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(Available to colleges and universities only; not available to law libraries)
Now including Country Analysis and Company Dossier, this service provides full-text documents from over 9,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. The 5,900 sources include:
National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
LexisNexis Library Express (for public libraries)
LexisNexis' newest product for public libraries, Library Express, is a valuable source for news, business, and legal information including content from over 1,000 national, regional, and international news publications; coverage of over 44 million US and international companies; primary source material including case law, statutes, and regulations; and much more. See a Library Express flyer
LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History lets both advanced scholars and beginning students carry out comprehensive research from a range of sources. Included are broad selections of primary manuscripts, speeches, comprehensive collections of full-text legislation and judicial rulings, as well as essential government documents, a large archive of photographic images, complete classic autobiographies, convenient reference information, and a carefully selected anthology of hundreds of seminal scholarly articles.
LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History is available in three modules that may be purchased independently:
Primary Sources in African American History
Colonial-era legislation and judicial decisions
All major federal legislation pertaining to race relations from 1792
Complete U.S. Supreme Court decisions on race from 1806
Reference articles, including biographies, subject entries, book reviews, and court decisions drawn from the Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights from Emancipation to the Present and the Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
Manuscript materials for primary historical research, with rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, on the Civil War, reconstruction, and on 20th century political developments
Autobiographies and contemporary accounts
Scholarly articles
Photographs
Primary Sources in U.S. Presidential History
Full-text information relating to each U.S. president
Scholarly articles on specific presidents and presidential powers
Reference articles for essential background information
Autobiographies and contemporary accounts
Manuscripts, such as letters and office diaries
Speeches, including all Inaugural addresses and all State of the Union messages
All numbered Executive Orders from 1862 through 1921
Photographs
Primary Sources in American Women's History
The complete text of all major federal legislation pertaining to women and gender from 1855 to the present
Complete U.S. Supreme Court decisions on gender and women from 1809 to the present
Reference articles from The Encyclopedia of Women's History in America, including biographies, subject entries, book reviews, and court decisions
Scholarly treatments of historic events, current affairs, and future trends by leading scholars in American women's history
Autobiographies of American women from the 18th through the 20th centuries
State laws and court cases concerning women and gender
Manuscript selections, with documents and series of documents important to American women's history from the early 19th through the 20th centuries, providing primary sources on topics such as the impact of major reform movements, the effects of key regulatory and statutory changes, and evolving conceptions of spousal relationships
LexisNexis Scholastic Edition
(Available for High Schools only)
Specifically designed to provide high school students with Web-based, desktop access to authoritative research sources, LexisNexis Scholastic Edition is the "younger sibling" of the LexisNexis Academic service, accessible to nearly seven million students and faculty members at more than 1,600 colleges and universities in the U.S.
LexisNexis Scholastic Edition gives students experience searching for vital source material-including articles from major U.S. and international newspapers, non-English language publications, statistics, and Federal and state case law, codes and legislation-using the kind of technology they will invariably encounter as they progress to a college or university. Content within the service is broken down into four key areas:
News
Legal Research
Legislation
LexisNexis State Capital
Access information about one state, any combination of states, or all 50 states - all from a single, comprehensive Web source. LexisNexis State Capital enables researchers to:
Compare law and public policy developments
Monitor proposed and enacted state laws
Analyze national and regional trends
Get facts about state legislators and their staffs
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