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LexisNexis Academic Research Guide

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Note: Off-campus access to some online sources is restricted to current UCF students, faculty, and staff via Pegasus or Proxy servers.

Education Case Law

LexisNexis Academic home page
Direct links to search forms:
Education Law (LexisNexis Wiki for Higher Education)
This research guide provides additional tips for researching education law in LexisNexis Academic, LexisNexis Congressional, and LexisNexis Statistical.
  • Definitions
  • Key Topics
  • Major Legislation
  • Law Reviews & Newsletters
  • Professional Journals & News Sources
Sorting the search results:
With the results of your search displayed, use the options in the left column to:
  1. List Results by State - Change the drop-down selection for Result Groups from "Sources by Category" to "Publication Name". The result groups in the left column will list the individual states, organized with the states with the most reported cases first. NOTE: There may be more than one group in the list for each state, e.g., cases from the Courts of Appeals and from the Supreme Court.
  2. Group State Publications Together - Select the "A-Z" button near the top of the left column to resort the publications alphabetically, which should pull together all of the groups for each state, e.g., FL Courts of Appeals Cases from 1957 followed by FL Supreme Court Cases from 1846 (if there are results in both levels of court).
  3. View Multiple Groups - To display the results of two or more groups simultaneously, select "View Multiple Groups" near the top of the left column, check the boxes for the desired groups, and select the "View Selected" button.
How to navigate from the LexisNexis Academic home page to the search forms for sources:
  1. Connect to the LexisNexis Academic home page
  2. Sources - Select the "Sources" tab near the top left of the page
  3. Area of Law - In "Browse Sources", step 1, change from "Publication Type" to "Area of Law"
  4. Education Law - In "Browse Sources", step 3 - "Select a category to view sources", scroll down and select the folder for "Education Law"
  5. Federal & State Education Law Cases - Check the boxes for one or more sources to be searched, e.g., "Federal & State Education Law Cases".
  6. OK - Continue - Select the "OK - Continue" button on the right side of the screen, which will connect to the Power Search form with the source(s) you chose as the selection in the "Select Sources" drop-down box.
  7. Conduct your search.

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Foreign Language News Sources

LexisNexis Academic home page
Direct links to search forms for specific languages:
Direct links to other non-English search forms:

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Legal Sources

LexisNexis Academic home page
Education Case Law
Standard Legal Search Forms
Direct links to search forms:
Other Research Guides (LexisNexis Wiki for Higher Education)
  • Administrative Law
  • Consumer Law
  • Education Law
  • Entertainment Law
  • Human Resources Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Personal Injury Law
  • Real Estate Law

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News Sources

LexisNexis Academic home page
News Search Form
provides multiple lines for entering the search terms, and has a drop-down box for restricting the search to specific news sources, including some of the sources listed below.
Guides for Specific Types of Searches
  • News Search
    • Find a Critical Review
    • Find an Editorial or Opinion Piece
    • Find an Obituary
  • Power Search
    • Find a Transcript
    • Get a Document
    • Search News by Date
    • Use the Index
  • Sources Tab
    • Find Foreign Language News
    • Search Newspapers by State
Direct links to other news search forms:
Sources in this list followed by a percentage sign (%) also appear in the drop-down box on the News Search Form, which provides more structure for searching.

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Treaties

Treaty Resources in LexisNexis Academic
  • Basic Documents of International Economic Law
  • EUR-Lex EU Law Database: Treaties
  • International Legal Materials
  • Native American People Treaties, Ratified & Unratified
  • Tax Analysts Worldwide Tax Treaties Combined Files
  • U.S. Treaties on Lexis
  • USCS - International Conventions

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Additional Sources

LexisNexis Online Tutorials
LexisNexis Academic Help Pages
LexisNexis Wiki for Higher Education
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Durable URLs - NOTE: UCF users should add the ucfproxy address to the beginning, e.g.
    http://ezproxy.lib.ucf.edu/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/api/version1/sf?shr=t&sfi=AC00NBGenSrch&csi=224213
  • Academic Binder Series - short task-based guides to conducting specific types of research
  • Research Help provides articles about researching various topics.

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Ask a Librarian

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Last Updated (RG): July 19, 2010