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Where in the World is Hein?

2009-11-02T12:23:00.018-05:00

In HeinOnline's October 2009 Newsletter we introduced the "Where in the World is Hein" contest. In each "Where in the World" blog post, you will find a picture of one of our sales representatives in front of a building, landmark, with a librarian, or other people or things. If you can correctly identify the location, you will be entered for a chance to win a "Where in the World is Hein" t-shirt!

Steve Roses, our Director of Sales, has been traveling quite a bit since he joined the Hein Company in an effort to introduce himself in his new role. Can you guess where Steve is in this picture?

E-mail your guess to marketing@wshein.com by November 30, 2009 and if your answer is correct you'll be entered for a chance to win a "Where in the World is Hein" t-shirt! Be sure to include your name, organization or institution, and your mailing address. We'll announce the winner in a follow-up blog post and in the monthly announcement.

Good luck guessing!

Searching HeinOnline - 4 Key Techniques You Need to Know and How It Is Different Than Other Legal Databases

2009-10-23T14:30:00.003-04:00

You are likely used to the searching methodology used in other legal databases, as you learned it while taking classes in law school. Then, you were introduced to HeinOnline, a powerful legal research tool with more than 50 million pages of legal content. Your initial reaction may have been, "50 million pages; that is a lot of content to browse through!" Yes, indeed it is. However, with the right searching techniques, it is easy to find what you are looking for in HeinOnline.

While the search syntax used in HeinOnline is different than what you may be used to, with a little practice and the understanding of a few key techniques, you'll be searching in no time. Howard W. Hunter Law Library from BYU Law School wrote an excellent blog post outlining the 4 key techniques you need to know to conduct the most powerful search queries in HeinOnline. These 4 key techniques include understanding Boolean operators in HeinOnline, using a root expander to find alternate endings, proximity searches, and boosting terms. Check out the post on Hunter's Query: The HWHLL Blog

As they note in their blog, "Boosting a term allows you to influence the relevancy ranking of your results list. (By the way, you can't have your results ranked by relevance when using a terms and connectors search in Westlaw or Lexis.)"

Take a moment to check out their blog post and familiarize yourself with these key searching techniques. They can really make a difference in your searching abilities in HeinOnline.

Are You Providing Access to HeinOnline For Hundreds of Users? Let Your Users Know by Branding Your HeinOnline Account.

2009-10-09T11:18:00.013-04:00

On any given day you may have hundreds of users access your organization's subscription to HeinOnline. Unfortunately, many of those users may not understand that this valuable resource is being made available to them with support and funding from your organization. We realize how important it is for you to communicate this fact to your users, and we have developed a way to do it easily.

What you are seeing below is an example of the new account branding opportunities HeinOnline has recently made available as a free option to all HeinOnline subscribers. This is an example of what a user would see on the Welcome screen in HeinOnline.

(numbers appear in image for demonstration purposes only)

Here is a breakdown of what options are available for Heinonline branding:

Name - Here, the name of the organization, library, school, or firm that is providing the HeinOnline subscription is listed. This may also be hot linked to a website of your choosing.
Organization logo - This is hot linked to the same website as the name of the organization.
Optional Link - This can be used for pointing users to online catalogs, or any other link your users may frequently visit.
Optional Link - Same as the optional link above, but twice as nice.

When user are in the HeinOnline libraries, a small branding message with the name of the organization is added to the top of page. Clicking this message takes the user to a page very similar to the example above.

If you would live to take advantage of these new branding opportunities in HeinOnline, please send a request for information to holsupport(at)wshein.com, or click the feedback button at the top of your HeinOnline page. We must receive approval from the account's administrator before we put the branding material in place. If you do not know who your account administrator is, please specify this in the email. Lastly, We would like to thank the RAND Corporation for working with us to develop these options, and for allowing us to use their branding information for this post.

Sources of Compiled Legislative History Added to Title Information Links

2009-10-02T09:24:00.015-04:00

HeinOnline has made another one of it's useful resources more accessible and easier to use. The database derived from Nancy Johnson's Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories: A Bibliography of Government Documents, Periodical Articles, and Books, and accessible from the U.S. Federal Legislative History Library is a terrific source available in HeinOnline for finding materials related to major U.S. federal laws. Most major U.S. federal laws are included in this database. Each piece of legislation available in the database includes the public law number, Statutes at Large citation, and any relevant books, articles, and Legislative Histories in its entry. Any of the content listed that is available in HeinOnline has been hot-linked for easy access.

