LexisNexis Academic is an outstanding service for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media. An impressively deep backfile lets you find contemporary accounts of events that took place decades ago. The main strengths of Academic include:
News, current events, and commentary
- Newspapers and new magazines, including major publications from the U.S. and around the world and local publications from all 50 states
- TV and radio broadcast transcripts
- Wire services
- Blogs and web-based publications
- Subject indexing to take you right to editorials, critical reviews, science, business, sports and other news categories
Business
- Business news and analysis publications
- Industry and market news for sectors ranging from petroleum extraction to education
- Company information, including SEC filings and company profiles
- Country profiles and business conditions
Legal
- Law reviews and journals
- U.S. case law, including case summaries, headnotes, and Shepard's Citations for all federal and state courts
- U.S. statutes
- Canadian and European case law and legal materials
