A-Z Databases

Lexis+ brings expanded News, Business and Law content to the Library -

• NEWS: News & Business content representing 37,000 sources, including full text national, regional, local, and international newspapers; broadcast transcripts from ABC, CBS, CBNC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, and others; more than 600 international, national, and regional wire services; as well as content including magazines, newsletters, journals, and editorially selected blogs


• BUSINESS: Company & Financial content with Information covering 370 million companies and 75 million business executives; Data and analysis from Dun & Bradstreet, Hoover’s, Standard & Poor’s, and more; Market and industry information, real-time SEC filings and a complete archive of all electronic filings from 1987, PDFs of annual reports from around the globe, and more.


• LAW: Primary Legal content including cases, codes, regulations, agency materials and legislative materials for federal and all 50 states (including DC, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam); Shepard’s Citation Services, both a case history and a general citator; Law reviews and bar journals; Lexis+ Practical Guidance, a collection of ready-to-use practice notes, checklists, forms, drafting tools and insights from thousands of leading practitioners.

The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals focuses on the first ninety years of the federal appellate court system's history, drawing together a remarkable collection of legal primary source documents long unavailable to researchers. This collection chronicles the evolution of the appellate courts, deepening our understanding of social, economic, political, and historical issues from 1891 through Reagan's first term in the 1980s. This collection makes searchable nearly two million pages of briefs from appellants, appellees, and supporters (through amicus briefs). It also includes appellant and appellee replies, appendices, memoranda, petitions, statements, transcripts, and more.
New! Part I: 1950-1980 features more than 600,000 pages of briefs (appellants', appellees', reply, amicus), appendices, memoranda, petitions, transcripts, and more from the lower courts. More than presentations of legal issues, these historical documents provide a comprehensive review of trial history from all courts of appeals, including these major circuits:

• Second Circuit, New York— one of the most influential, often cited in business and copyright law rulings
• District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, D.C.— especially relevant to cases on constitutional and administrative law
• Ninth Circuit, California— regarded as the most liberal of circuit courts

Part II: 1891-1950 aims to address questions such as: How much was the work of sociologists, psychologists, and historians cited? What attention did the courts pay to those citations? What nonlegal evidence was brought to court or cited? Did the court pay attention? Researchers will be able to gain insights into legal reasoning used by the parties in advocating their position and to identify the authorities used to support an argument.