To make this content easier to access for our users, we have recently added the relevant database entry to the information links for each of the Legislative History titles in the U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, and the Taxation & Economic Reform in America Library. Now, all you have to do to access this content is click the small 'i' icon located to the left of the listing of titles in these two libraries.

All of the information you would normally see when viewing the database has been included in the link, plus one added feature. We have integrated Hein's ScholarCheck into the information provided on this page. With this link users can easily see the most current list of articles in HeinOnline that have cited that particular public law.
It is our hope that bringing all of these sources together with just a few clicks of the mouse will streamline research projects and reduce time spent navigating to different online sources.

'NOT' Operator Added to HeinOnline's Field Search

2009-09-25T13:18:00.006-04:00

For those HeinOnline users who prefer to search using the Field Search, we've added a small but powerful option to this search page. The 'NOT' operator is now a selectable option in addition to the AND/OR operators you are used to using. The 'NOT' operator is used in a search the same way that you would use the AND/OR operators. Simply select the NOT option from the drop box. The NOT operator is different because it functions as an exclusionary tool. This can be quite useful in weeding out search results that are very similar to the topic you are looking for, but are actually irrelevant to your search and just diluting the results that you really want. A simple example of how this works is explained in the short video below.

Again, this is just a simple example of how the NOT operator can function. When used correctly, the NOT operator can be a highly effective tool in narrowing your research to the relevant results you need. The NOT operator has always been available for users searching with the Advanced Search. If you'd like to learn more about searching in HeinOnline, we recommend taking a look at some of the training guides in the HeinOnline Wiki.

WEBINAR: Wednesday, 9/23 - Still Time To Register! Taxation and Economic Reform in America

2009-09-21T20:53:00.000-04:00

There is still time to register for Wednesday's webinar! HeinOnline's Taxation and Economic Reform in America historical archive of legislative histories was released about a month ago. This webinar will introduce you to the library and cover the following:

General overview of the content
Browsing all titles, or browsing only the taxation or only the economic reform titles
Searching all titles, or searching only the taxation or only the economic reform titles - includes examples of full text searching and how to search across the title or description of a document
Internal Revenue Acts of 1909-1950 (Carlton Fox Collection) - Using the custom browsing tool to browse by volume, act, House/Senate reports, House/Senate documents, bill number, or public law number
Internal Revenue Acts of 1909-1950 (Carlton Fox Collection) - How to search by public law number, document type, House bill number, description, or full text using the custom search option
Internal Revenue Acts of 1909-1950 (Carlton Fox Collection) - Hein's ScholarCheck integration
How to view the cumulative contents for a specific act

The webinar is being hosted at 10:00 a.m. EDT and 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada). Also, as we do with all of our webinars, if you can't make it, we will record the session and post the link on our Webinars page on the Wiki after which you can watch it anytime.

Click here to register for the 10:00 a.m. EDT session.

Click here to register for the 2:00 p.m. EDT session.

HeinOnline's Federal Register Coverage is Now Updated Daily

2009-09-18T09:27:00.004-04:00

The Federal Register in HeinOnline just keeps getting better. Regular users of HeinOnline's Federal Register Library already know that with coverage starting in 1936, HeinOnline has the most comprehensive coverage of the Federal Register available online. Now, HeinOnline's coverage is updated daily with the most current Federal Register content available!

HeinOnline has had Federal Register coverage back to 1936 for several years now, but restrictions in our production process limited how quickly we could get new Federal Register days online. Recently, those production restrictions were eliminated, and starting at the end of July HeinOnline began updating the Federal Register on a daily basis. This means that you are now able to access yesterday’s Federal Register today! This current content is completely browseable, full-text searchable, and image-based, just like all other content in HeinOnline.

All Federal Register content is also accessible via the Citation Navigator. This tool allows users to quickly jump to a page by entering the Federal Register volume and page number they would like to access. Below is a short video showing how this tool is used:

We continue to strive toward making our user’s HeinOnline experience a pleasant and productive one. With expanded coverage of the Federal Register, online educational materials, and enhanced searchability, we believe that we are on the right track. For more posts regarding the Federal Register in HeinOnline, please see the Federal Register section of this blog.

Do you have any suggestions, or questions you would like to share with us? Click the Feedback link located at the top of your HeinOnline page, let us know what’s on your mind.

