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Research areas in LexisNexis™ Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.

News:

  • Current Events: more than 300 newspapers including the New York Times and the Washington Post, more than 2,500 magazines including Business Week, Time, U.S. News & World Report, American Demographics, even campus newspapers etc.
  • U.S. News (Midwest, Northeast, Southeast and Western Regional Sources)
  • Wire services
  • TV (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC) & Radio Transcripts
  • Non-English language publications in French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian
Business:

  • SEC filings
  • Hoover’s Reports
  • Standard & Poor’s Corporate descriptions
  • Nelson’s Research Firm Profiles
  • IRRC Corporate Governance Reports
Legal Research:
  • Shepard's™ Citator for Supreme Court Cases
  • U.S. Supreme Court Cases back to 1789
  • Federal and state court cases searchable by party name, citation, or keyword
  • Law review articles from over 450 law reviews
  • State codes for all 50 states and territories
  • Federal laws from 1988
  • All federal regulations including the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Acquisition Regulations, and Attorney General Opinions
Medical:

  • Full text from medical and health journals including the Lancet, Clinical Pediatrics, Annals of Health Law, Cancer Treatment Symposia, etc.
  • Full text from medical and health journals covering medical topics in general
  • Medical abstracts from the National Library of Medicine’s Medline
Reference:

  • Biographical information
  • Country profiles
  • Center for Public Opinion Research, and more…

Last revised October 30, 2007.