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Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Full-text business and law information. Business coverage includes articles from newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, plus company information and other materials. Law coverage includes encyclopedia articles, law reviews and journals, and primary sources (an annotated version of the US Code, federal and state court cases, and other materials).

How to Retrieve and Search for Cases
This quick reference guide from Thomson Reuters shows you how to retrieve a case by citation or name, keyword search for cases, and how to understand and manipulate the results page in Westlaw.
How to Locate Additional Related Authority (Video)
This video shows you how to locate additional related authority in Westlaw; in other words, how to navigate to related documents.
How to Search with Boolean Terms and Connectors
This quick reference guide shows how to search with Boolean terms and connectors, as well as how to use the advanced search in Westlaw.
How to Check the Status of a Case Using KeyCite
This document shows explains how to identify the status of a case in Westlaw. By status, they mean if the case is still considered good law (or not) or if it has some negative history. It also shows how to find the direct history of a document, as well as its citation history.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

Shepardize a Document
This help page from Nexis Uni explains how to use their tool that "provides a comprehensive report of the cases, statutes, secondary sources, and annotations that cite your authority, including more recent cases that rely on your starting case."
Proximity Connectors
This page shows you how to use the Proximity Connectors in Nexis Uni.
Search Connector Wildcards
This help article shows you how to use wildcard characters to search for variant spellings of words in Nexis Uni.
Searching for Common Legal Phrases
This help page explains how to search for common legal phrases indexed in Nexis Uni.