eResources Update: HeinOnline

1.  New Collections
2.  United States Law
3.  International Law
4.  New Features
5.  Learning More
6.  Law Faculty Members: Using HeinOnline Content in Courses

HeinOnline Home Page

New Collections

As HeinOnline continues to grow, the library reviews new offerings. Some major collections that have been added include:

  • American Law Institute Library: Includes full runs of the Institute's Annual Reports, Proceedings, Annual Meeting Speeches, and The ALI Reporter. Archival material from the Second Restatement of Torts, the Model Penal Code, and the Statement of Essential Human Rights.
  • National Conference on Commissioners on Uniform State Laws: Contains proceedings of Annual Meetings, as well as the transcripts of the discussions in the committee of the whole of each Uniform and Model Act. Also included are the approved "successive drafts" of each Uniform and Model Act.
  • Selden Society Publications and History of Early English Law: Contains early English
    manuscripts, digests, encyclopedias, and yearbooks, providing access to early English legal history in an online searchable format.

Coming in August 2009, we will have access to Taxation & Economic Reform in America, a Historical Archive 1781-2009. Read the brochure for details on this collection.

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United States Law

Following the success of the Law Journals Library, HeinOnline is now offering PDF versions of many primary and secondary U.S. legal materials. Content is added to these libraries as new materials become available.  The following is a categorized selection of those materials.

United States Supreme Court Library

The U.S. Supreme Court Library contains the official reports of the Court, as well as books and periodicals about the Court. Sample content includes:

Federal Statutes and Legislative Materials

Federal Administrative & Executive Materials

State Legislative Materials

Secondary Source Materials

  • Legal Classics Library: consists of more than 1,200 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, focusing on constitutional law, political science, and other classic topics.
  • World Trials Library: famous and important works on trials, trial transcripts and other court documents, and biographies of famous trial lawyers.

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International Law

HeinOnline has also become a power-house for international legal materials. The collections include primary source documents, scholarly analysis, and finding tools not available electronically elsewhere. The following is a selection of sources within the various international libraries.

United Nations Law Collection

The United Nations Law Collection contains the finding aids and the text of treaties deposited with the UN as well as other important works by and about the UN including:

Foreign & International Law Resources Database (FILRD)

The FILRD collection contains some of the world's best international law publications by highly respected publishers, including the American Society of International Law Proceedings and others:

Treaties and International Agreements

The Treaties and Agreements Library contains ALL of the U.S. treaties, whether currently in force, expired, or not yet officially published, thus being the largest and most complete online collection of U.S. treaties and agreements.

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New Features in HeinOnline

Cross Library Searching Now Live in the Law Journal Library

When searching in the Law Journal Library in HeinOnline, you will now see search results from journal titles found in other libraries, including 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. Results that are from a collection outside of the Law Journal Library appear in gray.  Additionally, a line at the end of the result indicates which collection the article resides in. See a demonstration of cross library searching.

Please note that results may include listings from the Kluwer Law International Journal Library, but the full text of those articles will not be available online. The library subscribes to many of those specialized periodicals in print.

MyHein Personal Bookmarking Tool

This tool from HeinOnline allows registered users to save and tag searches or articles. Once saved, these searches and article bookmarks remain on HeinOnline for easy access via the MyHein tab. In addition, articles that are bookmarked can be exported and/or mailed to another users. A MyHein Users Guide is available.

Searchable PDFs

HeinOnline is now adding search functionality to its PDFs. With this functionality, users will be able to search for text within these documents using Acrobat Reader. Currently, the following libraries have this capability:

  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • English Reports
  • European Center for Minority Issues
  • Foreign and International Law Resources Database
  • Legal Classics
  • Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
  • Most Cited Law Journals Library
  • Phillip C. Jessup Library
  • Session Laws
  • U.S. Attorney General Opinions
  • World Trials

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Learning More about HeinOnline

For assistance using any of these HeinOnline collections, please contact a reference librarian. Law faculty members may also contact their reference librarian liaison.

Training guides and videos on HeinOnline are also available via the HeinOnline Wiki.

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Law Faculty Members: Using HeinOnline Content in Courses

Your reference librarian liaison can assist you in adding links to HeinOnline content to your Courseinfo or Blackboard pages. In addition, we can build a customized research portal for you or your students incorporating these and any other licensed databases, free content, and Lexis or Westlaw content.

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If you have any difficulties accessing or searching this product, please contact Jennifer Duperon at x8853 or jduperon@bu.edu.

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