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In addition to a wealth of law review, legal news, and case law sources, LexisNexis Academic provides access to a number of state and federal codes and regulations.
If you want to locate articles from a particular publication, click on the Sources link on the top navigation bar. When you click on Sources, LexisNexis Academic displays a directory of all the publications that are included within the service. You can search for an individual title by entering a name in the box and clicking the Find Title button. Or, you can browse the alphabetical list by clicking the link for the letter that corresponds to the source title you want to find.
The fourth major research area within LexisNexis Academic is Medical. The Medical research area centralizes medical information by providing access to Medical News, Medical & Health Journals, as well as Abstracts from the Medline® database. MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of medical journals dating to 1966 from the National Library of Medicine. A useful finding aid for further research, it enables you to read short summaries of articles that have appeared in medical journals and gather citations to guide your further research.
Now that you’re familiar with the product’s home page, it’s almost time to explore the five major research categories within LexisNexis Academic: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical, and Reference. But first let’s review some basics about navigating, connectors, wildcards, and noise words.
Fields or segments are standard and consistent parts of documents that relate to the structure of the document, as opposed to its content. These fields may vary depending on the source material selected, and not every field will be present in every document. Although different sets of documents potentially contain certain predictable fields, not all available fields occur in every document. In case law, the most common searchable fields are: Plaintiff Defendant Judges Opinion By Opinion Text Dissenting Opinion By Concurring Opinion By Citation Counsel Headnotes and Syllabus
Legal research is based on the concept of “stare decis,” indicating that courts follow or adhere to previously decided cases. Generally, where the facts are similar or the facts are essential ly the same in two court cases, the tendency is to follow the older or previous court’s decision.
The third and last component of the Home Page is the central part of the screen and consists of our most commonly requested search forms. There, you’ll see Quick News Search, Get a Case, and