HeinOnline in the News: Maclean's Uses HeinOnline in Third Annual Law School Rankings Process

2009-09-17T12:40:00.000-04:00

Maclean's, a Canadian weekly news magazine reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events, recently released its third annual ranking of Canadian Law Schools. Fifty percent of the overall ranking is determined by faculty quality and the other fifty percent is determined by graduate quality. There are a number of measures taken into account when determining graduate quality, all focusing on the success that each law school has had in producing graduates who go out and land competitive jobs. These measures include elite firm hiring, national reach, Supreme Court clerkships, and faculty hiring.

The other fifity percent of the ranking is determined by faculty quality, which is measured primarily by how many times the law school's professors are cited in legal periodicals. This is where HeinOnline fits in! Maclean's used the HeinOnline Law Journal collection to determine how many times each faculty member was cited in legal periodicals and then related that to the overall size of the school's faculty. For more details about Maclean's Canadian Law Schools ranking, check out the full article at Macleans.ca.

HeinOnline's ScholarCheck features make it easy to determine how many times a legal scholar has been cited. Simply generate a search for the author to get a list of articles written by the author, then from the search results you will see a "Cited by ##" link listed within each article that has been cited by other articles. The number displayed illustrates how many times that that specific article was cited by other articles in HeinOnline's Law Journal collection. A researcher can choose to sort the results by the number of times articles have been cited, thus bringing the most influential articles to the top of their results list!

These are just a few of the features that make up Hein's ScholarCheck tool. For a full recap and demonstration of the full power of Hein's ScholarCheck, please visit our ScholarCheck page on the Heinonline wiki.

HeinOnline contains nearly 1,300 law and law-related periodicals, and has a readership of more than 1,500 subscribing institutions across 180 countries around the world. Is your Canadian Law Journal in HeinOnline? Contact us at marketing@wshein.com to find out how you can add your law journal to HeinOnline to take advantage of it's widespread audience and powerful ScholarCheck tool.

HeinOnline Content Now Includes Hot-linked URLs

2009-09-08T11:40:00.005-04:00

For a few years now, HeinOnline has had the "citations on this page" feature available. This tool has allowed HeinOnline users to click a citation on the page they are currently viewing, and link directly to that cited material in HeinOnline.
We have now expanded this feature to include URLs to cited content housed outside of the HeinOnline database. The new hot-linked URLs work in the same manner as the citations have. Clicking a blue highlighted URL will open a new tab in your web browser and load the website. If you would like to turn off the hotlinks, simply click the "Citations on this Page" link located above the page image.

The URLs HeinOnline uses are derived from uncorrected OCR. Additionally, URLs may change over time, thus resulting in broken links. Please be aware that HeinOnline is not responsible for content located outside the HeinOnline database. Each website is the property and responsibility of the website's owner.

The Print/Download Option (Printer Icon) Has Moved in HeinOnline!

2009-09-01T09:53:00.003-04:00

Don't be alarmed when you go to click the printer icon in the upper right hand corner of the page toolbar and it's not there! After a significant amount of customer feedback and suggestions, we have moved the printer icon from the far right to the middle of the page toolbar. Now the printer icon is the first icon to the right of the page forward button.

The print/download options are still available from your MyHein saved bookmarks list, as well as from your search results. Those options remain unchanged.

AALL Encore Presentation, What's New In HeinOnline? Still Time to Register

2009-08-25T08:05:00.006-04:00

Did you miss our "What's New in HeinOnline" sessions at AALL? Or perhaps you have colleagues that would be interested in this session? No matter the case, everyone is welcome to join us for this encore presentation of our sessions held at AALL. The webinar is being held tomorrow...so, there is still time to register!

Below is a quick snapshot of what you can learn more about during this session.

New Libraries including those that are now available and two that are coming soon
Updates and enhancements made to HeinOnline over the previous 12 months and what's coming
Hein's ScholarCheck
MyHein Enhancements
WIki & Training Resources
Our Experience with Social Media

The webinar will be held at the following times (click on the time you wish to attend to access the registration form):

August 26, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada)

August 26, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada)

HeinOnline's Search Highlighting Expanded

2009-08-21T11:34:00.011-04:00

For some time now, users performing a text search in HeinOnline have been able to see their search terms highlighted in the list of results. Recently, we have expanded this feature to include highlighting on most of the fields capable of being searched throughout HeinOnline including title, author, description, citation, etc... The highlighting also works whether you prefer to use our field search, or advanced search options.

This new highlighting ability is especially useful when performing a search for a term OR another term. For example, if I were to perform a field search for the terms "voting rights" OR "suffrage movement" in the titles of documents in HeinOnline's Law Journals Library:

Both of the phrases I searched for will be highlighted in the titles of the documents, right on the page of search results.

