LexisNexis® Academic

LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. One of the most heavily used databases in higher education, LexisNexis Academic is available at over 1,500 libraries serving over 8 million students and faculty. It is a standard element in many research and information literacy programs.

Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.

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Students can use LexisNexis Academic to access primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations or dive into secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic. Legal research sources include:

  • Law review articles from over 500 publications
  • Legal news from more than 300 legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters
  • U.S. Supreme Court decisions from January 1790 to present, searchable by majority opinion, minority opinion, concurring opinion, counsel, or headnotes
  • U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decisions
  • U.S. District Court decisions from 1789 to present
  • Decisions from Bankruptcy Courts; U.S. Court of International Trade; Tax Courts; Courts of Customs and Patent Appeals, and Veterans, Commerce, and Military Courts
  • State court decisions at all court levels for all 50 states and territories
  • All Federal laws from 1988 to the present
  • Federal regulations: Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and Federal Acquisition Regulations and Supplements
  • Codes for all 50 states and territories, plus constitutions, court rules, and Attorneys General opinions
  • Legal Reference materials such as American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, Ballentine's Law Dictionary, and Bieber's Dictionary of  Legal Abbreviations
  • The IRS bulletin, IRS regulations, ABA Tax Lawyer, AICPA Tax Adviser, and more
  • Patents from 1971 forward, searchable by keyword, patent number, classification number, lawyer, assignee, inventor, or summary
  • Canadian law journals, court cases from 1876, and legislation from 1988
  • European Union law from the CELEX database and international case law from a number of other countries
  • Law school directories, including the Martindale-Hubbell Law School Directory and NALP National Directory of Law Schools