Updated HeinOnline Comprehensive User’s Guide

HeinOnline recently updated their interface with a new organized page and look.  As such, Hein is offering an updated Comprehensive User's Guide. This guide provides the basics of how to navigate through the interface, how to search from the home page and within collections.  It also provides guidance on using the various tools available in HeinOnline.  To learn more about the changes and to access the guide, click here.

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Heinonline: Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Database Coverage Expansion

HeinOnline has recently expanded coverage of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) database to include the year 1984. This additional indexing has added 9,700 records including journal articles, collection articles and book reviews. IFLP can be searched by subject, country subject, region, and more.  To learn more about the enhancement and a refresher on how to search IFLP, click here.

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HeinOnline New Interface

HeinOnline recently launched a new interface with a simplified and streamlined design.  The new interface uses responsive web design so Hein can easily be accessed on your phone, tablet or PC. The search bar will be available on all pages, there is an updated image toolbar, the category options will be collapsible and more.  To learn about the new changes click here, to search on the new HeinOnline, click here.

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New on HeinOnline: Tax Foundation Archive Publications

The Tax Foundation Archive collection provides convenient access to the complete archive of the Tax Foundation’s publications, which contain information on taxation, fiscal policy, finance and more.  Browse by publication title or subject, or use HeinOnline’s search capabilities to search for specific topics.

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HeinOnline Author Profile Enhancement

HeinOnline recently released author profile which will showcase author articles and uses the ScholarCheck tool to determine author rank in HeinOnline.  The profile pages also have the options for author photo, biography, and optional links to organization websites.  To access the author profile page, search for that author using the quick search bar on the Law Journal Library homepage.  From the search results, click the author's name for the profile page and a list of articles written by the author. To learn more about this feature click here.

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HeinOnline Tax Foundation Archive Publications

HeinOnline's Tax Foundation Archive collection provides the complete archive of the Tax Foundation's publications, which contain information on taxation, fiscal policy, finance and more.  The collection can be browsed by publication title or subject, or use HeinOnline's other capabilities to search for specific topics.To learn more about the collection click here, to access the collection click here.

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HeinOnline Training Videos

HeinOnline is recently in the process of updating its training materials including videos.  A new video has been added on how to print PDFs using HeinOnline.  New videos will be added every month on a range of topics including using Fastcase, search strategies, library-specific content and much more.  If you are interested in certain help video topics, HeinOnline is seeking additional suggestions here.  Access the new videos and upcoming videos here.

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HeinOnline Library: World Constitutions Illustrated

HeinOnline's World Constitutions Illustrated is a library in the HeinOnline database, which contains "the current constitution of every country in the world in its original language. For countries where multiple original-language versions exist, we will provide each one. Also included will be at least one English translation." (source)

For every country there are additional research resources, such as commentaries and editorially selected relevant scholarly articles.  Also included for each country is a bibliography of selected works and Internet links to additional information about the country. 

HeinOnline can be directly accessed at Hofstra Law without a login when signed in to the Hofstra Law School network or accessed through the My Hofstra portal while off-campus.

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HeinOnline New Collection: Pentagon Papers

HeinOnline recently published a new library entitled "Pentagon Papers."  This new library provides a digital version of the "Pentagon Papers" which are a series of reports about the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.  The collection can be browsed by title or keyword search.  To access HeinOnline Pentagon Papers click here.


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HeinOnline State Reports: A Historical Archive

HeinOnline recently published a new library entitled "State Reports: A Historical Archive."  This new library provides a digital version of Hein’s State Reports Checklist as well as links to the full text of historical state reports. It provides a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to
published court reports and can be browsed by publication title or state/publication title.  To learn more about the library click here, to access HeinOnline click here.

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HeinOnline Enhancement: Search within Specific Collection from the Welcome Page

HeinOnline recently added a new enhancement to their one-box searching.  The new feature allows users to narrow their search to a specific collection straight from the welcome page.  For example, if you want to search only the "Law Journal Library", then select it from the drop down menu and enter your search terms in the search box below.  To learn more about the new enhancement click here.

