Scholastic Universe Expands Offering

Scholastic Universe, a LexisNexis service used by middle and high school students and educators, is offering more bang for your buck (see review in the print issue of SLJ for February). The database, granting Web-based, desktop access to authoritative research sources, recently lowered prices, upped newspaper offerings by more than 400 percent, and simplified subscription options. Subscribers now get all four content areas—news, legal, legislation, and statistics—for one price, instead of having to pay for four separate subscriptions. The news section alone has added 170 regional newspapers.

The new prices are determined by a school's population. For example, a school with 2,500 students now pays $2,495 for all four modules, a substantial drop from the old price of $7,490 for the four subjects purchased separately. New rates are available at www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/scholas. LexisNexis is a division of Reed Elsevier, the parent company of Cahners, the publisher of SLJ.