New LexisNexis Publisher enhancements offer readers a richer content experience and streamline your delivery processes. LexisNexis Publisher

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1 New enhancements offer readers a richer content experience and streamline your delivery processes Enhancements We are pleased to announce the latest enhancements to. These developments include time-saving features that help you design, manage and distribute valuable information your readers need. Enhancement Full-Text Delivery with Newsletters 1 Enhanced Reporting Features Improved Display & Subscription Settings 2 New Features for Editor-Created- Content Innovative Options for External Content 3 New Document List Display Options Redesigned Org Preferences PDF Format Added to Download Options Overview New full-text delivery option for newsletters provides a more streamlined reading experience for online users and a desirable print-and-go format. Enhanced usage and topic reports including point-of-access data enable you to better strategize your content dissemination efforts by gaining deeper insight into end-user behaviors. Topic-level display customization and new subscription setting defaults allow you to provide more tailored deliveries while streamlining the distribution process. New text-editor functionality, editable Custom Documents, and related features provide you with greater control over the content you create without the need for HTML coding. New and enhanced options for the integration of external content including the Add Link feature provide readers with a richer content experience and you with greater delivery control. Additional display options enable more visual consistency in the document list format and highlight high-value LexisNexis content. The redesigned Organization Preferences page makes it easier to locate your desired setting as features are divided into categorical sub-tabs. New PDF download option provides a sought after delivery format for both editors and end-users. 1 The full-text newsletter option is available to Intranet Publisher customers only. 2 functionality not available to Web Publisher customers. 3 The external RSS feature must be enabled by an LN account representative; available to Intranet Publisher customers only.

2 Full-text Delivery with Newsletters An option has been added to the Design tab within the Newsletter Template that enables you to include full-text documents directly within the body of a newsletter. Including the full-text with a newsletter can streamline the reading experience for end-users by eliminating the need to open a browser to view full articles. With this option, the behavior of the document list changes from headlines linking to full-text documents online, to headlines linking to full-text documents lower down within the body of the newsletter itself. This format is also desirable for end-users that like to print-and-go.

3 Sample Full-Text Delivery Headlines in document list links to full-text lower in the newsletter itself Continuation not shown

4 Enhanced Reporting Features Enhanced usage and topic reports offer you the opportunity for greater insight into end-user behaviors. Usage Reports You ve always appreciated the transparency made possible by Publisher s in-product Usage Reports, now you can glean even more insights from the data. Usage Reports (by topic or by day) now offer the option to expand the level of detail shown to include method of access: HTML, RSS, XML, , newsletter, etc. This additional point-of-access information helps you understand not only what information is most of interest to users, but where users prefer to consume that information. Context-based usage data can help you better strategize your content dissemination efforts. In addition, date selection options within Usage Reports have been improved so that the choices shown match the amount of data available; calendar selections will no longer appear to conflict with the date dropdown.

5 Topic Reports An attribute indicating the number of subscribers is now available in the Topic Report, helping you get more topic-level information at a glance.

6 Improved Display & Subscription Settings Improved display and subscription options allow you to provide more tailored results while streamlining the distribution process. Topic-Level Display Preferences You have always had the ability to customize the look-and-feel of notifications, but only on an organizational level. In other words, once display defaults were established they would be applied to all topics. With the convenience of display defaults still in place, you now also have the ability to customize display settings on a per topic basis. The custom settings will be used in conjunction with the Each Subscribed Topic organization preference; for the All Subscribed Topics organization preference the display default will be used.

7 Org-Level Subscriber Setting Defaults The new Default Subscriber Settings within Organization Preferences enables you to set your desired schedule, time zone, format, view as the default so when you subscribe an end-user (or the enduser self-subscribes) they start off with your organization s preferences and not those of LexisNexis. Improved From/Reply-To Display (not pictured) From/reply-to fields associated with customized deliveries have been expanded to 256 characters, enabling longer entries. Care of LexisNexis language has been eliminated. If you opt not to customize the from/reply-to fields the from default will be LexisNexis Publisher and replyto will be publisher@lexisnexis.com, which is an unmonitored inbox.

