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

If you would rather watch this Tip of the Week in a video format, please click here.

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.

If you are not subscribed to the Subject Compilations of State Laws Database view our detailed brochure or contact marketing@wshein.com for more information.

Join us for our next Webinar - Using & Searching the Law Journal Library

2009-05-05T14:06:00.005-04:00

Our next webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 13, 2009 from 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m EDT. This webinar will focus on using and searching HeinOnline's Law Journal library. We will discuss the following:

How to quickly pull up a journal article when you have a citation
How to search for a journal article by article name
How to search for articles written by a specific author
Browsing or searching by subject, state, or country
Overview of indexes and finding aids available
How to use the full power of Hein's ScholarCheck tool to connect citations and view citation analysis
How to find coverage information for a journal title
And much more!

Use the following link to register for the webinar, https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/760984123.

Last month we hosted our first webinar and concentrated on "Getting Started" in HeinOnline. We had more than 100 attendees and received a lot of great feedback. If you missed the webinar and wish to view it, we have posted a link to the recording at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnline:WebinarGettingStarted, or you can view it by clicking here.

For more information or if you have any questions, please visit our Webinars page on the wiki at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnline:Webinars, or email us at marketing@wshein.com.

225-Year Archive of Taxation and Economic Reform in America is Coming Soon to HeinOnline!

2009-05-05T12:08:00.014-04:00

We are proud to announce that a 225-year archive of taxation and economic reform in America is coming soon to HeinOnline! This new a-la-carte library, Taxation & Economic Reform in America, a Historical Archive, 1781-2009, will contain more than 900 volumes and nearly one-million pages of legislative history materials and other documents in its first release, expected to launch by the end of August 2009.

This new a-la-carte library is our greatest value ever offered in HeinOnline and will be available at an affordable price. Essentially, you can have access to this nearly one-million page archive for the same price you might pay for just one legislative history set; that's a huge savings!

How did America end up in the current global financial crisis?
What did President Bush propose and how is President Obama planning to restore the U.S. economy?

Find answers to these questions and more with this new taxation and economic reform archive from HeinOnline! This library will include the complete Carlton Fox collection, which contains nearly 48 years of historical legislation related to the internal revenue laws. It will also include more than 25 other legislative histories related to U.S. economic reform and stimulus plans.

Bring the power of HeinOnline law review articles to the study of American taxation and U.S. economic reform!

With it's rich archive of law review articles, HeinOnline will connect the legislation to key law review articles allowing you to not only read and follow the laws, but also to fully understand how it impacted the economy from the time of its inception to the present day.

We know your budgets are tight and you want to save money and space! Now, with this new comprehensive archive, HeinOnline is giving you the opportunity to do both. Pre-purchase the library by August 1, 2009 and you can save $400! For more information regarding the content and subscription options, please view our detailed brochure. Contact us today at (800) 828-7571, marketing@wshein.com, or contact your sales representative for more information.

Most Cited Journals and Journal Articles in HeinOnline- UPDATED!

2009-05-04T11:50:00.000-04:00

With the addition of Hein's ScholarCheck tools in the Law Journal Library, we have been able to gather data that gives us insight into the most cited journal titles and the most cited journal articles in HeinOnline. In June of 2008 we published our findings. We have since added an abundance of new content. Therefore, we have updated our analysis to reflect new content that has been added to HeinOnline over the course of the last 12 months. Below are our updated findings broken down by the top 30 Most Cited Journal Titles in HeinOnline, followed by the Most Cited Journal Articles in HeinOnline. We note here that the data was based on results using OCR technology, therefore some citations may not have been recognized or counted.

Top 30 Most Cited Journals in HeinOnline:

*Each title below displays the number of times the journal title is cited in HeinOnline.