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New on HeinOnline: Women and the Law

Women and the Law is HeinOnline's new library of contemporary and historical materials on the development of women's legal rights and the status of women in law and society over the past 200 years. This is a unique collection of materials encompassing books, scholarly articles, biographies, speeches, letters, legislation, government studies, constitutional amendment materials and conference presentations, with coverage from the 1790's through 2013. Major topics include suffrage, property and marriage rights, education, employment, and reproductive rights.  You'll find Women and the Law in the alphabetical list of HeinOnline libraries linked from the Law Library website. Read more about it here and explore a list of included titles.

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HeinOnline: New Help and Support Page

From my favorite spot near the Reference Desk, I've noticed that the librarians field lots of questions about finding materials in the different collections, or "libraries," within HeinOnline. Yesterday, HeinOnline announced the launch of its new "Help and Support Page."  Redesigned to be more user friendly, it also integrates the HeinOnline blog so that recent posts related to specific "help" topics on features and libraries are immediately obvious.  When you need to find documents in a less familiar library, such as U.S. Federal Legislative History, Code of Federal Regulations, or Session Laws, the "Library Specific Support" section can walk you through search examples as well as answering FAQs and linking to training guides and videos.  When you're in HeinOnline, just click the "help" link for these features, phone support, and more.  

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Congressional Hearings on HeinOnline

Congressional hearings have been available on HeinOnline’s in the U.S. Congressional Documents Library for over two years now.  The collection has expanded to over 27,000 hearings with hundreds more being added regularly.  There are a number of ways to search the hearings which include Congress session, chamber, committee and text.  An advanced search is also available which allows searching by topic, time frame and more.  To learn more about how to search hearings in HeinOnline, click here.

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Notes in HeinOnline

HeinOnline now allows you to add notes to your saved search queries, bibliographies and eTOCs.  The new feature in MyHein will enable users to create comments for saved searches, saved bookmarks and eTOC alerts.  In addition, the notes will also appear on future email updates.  Click here to learn more or click here for the instructional brochure.

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CRS Reports on HeinOnline

Congressional Research Service reports (CRS) are now available on HeinOnline.  CRS is a division of the Library of Congress that conducts research and analyses on a wide range of topics such as national policy, taxation, bankruptcy and more.  HeinOnline has acquired over 880 reports, you can see the full title list here.  The reports are available both in the Taxation & Economic Reform in America Parts I & II and History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & Economic Reform in America Part III libraries.  To learn more the CRS reports click here.

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New Enhancements to HeinOnline Welcome Page

HeinOnline has recently added some new enhancements to the welcome page.  The page has been designed to be more user-friendly with new options to search.  The new page now shows tabs with different options available for searching including Full Text Search, Catalog Search, Citation Navigator, Fastcase, and MyHein.  To learn more about the new enhancements click here.

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New on HeinOnline: Early American Case Law

HeinOnline has just announced the addition of the Early American Case Law collection.  This collection provides the entire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) which contains more than 20,000 cases.  It also contains the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports. To access the  Early American Case Law collection on HeinOnline, select "Early American Case Law" from the HeinOnline Subscribed Libraries page.  Click here to learn more about the collection.

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HeinOnline New Feature: QR Codes to View a Document

HeinOnline has recently announced a new feature with QR codes that will allow users to have the documents on their smartphone or tablet. All users have to do is quickly point the camera of the device at the HeinOnline Print/Download Options screen, and the document will be available on your smartphone or tablet.  Click here to learn more.

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New on HeinOnline: Author Tracking Feature

HeinOnline recently announced a new feature in which users can utilize the search query function to follow a certain author's work.  This great feature will allow users to follow a certain author's legal research and will even alert users to when their own articles are available on HeinOnline.  Once the search query is set up, you will receive e-mail alerts when new material becomes available and these alerts will be sent monthly.  To learn more about this new feature or to set up a search query click here.

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