Home screen
- By Category:
- Browse by content to see what’s available
- By Database:
- Law Journal library is most popular database
- Statutory and gov info goes back to inception … not always the most current based on embargos and availability
- Green + button lets you know it’s a new database
- COVID-19 (includes past pandemics)
- Civil Rights and Social Justice
- When searching in the databases
- To jump from database to database you can use the upper right dropdown
- Use the breadcrumb trail to access the libguide for each database
- Each database has a libguide specific for the database and its features/tools/content
- Training videos can be found on the libguides as well
Comprehensive coverage of all govt documents
- Federal register – updated daily
- Daily newspaper of fed
- Regulations, executive orders, regulations,
- Code of federal register – updated throughout the year
- Statutes at Large
- Official source of laws and regulations, public/private
- US Code
- Early federal laws – prior to US code
- US Supreme court library
- List landmark cases on homepage
- 1955-forward have audio recordings Oyez out of Chicago Kent to listen to oral arguments from the case
- US Federal legislative history library
- Follow bill all the way through to law; follow progression of a bill
- Search by public law number, title of legislative history, GPO and private publishers
- US Presidential Library
- Executive Privilege and Impeachment Library are folded within this collection as subcollections
- Electoral College added in Nov 2020
- Religion and the Law
- Has historical bibles and study history/development of religion
Searching HeinOnline
- "Full Text" Tab searches across all collections > Choose databases using the search box dropdown
- Ex: “wrongful convictions” (database: law journal library, criminal justice & criminology)
- Refine search
- Document tools from results page
- Download PDF
- Download a selected page range
- Email PDF to friend or colleague – end user doesn’t need access to HeinOnline
- Bookmark document
- "Search Help" link outlines Boolean operators and other advanced search
- "Citation" tab allows you to search with just the citation
- Citation navigator
- Citation format guide
- Ex. Search for "Harvard Law Review" journal and fill in volume and page number to directly go to that article
- Autofill function Ex. “Fed Reg”
- "Catalog" tab searches everything in HeinOnline
- Helps answer the question "Do you have this book or this journal?"
- Results show you which collection the book/journal lives in
- Sometimes it will show results of materials in collections you do not subscribe to
- Ex. “Essays in Social Justice”
- "Case Law" tab
- Fast case integration FHSU has fast case premium subscription
- Once you are on the case
- Scholar check features – checking citations to show other articles/cases that cite this case
- Bad Law Bot = red flag to show negative treatment indicated in the case. Only the red flag
- Bad law review cases will be listed by most recent case first
- Search Fast Case lookup = similar to citation navigator to plug in volume/page number
- Search by text
- Info about the case, you don’t know case name
- Ex: “miranda warning” AND “police custody"
- Refine by date, jurisdiction, location/state, person/organization
- Ability to search for a party or court abbreviation, docket number, date of a case
- Ex. text > “sexual misconduct”; Date: 2019; Ohio
- Case law linking – inline blue hyperlinks and or footnotes take you right to that case or that journal
Government Publications
- US Congressional Document database > Congressional record
- Congressional record daily is updated every day.
- Provide feedback to HeinOnline with ideas/features. Many features come from customer suggestions
- Congressional Record Daily to Bound Locator
- Enter citation or plug in a date and get links directly to the daily and to the bound.
- Congressional Hearings > Congressional Hearings quick finder tool
- Plug in congress, hearing, committee and search text
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Plug in title, part, section quick locator
- CFR Sections affected locator
- Let you know sections affected/amended
- Ex. 2014 > 47 Telecommunications > 14 Access to advanced communications
- Congressional Serial Set
- House or senate reports
- Quick locator tool
- Ex: Type: house report > 106 congress > Document # 120
- The little blue “H” icon indicates that the volume is in HeinOnline
- View document in Haithi Trust to view document there
- The libguide goes into more detail of the icons and what they mean
- Introduction page = overview of the database; what is the serial set
- The secrets of the serial set – monthly blog that researches US History only using serial set
Lauren has shared the request about updated criminal Justice manuals with the Director of Production to see if they are interested in adding more manuals, and providing your suggestion to break them down further to be discoverable.