Harvard Law Journal 196,315

Yale Law Journal 128,358

Columbia Law Review 98,082

Michigan Law Review 77,363

University of Pennsylvania Law Review 75,955

Stanford Law Review 69,838

Virginia Law Review 65,103

University of Chicago Law Review 55,863

UCLA Law Review 40,702

Minnesota Law Review 40,232

Texas Law Review 38,840

California Law Review 36,634

Cornell Law Review 34,869

Vanderbilt Law Review 34,228

New York University Law Review 32,187

Duke Law Journal 29,551

Southern California Law Review 29,334

Northwestern University Law Review 29,015

Wisconsin Law Review 28,373

Iowa Law Review 27,825

Business Lawyer (ABA) 27,097

Journal of Legal Studies 23,904

American Journal of International Law 23,495

Fordham Law Review 21,024

George Washington Law Review 20,287

Tulane Law Review 20,037

Ohio State Law Journal 18,232

Supreme Court Review 18,112

Hastings Law Journal 16,704
Indiana Law Journal 16,453

Most Cited Journal Articles in HeinOnline:

* Each article below contains the citation, article name, author if available, year, and the number of times the article is cited in HeinOnline.

4 Harv. L. Rev. 193 (1890-1891) Right to Privacy; Warren, Samuel D. ; Brandeis, Louis D.

2,902

86 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1972-1973) Foreword: In Search of Evolving Doctrine on a Changing Court: A Model for a Newer Equal Protection ; Gunther, Gerald

2,560

10 Harv. L. Rev. 457 (1896-1897) Path of the Law

2,457

73 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1959-1960) Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law; Wechsler, Herbert

2,095

3 J.L. & Econ. 1 (1960) Problem of Social Cost, The; Coase, R.H.

1,641

73 Yale L.J. 733 (1963-1964) New Property, The; Reich, Charles A.

1,638

85 Harv. L. Rev. 1089 (1971-1972) Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral ; Calabresi, Guido ; Melamed, A. Douglas

1,547

39 Stan. L. Rev. 317 (1986-1987) Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism, The; Lawrence, Charles R. III

1,503

47 Ind. L.J. 1 (1971-1972) Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems; Bork, Robert H.

1,493

90 Harv. L. Rev. 489 (1976-1977) State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights; Brennan, William J. Jr.

1,468

80 Harv. L. Rev. 1165 (1966-1967) Property, Utility, and Fairness: Comments on the Ethical Foundations of Just Compensation Law; Michelman, Frank I.

1,411

89 Harv. L. Rev. 1281 (1975-1976) Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation, The; Chayes, Abram

1,387

69 Yale L.J. 1099 (1959-1960) Assault upon the Citadel (Strict Liability to the Consumer), The; Prosser, William L.

1,366

89 Harv. L. Rev. 1685 (1975-1976) Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication; Kennedy, Duncan

1,301

58 Minn. L. Rev. 349 (1973-1974) Perspectives on the Fourth Amendment; Amsterdam, Anthony G.

1,157

82 Yale L.J. 920 (1972-1973) Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade, The; Ely, John Hart

1,107

42 Stan. L. Rev. 581 (1989-1990) Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory; Harris, Angela P.

1,096

97 Harv. L. Rev 4 (1983-1984) Foreword: Nomos and Narrative; Cover, Robert M.

1,084

83 Yale L.J. 663 (1973-1974) Federalism and Corporate Law: Reflections upon Delaware; Cary, William L.

1,012

93 Yale L.J. 1073 (1983-1984) Against Settlement; Fiss, Owen M.

997

83 Harv. L. Rev. 7 (1969-1970) Foreword: On Protecting the Poor through the Fourteenth Amendment; Michelman, Frank I.

937

93 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1979-1980) Foreword: The Forms of Justice; Fiss, Owen M.

913

88 Yale L.J. 950 (1978-1979) Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce; Mnookin, Robert H.; Kornhauser, Lewis

906

50 Minn. L. Rev. 791 (1965-1966) Fall of the Citadel (Strict Liability to the Consumer), The; Prosser, William L.

900

74 Yale L.J. 36 (1964-1965) Takings and the Police Power; Sax, Joseph L.

890

81 Harv. L. Rev. 1439 (1967-1968) Demise of the Right-Privilege Distinction in Constitutional Law, The; Van Alstyne, William W.

