Research Tips for BPST 314: Business Legal Environment

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Research Tips for BPST 314Business Legal
Environment

• Paul Boger
• CGPS Reference Librarian
• pboger_at_umw.edu

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Business and Legal Databases
Todays featured database

• Access to business, financial, and legal
  information
• Different databases will provide different
  information

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Where do I begin?
How do I find Lexis-Nexis?
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Databases 24/7

• Database A-Z list
• Databases by Subject

• Research Guides

• Click the drop-down menu by Research by
  Subject
• Click on Professional Studies (BPS) to access
  suggested research resources
• Click GO

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Databases 24/7

• Click on the name of a database to begin
  searching

Legal research news
Company and business research
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Can I use the databases from home?
Yes!
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Company Dossier Search

• Click the Business tab
• Perform a Company Dossier search
• Enter your company name or ticker symbol
• Click Search

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Company Dossier Search
Click here to perform another search

• Click the name of your company to find detailed
  business information
• Under Company Type, note the differences for
  parent vs. subsidiary, and public vs. private
  companies

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Company Dossier Results

• Use the Reports menu to locate additional legal
  and financial information
• Print, email, save your results

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SEC Filings

• Use the Business search menu to locate
  different business information
• Select SEC Filings

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SEC Filings

• Enter a company name or ticker symbol to
  retrieve full text corporate SEC filings
• Use Select Sources to search for a specific
  SEC form
• Limit your searches by time period

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Legal Search

• Navigate between subject searches by using the
  tab selections in the red menu
• Click the Legal option to search the Legal
  Section of the database

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LexisNexis Academic Federal State Cases

• Use the Legal Searches menu (on the right) to
  navigate to different legal search options
• Click on Federal State Cases

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Legal Citation Search

• Enter your legal citations
• Spacing and punctuation are important
• Use the Select Sources menu to limit your
  results to federal or state information
• Click Search

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Legal Citation Results
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Case Search

• In the same search screen, you can also search
  by litigants
• Only one name required
• You can even search by keywords

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LexisNexis Academic Federal State Codes

• Use the Legal Searches menu (on the right) to
  navigate within the different legal search
  options
• Click on Federal State Codes

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LexisNexis Academic Federal State Codes

• Enter your keywords
• Use quotation marks for an exact phrase
• Select the correct legal sources

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Results List

• Full text links
• Sort by Publication Date or Relevance
• Print, email, save
• Results breakdown
• Editing searches and new searches
• Search within your results list

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Search Tips

• Different portals business, legal, news
• Full text
• Searching
• Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR), phrase
  searching (), truncation (!)
• Natural Language form of a question
• Save, print, email in pdf, html, or word

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Legal Dictionaries

• Blacks Law Dictionary in print in the CGPS
  Library (KF156 .B53 2004 REF)

• Oxford Dictionary of Law online through the
  Oxford Reference Online database

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Legal Dictionary

• Start at the Databases A to Z page
• Click on the letter O

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Legal Dictionary Oxford Reference Online
Click the Law selection
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Oxford Dictionary of Law
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Will all of my books and articles be available in
the CGPS Library?
No

• Illiad to request materials from the Simpson
  Library
• Create an Illiad Account
• Online forms
• Books are free 2 per article
• 24-48 hours from Simpson Library
• Go to Simpson and use your EagleOne Card

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What if UMW doesnt have what I need?

• Illiad to request materials from other
  libraries
• Create an Illiad Account
• Online forms
• 10 requests free 2 each beyond 10
• 1-2 weeks from another Library
• Delivered to CGPS Library

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Need help? Have Questions?

• Come to the Library
• Mondays - Thursdays 1 p.m. - 9 p.m.
• Fridays 1 p.m. - 7 p.m.
• Saturdays 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• Contact the Library Staff
• cgpslib_at_umw.edu
• 540-286-8025
• Set up a Research Appointment
• pboger_at_umw.edu
• 540-286-8066

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