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ACADEMIC UNIVERSEWeb Version of Lexis-Nexis |
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Newspapers around the world and within the United States
Business, legal, and medical journals and news
Corporate financial information
Federal laws, regulations, and all court decisions
State laws and court decisions in full text
Quotations; biographies; and business directories
Web Address: http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/Available from all campus workstations
Dial-in to University private modem pool: (734) 489-2222
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Academic Universe is a subset of the LEXIS on-line systems. LEXIS has two on-line systemsAcademic Access, available in the Documents Center, Grad Reference, and Public Health Libraries. The Education Program has additional materials but is only available to registered Business and Law students.
Academic Access (the on-line version in the Graduate Library and Public Health) is more complete for some newspapers and state bills.
Congressional Universe (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/) is more complete for federal legislation and regulations.
Use the Source button at the top of individual library/form screens of Academic Universe to obtain a list of materials indexed by that section.Content is listed under the Source button of Academic Universe. The Congressional Information Service web site has an alphabetic list of titles, an alphabetic list of search forms, and additions/deletions since July 1999. The URL is: http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/marketsource/reports.htm.
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Academic Universe is arranged into eighteen search segments, called Search Forms. These are the equivalent to Libraries in Academic Access and the Education Program.Source Lists within most of the Search Forms further narrow the type of material being searched, such as Major Newspapers, Supreme Court Decisions, or Aerospace Industry News. These are equivalent to Files in Academic Access and the Education Program. The Source Lists are usually chosen through a pull-down menu.
See Individual Search Form Descriptions at the end of this guide for additional information and search strategies.
| Subject | Files | Description | News | TOP NEWS | Headline stories from U.S. and international sources for past two weeks | GENERAL NEWS TOPICS |
General, medical, business, and legal newspapers and magazines Sources from U.S., numerous U.S. cities, and foreign countries |
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL NEWS | Newspapers, magazines, press releases, congressional hearings summaries, committee markups, television transcripts, and 1996 Presidential campaign materials | NEWS TRANSCRIPTS | Transcripts of television and radio news | FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS | English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language sources |
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| Business | ACCOUNTING, AUDITING AND TAX | Tax and accounting journals, international in scope | COMPANY FINANCIAL INFORMATION | Executives and detailed financial information for U.S. and foreign companies, bankruptcies and corporate | COMPANY NEWS |
General and business newspapers and magazines Sources from U.S., numerous U.S. cities, and foreign countries Transcripts of Congressional hearings and federal executive agency briefings Newswires and broadcast media transcripts |
INDUSTRY AND MARKET NEWS | Business journals and newspapers but not general newspapers or transcripts | Law | FEDERAL CASE LAW |
Supreme, Appeals, and District Court Decisions and Supreme Court briefs Various specialized federal court decisions |
LAW REVIEWS | Academic and professional law journals on national and state issues | LEGAL NEWS | Law and business journals but not general newspapers | STATE LEGAL RESEARCH |
High and appellate court decisions Laws in force (codes), new laws (ALS), constitutions, and court rules Fifty states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands |
U.S. CODE, CONSTITUTION, COURT RULES | Constitution, laws in force, regulations in force, federal acquisitions regulations, Attorney General opinions, and court rules | Medicine | GENERAL MEDICAL AND HEALTH TOPICS | Medical and health journals in full text | MEDICAL ABSTRACTS | Bibliographic data base of 3500 worldwide medical journals; equivalent of National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE | Reference | BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION | Biographies appearing in biographical dictionaries (such as Who's Who, business and popular magazines (.e.g. People), and major newspapers | COUNTRY PROFILES | Basic statistical data, description of government, key government officials, and a few biographies. Search by name of country | REFERENCE AND DIRECTORIES | Business directories and quotations | STATE PROFILES | Geography and symbols, basic population, health, tax, and miscellaneous information for states and territories |
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Most Search Forms (subject areas) have several boxesTOPIC (or Company, State, Nation)
This is a required value marked in red Amenable to keyword searching
ADDITIONAL TERMSThis can be additional keywords, segment searching, or a combination of the two
SOURCE MATERIALUsually a pull-down box, such as Midwestern Newspapers or Automotive News
DATEPull-down box ranging from today to all years, OR
Specify exact date or range of dates
Keyword searching uses Boolean logic, proximity indicators, and truncation symbols. It picks up keywords in the title, lead paragraphs and list of index terms if the latter are available. It does not pick up words in the entire article. To retrieve words in the rest of the article, use keyword searching in the Additional Terms box.