The highlighted terms allow you to quickly scan your results list, making it easy to pick out the separate search terms and discern what documents are relevant to your needs.

Schedule of Upcoming HeinOnline Webinars - Register Now!

2009-08-17T13:39:00.006-04:00

So far, HeinOnline has hosted four Webinars which all proved to be a great success. The feedback received was very positive and indicated that you, our customers, like the opportunity to learn first hand by watching live demonstrations. Therefore, we have scheduled a series of upcoming webinars over the next month. We will continue to schedule webinars and announce them via our email newsletters, the blog, the wiki, Facebook and Twitter. All of our webinars are complimentary and our goal is to help you further your research efforts and expand your knowledge of HeinOnline.

Below are the upcoming webinars that we have scheduled. Click on any webinar to access a detailed description of what we will cover during the session and to register.

Using the U.S. Congressional Documents, August 19th at 10:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. EDT (30 minutes)

Whats New in HeinOnline? AALL Encore Presentation, August 26th at 10:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. EDT (60 minutes)

What is Hein's ScholarCheck? September 8th, 10:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. EDT (15 minutes)

We record and archive every webinar that we host. You can access these archived webinars any time from our Webinars page on the Wiki. If you missed any of our previous webinars, during which we discussed the CFR, Federal Register, Law Journal Library and a general Getting Started in HeinOnline webinar, you can view them any time at your convenience.

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Welcomes a New Member to the Sales Team

2009-08-14T12:01:00.004-04:00

Dear Friends,

I have the honor to announce that William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has made a valuable addition to our organization. It is with great pleasure that I introduce Mr. Steven M. Roses, who will be joining our company as Director of Sales, beginning August 31, 2009. Mr. Roses’ experience in sales management and his reputation for building relationships with customers through a higher-level understanding of their needs, background and interests makes him an excellent fit with our company and a significant complement to our goal of providing the best customer service in our industry.

As Director of Sales at William S. Hein & Co, Inc., Steve will be responsible for strengthening our commitment to our customers by maintaining ongoing communication and building lasting relationships within the U.S. academic sector.

"I am excited to be working with a company that has such a wonderful reputation for surpassing customer expectations," said Steve. "Of utmost importance in my new role is my dedication to my customers and my passion to meet their needs."

Steve brings over fifteen years of experience in the legal publishing profession. Most recently, he served as U.S. Sales Manager in the Global Legal Products organization at Thomson Reuters Legal. In addition to his professional career, Steve is committed to his community in Maplewood, NJ where he serves as a volunteer for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Essex, Hudson and Union Counties.

Steve graduated cum laude from Brandeis University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and subsequently received his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1990.

Dick Spinelli, Senior Vice President says, "I have known Steve for a number of years. He brings a legal background, experience in the law library profession, and a character that will add greatly to the sales team. I look forward to working with Steve as he begins his tenure with the Hein Company."

Mr. Thomas R. French, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Barclay Law Library, Syracuse University College of Law says, "It has been a pleasure working with Steve over the years and I look forward to working with him in his new role."

I have known Steve for several years and am confident that his values fit our organization’s mission: Honesty and Integrity, Value our Customers and Coworkers, Commitment to Excellence, Open Communication, Teamwork, Corporate Citizenship, and Dedication to Quality and Service.

Steve is a welcome and valuable addition to our sales team. Steve, myself, Dick Spinelli, Roxanne Marmion, and Denise Gebauer all look forward to working together to service your needs.

Sincerely,

Wm. Shannon Hein
Vice President, Sales

Quickly find Public Laws in the U.S. Statutes at Large

2009-08-13T10:12:00.005-04:00

Looking up public laws in HeinOnline's Statutes at Large has become faster, and simpler. The Citation Navigator tab in the U.S. Statutes at Large library now contains a tool that allows users to quickly enter, and jump to the public law they are searching for.

Finding a public law using the new tool is easy. To accommodate the different formats used over the years to cite public laws, the tool is split into two parts.

The top section can find laws using the naming method used by the 57th Congress to present(ex: 87-5 or Chapter 1, 57 Congress), while the bottom section can find laws using the naming method used by the 1st-56th Congresses.

We've created a short video showing how this new tool functions.

More than 200 Entries Updated in the Subject Compilations of State Laws Database

2009-08-12T08:04:00.007-04:00

Entries Updated to Reflect NCSL's Major Website Revisions

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is a major producer of free 50-state law surveys. The Conference's website underwent a major overhaul in the last several months, resulting in dozens of broken links in the Subject Compilations of State Laws database in HeinOnline.

