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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 Congressional
This module includes the complete CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress, with abstracts and indexing to all Congressional publications since 1970. Detailed digital access to the full text of Congressional publications, including:
Reports
Hearings
Committee prints
Bills
The Congressional Record
The Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations
Information on Congressional members, including biographical and financial information and voting records
Optional Modules for LexisNexis Congressional:
Statutes-at-Large (Requires subscription to LexisNexis Congressional) Direct web access to every volume of the United States Statutes-at-Large from 1789 to the present.
Congressional Indexes 1789-1969 (Requires subscription to LexisNexis Congressional) Extends the scope of the database by almost 200 years by bringing to the web CIS's indexes to its comprehensive microform collections of historical Congressional documents, as well as CIS's index to its continuously updated collection of unpublished hearings. Document collections indexed:
CIS U.S. Serial Set Index
U.S. Congressional Committee Hearings Index
Congressional Committee Prints Index
Index to U.S. Senate Executive Documents and Reports
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index provides easy online access to the wealth of material published by the United States federal government. As a publisher of information relating to diverse subjects - business, agriculture, national security, the environment, nutrition, transportation and more - the federal government offers numerous magazines and newsletters with substantial research value. Examples of topics that Government Periodicals Index can help researchers with include:
Preparedness for chemical warfare
The latest in cancer therapy advances
Teaching English as a second language
Opportunities for selling U.S. products in foreign markets
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
Access state newspapers of record
LexisNexis Statistical Insight
LexisNexis Statistical Insight brings together statistical data from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources and makes them searchable through one easy-to-use interface. It gives you full bibliographic control of statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; and knowledgeable professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities including:
all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS' American Statistics Index
some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS' Statistical Reference Inde
approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS' Index to International Statistics
search results can be filtered using facets (for example, by state or by country), source, publication date, or subject. Institutions can subscribe to the entire collection or to selected modules.
LexisNexis Statistical Optional Modules LexisNexis Statistical includes add-on content modules for the LexisNexis Statistical Base Edition: statistics issued by the Federal government; statistics issued by state, local, and private sources; and statistics issued by international intergovernmental organizations. Available modules include:
LexisNexis Statistical Insight Tables Web Service (Requires subscription to LexisNexis Statistical Insight)
Provides line-item access to over 1,000,000 individually indexed tables selected from the major statistical compilations and special studies issued by the federal government, private research firms, state governments, and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
Up to 130,000 new tables are added yearly.
All tables are available as images.
Since 2006, all tables have been available in both image and Excel formats.
LexisNexis Statistical Abstracts & Indexes Web Service - American Statistics Index (ASI) (Requires subscription to LexisNexis Statistical Insight)
ASI abstracts and indexes federal statistical publications; available materials date from 1973 forward.
As the largest research organization in the world, the U.S. government is the best source for data on almost any topic, including demography, crime, economics, health, education, international trade, labor, energy, and the environment.
Full text PDF documents are available from 2004 forward.
LexisNexis Statistical Abstracts & Indexes Web Service - Statistical Reference Index (SRI) (Requires subscription to LexisNexis Statistical Insight)
SRI abstracts and indexes significant statistical publications of state and private sector sources in the U.S. dating from 1980 forward.
These sources include professional and trade associations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state governments, and universities.
Full text documents from licensed sources are available from 2008 forward.
LexisNexis Statistical Abstracts & Indexes Web Service - Index to International Statistics (IIS) (Requires subscription to LexisNexis Statistical Insight)
IIS abstracts and indexes key statistical titles from international intergovernmental organizations dating from 1983 forward.
Among these organizations are the United Nations, the European Union, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank and other development banks.
Full text documents are available from 2007 forward.
Statistical DataSets
LexisNexis Statistical DataSets is a Web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to more than 16 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface The product is completely interactive and results are instantaneous. Each time a user clicks on a new element, the elements that are shown in the display area are updated, and a new table, chart, and/or map appear.
Statistical DataSets - China Data
This is a supplemental collection that members can subscribe to with the Statistical DataSets product, or add-on to their existing DataSets subscription. The addition of China Data adds sub-national data by Chinese province, county, and municipality to the DataSets product.
EASI Market Planner
Allows users to develop model-based indicators of demographic characteristics, consumer spending and behavior patterns for a wide range of geographic regions.
Interactive tools that allow mapping, graphing, analyzing data on consumer demographics, usage/ spending patterns for products and services, and more allow students and as well as seasoned researchers to tailor the results to fit their specific needs
IMF Data from the International Monetary Fund that is available as four different subscriptions.
Balance of Payments by country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1948 to the present.
Direction of Trade by country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1980 to the present.
Government Finance Statistics by country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1990 to the present.
International Finance Statistics by country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1948 to the present.