| Boolean Logic | AND | bank AND deregulate | finds both words in the same document | OR | doctor OR physician | finds either word in same document | AND NOT | Titanic AND NOT movie | finds first word without the second | ATLEASTn (term) | atleast5 (budget) | finds term number of times | allcaps (AIDS) | finds AIDS but not aids | nocaps (mace) | finds mace but not MACE | Proximity Indicators | PHRASE SEARCHING | buying power | retrieves two words together | W/n | economic growth w/3 indicators |
retrieves phrase within three words of indicators e.g. economic growth indicators or indicators of economic growth |
W/p | pakistan w/p nuclear | retrieves words in same paragraph | W/s | pakistan w/s nuclear | retrieves words in same sentence | PRE/n | william pre/2 clinton | retrieves first word within two of second word | Not W/n | Michigan not/w10 university | retrieves farther appart than 10 | Not W/s | Clinton not w/2 Yeltsin | retrieves words not in same sentence | Not W/p | Clinton not w/p Yeltsin | Retrieves words if not in same paragraph | Not PRE/n | University not pre/2 Michigan | retrieves if one word not in front of other | Truncation Symbol | Asterisk * | replaces one character anywhere in word except first letter | wom*n retrieves woman or women | Exclamation Point ! | replaces one or more character at end of word | child! retrieves child or children or childhood |
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Segment Searching limits search to a particular field (publication, title, author, type of material)Segment searching is usually entered in the Additional Terms box.
EXAMPLES:
anchor (brokaw)
author (archer)
guests (mccurry)
judges (scalia)
publication (new york times)
section (book)
show (Larry King)
type (committee markup)See Individual Search Forms for a detailed list of available segments.
Dates may be specified in one of two ways
| Pull-Down Menu | Today Previous Week Previous Month Previous Six Months Previous Year |
Previous Two Years Previous Five Years Previous Ten Years All Available Dates |
From: To: | Date Range One Date After Date Before Date |
From: 6/17/98 To: 7/17/98 From: 7/17/98 To: 7/17/98 From: 6/17/98 To: From: To:7/1/98 |
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Academic Universe is flexible in entering dates
| Jul 17, 1998 | July 17, 1998 |
| 07/17/98 | 7/17/98 |
| July, 1998 | 1998 |
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Main Menu Help Sources Examples Search Tips |
Menu Listing Search Forms (Subject Areas) General Search Guide Individual Publications Indexed in Search Form Date Searching Protocols Boolean Logic and Segment Searching |
Search Results Buttons |
Last Form Previous Results Next Results |
Last Search Form Used Previous Page of Multi-Page Results List Next Page of Multi-Page Results List |
Individual Record Buttons |
Results List Last Form Previous Document Next Document Full View (Default) KWIC View |
List of All Search Results Last Search Form Used Text of Next Document on Results List Text of Previous Document on Results List Full Text Abbreviated Text with Keywords |
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| Printing and Downloading |
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The entire text of individual documents may be printed. However, there is no way to mark all of the results in a search and print or download them at the same time.
Use your web browser's File/Print Command.