As a result of the major overhaul, all of these links in the HeinOnline database have been reviewed and revised. Most of the NCSL website surveys are still available and the new links are working. A significant number of items are no longer found on the NCSL website but some version of many of the missing surveys are on the Internet Archive. Subject Compilations of State Laws entries link to the Internet Archive version when the document could not be found on the NCSL website.

A very small number of items could not be located at either the NCSL site or the Internet Archive.

While the author is constantly checking and updating website links, broken links are an ongoing problem due to websites' dynamic abilities to change so often. Therefore, if you discover a broken link in Subject Compilations of State Laws database, please report it using the Feedback form in HeinOnline.

New Searching Feature Added to HeinOnline - Search in This Page or Section

2009-08-07T09:31:00.010-04:00

Thanks to some recent feedback from a researcher using HeinOnline, we have added a new searching feature to the service. This new search tool allows HeinOnline users to easily search for words or phrases in the section, or the page they are currently viewing.

The new search option is available throughout HeinOnline. When viewing a page, you will see a new magnifying glass icon located above the page image.

Clicking this icon will cause a box to appear, giving you the option to search just the particular page you are viewing, or the entire section. Both word and phrase searching works with this new feature, but please be sure to put your phrase searches in quotation marks(ex."Federal Law").

We have also put together a short video detailing how the searching feature is used.

Thank you to all who have taken the time to make suggestions for new features such as this. We truly value the feedback we receive.

Do you have an idea for a change you'd like to see in HeinOnline? Let us know! Click the feedback link located at the top of your HeinOnline page.

Is the article you are looking for included in HeinOnline?

2009-07-22T07:53:00.008-04:00

One of the more frequent requests we receive in HeinOnline support is for help locating a specific article a researcher is looking for. We have covered this process before in earlier posts, but in this post I am going to tie the whole process together.

First, I want to break down the key points of information that we can use to find an article, and how these can be used to find what you are looking for:

The title of the journal in which the article is published.
A key phrase located in the article.
The title of the article.
The name of the author of the article.
The blue book citation of the article.

The title of the Journal in which the article is published.
An article can only be in HeinOnline if the Journal that published it is included in our collection. If you know the name of the publication you are looking for, use the Title Lookup tool to determine whether or not the title is included in HeinOnline. The Title Lookup tool will ONLY search for PUBLICATION titles in HeinOnline. It will not search for articles. In this example, I am looking for the publication Yale Law Journal.

A key phrase located in the article / The title of the article / The name of the author of the article
I've lumped these three options together because they can all be done easily from one location in HeinOnline. We recommend using the Field Search option in the Law Journal Library to perform these searches. You will see that the three fields are preset as (from top to bottom): Text, Title, and Creator/Author.

Text: Used to find a key word or phrase that you know is located in the text of the article
Title: Used to search for the title of the article you are looking for. All, or part of the title can be used.
Creator/Author: Used to search by the author's name. You can enter just the last name, but If you know the whole name use the format LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME MI.

In the video below, I am searching for an article titled Are Police Free to disregard Miranda by Steven D. Clymer. I chose to search for a term "2. Immunity doctrine". I did not go all the way through with the search in text and title examples, but you should get the idea.

The Blue Book Citation of the article
The Blue Book citation of an article is a quick way of noting the volume, publication title, and page where the article you are searching for is located. If you know the citation of the article you are looking for, we recommend using the citation navigator in the Law Journal library. In the video below, I am using the citation navigator to go directly to the citation of the article I found above, 112 Yale L. J. 447

If you know the volume, page, and title of the publication you are looking for but not the abbreviation used in the Blue Book citation, There is a tool available in the Citation Navigator tab that will help you. The Find Blue Book Citation link lists all of the journal titles in HeinOnline along with the citation associated with that title. It will also allow you to build the citation you are looking for and link you directly to that page.

We hope this short guide will help you navigate through HeinOnline a little more efficiently. As always, we have a whole host of resources available to our users in the HeinOnline Wiki. These resources include our YouTube Channel, live chat, and training guides. Have a suggestion for something you think we could be doing better? Click the feedback link located at the top of the main HeinOnline page and let us know what's on your mind.

UPCOMING WEBINAR: July 15th, HeinOnline's Code of Federal Regulations

2009-07-02T09:13:00.003-04:00

Our 4th webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15th and will focus on "Using & Searching the Code of Federal Regulations" in HeinOnline. This webinar will be given at two different times; 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada) and 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada).Please click on the corresponding time below to register.

