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Around the world, professionals in business, law, and government turn to LexisNexis for their critical research needs every day. LexisNexis has been known to set the standard for powerful, precise, and authoritative results.
LexisNexis Library Express now makes the same professional results available to Iowa City Public Library cardholders. This powerful, easy-to-use, Web-based service is a unique combination of news, business, and legal information.
This new service allows patrons access to over 9,500 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and foreign-language sources.
Sources include:
• News
• Business News and Trade Publications
• Legal Research
• Company Information, including SEC filings
• Biographical
• Patents
Give LexisNexis a try by visiting our Online Resources page.
Library Express News Sources Include:
• Full-text of more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, many same day of publication, plus extensive archives going back over 25 years for some publications. Coverage includes national papers such as the New York Times and Washington Post, regional U.S. papers, and a wide range of English- and foreign-language papers from around the world.
• More than 300 magazines and journals and over 600 newsletters, including: American Journalism Review, Business Week, The Economist, Library Journal, New Republic, Newsweek, and Variety
• Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and NPR, as well as political transcripts covering Congressional committee hearings, press briefings from the State, Justice, and Defense departments, and presidential news conferences.
• Wire services, updated several times a day, including respected names such as the Associated Press, Business Wire and PR Newswire
Library Express Business Sources Include:
• Business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees.
• This information is particularly helpful to those patron involved with local small business, doing market or competitive research, investors researching company information and financial indicators, as well as those individuals preparing for job interviews.
• News sources include: Accountancy Age, BuyOuts, Consumer Electronics, Design News, Electrical World, IPO Reporter, Mergers and Acquisitions Reports, and more.
• Financial information sources include: Standard & Poor’s Corporate Descriptions, Hoover’s Company Reports, Disclosure Reports, International company and stock reports, and more.
• SEC filings and reports include: SEC 10-Q Reports, SEC 10-K Reports, SEC 8-K Reports, SEC 20-F Reports, SEC Annual Reports to Shareholders
Proxy Statements, Prospectuses, Registration, Williams Act Filings
Library Express Legal Research Sources Include:
• Primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations or dive into secondary source materials such as legal news or law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic.
• Legal research sources include: Law review articles from over 500 publications; Legal news from more than 300 legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters; U.S. Supreme Court decisions from January 1790 to present, searchable by majority opinion, minority opinion, concurring opinion, counsel, or headnotes
• U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decisions; U.S. District Court decisions from 1789 to present
• Decisions from Bankruptcy Courts, U.S. Court of International Trade, Tax Courts, Courts of Customs and Patent Appeals, and Veterans, Commerce, and Military Courts
• State court decisions at all court levels for all 50 states and territories
Federal regulations: Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and Federal Acquisition Regulations and Supplements
• Codes for all 50 states and territories, plus constitutions, court rules, and Attorneys General opinions
• The IRS bulletin, IRS regulations, ABA Tax Lawyer, AICPA Tax Adviser, and more
• Patents from 1971 forward, searchable by keyword, patent number, classification number, lawyer, assignee, inventor, or summary
European Union law from the CELEX database and international case law from a number of other countries
• Law school directories, including the Martindale-Hubbell Law School Directory and NALP National Directory of Law Schools
Other Sources:
In addition to the news, business, and legal sources described above, LexisNexis Library Express provides access to:
• Medical information, including medical news and medical & health journals. Abstracts from medical journals dating to 1966 are provided in the National Library of Medicine’s Medline database
• Biographical information
• Country and state profiles
• World Almanac and Book of Facts
The Iowa City Public Library offers access to a number of online resources including subscription databases (such as LexisNexis) on a great variety of subjects. Access to subscription databases from anywhere but the Iowa City Public Library requires a current Iowa City Public Library card and a password and because of licensing restrictions are available only to residents of Iowa City and of areas covered by contracts for library service: rural Johnson County and the cities of Hills and University Heights.
The LexisNexis Logo is reproduced with the permission of the publisher, LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions.
For more information on ICPL’s Online Resources, contact:
Maeve Clark, Information Services Coordinator, Iowa City Public Library
319-887-6004, maeve-clark@icpl.org
