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Database Help:
Lexis-Nexis
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Database overview
- International, national,
and regional news
- General reference resources
- Company, industry, and
other business information
- Medical and health-related
information
- Federal and state laws,
regulations, and court decisions, as well as some law reviews
- Federal legislative materials,
including bills, reports, testimony, and other information
- Full text
Database description
Lexis-Nexis is produced
by the Lexis-Nexis company. The database is comprised of two sections: Academic
Universe and Congressional Universe. Academic Universe primarily contains news,
business, legal, medical, and general reference resources. Congressional Universe
primarily contains federal legislative resources, including laws, regulations,
legislative histories, testimony, and Congressional publications.
Academic Universe
News category
- General News -
articles from major national and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters,
and journals going back to the early 1980's
- Today's News -
news articles updated throughout the day
- US News - newspaper,
wire, and transcript articles from the states, as well as selected articles
about each state
- World News - articles
from national and international sources, searchable by region
- Wires - articles
from over 50 wire services
- Transcripts -
transcripts of television news and radio broadcasts
- Arts & Sports
- book, movie, music and play reviews, as well as entertainment and sports
news
- Campus - Chronicle
of Higher Education and a collection of college newspapers from across the
country
- Foreign Language News
- Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language sources
Business category
- Business News
- business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires, and transcripts
- Company Financial
- detailed financial data about approximately 210,000 public and private US
companies, as well as approximately 30,000 foreign companies
- Compare Companies
- company information searchable by sales, net income, employees, and location
- SEC Filings & Reports
- information filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
annual and quarterly reports, proxy statements, and prospectuses
- Industry & Marketing
- news from over 25 major industries
- Accounting - major
accounting journals and literature
- Directories -
includes an event database, tradeshow information, and industry forecasts,
as well as the SIC Directory (the classification standard underlying all establishment-based
federal economic statistics classified by industry) and the Official Guide
to the American Marketplace (demographic information useful for market and
consumer research)
Note: Additional
company financial information can be found in Hoover's
Online and on the library web page Business
Resources on the Internet.
Legal category
- Legal News - articles
from legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters
- Law Reviews -
articles from law school journals from across the country
- Get a Case - federal
and state legal cases
- Shepard's® for US
Supreme Court - Shepard's® citations of US Supreme Court cases
- Federal Case Law
- full text decisions from all federal courts
- State Case Law
- state high court and appellate decisions
- Area of Law by Topic
- select cases on a variety of topics
- Federal Code -
US Code, Federal Court Rules, and the US Constitution
- Federal Regulations
- federal regulations, agency opinions, and US Attorney General opinions
- State Codes -
statutory laws, court rules from all states, and Attorneys General opinions
from all states
- EU Law (CELEX)
- European Union legislation, questions, acts, treaties, and directives
- Tax Law - Internal
Revenue Code, IRS Bulletin, and other tax-related resources
- Patents - all
US patents from 1971 to present
- Class - patent
numbers searchable by classification number and patent number
- Manual - the US
Patent and Trademark Office Manual of Classification
- Martindale-Hubbell®
Law Directory Listings - detailed information on more than 900,000 lawyers
and law firms around the world
- Law School Directories
- detailed information on over 250 US law schools
- Choosing a Law School
- the National Association for Law Placement's Degrees of Difference: A How-To
Guide to Choosing a Law School
Medical category
- Medical News -
articles from medical and health news sources covering healthcare
- Medical Journals
- articles from medical and health journals covering a wide range of medical
topics
- Abstracts - summaries
of articles from clinical and medical research journals dating back to 1966,
courtesy of the National Library of Medicine's Medline®
General Reference
category
- Biographical Information
- politicians, business executives, and others
- Country Profiles
- concise facts and statistics about countries
- Polls & Surveys
- public opinions on politics and government, public institutions, international
relations, business, social affairs and consumer goods and services from the
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- State Profiles
- concise facts and statistics about each state
- World Almanac
- quick facts on any subject
Congressional Universe
- CIS Index - CIS
indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the CIS Legislative
Histories from 1970 through the present
- Publications -
full text of congressional reports, documents, prints, bills and the Congressional
Record
- Testimony - prepared
statements and selected question-and-answer transcripts from 1988 through
the present
- Bills - bill tracking
reports that follow bills through Congress and the text of bills
- Laws - legislative
histories, the US Code, public laws, and statutes-at-large
- Regulations -
the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register
- Members - biographical
and financial information and voting records for members of Congress
- Committees - rosters,
charters, and schedules for committees and subcommittees
- Inside Washington
- articles on Congress and the executive branch from Congress Daily and the
National Journal, as well as committee markups and related committee votes
on legislation from September 1999
- Hot Topics - relevant
publications on key American public policy issues
- List of Links
- other Web sites with useful information about Congress and American politics.
Accessing Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis is available
through the Library Databases web page
or computer terminals in the Library Reference Department.
Using Lexis-Nexis
The following are guidelines
for searching in most of the categories within Lexis-Nexis. For a review of
searching techniques or help beyond these guidelines, consult the Lexis-Nexis
help pages online or ask a librarian.
- Complete all entry boxes
that are labeled Entry Required.
- Choose the source material
from the pull down menu arrow (located at the right-hand side of the search
entry box).
- Date ranges can be entered
by the user or selected from the pull down menu arrow.
- Use "!" to truncate search
terms. (For example, use "president!" to search president, presidente, presidents,
and presidential.)
- Use "*" to replace a
letter or letters in a word. You can use more than one asterisk in a word
and you can use it anywhere in a word except as the first letter. (For example,
use "wom*n to search woman, women, and womyn.)
- Use "w/any number" for
proximity searching with the terms in any order. (For example, "exclusion
w/5 evidence" will retrieve phrases containing both terms within 5 words of
each other and in any order.)
- Use "pre/any number"
for proximity searching in exact order. This command is especially useful
for searching court cases or code sections when you already have a complete
citation. (For example, "410 pre/6 113" will retrieve 410 US 113, the Supreme
Court decision "Roe v. Wade".) When searching court cases or code sections,
the "any number" is the number of characters including possible punctuation
marks that may occur between the numbers in the citation. In the other search
categories, the "any number" is the number of words between terms.
Note: In the News
category, initial search screen searches for keyword terms only in the headline
and lead paragraph(s) of the articles. In order to do keyword searches of the
complete article text, click on the More Options tag.
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Last updated June 2002.