889

71 Harv. L. Rev. 593 (1957) Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals; Hart, H. L. A.

856

92 Harv. L. Rev. 353 (1978-1979) Forms and Limits of Adjudication, The; Fuller, Lon L.

853

54 Colum. L. Rev. 543 (1954) Political Safeguards of Federalism: The Role of the States in the Composition and Selection of the National Government, The; Wechsler, Herbert

845

94 Harv. L. Rev. 1161 (1980-1981) Proper Role of a Target's Management in Responding to a Tender Offer, The; Easterbrook, Frank H. ; Fischel, Daniel R.

841

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Where in the World is Hein?

2009-04-03T10:16:00.004-04:00

Take a look below to see where our sales representatives will be traveling to in April...

April 8
Roxanne Marmion will be in Washington, D.C. at the Department of the Interior Library for a HeinOnline demonstration.

April 13-17
Shannon Hein will be in Washington, D.C. during National Library Week.

April 16-18
Dick Spinelli and Roxanne Marmion will be at the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) Annual Meeting in Athens, GA where they will be exhibiting. The Hein company is also sponsoring the SEAALL Institute program titled "The Impact of Electronic Resources on Today's Law Library" on Thursday, April 16 from 8:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Roxanne Marmion will be participating as a speaker during the the following two sessions: "Traditional Materials - Whither Thou Goest?"; and "Vendor Methods Utilized to Inform Marketplace". For more details and an outline of the program, visit the SEAALL Annual Meeting website.

April 24-25
Dick Spinelli will be attending the Northern California Association of Law Libraries meeting in San Francisco, CA. This year's meeting will be held at the Hotel Whitcomb.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Quickly Find a Page in the Appenix from the Bound Congressional Record between 1937-1953, i.e. 90 Cong. Rec. A2982

2009-04-02T09:39:00.008-04:00

Do you have a citation to a page from an appendix section of the bound Congressional Record between 1937 and 1953, such as 90 Cong. Rec. A2982? If so, you’ll like this week’s tip as we focus on the fastest way to pull up a page from an appendix published during this time. Appendix pages published during this time frame, from Vol. 81 (75th Congress, 1st Session) in 1937 to Vol. 99 (83rd Congress, 1st Session) in 1953 are preceded with the letter A. Therefore, if ever you have a citation in which the page is preceded with A, then you’ll want to utilize this tip.

For a full, detailed overview of the Congressional Record and its predecessors, visit the Law Librarians Society of Washington, D.C. website at http://www.llsdc.org/cong-record/.

Let’s look at an example to illustrate how to quickly find the page. For our example, we want to pull up 90 Cong. Rec. A2982. This page includes a speech about cooperatives given by Mr. Jerry Voorhis, a member of the House of Representatives from California in 1944. To quickly locate this page, open the U.S. Congressional Documents library, click on the Search tab and the Advanced Search option.

When we build our search, we can use the "volseries" field indicator to specify the volume that we have from our citation, in this case 90. We can also use the "description" field to identify the section as an Appendix, and lastly, we can run a text search for the page number since every page displays the pagination. Now let’s put this all together. Enter the following search string into the advanced search box:

volseries:90 AND description:appendix AND text:A2982

Now, from the title listing, highlight Cong. Rec. and then click search.

This search will return 1 result with a direct link to page A2982 from volume 90 of the bound Congressional Record. To link directly to the page, you must click on View Matching Text Pages within the result.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: How to Print a Specific Section or Document Within the Federal Register

2009-03-27T16:26:00.027-04:00

Do you have a specific document or section within the Federal Register that you need to print? If so, you’ll find this weeks tip helpful as we illustrate how to use the Table of Contents at the beginning of the Federal Register to identify where a section begins and ends. This will in turn make it easy for you to print the document using our custom page range printing tool.

