Lexis

Lexis is a huge database which offers mainly North American content, but includes sources from other countries. It also offers extensive coverage for journal articles in full text

Lexis provides access to extensive primary and secondary sources for the US. It also has a large collection of material for other jurisdictions, with a variable amount of coverage depending on the jurisdiction.

Note: Lexis doesn’t consistently open the same page when you first log in, and the instructions on this page may be difficult to follow unless you start from the same page as us! If the database opens at the page shown in the image here on the right (the “All”tab page), it needs to be changed to the “Legal”tab screen as shown in the image below.

• Lexis organises its sources under jurisdictions which, apart from the US, are organised under

  Find Laws by country or Region

  , lower down in the right hand column.

• All jurisdictions apart from the US which are included in Lexis are accessible via the

  Foreign Laws & Legal Sources

  library.

• Key word searches are good for finding out what’s available on a general topic
• Segment searching (aka field searching) works well if you have a very specific search in mind as you can limit your search so the terms only appear in certain fields.

Author: international

Mentioned in these Entries

Advocacy, American Law Reports (ALR), Annotations, Bloomberg Law, Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research, Court Reports, Expert Witnesses, Foreign law resources, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade resources, Guide to sport, tourism, arts and events management laws, How to search legal journal indexes?, Indexes to Legal Periodicals, International business arbitration, International economic law sources, International law journals, International law sources, KeySearch, Law Journals and Law Reviews, Law library, Legal Education future, Legal Research, Legal Resources Index, Legal Trac, Lexis’ Case Search, List of Legal Databases and Indexes, List of Legal History Broader Databases, Oxford Reports on International Law, PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service, Sociological Abstracts, The Internal Structure of the Criminal Law, To be define law schools, U.S. Constitution law resources, U.S. Digests, UK Case citators, country.