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1. There is a website for the text for this course, Roger LeRoy Miller, Frank B. Cross, and Gaylord Jentz, Essentials of the Legal Environment (2005), with accompanying Online Legal Research Guide (2005).  The link to the text website is: http://www.swlearning.com/blaw/ele/ele1e/ele1e.html.  Among other resources, this text website includes: case law updates, electronic links to sources mentioned in the text, and practice quizzes (select the chapter that you want from the drop down menu at the top, then click on the link for Interactive Quizzes on the menu at the top).

 2. The LEXIS-NEXIS, ONLINE LEGAL DATABASE:   Lexis-Nexis is an electronic law library that enables you to search a legal data-base for court cases, statutes, administrative regulations, articles and other legal materials. Here are two ways to access Lexis-Nexis:

 a. To access Lexis-Nexis, go to http://www.lexis-nexis.com and select “Academic” from the drop down menu at the top right labeled “current subscribers; sign onto your service”. Then click on “Legal Research” from the menu on the left. From there you can search many forms of legal references from the menu provided including Legal News, Law Reviews, Case Law, Codes and Regulations, and International Legal Materials.

b. Alternatively, you can access Lexis-Nexis from the OSU Web page: go to http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/; click on “Databases” in the left-hand menu. Once in the databases page, choose “Business and Economics” fro the drop-down menu (or click on “L” to get a list of the databases beginning with that letter). Choose Lexis-Nexis Academic from the results.

 To do Legal Research, click on “Legal Research”. To find a case, click on “Get a Case”; enter the case name (part or whole) or a citation for the case.  For example, to find the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in Napster, enter “Napster”; click on “A&M records v. Napster, Inc….as amended April 3, 2001”.

 Access to Lexis-Nexis has been improved to allow most students to access the database from off-campus. You generally need your student ID number for this purpose. If you are having problems accessing Lexis-Nexis from either off-campus or on campus, the Valley Library may be able to help you. The Business & Sciences Librarian’s name is Margaret Mellinger. 

 Last revised: March 2005.

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