8 New Features for Editor-Created-Content New text-editor functionality, editable Custom Documents, and related features provide you with greater control over the content you create without the need for HTML coding. Rich Text Editor A rich text editor has been added to all components where you can enter your own text, including: Comments associated with individual articles; the Create a Custom Document feature on the Results tab where you can author original works, or copy/paste text from other sources; and the Notes fields within the newsletter feature. Previously these fields rendered your entry based on high-level display settings, with no ability to fine-tune individual components without the use of HTML tags, and not all fields even accepted HTML tags. Now, you can simply enter text and use intuitive word-processor-like icons to bold/italicize/underline specific words or passages, add bulleted/numbered lists, highlight text, modify indentation and justification, and control other visual elements. Comments associated with Individual Articles

9 Create a Custom Document feature on the Results Tab Notes Tab within the Newsletter Feature (pictured below for Templates, but also available for Issues)

10 Edit Editor-Created Custom Documents Have you ever created a Custom Document only to discover that you misspelled a word, or left out a crucial bit of information? Until now, such a discovery would mean that you would need to delete the existing version of the Custom Document and create a new one from scratch. With the new Edit feature, you can modify editorcreated Custom Documents after their creation! Clicking Edit will return you to the original Custom Documents form; just make your changes and click Save. Oh no, a misspelled word! No problem, thanks to the new Edit function Topic-Level Expiration for Editor-Created Custom Documents A topic-level option has been added that allows you to set an expiration period for all editor-created Custom Documents within a topic. Previously you had to set an expiration date for each document created. The new setting adds consistency to the process and saves you time in managing documents.

11 Innovative Options for External Content New and enhanced options for the integration of external content provide readers with a richer content experience and you with greater delivery control. Add a Link The new Add Link feature enables you to add links to internal documents, external documents and web sites without an RSS feed and without the need to append a link to a Custom Document. From the Results tab, just select Add Link from the More Actions dropdown and click Go. Then just add a Link Title and URL and click Create. The document can be staged/published as usual and will be posted with the date the link was added. Change to External RSS Doc Behavior The behavior of external RSS document links have been modified to add uniformity to the way full-text documents are accessed across all document types (LexisNexis/Custom/Add Link/external RSS). Former version: Headline linked to excerpt provided with the RSS metadata; Go to External Document linked to fulltext at originating source; globe-like icon included; text aligned beneath disclaimer icon. New version: Headline links to full-text at originating source; Read Excerpt shows the excerpt provided with the RSS metadata; globe-like icon eliminated; text aligned beneath headline.

12 New Sort Order Option for Outbound RSS Feeds The new RSS Results setting on the General sub-tab of Organization Preferences enables you to choose the type of date that is associated with your outbound RSS documents, either the Publication Date, which is the original date the article was released by the provider, or the Editor Publish Date, which is the date the document is added to the Published tab in LexisNexis Publisher (either manually or automatically). If you have an RSS reader that sorts results reverse chronologically, and find that some LexisNexis articles never make it to the top of the list due to a lag between publication date and load onto our system, or a lag between publication date and the date you move the document to the Published tab, you may find the use of the Editor Publish Date beneficial to keeping stories that are newly published in LexisNexis Publisher at the top of the order in your reader. Please note that because the original publication date will always appear on the full-text version of the document, if Editor Publish Date is selected, the date appearing on the document list and full-text document may not match. Publication Date is the default setting. Increased External RSS URL Length (not pictured) The field length for external RSS URLs has been extended to 256 characters, giving you greater flexibility in the feeds you can integrate.

13 New Document List Display Options Additional display options enable more visual consistency in the document list format and highlight high-value LexisNexis content. Show LexisNexis Icon with Headlines The new Show LexisNexis Icon with Headlines setting on the General sub-tab of Organization Preferences enables you to display the LexisNexis Knowledge Burst symbol ( ) in front of headlines originating from LexisNexis sources. This feature is designed to provide a more consistent look to the document list where external RSS documents, Custom Documents, or the new Add Link documents are included, which display a disclaimer icon in front of each headline. Enabling the Knowledge Burst view provides an instant indicator of high-value LexisNexis articles to readers. No LexisNexis icon is the default setting.

14 Search Hits Truncation The document list truncation option available in online, , and newsletter displays has been extended to the Search Hits view. Previously truncation was only available for Abstracts, leaving the possibility of very lengthy or irregularly formatted results when Search Hits were appended to the headline. Now you can expect uniformity in the presentation of results whether you prefer Abstracts or Search Hits. Former version: Citations including Search Hits displayed all Search Hits with no option for truncation, yielding citations of unpredictable lengths (dependent on number of hits in document) and non-uniform display. New version: Now Search Hits can be truncated to a specific character length creating uniformity of display across articles. The display of all hits is still possible if truncation field left blank.

15 Redesigned Organization Preferences The redesigned Organization Preferences page makes it easier to locate your desired feature as settings are divided into categorical sub-tabs. The settings that were previously all on one page are now divided by General, Delivery Settings, and the new Default Subscriber Settings.

16 PDF Format Added to Download Options Editor and end-user document downloads now include the option to deliver results in the desirable PDF format. End-user Download Options Editor Interface Download Options LexisNexis and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license LexisNexis. All Rights Reserved.