Legal research content: cases of the federal and state governments in the United States (including full-text cases of about 300 years); United States Supreme Court case (1790 to present); Appeals of the United States Supreme Court; Cases and judgments of district courts and state courts in the United States; All federal laws and regulations; 50 national regulations; Legal review (papers from more than 450 review magazines); European federal law; Patent database (including full-text patents in Europe, America and Japan since 1980), laws, regulations and cases of Commonwealth countries, relevant cases and regulations of WTO, and other legal topics.
Newspapers, magazines and academic journals: the information of LexisNexis news service comes from more than 9,000 data sources around the world. Information types include major newspapers, international magazines, academic journals and other services. Academic journals include a full set of ABI notification full-text materials.
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