Each issue or day of the Federal Register begins with a table of contents. The table of contents is organized alphabetically by agency name, including sub-agencies. Within each agency name the documents are organized by classification including rules, proposed rules or notices and each has a page number or range of pages for where the document presides within that days register. Understanding this table of contents is the key to being able to print a section quickly and easily.

Let’s look at an example. We want to find the final regulations within the IRS as presented recently in the Federal Register for the "Disclosure of Return Information to the Bureau of Economic Analysis". We’ve been asked to print off this entire document.

To get started, we will need to generate a search for the document. To do this, open the Federal Register library and open the Field Search option from the Search tab. In the first search box, enter the name of the regulation, Disclosure of Return Information to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, click on the phrase button and select text from the drop down menu. Highlight just the Federal Register from the title listing and insert a date range of 2008-2008 and click search.

This search gives us one result that is a link to 73 Federal Register No. 249 from December 29, 2008. If we click on view matching text pages, we see that our regulation appears on 3 pages within this day of the Federal Register. The first matching page link is to page V, a roman numeral, which indicates to us that this is going to be in the table of contents section within this day of the Federal Register.

Click on this link to view the regulation as it is listed in the table of contents and to view the page range that the regulation appears within, pages 79361-79362.

Now that we know the page range that the regulation begins and ends on, we can pull up the full text and print just that regulation.

On your left menu, click on the Search Results tab if it is not already showing. Now, expand the view matching text pages, and click on the link that says "Turn to page 79361".

Once the page opens, click on the printer icon and choose the page range 79361 to 79362 to print.

Join HeinOnline for a "Getting Started" Webinar

2009-03-23T11:09:00.013-04:00

Are you, your staff or your students new to HeinOnline and not sure how to get started? If so, we can help! We are hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 15th from 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. EST during which we will cover the basics of using and navigating the HeinOnline interface.

The webinar will aid new users in the following areas:

Logging in to the database and accessing the content
Navigating from one collection to another
How to navigate within the content using the interface (viewing table of contents, using search tools, finding a citation, using title lookup)
How to use the Field and Advanced Search options providing specific examples from the Law Journal Library, CFR, and U.S. Supreme Court Libraries
How to print/download documents
Where to find additional help and resources for specific collections

Click here to register and reserve your seat today.

Training Resources Now Available for HeinOnline's U.S. Code Collection

2009-03-20T13:24:00.005-04:00

We have developed a new help page on the HeinOnline Wiki that is dedicated to using the United States Code collection. You can find a link to the Quick Reference Guide, how-to information, and an explanation of search fields. You will also find several examples of searching techniques including how to search for a Statutes at Large Citation or a Public Law Number as it appears in the U.S. Code. For more information on finding a section in the U.S. Code, refer to our earlier post.

This page can be accessed at:
http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnlineLibSpec:United_States_Code.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Searching for a Section in the U.S. Code

2009-03-17T16:41:00.003-04:00

Are you searching for a section in the U.S. Code? Using a full text search, you can search by the section number and section title to retrieve the page links to the section as it appears in the U.S. Code. For example, we are looking for 23 U.S.C. 410 in the 2006 edition of the U.S. Code. We first identify that the section title of 410 is "Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures".

To pull up this section in the U.S. Code, open the field search option. In the first search box enter the section number and title as "410 Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures" and select Text from the drop down menu. Now, to refine our results we must identify the title that the section is located in. So we insert "23" into the second search box and choose Title Number from the drop down menu. Then in the third search box we insert 2006 and choose Edition from the drop down menu in order to narrow our search to just the 2006 edition of the U.S. Code. Now click search.

This search will return a single result with two links to pages within the text where section 410 appears. The first will link you to the page at the start of the chapter within title 23 where the sections are identified. The second link will take you directly to the text of section 410.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Where To Find the Current Status of a UN Treaty in HeinOnline

2009-03-11T12:06:00.015-04:00

Are you looking for the current status of the parties in a UN Treaty or want to see the entry into force date? In addition to providing you with key treaty data and a link to the text of the treaty as it appears in the UN Treaty Series, HeinOnline now links the most current status of the treaty as it is presented on the United Nations website at http://treaties.un.org.