Use your browser's File/Save As Command.Designate the proper disk drive
Change File Type from HTML to Plain Text (.txt)
Name the document and type in .txt as the extension (e.g. clinton.txt)
| Individual Search Form Details |
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| Top News |
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| Description | Headline stories from U.S. and international sources for past two weeks | Time Period | Past Two Weeks | Notes | Not all segments displayed on search guide are applicable | Files | Today's News Lifestyle News Sections Politics and Government Materials Science and Technology Stories Sports and Recreation Stories Travel Stories World Affairs Stories Last Two Weeks' News |
Page 1 News Art and Entertainment Stories Business and Consumer Stories Editorial Materials Education Stories Environmental Stories, Combined Health, Food and Fitness Stories |
Segments |
News Segments: BYLINE (Ken Washington) DATELINE (Washington) HEADLINE (patients bill) LEAD (patients bill) LENGTH > 200 PUBLICATION (USA Today) SECTION (metro) |
Broadcast Transcripts: GUESTS (Shalala) SHOW (Nightline) TYPE (interview) ANCHOR (molinari) |
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| General News Topics |
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| Description | General, medical, business, and legal
newspapers and magazines Sources from U.S., numerous U.S. cities, and foreign countries | Time Period | Time period varies; most coverage begins in the early 1990s but some date back to 1973 | Notes | News from various world areas (e.g. Asia) includes U.S. news on Asia as well as Asian sources Coverage dates are given in the Sources Some newspapers only have abstracts and not the full text When using foreign-language newspapers, search with and without capitalization and punctuation (e.g. l'Algerie or algerie) | Files |
Major Newspapers North/South America News Wire Service Stories General Business and Financial Entertainment Stories Major Trade Journals Newsletters All Magazines |
Midwest Regional Sources (U.S.) Northeast Regional Sources (U.S.) Southeast Regional Sources (U.S.) Western Regional Sources (U.S.) Asia/Pacific News Sources European News Sources Middle East/Africa News Sources Chronicle of Higher Education |
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News Segments: BYLINE (Ken Washington) DATELINE (Washington) HEADLINE (patients bill) |
LEAD (patients bill) LENGTH > 200 PUBLICATION (USA Today) SECTION (metro) |
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| Company News |
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| Description | General and business newspapers and magazines Sources from U.S., numerous U.S. cities, and foreign countries Transcripts of Congressional hearings and federal executive agency briefings Newswires and broadcast media transcripts English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language sources | Time Period | Time period varies; most coverage begins in the early 1990s but some date back to 1973 | Notes |
Identical to General News with exception of Mergers and Acquisitions Stories Company name must appear in headline, leading paragraphs, or indexing term | Files |
Major Newspapers North/South America News Wire Service Stories Transcripts Mergers and Acquisitions Stories General Business and Financial Entertainment Stories Major Trade Journals Newsletters All Magazines Midwest Regional Sources (U.S.) |
Northeast Regional Sources (U.S.) Southeast Regional Sources (U.S.) Western Regional Sources (U.S.) Asia/Pacific News Sources European News Sources Middle East/Africa News Sources Dutch Language News French Language News German Language News Italian Language News Spanish Language News | Segments |
News Segments: BYLINE (Ken Washington) DATELINE (Washington) HEADLINE (microsoft) LEAD (microsoft) LENGTH < 500 PUBLICATION (USA Today) SECTION (metro) |
Broadcast Transcripts: GUESTS (gates) SHOW (Moneyline) TYPE (interview) ANCHOR (molinari) |
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| Industry and Market News |
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| Description | Business journals and newspapers but not general newspapers or transcripts. | Time Period | Time period varies beginning with the early 1980s. | Notes | Source list includes all industries under any given industry type but only the sources for that industry are actually searched | Files |
Aerospace, Defense and Aviation News Computer and Telecommunications Construction, Metals and Architecture Electrical/Electronics News Energy and Utility News Environment and Natural Resources Food and Beverage News Insurance News Library/Information Services News Leisure News Manufacturing and Engineering News Agriculture, Fishing and Tobacco News Medical and Health News Paper and Packing News |
Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics News Photography News Real Estate News Distribution, Retail and Wholesale Trade Science and Instrumentation News Sporting News Travel, Hospital and Leisure News Apparel and Textiles News Arts and Entertainment Automotive and Transportation News Banking News Biotechnology News Broadcasting and Publications News Chemicals, Plastics and Rubber News | Segments |
News and Journal Segments: BYLINE (Ken Washington) HEADLINE (microsoft) LEAD (microsoft) LENGTH < 500 PUBLICATION (Defense Daily) SECTION (Vol. 8, No. 28) |
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| Government and Political News |
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| Description | Newspapers, magazines, press releases, congressional hearings summaries, committee markups, television transcripts, and 1996 Presidential campaign materials | Time Period | Primarily the 1990s with some material dating back to the 1970s | Notes | Congressional Universe (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp) better for bills and hearings; also has Congressional Record; does not have committee markups | Files |