July 15, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada), Click here to register
July 15, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada), Click here to register

The webinar will focus on:

Browsing by years, titles, bindings or browsing the indexes & finding aids
How to quickly pull up a title, part or section using the Title/Part/Section Quick Locator tool
How to pull up a section using the CFR Citation Locator
Searching for a word/phrase
Searching by title number, title name, part number, part name, section number, subpart, ppresidential proclamation or executive order
How to refine a search and build a multi-term search query to refine results
Using the List of Sections Affected to determine if a regulation is current
Using the Citation Navigator or Citations on Page to cross-reference Federal Register citations

If you missed our most recent webinar focused on HeinOnline's Federal Register, you can view our archived recording anytime from the HeinOnline Wiki at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnline:WebinarFederalRegister.

Cross Library Searching is Now Live Within HeinOnline's Law Journal Library

2009-06-09T10:52:00.013-04:00

When searching in the Law Journal Library in HeinOnline, you will now see search results from journal titles found in the Kluwer Law International Journal Library, Part I: International Yearbooks and Periodicals of the Foreign and International Law Resources Database, and in ALI-ABA Publications which are found in Part III of the American Law Institute Collection. This cross-library searching will further enhance your searching experience in HeinOnline by retrieving and displaying results across all relevant journals and periodicals from these collections. Below is a brief video illustrating this new enhancement. To share a link to this video or embed it on your own site, visit our video library at http://www.screencast.com/t/JeDqah03Hb. Or you can continue reading for a full description and screen shots of how it works.

If you click on a link to a result and the result is within a collection you are subscribed to, you will be able to quickly link to the article. To identify the results that are from a collection outside of the Law Journal Library, we have shaded the result gray rather than blue. Additionally, we have added a line at the end of the result that indicates which collection the article resides in.

NOTE: The Kluwer Law International Journal Library, Foreign and International Law Resources Database and the American Law Institute Library are all a-la-carte libraries available as an addition to your HeinOnline subscription. In order to view the full text of the results from these collections, you must be subscribed to the collection within which the result resides. For more information about subscriptions to these libraries, please contact your sales representative or email us at marketing@wshein.com.

In addition to these modifications, we have given you the option of turning this feature off when doing a search in the Law Journal Library. From the search input screen, there is a checkbox at the bottom of the form that says "Include articles from other select HeinOnline collections in the search results". To disable this feature when doing a search, uncheck this box when entering your search criteria.

WEBINAR: June 30th - Using & Searching the Federal Register in HeinOnline

2009-06-05T08:06:00.013-04:00

Last month we hosted our second webinar focused on Using & Searching the Law Journal Library. We had a great turnout and again received a lot of good feedback. To view the recording from this webinar and the questions and answers, please visit the wiki page at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnline:WebinarJournals.

WEBINAR CONTENT

Continuing our webinar series this month, we will host a "Using & Searching the Federal Register" webinar on Tuesday, June 30th. Based upon feedback we received from our first two webinars, we will be hosting the webinar at two different times, once in the morning at 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada) and once in the afternoon at 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada), to accommodate a variety of different schedules. This will provide an opportunity for more folks to join us, as we understand that not everyone can be tied up at the same time!

This Webinar "Using & Searching the Federal Register" will focus on:

Browsing to a specific day of the Federal Register
Retrieving a Federal Register page when you have a citation or know the date
General Overview of Searching in the Federal Register
Searching by word/phrase
Searching FR Doc.
Searching for a Release, Agency Docket, File or RIN number
Searching by Agency Name
Searching across a specific day
Searching across a specific page number
Refining a search to refine results
How to Print a Specific Section or Document Within the Federal Register
Using the List of Sections Affected to determine if a regulation is current or to understand the history

DATE & REGISTRATION:

The webinar will be hosted at the following times:

June 30, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada)
Click here to register

June 30, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada)
Click here to register

When registering, if you are in a time zone other than EDT (United States & Canada), click on the link that says "Show time in my time zone", then select your time zone from the drop down menu, and the time of the webinar will be displayed according to your selection.

NOTE: When registering for the webinar, please review the System Requirements and Frequently Asked Questions regarding the GoTo Webinar platform that we use to host the webinars to ensure that you are able to access the session when it starts. For questions regarding access, we recommend emailing us at least 48 hours prior to the start time to allow us time to get back to you with suggestions. To test your ability to access the program, click on the link in the eamil you receive after you register that allows you to access the webinar. If you are unable to access the site or receive an error message, then we recommend checking with your Technical Support or Information Security teams to determine if you will or will not be able to attend. For more information, continue reading our System Requirements or email us at marketing@wshein.com.