There are two ways to find the current status of a treaty in HeinOnline. The first is by searching for the treaty. From HeinOnline's United Nations collection home page, click on Search for a United Nations Treaty. Enter the treaty number, for example 10586, select Treaty/Registration Number from the drop down menu and click search.

When the result appears, you will be presented with the key treaty data and a link to the text in the UNTS. Below the key data, you will see a link titled "UN Current Status Information" and the EIF date below that.

Click on the EIF date to view the current status of the treaty as it appears at http://treaties.un.org.

You can also access the current status information when reading the treaty text in the UNTS. From our search result, click on the UNTS citation, 737 UNTS 161, to view the text of the treaty.

Once the page opens, you will see the "Treaty Summary" link located above the page. Click on this link and you will see the key treaty data followed by the "UN Current Status Information" link.

Where in the World is Hein?

2009-03-09T10:15:00.007-04:00

March is a busy month for us here at Hein! Take a look below to see where our sales representatives will be traveling to...

March 12-15
Dick Spinelli and Roxanne Marmion will be in Seattle, WA at the Association of College & Research Libraries. Be sure to visit booth # 1223 and enter to win a $50 American Express giftcard!

March 25-28
Shannon Hein & Roxanne Marmion will be in Washington, DC for the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting. We will be featuring some of our best-selling products, as well as various ASIL titles that are available from Hein!

March 25-28
Dick Spinelli will be in Albuquerque, NM at the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries Annual (SWALL) Meeting.

March 30-April 1
Shannon Hein and Roxanne Marmion will be exhibiting at the Computers in Libraries meeting, in Arlington, VA, at the end of March. Be sure to visit booth #412!

Are you our fan on Facebook? Follow us around the world on our new events page!

Stay tuned to see where we'll be in April!

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Add Notes to MyHein Bookmarks

2009-03-06T12:11:00.010-05:00

Along with the February release of new content in HeinOnline, we have added a new feature to the MyHein tool. Users can now add notes to individually bookmarked articles and search queries. If you are unfamiliar with MyHein, check out the description of this great tool.

Bookmarks are still made the same way they always have been. Now, when you are reviewing the bookmarks you've created, you will see that each one has a new "Add/Edit Notes" link.

If you have a note you would like to add to a bookmark, click this link. You will be presented with a text box to enter the note into. When done, click the "Enter Note" button.

You'll see that the note has now been added to that particular bookmark.

Many of the enhancements we are adding to HeinOnline start with ideas from you. So let us know how we're doing. Click the feedback link in HeinOnline and tell us what you want to see.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Use Zotero with HeinOnline

2009-02-27T12:37:00.013-05:00

For all of you HeinOnline users out there who use Zotero, we have good news. Zotero is now compatible with HeinOnline's Law Journal Library. Users are able to bookmark articles directly from a search results list in HeinOnline, or when viewing the pages of an article.
For those of you unfamiliar with Zotero, it "is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources."
We've included a short tutorial on how to use Zotero in HeinOnline. For more help using Zotero, we recommend visiting the Zotero support page.

To use Zotero you must be using Firefox. For the purposes of this tutorial we will assume that you have already installed Firefox, as well as the Zotero extension.

One way to use Zotero with HeinOnline is bookmarking articles directly from a search results list. Below you'll see I have generated a list of search results in the Law Journal Library.

To bookmark some of these results, click on the folder icon located in the Firefox address bar.

You will be presented with a dialog box that gives you the option to select the articles you would like to bookmark.

Users can also bookmark an article they are currently viewing in HeinOnline.

While viewing an article, click on the small page icon in the Firefox address bar.

To access the list of articles you have bookmarked, click on the word "ZOTERO" in the left corner of the Firefox status bar. You can see the middle window contains a list of the articles I have bookmarked. The right-hand pane contains all of the metadata associated with that article.