Legislative News Executive Branch News |
Campaign News Political Transcripts and Testimony | Segments |
News Segments: BYLINE (Ken Washington) DATELINE (Washington) HEADLINE (microsoft) LEAD (microsoft) LENGTH < 500 PUBLICATION (USA Today) SECTION (metro) |
Broadcast Transcripts: GUESTS (gates) SHOW (Moneyline) TYPE (interview) ANCHOR (molinari)
Transcript Segments:
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| News Transcripts |
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| Description | Primarily television and public radio transcripts | Time Period | Most begin around 1990 | Notes | Not all segments displayed on search guide are applicable | Files | All Transcripts ABC News Transcripts CBS News Transcripts NBC News Transcripts CNN Transcripts CNN Financial Transcripts National Public Radio Transcripts |
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Broadcast Transcripts: GUESTS (Shalala) SHOW (Nightline) |
TYPE (interview) ANCHOR (molinari) |
| Legal News |
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| Description | Law and business journals but not general newspapers | Time Period | Since 1980s | Notes | Less technical than Law Reviews | Files | All Legal News Sources |
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News and Journal Segments: BYLINE (Ken Washington) HEADLINE (microsoft) LEAD (microsoft) LENGTH < 500 PUBLICATION (Defense Daily) SECTION (Vol. 8, No. 28) |
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| Foreign Language News |
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| Description | News from Western Europe | Time Period | 1995+ with some earlier coverage | Notes | Not all segments displayed on search guide are applicable | Files | Dutch Language News French Language News German Language News Italian Language News Spanish Language News |
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News Segments: DATELINE (Bracciano) HEADLINE (mariage) LENGTH > 200 PUBLICATION (agence france presse) SECTION (informations generales) |
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| Company Financial Information |
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| Description | Executives and detailed financial information for U.S. and foreign companies, bankruptcies and corporate affiliations | Time Period | Very current to past 10 years | Notes | Limited number of sources per file | Files |
SEC 10-K Reports NAARSAnnual Reports 84-95 International Company Reports U.S. Public Companies U.S. Private Companies Mergers and Acquisition Reports - IDD Bankruptcy Reports American Corporate Finance Standard and Poor's Corporate Descriptions Disclosure Reports Hoover's Company Reports |
SEC 10-Q Reports Company Intelligence - U.S. Stock Reports: Vickers and Zacks SEC 8-K Reports SEC 20-F Reports SEC Annual Reports SEC Filings - Proxy Statements SEC Filings - Prospectuses SEC Filing - Registration SEC Filings - Williams Act Filings |
Segments |
ADDRESS (Detroit) CREDIT (good) DESCRIPTION (real estate) EMPLOYEES (> 100) REVENUE (> $100000) SIC (39!) SALES (> $1000000) |
Segments vary widely between files; they must be used with a company name |
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| Country Profiles |
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| Description | Basic statistical data, description of government, key government officials, and a few biographies. Search by name of country | Time Period | Current Only | Notes | Sources are CIA World Factbook, Kaleioscope, and Walden Country Reports | Files | None |
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Segments | None |
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| State Profiles |
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| Description | Geography and symbols, basic population, health, tax, and miscellaneous information for states and territories | Time Period | Current only | Notes | Minimal information provided; can only search by name of state | Files | None |
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Segments | None |
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| Biographical Information |
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| Description | Biographies appearing in biographical dictionaries (such as Who's Who, business and popular magazines (.e.g. People), and major newspapers | Time Period | 1980s to Present | Notes | Lastname/First Name searches are ANDED rather than placed in proximity, yielding false results. Use firstname pre/1 lastname under Additional Search Terms to narrow search. | Files | None |
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BIRTHPLACE (Detroit) CAREER (diplomat) EDUCATION (Michigan) |
OCCUPATION (diplomat) PUBLICATION (who's who) |
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| Reference and Directories |
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| Description | Quotations and business directories | Time Period | Current | Notes | Sources reflect the files in the pulldown menu. Books in Print, Encyclopedia of Associations, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory were pulled in Aug. 1998 | Files |
Forbes Annual Directory Official Guide/American Marketplace World Business Opportunities US Global Trade Outlook (NTDB) Quotation |
Eventline Capital Source International Tradeshow Computer Industry Forecasts |
Segments |
Publication Segments: AUTHOR (bell) SUBJECT (mathematics) TITLE (dummies)
Associations Segments: |
Quotations: LENGTH <100 SOURCE (gandhi) Other segments vary |
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| General and Medical Health Topics |
