Stump Speeches & Swing States: 3 Simple Tips for Researching This Year's Presidential Campaign with Nexis Uni

The coronavirus pandemic may have put the brakes on typical glad handing from the campaign trail, but with 10 weeks left until the election, candidates are moving full speed ahead in their efforts to shore up voter support. Now that both political parties have hosted their mostly virtual conventions, how can students capture a clear understanding of the candidates, party platforms, and top issues ahead of the vote? Nexis Uni puts the information at their fingertips. A winner of the 2020 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Library Reference or Educational Database, Nexis Uni offers an intuitive academic research experience spanning more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources.

Nexis Uni includes features and content that help students save time while keeping tabs on political campaign news. Create an individual profile so you can:

Tip 1: Customize the home page with the Political Science discipline page.

One of several discipline pages available, the Political Science discipline page surfaces top publications and offers a specialized search form to narrow results to the most relevant content based on the topic.

Tip 2: Save time on research with helpful features.

With a profile, you can save searches to re-run in the future. You can also create Alerts to receive a message when new information is available on a topic of interest. And documents you’ve viewed previously are flagged so you don’t waste time revisiting sources you’ve already reviewed.

Tip 3: Explore the many sources available in Nexis Uni.

Nexis Uni features international and national news sources, discipline-specific journals, and more to help  students fully understand competing perspectives on issues and policies being proposed. And because the database features such a broad array of sources, students gain a well-rounded perspective on the key issues, policies and people involved. Here are just a few examples:

• The Hill—With a focus on politics, policy, business, and international relations, The Hill is known for offering balanced coverage on Congress, the White House, and election campaigns.
• The Associated Press—As one of the oldest and largest news services in the world, the AP covers international and national news. Nexis Uni also features special AP collections that are particularly useful for election-related research—The Associated Press Candidate Biographies and The Associated Press Election Results—which span presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates.
• The New York Times—The New York Times has been offering comprehensive coverage of national, foreign, business, and local news since publishing the first issue in 1851. Nexis Uni features both the print edition as well as online articles and blogs.
• Politico.com—With a focus on national politics, Politico.com brings campaign season to life with in-depth articles, videos, blogs, cartoons, political forums, and photo galleries.
• The Bulletin's Frontrunner—Published daily, Frontrunner provides briefs on top political and policy stories from the nation's leading newspapers, magazines, radio programs and television broadcasts. Frontrunner also provides comprehensive and timely polling data for students looking to track the pulse of the electorate.

As a cloud-based tool, Nexis Uni supports academic research needs for a dynamic world. Whether your students attend classes on campus or virtually, Nexis Uni enables novice and experienced researchers alike to get their work done with confidence. Get more tips for using this powerful academic database.