Research Tips for

BUAD 283:

Legal Environment of

Business

Laura Berberian

Social Sciences Librarian

lberberi@umw.edu

Business and Legal Databases:

• Access to business, financial, and legal information

• Different databases will provide different information

Business Source Complete Legal Collection

Can I use the databases from

home?

jsmith

password

• You will have to

log-in to the

databases when

off-campus

• Log in with your

UMW email

username and

password (these

are the same

credentials you

use to log in to

Canvas)

Go to libraries.umw.edu/

LexisNexis Academic Guide

From the “Help Guide” page, select:

• Click on “Get Company Info”

• search by Name or Ticker Symbol

• Or select “Company Dossier”

: Company Dossier 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

: Company Dossier Search

: Company Dossier Results

• Use the Reports menu to

locate additional

information on a company

• Under “Legal,” click on

“recent cases” for cases

involving your company

: SEC Filings

• Select “Search

by Content

Type”

• click on “SEC

Filings”

• enter keywords

in the search

field

• Click on

“advanced

options” to

narrow your

search to

specific

sources

: Federal & State Cases

• From the LexisNexis home page, select “Search by Content

Type”

• Select “Federal and State Cases”

• Select “advanced search”

: Legal Citation Results

• Enter your keywords

•Select the correct legal sources

• Click “Search”

: Federal Statutes and

Regulations

: Results List

• Full text links

• Sort by “Publication

Date” or “Relevance”

• Print, email, save

• Results breakdown

• Edit searches and start

new searches

• Search within your

results list

• Different subject portals – business, legal, news

• Full text

• Searching:

• Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR)

• Phrase searching – use quotation marks

• Truncation – use exclamation point (!)

• Natural Language – form of a question

• Save, print, email – in pdf, html, or word

: Search Tips

Legal Dictionaries:

• Oxford Dictionary of Law – online

through the “Oxford Reference Online”

database

• Black’s Law Dictionary – in print

in the Stafford Campus Library

(KF156 .B53 2004 REF)

Oxford Dictionary of Law• Start at the “Databases A to Z” page

• Click on the letter “O”

• Click “Oxford Reference Online Premium”

Oxford Reference Online

Click the Law

selection

Oxford Law Sources:

• Search all of the

law titles

OR

• Select a specific

title to search

Interlibrary loan (ILL) – to request materials from other

library systems

Create an ILL Account

Make requests via online forms

20 free requests per semester

24-48 hour delivery from Simpson Library

What if UMW doesn’t have what I need?

Need help? Have Questions?

Set up a Research Appointment

with Laura Berberian, Social

Sciences Librarian

lberberi@umw.edu

540-654-1742