 using Lexis-Nexis Academic to locate federal and state administrative law. Once legislation is passed through Congress affecting public policy, it is often up to an existing federal agency, or sometimes a newly created federal agency, to regulate the new policy. For example, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act states, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may establish an office to be known as the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect. In order to fully understand the policy, you must examine the rules and regulations developed by Health and Human Services. These rules and regulations are sometimes called regulatory law or administrative law and can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations. To find the Code of Federal Regulations, begin at the public policy in the US Subject Guide on the Regulatory Law tab. And in the box under Federal Regulations is a link for Lexis-Nexis Academic. Connect to the database. Lexis-Nexis is a large database that contains magazines, newspapers, company information, as well as legal information. In the blue sidebar, click on US Legal. Right now, we are looking for the federal regulations, so we want to choose federal statutes, codes, and regulations. Notice that the Select Source box by default only has the box for the annotated US Code selected. The US Code is the subject arrangement of the public laws passed by Congress, we are looking for regulations, so we need to uncheck the annotated US Code and check the CFR, Code of Federal Regulations. In the search box, I am going to type in quotation marks, child abuse prevention. The reason I am using quotation marks is to tell the database that I only want to see results with that exact phrase, those four words in that exact order. Otherwise, the database may return lots of results that mention child abuse and mention prevention, but are not necessarily related to this particular act. Lexis-Nexis finds 12 results. They are automatically sorted from the newest to the oldest or the most recently changed regulations at the top. The first is simply a proclamation from the president proclaiming March to be National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The second is relates to Coast Guard personnel and child development centers. Definitely not what we're looking for. But the third hit, 45 CFR 1340 relates to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment Program. When I select 45 CFR 1340.1, I get the full text of that section of the regulation in the right frame and an expandable and contractable table of contents in the left frame. The text here is telling me that this regulation implements the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. The table of contents on the left here is helpful because I can see that all of part 1340 is about child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment. Subpart A are the general provisions. Subpart B are about grants to states. And subpart C are about discretionary grants and contracts. And I can move through these sections using the table of contents here.