Among the key findings of the research are the following:
* Language: Factiva is the most multi-lingual of all three services (offering 22 languages) against 16 for LexisNexis and 11 for NewsRoom.
* UK and US coverage: Coverage of UK newspapers is evenly spread across the three services.
* Asia Pacific coverage: Most of the major Asia Pacific newspapers are available across all three services. For some titles, LexisNexis offers a slightly older archive than Factiva.
* Latin American coverage: Factiva has a slight edge over the other two.
* Middle Eastern newspaper coverage: Three out of four sources are not available on NewsRoom. A deeper archive is available on LexisNexis than on Factiva.
* Web content: Web content is available on all three but it is not possible to distinguish web content from other published content on NewsRoom
* Multimedia content: Factiva is the only one of the three to offer multimedia content as part of its prime service.
* Company, industry and market data: Investext reports are no longer being updated on LexisNexis and NewsRoom.
* Indexing and updating: All three services provide detailed indexing but only Factiva and LexisNexis extend their updating to foreign- language documents.
* Language interfaces: Factiva.com offers the same nine language interfaces. NewsRoom offers a greater choice of interface languages than the old TBI service. LexisNexis has extended its number of interface language options and has new customised country interfaces for UK, US and Australia.
* Source lists: LexisNexis and Factiva both enable the user to create custom source lists.
* Search output: De-duplication when searching is a basic option on Factiva and NewsRoom but an irritating omission on Nexis. The ability to display all search results in KWIC format is a big plus for Nexis users, as is the automatic and useful sorting of results by format, subject, company, geography, language and people.
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