For more information on use of Zotero; including exporting your bookmarks, and generating bibliographies, we recommend reading the Zotero support page.
Don't forget to tell us what you think. Click on the feedback link located at the top of the HeinOnline page.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Blue Book Citation Lookup

2009-02-19T13:45:00.015-05:00

Did you know that there are currently 1224 titles in HeinOnline's Law Journal library? Add that to all of the the title changes that have occurred through the years, and you end up with 1640 different Blue Book citations that you could possibly use in the library. Here at HeinOnline we understand that keeping track of all those citations can be a daunting task. That's why we've developed a new Blue Book citation lookup tool.

To use this feature, you first need to enter the Law Journals Library, or one of the Law Journals Sub-Libraries. Next, click on the 'Citation Navigator' tab located near the top of the page. In the Citation Navigator tab, you will see a link that reads "Find Blue Book Citation". Click this link.

You will now see a list of all of the titles available in the library, along with the citation(s) associated with that title. Clicking the letters listed across the top of the screen will quickly jump you to the titles that begin with that letter.

Clicking a title in this list presents the option to fill in the volume and page number of the citation you are looking for.

This is another example of how we are continually working to make HeinOnline a better tool for our users. Please let us know what you think about this enhancement, or anything else in HeinOnline by clicking the feedback button located at the top of your HeinOnline screen.

Most-Cited U.S. Supreme Court Cases in HeinOnline - Part II

2009-02-16T11:12:00.004-05:00

Earlier this year we added our Hein ScholarCheck analysis to the U.S. Supreme Court Library (See our December blog post for details and a brief video demonstration).

We've recently added links when browsing or searching to a case in the U.S. Supreme Court Library which will then allow you to view all articles that cite that case from within HeinOnline's Law Journal Library.

Today we share with you the results of our Hein ScholarCheck analysis on the U.S. Supreme Court Library. The following is a list of the 50 Most-Cited Supreme Court Cases in HeinOnline.

Enjoy!

1.) Brown v. Board of Education (347 U.S. 483) cited 16,868 times.

2.) Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113) cited 15,991 times.

3.) Griswold et al. v. Connecticut (381 U.S. 479) cited 14,217 times.

4.) Miranda v. Arizona (384 U.S. 436) cited 10,772 times.

5.) New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (376 U.S. 254) cited 9,788 times.

6.) Mapp v. Ohio (367 U.S. 643) cited 8,956 times.

7.) Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (304 U.S. 64) cited 8,296 times.

8.) Gideon v. Wainwright, Corrections Director (372 U.S. 335) cited 7,962 times.

9.) Baker et al. v. Carr et al. (369 U.S. 186) cited 7,423 times.

10.) Lochner v. New York (198 U.S. 45) cited cited 7,299 times.

11.) Loving et ux. v. Virginia (388 U.S. 1) cited 6,950 times.

12.) Plessy v. Ferguson (163 U.S. 537) cited 6,926 times.

13.) William Marbury v. James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States (5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137) cited 6,835 times.

14.) Meyer v. State of Nebraska (262 U.S. 390) cited 6,786 times.

15.) Katz v. United States (389 U.S. 347) cited 6,741 times.

16.) San Antonio Independent School District et al. v. Rodriguez et al. (411 U.S. 1) cited 6,712 times.

17.) United States v. Carolene Products Co. (304 U.S. 144) cited 6,527 times.

18.) Pierce, Governor of Oregon, et al. v. Society of Sisters - Pierce, Governor of Oregon, et al. v. Hill Military Academy (268 U.S. 510) cited 6,420 times.

19.) Shapiro, Commissioner of Welfare of Connecticut v. Thompson (394 U.S. 618) cited 6,343 times.

20.) Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al. (467 U.S. 837) cited 6,300 times.

21.) West Virginia State Board of Education et al. v. Barnette et al. (319 U.S. 624) cited 6,184 times.

22.) Korematsu v. United States (323 U.S. 214) cited 6,106 times.

23.) Wisconsin v. Yoder et al. (406 U.S. 205) cited 5,947 times.

