We are pleased to announce that we have added a brand-new subcollection of content from the Williams Institute to the LGBTQ+ Rights database, part of HeinOnline’s perpetually free Social Justice Suite. With this new addition, users can access more than 330 titles from UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, the leading research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.
About the Williams Institute
The Williams Project was founded in 2001 by businessman and philanthropist Charles Williams, Bill Rubenstein, Brad Sears, and scholars at UCLA School of Law. Their goal was to replace the pervasive bias against LGBT people in law, policy, and culture with independent research on LGBT issues. In 2006, the Williams Project merged with the Institute for Gay & Lesbian Strategic Studies, becoming the Williams Institute.
For nearly two decades, policymakers, lawmakers, advocates, and the courts have relied on the Williams Institute’s expertise. Williams Institute scholars have consulted with government agencies to improve federal data collection of LGBT people. They have provided testimony to Congress in hearings on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Justice Anthony Kennedy cited Williams Institute estimates on the number of same-sex couples raising children as a deciding factor in the landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which granted marriage equality in the U.S.
Today, the Williams Institute has an annual budget of over $4.5 million and a staff of 25 with expertise in economics, public health, demographics, public policy, psychology, and law.
About HeinOnline’s Social Justice Suite
Free of charge to HeinOnline Core subscribers and any interested organizations.
To honor our core value of corporate citizenship, Hein offers five of its databases free of charge to its core American and international subscribers, and to the libraries of any other interested organizations or institutions. Our cataloging partner, Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., also offers free MARC records for all of these databases, which are available upon request.*
The Social Justice Suite consists of the following resources:
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
- Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
- Civil Rights and Social Justice
- Open Society Justice Initiative
- LGBTQ+ Rights
The SJS (Social Justice Suite) databases contain very timely content on issues regarding civil and human rights, the right to bear arms, and gun violence … Very relevant and comprehensive content per respective topical areas.
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Free MARC Records via Cassidy Cataloguing
Our official cataloguing partner, Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., has made MARC Records available for these five databases at no additional charge to you*.
These robust records contain multiple access points of metadata including title, variant titles, author, editors, compilers, series notes, contents, and best of all, a one-click URL to take your users directly to the content. These are the same high-quality records utilized for all HeinOnline databases and for Cassidy print publications.
*Please note, the initial archive file of the MARC Records will be provided at no additional cost. If you would like to continue receiving updates of records for these databases, Cassidy charges a small annual fee.