IN THE NEWS & IN HEINONLINE: President Obama Nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice

2009-05-27T07:50:00.021-04:00

On Tuesday, May 26th, President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice. From the White House Blog:

"If confirmed for the Supreme Court, Judge Sotomayor would bring more federal judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any justice in 100 years, and more overall judicial experience than anyone confirmed for the Court in the past 70 years."

"In 1998, Judge Sotomayor became the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, one of the most demanding circuits in the country. She has participated in over 3000 panel decisions and authored roughly 400 opinions, handling difficult issues of constitutional law, to complex procedural matters, to lawsuits involving complicated business organizations."

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her nomination as Supreme Court Justice would replace the retiring Justice David Souter. Judge Sotomayor has had rulings across a variety of areas including copyright, first, second and fourth amendment rights, abortion, employment discrimination, antitrust, civil rights, property rights, constitutional law, environmental law, corporate law, and much more.

To read scholarly law review articles related to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's rulings, we ran a text search in HeinOnline for "Judge Sotomayor" OR "Sonia Sotomayor", and retrieved 175 law review articles related to Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Many of the articles discuss key areas of Sotomayor's previous rulings, including:

The 1994 baseball strike
Her nomination by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and appointment as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The high profile copyright case New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini
Her rulings in international law cases, discussions about property rights including the Krimstock v. Kelly case
Anti-trust issues
The New York City Campaign Finance program, of which Judge Sonia Sotomayor served as a member of the New York City Campaign Finance Board
Fourth amendment rights as ruled in the N.G. Ex Rel. S.C. v. Connecticut case
Civil rights issues and much more!

Click here for a full list of results.

In addition to these 175 articles that discuss various rulings and law-related issues, there are also three law review articles/comments written by Judge Sotomayor in HeinOnline from 1996-2005.

For additional information and various links to articles about Judge Sonia Sotomayor view the Wikipedia entry. Or check out the SCOTUS blog where they have a series of blog posts discussing some of Sotomayor's civil cases, her leading criminal law opinions, other opinions and notes about her record, discussions leading up to her nomination, and more.

PRESS RELEASE - HeinOnline Awarded 2009 AALL Best New Product Award

2009-05-21T08:25:00.000-04:00

BUFFALO, NY, May 6, 2009 - The American Association of Law Libraries has selected HeinOnline’s Subject Compilations of State Laws Database for the 2009 AALL Best New Product Award. HeinOnline converted the well-respected, leading research guide, Subject Compilations of State Laws publication compiled by Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast, into an online, searchable database. This revolutionized historical state subject searching by providing researchers with digital access to more than 18,000 bibliographic records, many with extensive annotations.

The bibliographic records in the online database are enhanced to include thousands of links to law review articles and U.S. Supreme Court decisions that are available in HeinOnline. Entries also include live links to the Internet where state surveys are located, as well as links directly to WorldCat in cases where OCLC numbers exist. Legal researchers can browse by subject, search across a specific subject, search by entry number, journal title, article title, court and more. New bibliographic entries are added to the database quarterly, bringing researchers updates faster than the annual print series. The exact replicas of the bound volumes are also included to provide researchers the same browsing capabilities as they would have with the print product.

The New Product Award honors a new and innovate commercial legal information product that enhances or improves existing law library services and/or procedures. New products may include, but are not limited to, printed material, computer hardware and/or software, or other products or devices that aid or improve access to legal information, the legal research process, or procedures for technical processing of library materials. Any product that has been re-introduced in a new format or with substantial changes is also available. A new product is one that has been in the library-related marketplace for two years or less.

About HeinOnline -- HeinOnline is a product of William S. Hein & Co., Inc. who has been serving the library community for nearly 90 years as a legal publisher, periodical subscription agent and the world’s largest distributor of legal periodicals. HeinOnline is Hein’s premier online product with more than 45 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. The content includes legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and much more. All content is in PDF format, fully searchable and from inception. Now, in more than 3,200 locations in over 150 countries, HeinOnline is the world’s largest image-based legal research collection and contains more than nine centuries of legal history.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: How to Find Regulatory Agendas in the Federal Register after the Fall of 2007

2009-05-15T16:49:00.016-04:00

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U.S. agencies are required to publish semiannual regulatory agendas describing regulatory actions they are developing or have recently completed, as outlined in Executive Order 12866 (58 fr 51735) and the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 602). These Agendas have been published in the Federal Register every year since 1983, typically once during the Spring and once during the Fall, and are found in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions section. Beginning with the fall 2007 edition of the Unified Agenda, the only Agenda entries published in the Federal Register are rules that are likely to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, and entries that have been selected for periodic review under the Regulatory Flexibility Act. In an effort to support the Administration’s goal to move the Agenda process to an Internet based format, the full Unified Agenda is available at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain. This week’s tip is going to illustrate how you can use HeinOnline to find a Regulatory Agenda for a specific agency.

