Financial Times & LexisNexis

LexisNexis is a database that offers access to news, market research and company information. Online articles are available from the world´s foremost newspapers, newswires, magazines and key information providers. The company information part includes reports with annual report data for many companies worldwide and many additional company information sources.

The publisher of the Financial Times has announced that it will change its policy on updates for LexisNexis on 1 August 2013. This means that newspaper articles will no longer be avialble after 24 hours of publication in the Financial Times. Starting with August 2013 Financial Times newspaper articles will only be available in LexisNexis after an embargo period of 30 days.

The database Factiva.com is a source that offers access to a similar combination of information: news as well as company/market information. Through this database (at the moment) the Financial Times is still available within 24 hours of online/print publication. I expect that this will change in the future and that the embargo of 30 days will also be enforced by the FT. For now, hat is not the case.