Funded by South Dakota taxpayers and by federal Library Services & Technology Act/LSTA monies, the SD State Library makes four Lexis/Nexis databases available free-of-charge exclusively on the personal computers of SD State Government.
Nexis/Lexis includes CIS's State and Federal legislative, statistical & policy databases, including full-text of bills, laws, regulations, statistical tables, etc. It is organized in three following databases:
- LexisNexis Congressional (indexes 1789+ )
Based on CIS's reliable indexing & abstracting of publications of the US Congress (1970+) and CIS's Legislative Histories (1970+). Provides seamless links to the full text of Federal Register (1980+); Congressional Record (1985+); Congressional working papers and legislation, including hearings & public laws (1988+); committee reports, bills & CRS bill digest (1989+); selected committee prints & Congressional documents (1995+); and the current USC, CFR, Congressional rules, hot bills/topics & committee info, as well as "The Hill", "Roll Call" and the "Washington Post" Section A. Includes Congressional member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, financial data, and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. Also included is the module "Congressional Indexes 1789-1969", which indexes the Serial Set (1817-1969) & American State Papers (1789-1830's), Congressional Committee Hearings (published & unpublished) and Prints, and Senate Executive Documents & Reports. - LexisNexis State Capital
This link automatically opens in the Congressional section, but you may navigate to the other databases listed here under the left column header "Search for Other Information".
Provides access to documents from all 50 states, including bills, laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, legislature membership, and newspapers of record. Includes bill tracking by keyword & number; statutes by keyword & statutory code by citation; Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest; regulatory reports & proposed regulations by keyword; state registers by keyword & citation; administrative codes by keyword & citation; State Net Capitol Journals; NCLS's "LegisBriefs," "State Legislatures Magazine," & "State Legislative Reports;"' state newspapers of record; and State Legislative Directory.
- LexisNexis Statistical
This link automatically opens in the Congressional section, but you may navigate to the other databases listed here under the left column header "Search for Other Information".
Find the statistics you need quickly and easily. Includes 130,000+ individually indexed statistical tables on an endless variety of topics produced by the U.S. government, important international intergovernmental organizations, and state government agencies, knowledgeable professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. Includes online versions of three renowned CIS statistical indexes:- American Statistics Index, which indexes statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973.
- Statistical Reference Index, which indexes 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward.
- Index to International Statistics, which indexes approximately 2,000 statistical publications from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations published annually since 1983