Library of Congress Subject Heading and LexisNexis Terms
Numbers below correspond with the Topics from Jan Novak’s Business 10 Assignment Sheet
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LexisNexis
Liability (Law) can be added to most of these.
Liability (can be added to most of these)
Torts (also a common search term)
Torts
1. Property, right of property, public expenditures,
Eminent domain
Appropriations (limit to Property Law articles)
2. Accounting AND negligence
(also use Actions and Defenses)
Accounting AND negligence
3. Lawyers—Malpractice AND negligence
Attorney and Client AND negligence
Professional negligence
4. Assumption of the risk AND negligence
Assumption of the risk AND negligence
5. Products Liability AND misuse
Products Liability AND product misuse
6. Products Liability AND design defects
Products Liability AND design defects
7. Products Liability AND manufactures—defects
Products Liability AND manufacturing defects
8. Products Liability AND warning labels
Products Liability AND warranty
Products Liability AND product safety
Products Liability AND product labeling
Products Liability AND product warranties
9. Patent Laws & Legislation AND software
Patent infringement AND software
Patent Suits AND software
Patents AND software
Software patents (if in law reviews, limit
to intellectual property law review articles)
10. Music AND Piracy (copyright) AND file sharing (computers)
music AND copyright AND file sharing
Also: music AND copyright AND file sharing
(if in law reviews, limit to intellectual property
Or: music AND copyright and downloading
law review articles)
11. Trade dress (expand to TX all text in EBSCOhost)
AND restaurants (expand to TX all text)
trade dress protection AND restaurants
(if in law reviews, limit to intellectual property
Law review articles)—(may need to drop the
word “protection” for court cases)
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LexisNexis
12. Cybersquatting (as keyword)
You may find more using the following:
Internet Domain names, Internet Addresses
Internet—Law and Legislation
Combine above with Trademarks, Intellectual property
cybersquatting (if in law reviews limit to
intellectual property Law review articles)
13. Labor Laws & Legislation AND classification
AND independent contractors AND employees
(expand last three to TX all text)
classification AND independent contractors
AND employees (if in law reviews, limit to
labor law review articles)
14. unemployment AND law and legislation
Insurance, unemployment AND law and legislation
unemployment insurance (if in law
reviews, limit to labor law review articles)
15. Workers’ compensation AND Law and Legislation
AND California
workers’ compensation AND california
(if in law reviews, limit to labor law review
articles. For codes, limit to California-Deering’s. For court cases, limit to California)
16. Leave of Absence—Law and Legislation
Parental Leave—Law and Legislation
(or do keyword search on “Family and Medical
Leave Act”)
Family and Medical Leave Act (if in law
reviews, limit to labor law review articles)
17. Privacy, right of and Drugs & Employment
privacy rights AND employees AND
drug testing
18. Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace
electronic monitoring AND workplace
AND privacy (if in law reviews, limit to labor
law review articles)
19. Pregnancy AND sex discrimination in employment
Pregnant women AND sex discrimination in employment
Pregnancy AND sex and gender
discrimination in employment (if in law
reviews, limit to labor law review articles)
20. Reasonable accommodation (expand to TX all text)
People with disabilities AND discrimination AND workplace
reasonable accommodation (if in law
reviews, limit to labor law review articles)
21. Age discrimination in employment
age discrimination (if in law reviews, limit
To labor law review articles)
22. Sexual orientation AND discrimination
In employment, Gay rights AND discrimination
In employment, Homophobia AND discrimination
In employment
sexual orientation AND discrimination
in employment
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LexisNexis
23. Religion in the workplace
Religious discrimination in employment
24. Sexual harassment AND workplace
sexual harassment in employment
(note: need to do more to narrow down who is doing the harassing. See librarian for help)
25. Deceptive advertising—law and legislation
False or misleading advertising