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| Description | Medical and health journals and newsletters | Time Period | Early 1980s to present | Notes | Full text; includes popular as well as professional journals | Files | Medical and Health News Medical and Health Journals |
FDC Newsletters (pharmaceuticals) JCAHO Publications (hospitals) |
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BYLINE (petrizzi) AUTHOR (bennett) HEADLINE (plantar) |
TITLE (misdiagnosis) PUBLICATION (journal w/4 college w/2 surgeons) |
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| Medical Abstracts |
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| Description | Bibliographic data base of 3500 worldwide medical journals; equivalent of National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE | Time Period | 1966 to present | Notes | Abstracts but not full text | Files |
Medline References Gastroenterology General and Internal Medicine Hematology Infectious/Communicable Diseases Nephrology Nursing OB/GYN Oncology/Neoplasms Ophthalmology Allergy and Hypersensitivity Orthopedics Otolaryngology |
Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Pediatrics/Perinatology/Adolescent Med. Pharmacy Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation Psychiatry Phsychology/Psychoanalysis Public/Environmental/Occuaptional Med. Pulmonary Medicine Anesthesiology Radiology/Nuclear Medicine Rheumatology Basic Life Science |
Sports Medicine Surgery Urology Veterinary Medicine All Other Subjects Cardiology Dentistry and Oral Surgery Dermatology Emergency Medicine Endocrinology/Metabolism/Reproduction Family Medicine |
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ABSTRACT (cats) AUTHOR (hoskins) TITLE (geriatric) |
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| Accounting, Auditing and Tax |
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| Description | Tax and accounting journals, international in scope | Time Period | Mid-1980s to Present | Notes | Files usually representative of individual titles | Files |
Authoritative Accounting Literature U.S. Practical Tax Lawyer World Tax Report Journal of International Taxation RIA Weekly Tax Report ERISA Letters AICPA Tax Adviser WGL Tax Journals Superseded Authoritative Accounting Literature |
Accounting Journals U.S. Treasury Regulations (Final/Temp/Proposed) Internal Revenue Bulletin/Cumulative RIA Tax Report - Income, Estate and Excise Daily Tax News Tax Notes ABA Tax Lawyer |
Segments | Vary with individual publication |
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| Law Reviews |
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| Description | Academic and professional law journals on national and state issues | Time Period | Coverage primarily begins in 1990s with some journals since the early 1980s | Notes | Good source for the status and history of U.S. and comparative state law | Files | None |
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AUTHOR (henikoff) PUBLICATION (michigan law review) TITLE (remodeling w/2 model) |
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| Federal Case Law |
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| Description | Supreme, Appeals, and District Court Decisions and Supreme Court briefs Various specialized federal court decisions | Time Period | Supreme and District court decisions since 1789; time period varies for other courts | Notes | District and appeals court decisions can be searched by including state in search terms | Files |
Supreme Courts Commerce Courts Military Courts Court of Appeals District Courts Customs and Patent Appeals |
Court of International Trade Court of Veteran Appeals Tax Courts Bankruptcy Courts Customs Courts |
Segments |
PULLDOWN MENU SEGMENTS:
FULL TEXT |
ADDITIONAL SEGMENTS TYPED IN FULL-TEXT BOX
DISPOSITION (affirmed) |
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| U.S. Code, Constitution and Court Rules |
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| Description | Constitution, laws in force, regulations in force, federal acquisitions regulations, Attorney General opinions, and court rules | Time Period | Attorney General opinions begin 1791; other sections are currently only | Notes | Federal Rules refers to court rules See Congressional Universe (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/) for Federal Register and Proposed Legislation | Files |
Federal Rules (court) Code of Federal Regulations U.S. Code |
U.S. Constitution Federal Acquisitions Regulations Attorney General Opinions | Segments | FULL TEXT | CITE | Citation Examples |
Code of Federal Regulations US Code/US Code Service |
50 CFR 17.62 16 pre/6 1801 |
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| State Legal Research |
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| Description | High and appellate court decisions Laws in force (codes), new laws (ALS), constitutions, and court rules Fifty states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands | Time Period | Current Only | Notes |
See LEXIS on-line version for state bills and administrative
codes ALS refers to very new laws before codified Code means laws-in-force To browse a law: Search text by keyword (e.g. TEXT and historical commission) | Files |
State Case Law Then choose State All Courts High Court Appellate Courts |
State Code, Constitution, Court Rules Then choose State Code, Constitution, Rules and ALS Code Constitution Rules Advanced Legislative Service |
Segments Case Law |
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physician w/p suicide state v. kevorkian 447 Mich. 436 527 N.W.2d 714 |
Segments Codes |
TEXT SECTION HEADING CITE
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grandparents and custody interstate compact and child! state affairs and nation 4.146(11) Cite searches Mich Statutes Annotated Only Use LEXIS On-Line for Mich Compiled Laws States Library, MICODE File mcl @ 3.711 |
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