New Off-Campus Access Login
HeinOnline is pleased to announce our new off-campus access login option. To make HeinOnline easily accessible for students and faculty, we are now offering a menu on our login page where users may select their college or university, which will then direct them to the proxy login area.
HeinOnline: The Most Reliable Source for Government Documents
HeinOnline has long been known as the most comprehensive source of law and law-related journals, but it’s much more than the best place to find articles. HeinOnline contains comprehensive coverage of government documents.
Linking to the GPO’s High Resolution Color PDFs of the Federal Register Is Now Available!
The Federal Register is a primary source for U.S. federal government agencies’ proposed rules, final rules, changes to existing rules and notices, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. It’s updated daily and printed Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Celebrating Presidents’ Day with Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
The American holiday of Presidents’ Day was originally established in 1885 in recognition of the first President of the United States, George Washington. It was officially called Washington’s Birthday and observed as a federal holiday on February 22nd, Washington’s actual day of birth.
Cataloging Legal Literature: New Update!
I managed to issue a “real” continuing resource this time, and not just a treatise in a binder that never got updated as with CLL3 in 1997. Kudos to co-author Melissa Beck and Hein’s Sheila Jarrett for keeping us on track! What happened during that big gap between CLL3 and CLL4?
U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch
On January 31, 2017 Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit was officially nominated by President Donald J. Trump to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. Read Gorsuch’s law review articles in HeinOnline, by accessing the list on his author profile page:
Research Trending Legal Topics in HeinOnline
ScholarCheck is a series of tools which help researchers locate and access related material. Our development team recently ran a report of the articles which had the greatest increase in the number of times accessed between January 2016 and now. Check out some trending topics that we found.
Black History Month and Race Relations in the United States
Each February, Americans honor both people and significant events in African-American history during Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month. Among the myriad reasons Black History Month is important is the underrepresentation of people of color in standard history classes. For instance, the recently released biographical drama Hidden Figures depicts the story of three female African-American […]
Researching Executive Power in HeinOnline
Since President Donald Trump took office on January 20, he has issued several executive orders. To understand the importance and potential consequences of these actions, let’s review legal scholarship on the topic in HeinOnline.
Tilikum, Circus Elephants, and Animal Rights
After animal rights protests and protracted litigation, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus began phasing out Asian elephants from the show in 2015. On January 14, the circus’ producer announced that after 146 years, they would permanently end all performances this upcoming May.