For this example, we are going to search for the Regulatory Agendas of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from 2006-2008. At the beginning of each Unified Agenda you will find a Table of Contents that outlines what Agency Agendas are included in the Unified Agenda that term and on what page you can find it. You will also find a list of Agencies that did not publish any agenda entries in that print edition of the Federal Register. These agencies agendas are available from RegInfo.gov at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain.

To search for Regulatory Agendas for the CPSC, open the Field Search option from within the Federal Register Library. In the first search box, enter the name of the agency, in this case Consumer Product Safety Commission, choose phrase and full text. NOTE: It is best when entering agency names to use the full name versus an abbreviation (i.e. use Internal Revenue Service vs. IRS). In the second search box we are going to enter the term Agency Agendas, select phrase and full text. This will allow us to quickly find the Table of Contents for each Unified Agenda section and determine if the agency published it’s Agenda entries or not. In the third box, enter Unified Agenda, select phrase and full text. This will help to further refine our search by focusing on the pages found within the Unified Agenda section of the Federal Register.

Now, highlight the Federal Register from the title listing, insert the range of years for which you want to focus, in this case 2006-2008, and choose a sort by method of Volume Date - Ascending. This will allow us to see entries from 2006 first. Click search.

We get six search results; two results for each year. You’ll notice the coverage information for each result indicates that there is one result from the spring and one from the fall in each year. This coincides with when the Unified Agendas are published.

From the first result, 71 Fed. Reg. No. 78, click on View Matching Text Pages Then click on the first link to page 22271.

On this page, you will find the Table of Contents for the Unified Agenda as it was published in the Federal Register in the Spring of 2007. Here you will find Consumer Product Safety Commission and page 23547 listed.

This allows us to quickly pull up that page to view the Agenda. To get to this page, choose 23547 from the page pull down above the page, and this will take you directly to the Regulatory Agenda for the CPSC.

Now, if we go back to our search results by clicking on Search History and then clicking on our search, we can view the remainder of our results.

From this results list, click on View Matching Text Pages from the last result, 73 Fed. Reg. No. 227 (2008). Now click on the first page link to page 71095.

This will bring up the Table of Contents for the Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda section from the Fall 2008 Federal Register. The list of Agency Agendas included begins on the lower half of the second column. If we click next page to go to 71096, we will see that the CPSC is not included in the Table of Contents for the Agency Agendas. Therefore, we continue reading to the second column where we find a list of agencies that do not have entries identified for inclusion in the printed agenda shown in this section. The CPSC is included in this list. This means, we have to visit the RegInfo.gov site to view the CPSC’s full agenda.

To make it quick and easy for you to access this site, we’ve included a link on our External Links page. Click on the resources tab, then under External Links click on Important Federal Register Links. The fourth link listed says To Access the Current Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions Click Here.

Click on the link to go directly to the RegInfo.gov site where you can select CPSC from the drop down menu and view the current regulatory agenda. Or, if you want to view the historic agendas, click on the Historical Unified Agenda and Regulatory Plan link at the top of the page, then select the year and then the agency.

Subject Compilations of State Laws Database Updated with 2007-2008 Records

2009-05-07T08:34:00.019-04:00

The Subject Compilations of State Laws database has been updated to include 1,061 records from the 2007-2008 bound volume. These updates contain records related to three new subjects, including adult protective services, mortgage lenders, and restorative justice. You can also find new records related to data security breaches, foreclosure, health care providers, and wrongful conviction or imprisonment, all hot topics among state law surveys today! Do you want to view these new records in HeinOnline? Open the database in HeinOnline, click on "browse by subject" from the resources tab or from the collection landing page, find the subject from the listing and click on it, and you'll see the most recent entries listed first. It's that easy! Watch our brief 60-second demonstration below.

We also have an abundance of other training materials available on our Wiki for this collection. On the wiki page specific to HeinOnline's Subject Compilations of State Laws Database, you can find FAQs, search examples, how-to's, a quick reference guide, and a link to the Getting Started video.

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