24.) Eisenstadt, Sheriff v. Baird (405 U.S. 438) cited 5,790 times.

25.) Olmstead et al. v. United States - Green et al. v. Same - McInnis v. Same (277 U.S. 438) cited 5,783 times.

26.) Buckley et al. v. Valeo, Secretary of the United States Senate, et al. (424 U.S. 1) cited 5,780 times.

27.) Terry v. Ohio (392 U.S. 1) cited 5,719 times.

28.) Goldberg, Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York v. Kelly et al. (397 U.S. 254) cited 5,639 times.

29.) Skinner v. Oklahoma ex rel. Williamson, Attorney General (316 U.S. 535) cited 5,637 times.

30.) Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265) cited 5,636 times.

31.) In Re Gault et al. (387 U.S. 1) cited 5,496 times.

32.) Griggs et al. v. Duke Power Co. (401 U.S. 424) cited 5,429 times.

33.) International Shoe Co. v. State of Washington et al. (326 U.S. 310) cited 5,218 times.

34.) Furman v. Georgia (408 U.S. 238) cited 5,149 times.

35.) Sherbert v. Verner et al., Members of South Carolina Employment Security Commission, et al. (374 U.S. 398) cited 5,068 times.

36.) Bowers, Attorney General of Georgia v. Hardwick et al. (478 U.S. 186) cited 5,015 times.

37.) Cantwell et al. v. Connecticut (310 U.S. 296) cited 5,008 times. 38.) Shelley et ux. v. Kraemer et ux. (334 U.S. 1) cited 5,005 times.

39.) In re Winship (397 U.S. 358) cited 4,972 times.

40.) Reynolds, Judge, et al. v. Sims et al. (377 U.S. 533) cited 4,906 times.

41.) Palko v. Connecticut (302 U.S. 319) cited 4,869 times.

42.) Mathews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare v. Eldrige (424 U.S. 319) cited 4,823 times.

43.) Roth v. United States (354 U.S. 476) cited 4,750 times.

44.) Craig et al. v. Borden, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. (429 U.S. 190) cited 4,725 times.

45.) Washington, Mayor of Washington, D.C., et al. v. Davis et al. (426 U.S. 229) cited 4,704 times.

46.) United States v. O'Brien (391 U.S. 367) cited 4,609 times.

47.) Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing (330 U.S. 1) cited 4,553 times.

48.) Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania et al. v. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. (505 U.S. 833) cited 4,536 times.

49.) Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Sheriff & Wo Lee v. Hopkins, Sheriff (118 U.S. 356) cited 4,525 times.

50.) Lemon et al. v. Kurtzman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Pennsylvania, et al. (403 U.S. 602) cited 4,486 times.

HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Browse CFR Indexes and Finding Aids

2009-02-09T08:30:00.009-05:00

Last week, we mentioned in our monthly announcement a number of new enhancements in HeinOnline. We would like to highlight one in particular that is a new enhancement to the CFR library.

In January, we received a feedback email from Susan Lewis-Somers at American University's Washington College of Law. In the email, Susan suggested we add a "Browse by CFR Index" option to the CFR library in HeinOnline because; "...most users don't know they can find the indexes at the end of the Bindings browse option." We thought this suggestion would be a great addition to the CFR library. Thanks Susan!

You can find the new "Indexes and Finding Aids" link on the Resources tab under the Browse By heading in the Code of Federal Regulations/Federal Register Library.

In the link lists all of the CFR Indexes and Finding Aids that are currently available in HeinOnline in descending chronological order. This list will be updated as we continue to add new CFR volumes to the library.

As we continually strive to make HeinOnline a better tool for its users, We would like to encourage everyone to send us their suggestions for improvement. Use the feedback link located at the top of the page in HeinOnline, and let us know your ideas!

Most Cited Authors in HeinOnline - Hein's ScholarCheck

2009-01-30T09:11:00.020-05:00

Lets look at the most-cited authors in the Law Journal Library using Hein's ScholarCheck, our new citation analysis tool.

