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LEXIS-NEXIS UNIVerse

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe is a full text database available through the Library Networked Databases to users either directly from the Library, the campus network or from home via connection to the UD web. From home, use University of Delaware PPP connection and Netscape, or if using a non-UD Internet service provider access the Web Proxy Server (see <http://www. udel.edu/help/> for instructions).

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe offers a myriad of features; for example, the "General News Topics" file, which is one of 18 files in the database, contains the full text of current and backfiles of newspaper articles, scholarly journal articles, popular and trade magazine articles, transcripts and newsletters from both United States and international sources in many languages.

Legal information is a large component of LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe. Included among the files are "Legal News;" "Law Reviews;" "Federal Case Law," which includes the Supreme Court, tax courts, district courts and bankruptcy courts; "U.S. Code, Constitution and Courts Rules;" and "State Legal Research," which includes state case law, state codes, constitutions and court rules.

Another major subject area in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe is business information. The files include "Company News;" "Industry and Market News;" and "Company Financial Information," which includes SEC 10-K Reports, SEC Annual Reports, and Disclosure Reports.