Subject Specific Databases

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Court Cases

Lexis-Nexis
  • Go into Lexis-Nexis
  • Select Legal (small button at the top)
  • Click Federal and State Cases on the left

You can type in keywords in the big box, or case names in the side-by-side boxes mid-screen. The search still works if you reverse the plaintiff and defendant’s names, or if you only type in one name.

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Academic Search Premier  Full-text, 1970s – present

More than 4,500 journals on all different subjects: psychology, business, education, chemistry, and more.

LexisNexis  full text, 1980s - present

Lexis Nexis provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Some of this information includes:

  • National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.
  • U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information.
  • Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
  • Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

Using LexisNexis to Find News Articles

Using LexisNexis to Find Company Information for Business

Internet Resources

Search.edu

Search engine that allows you to limit your search to .edu (educational) sites. This site also links to a .gov (government) search engine. Sites retrieved from these search engines are, in general, likely to be more reliable than a typical google search.

Internet Public Library

A searchable collection of online webpages and resources compiled by students and faculty at several library and information science schools across the country.

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ARTstor  images

Database of over 500,000 images from different time periods and cultures.

ARTstor uses pop-ups. If you are using a pop-up blocker, you must disable it before opening ARTstor.

Reference Books

The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
REF BL31 .O84 1997

The Encyclopedia of American Religious History
REF BL2525 .Q44 1996

The Encyclopedia of Religion
REF BL31 .E46 1987

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