As of today, the following lists the 50 Most Cited Authors, which includes the # of articles which they have written and a cumulative # of times all of their articles have been cited. This analysis was run over the 1,200+ legal periodicals, 30,000+ volumes, 1,000,000+ articles, and over 19 million pages of content in the Law Journal Library. In our analysis, we also found that there are over 150,00 different authors.

Enjoy!

1.) Posner, Richard A. cited 12,586 times in 251 articles.

2.) Sunstein, Cass R. cited 11,521 times in 267 articles.

3.) Epstein, Richard A. cited 6,194 times in 272 articles.

4.) Easterbrook, Frank H. cited 6,018 times in 84 articles.

5.) Prosser, William L. cited 5,585 times in 55 articles.

6.) Coffee, John C. Jr. cited 5,196 times in 68 articles.

7.) Delgado, Richard cited 5,165 times in 145 articles.

8.) Eskridge, William N. Jr. cited 5,029 times in 69 articles.

9.) Pound, Roscoe cited 4,869 times in 284 articles.

10.) Fischel, Daniel R. cited 4,703 times in 43 articles.

11.) Amar, Akhil Reed cited 4,252 times in 98 articles.

12.) Wechsler, Herbert cited 4,076 times in 40 articles.

13.) Fiss, Owen M. cited 4,030 times in 56 articles.

14.) Farber, Daniel A. cited 4,002 times in 122 articles.

15.) Macey, Jonathan R. cited 3,936 times in 120 articles.

16.) Redish, Martin H. cited 3, 736 times in 86 articles.

17.) Schauer, Frederick cited 3,707 times in 116 articles.

18.) Tushnet, Mark cited 3,639 times in 263 articles.

19.) Gunther, Gerald cited 3,595 times in 20 articles.

20.) Tribe, Laurence H. cited 3,583 times in 75 articles.

21.) Sax, Joseph L. cited 3,546 times in 65 articles.

22.) Karst, Kenneth L. cited 3,528 times in 73 articles.

23.) Ely, John Hart cited 3,503 times in 30 articles.

24.) Michelman, Frank I. cited 3,422 times in 76 articles.

25.) Galanter, Marc cited 3,299 times in 84 articles.

26.) Brest, Paul cited 3,237 times in 30 articles.

27.) Scott, Robert E. cited 3,230 times in 53 articles.

28.) Friendly, Henry J. cited 3,148 times in 40 articles.

29.) Cox, Archibald cited 3,121 times in 72 articles.

30.) Henkin, Louis cited 3,068 times in 81 articles.

31.) Gilson, Ronald J. cited 3,062 times in 47 articles.

32.) Eisenberg, Theodore cited 2,980 times in 77 articles.

33.) Frankfurter, Felix cited 2,971 times in 84 articles.

34.) Lemley, Mark A. cited 2,962 times in 78 articles.

35.) Brandeis, Louis D. cited 2,918 times in 9 articles.

36.) Warren, Samuel D. cited 2,902 times in 3 articles.

37.) Bork, Robert H. cited 2,874 times in 64 articles.

38.) Kennedy, Duncan cited 2,802 times in 45 articles.

39.) Reich, Charles A. cited 2,784 times in 23 articles.

40.) Wade, John W. cited 2,768 times in 86 articles.

41.) Kalven, Harry Jr. cited 2,761 times in 44 articles.

42.) Chemerinsky, Erwin cited 2,681 times in 203 articles.

43.) Rhode, Deborah L. cited 2,677 times in 80 articles.

44.) Menkel-Meadow, Carrie cited 2,642 times in 78 articles.

45.) Griswold, Erwin N. cited 2,614 times in 121 articles.

46.) Jaffe, Louis L. cited 2,611 times in 69 articles.

47.) McConnell, Michael W. cited 2,566 times in 62 articles.

48.) Landes, William M. cited 2,547 times in 42 articles.

49.) Frickey, Philip P. cited 2,534 times in 39 articles.

50.) Schwartz, Alan cited 2,540 times in 59 articles.