In this season of giving thanks, we at HeinOnline are finding we have so much to be thankful for—an engaged research community, continued great feedback, and of course, the ability to bring new and exciting content to our users each month, even during a pandemic. So much content, in fact, that the Law Journal Library was even able to reach another milestone of 2,900 journals this month!
Take a look and see what’s now available with our November content release—who knows, you might find yourself a little thankful, too.
NOVEMBER CONTENT RELEASE SUMMARY
Updated databases: 65
New titles: 1,021
New volumes: 1,950
New pages added last month: 738,989
Total pages in HeinOnline: 190,292,370
Highlights from the Past Month
1. Database Enhancement: Past Pandemic Content Added to Our COVID-19 Database
In August, HeinOnline released COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues, and Law free to all Core subscription packages, empowering users with factual information about the COVID-19 pandemic and its global effects. Now, the addition of more than 530 titles and nearly 50,000 pages has necessitated an expansion and revamp of this database. Learn more about the new and improved COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present database.
2. New Feature: Users Can Now Search Across Multiple Databases
Searching in HeinOnline just got even more intuitive. Thanks to wonderful customer suggestions, users can now search multiple selected databases at once right from their HeinOnline welcome page. Watch the brief video or check out our step-by-step guide in this blog post to learn how to get started.
3. New Feature: Keep Track of Your Author Alerts in MyHein
With HeinOnline’s author profile pages, users have long been able to set up email alerts for particular authors. Have you set up author alerts in the past, and found it hard to keep track? Would you like to set up and manage a number of author alerts all in one place? If so, read this blog post (or watch the brief video) to learn about HeinOnline’s newest author alerts feature.
4. New Citation Format: Australian Guide to Legal Citations (AGLC)
A new citation style has been added to the Cite box in HeinOnline. Now, when citing a HeinOnline document, find the Australian Guide to Legal Citations (AGLC), 4th Edition as a citation option. Stay tuned for more information on the HeinOnline Blog about this new style!
5. A Wealth of Legislative Histories Were Added
Over the past year, HeinOnline has been consistently adding extensive legislative histories to our U.S. Federal Legislative History Library. A total of 91 legislative histories have been added for legislation that covers a range of topics from energy research and development to the president’s national emergency powers to music copyright in the streaming era. Stay tuned in to the HeinOnline Blog to learn more about just how much has been added.
6. Featured Database: American Law Institute Library
HeinOnline offers a variety of a-la-carte databases to supplement the user’s research in specific areas. This month, we featured one of these databases—the American Law Institute Library—on the HeinOnline Blog. The American Law Institute Library is a digital collection that provides easy access to invaluable American Law Institute projects and documents that have influenced modern law and society. Visit the post to learn more about the database or to watch a short tutorial.
7. Hot Resource: The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Are you an information professional at a law firm or government agency supporting the work of multilingual attorneys in transnational legal practice? Are you an academic law librarian seeking to better serve the needs of foreign-trained, non-native English-speaking LLM and other advanced degree students? Learn more about how the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals can help you and register for a free IFLP webinar in this guest post from the editorial team. Additionally, this month 2,000 articles were added to the Index with the addition of issue 2020:1. Learn more about the update below.
8. The Serial Set Digitization Project Continues
Since its initial release in October 2018, nearly 6.9 million pages and nearly 9,000 volumes have been added to the Serial Set in HeinOnline. In the past month alone, the Serial Set grew by nearly 350 volumes and more than 200,000 pages. Read up on this month’s Secret of the Serial Set—an investigation of the oft-overlooked Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal involving the Reagan Administration, the Nicaraguan Civil War, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
9. We Gave You Some More Great Tips
We brought back some helpful tips of the week to help you research with confidence. First, go back to basics by learning how to locate a title in HeinOnline, then try something a little more advanced by learning how to research the career of a U.S. senator using multiple databases.
Major Database Updates
We’ve added a ton of content to some of our most popular HeinOnline databases! Check out the substantial additions this month:
- The Law Journal Library continues to grow with the addition of nine new journals, bringing the database to a total of 2,900 journals!
- 200 CRS Reports, nearly 100 hearings, and 12 committee prints were added to the U.S. Congressional Documents database.
- 130 titles were added to Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases.
- GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions has been updated to include 120 new titles.
- 71 new titles were added to the Legal Classics Library.
- Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf grew by 36 titles.
- 29 titles were added to the American Enterprise Institute.
- 22 titles were added to Religion and the Law.
That’s not all! Expand each collection below to discover additional updates, along with our favorite titles from each addition.
But wait, there’s more! Access the comprehensive list of all new material added and updated in the November Content Release.
