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Description: A premier resource for legal research that provides access to the full-text of laws, court opinions and law journal articles, and also an excellent resource for news and business information.
What's Covered: Laws (codes and statutes) and court opinions (Federal and state), newspaper articles, newswire releases, transcripts of selected television and radio news broadcasts, law journals, business news and journals, federal regulations, magazine articles, accounting standards, company profiles and SEC filings (10-K's, 10-Q's, and exhibits).
Access to the full-text: Lexis provides the full-text of almost all (90%+) sources listed.
Dates Covered: Varies (most article sources from the late 1990's - present, some court cases as early as the 1700's)
Note for Users of Apple's Safari Browsers: For Safari to correctly display search results from
LexisNexis, it is necessary to install the March 2008 or
(later update) for OS 10.5, or the April 2008 (or later) update for OS 10.4
Availability: Available freely on-campus, off-campus restricted to current CSU Stanislaus faculty, students and staff
CSU Stanislaus URL: http://library.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?319
Search Operators (Easy Search)
Default search: Relevance search similar to Boolean AND
Truncation symbol: ! (exclamation point)
Phrase searching: "phrase" (enclose phrase in quotation marks)
Boolean And: and (implied)
Boolean OR: or
Boolean NOT: not available
Search Operators (Power Search - Natural Language):
Default search: Relevance search similar Boolean AND
Truncation symbol: not supported
Phrase searching: "phrase" (enclose phrase in quotation marks)
Boolean And: (implied)
Boolean OR: not available
Boolean NOT: not available
Search Operators (Power Search - Terms and Connectors):
Default search: Exact phrase search
Truncation symbol: ! (exclamation point)
Phrase searching: "phrase" (enclose phrase in quotation marks)
Boolean And: and
Boolean OR: or
Boolean NOT: and not
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