Includes American Jurisprudence, Ohio Jurisprudence, and Corpus Juris Secundum, as well as a large collection of legal and news databases, including federal and state law, statutes and cases, transcripts of news programs and local sources.
Source for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains full-text of sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.
Previously called LexisNexis Academic. Nexis Uni is an outstanding source for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains full-text of sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.
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Full-text of the entire historical runs of many law journals with more being added regularly. Also included: the Federal Register (1936-1981), U.S. Reports (Supreme Court opinions), United States Treaties sets, international treaties, and many more.
Find scholarly articles as well as magazine and newspaper articles. Useful for research on management, responses to lawsuits, bankruptcy, business ethics etc.
It also includes other sources of full-text information such as country economic reports and detailed company profiles for thousands of the world's largest companies. Includes some ahead of print content.
Written by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC. Thorough explanation of how federal law is written, how to find federal law and regulations, and more.
Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports are non-partisan reports created for Congress members and staff to explain a topic. The official site has the most recent reports, however, some older reports may not be available.
This provides access to CIS Legislative Histories for public laws (legislative histories are collections of government documents that show the path from idea to law) as well as other government documents like hearings.
Full-text is available for many publications including testimony from congressional hearings (1824-Present); committee reports (1817-Present); bill texts and status (1989-); Statutes at Large/U.S. Code (1789-); Congressional Serial Set (1789-2003); Federal Register (1980-); and the Congressional Record, including the Annals of Congress (1789-1997). It also provides information about members and committees.
Training provided by Nexis Uni. Covers searching as well as saving items to folders and creating alerts.
Federal Resources
Supreme Court Cases
These are published in three legal reporters, United States (US) Reports the official reporter, Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.) published by West, United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Edition ( L. Ed., L. Ed. 2d) , published by Lexis. For a quick overview of Supreme Court cases try Oyez.org
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