsRomanian Government NewsRomanian Economic StatisticsRomanian Stock Exchange NewsRomanian Business Association News

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Bulgarian Banks and Brokers ReportsBulgarian Central Bank NewsBulgarian Government NewsBulgarian Economic StatisticsBulgarian Stock Exchange NewsBulgarian Business Association NewsADP News North AmericaADP News Asia/PacificADP News Shipping

Contify.com is a content aggregation and distribution company. It provides content from many of India’s leading publishers and information providers. Coverage is both broad and deep providing the latest news, analysis research, or authoritative reference material. Contify.com covers popular business-specific topics such as economy, business, politics, markets, legal, travel, real estate, health, and many more. Announcing the release of 114 titles from Contify.com

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Three Times of India News Sources from Bennett Coleman & Co LtdThe Times of India is India’s leading English-language newspaper and one of the world’s most widely distributed newspapers.The Economic Times is one of India’s largest financial dailies.Crest – The Times of India Crest Edition – contextualizes the issues of the day and explores their implications.

M2 Banking & Credit News—Banking and Credit News provides extremely valuable coverage and expert insight into global banking, insurance and credit market sectors, becoming one of the most authoritative sources of informationonthesetopics.PublishedbyNorman’sMediaLtd.,formerlyknownasM2CommunicationsLtd.
