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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 Description:
A premier resource for legal research that provides access to the full-text of laws, court opinions and law journal articles, it also includes a vast amount of news and business information.
What's Covered:
Federal and state laws (codes and statutes), federal and state court opinions, newspaper articles, newswire releases, transcripts of selected television and radio news broadcasts, law journals, business news, federal regulations, magazine articles, accounting standards, company profiles and SEC filings (10-K's, 10-Q's, and exhibits).
Subjects Covered:
Law, legal research, business, company information, news/current events
Access to the full-text: Full-text included in LexisNexis.
Dates Covered: Varies (most news and articles sources from the late 1990's - present, some court cases from as early as the 18th & 19th centuries).
Journal/Periodical Titles Covered:
7000+
(list of sources)
Availability: Available freely on-campus, off-campus restricted to current CSU Stanislaus faculty, students and staff
Platform: LexisNexis Academic
CSU Stanislaus URL: http://library.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?319
Easy Search
Default search: Boolean AND (modified)
Truncation symbol: ! (exclamation mark)
Phrase searching: "phrase" (enclose phrase in quotation marks)
Boolean And: and (implied)
Boolean OR: or
Power Search - Terms and Connectors
Default search: phrase
Truncation symbol: ! (exclamation mark)
Phrase searching: default
Boolean And: and
Boolean OR: or
Boolean NOT: and not
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