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What’s New in HeinOnline: February 2025 Content Release

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As the year unfolds, we’re embracing 10 more months filled with discovery and fresh insights. Our latest content release delivers a wealth of resources designed to enrich your research journey, no matter the scope of your work. Whether you’re diving into a new topic or deepening your expertise, there’s something here to inspire your next big research breakthrough.

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:

  • Law Journal Library: 6 new active serials
  • U.S. Congressional Documents:
    • 216 congressional service reports
    • 204 congressional hearings
    • 8 committee prints
  • UK Parliamentary & Government Publications (Public Information Online): 608 new titles
  • Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases: 185 new titles
  • GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions: 80 new titles
  • West Academic Casebooks Archive: 58 new titles
  • Legal Classics: 55 new titles

Expand each collection below to discover additional updates and our favorite titles from each addition.

With the February content release, we added seven new journals, six of which are active serials. These new journals cover subjects including war, politics, credit, transportation law, and more!

Armed Forces and Society
Full Text: Vols. 1-46 (1974-2020)
Indexed: Vols. 1-51#1 (1974-2025)
Published by Sage Publications
Subjects: War, Military Law and Justice, Gender and the Law, Politics (General)
Armed Forces & Society publishes empirical, theoretically-informed articles, research notes, book reviews, and review essays. Its articles may adopt an interdisciplinary, comparative, or historical perspective, use qualitative or quantitative methods, and range from policy-relevant to theoretical themes, but they always meet the highest standards of intellectual rigor, scholarly argument, evidence, and readability.

British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Full Text: Vols. 1-23 (1999-2021)
Indexed: Vols. 1-27#1 (1999-2025)
Published by Sage Publications
Subjects: Politics (General); Countries, Areas, and Regions; Government (General); European Union
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations is an international journal that publishes peer-reviewed, cutting-edge scholarship across the full breadth of the fields of international relations, comparative politics, public policy, political theory, and politics. As a flagship journal of the UK’s Political Studies Association, British Journal of Politics and International Relations is the world’s premier outlet for research on British politics.

Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report
Full Text: Vols. 1-76 (1946-2022) Title Varies: Vols. 1-8 (1946-1954) as Conference on Personal Finance Law Quarterly Report; Vols. 9-32 (1954-1978) as Personal Finance Law Quarterly Report
Indexed: Vols. 1-77 (1946-2023)
Published by Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL)
Subjects: Banking and Finance Law, Consumer Protection Law, Credit, Loans
The Conference on Consumer Finance Law publishes the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, a law journal that examines legislation, regulations, court decisions and related legal developments in the consumer financial services industry.

Journal of the Energy Law Practitioner
Vols. 1-4#1 (2022-2024)
Published by Texas Tech University School of Law
Subjects: Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law; Property-Personal and Real; Contracts; Power and Energy
The Journal of the Energy Law Practitioner’s purpose is to publish content related to issues relevant and useful to those interested in the area of energy law and provide practical articles, which discuss current trends and inspire new ideas to address today’s complex challenges. The target audience is those practicing in any energy-law-related field, particularly those practicing in Texas. The Journal is student-edited.

Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy
Vols. 1-90 (1933-2023) Title Varies: Vols. 1-51 (1933-1984) as I.C.C. Practitioners Journal; Vols. 52-61 (1984-1994) as Transportation Practitioners Journal
Published by Association of Transportation Law Professionals (ATLP)
Subjects: Transportation Law, Rail Transport, Railroads, Industry
The Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics & Policy contains academic-quality articles on timely subjects of interest to transportation and shipper attorneys and officials, covering all modes. Contributors to the Journal include practicing attorneys, legal and academic experts, government officials, and many others. The Journal’s subscribers consist of association members, supreme, federal, state and local courts, and government libraries, as well as university libraries around the world.

SPLITLAW – International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in the Law and Law Related Fields (Book of Proceedings)
2024
Published by University of Split, Faculty of Law
Subjects: Human Rights; Business Practice and Procedure; Countries, Areas, and Regions; Constitutional Law, Generally
SPLITLAW Journal publishes papers on the legal aspects of economic and social development, as well as the challenges of the modern world. The Journal features work from doctoral students (PhD students) and postdoctoral (PostDoc) researchers in law and related fields, such as social sciences or interdisciplinary studies. To be eligible, authors must have presented their papers at the International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in the Law and Law-Related Fields—SPLITLAW. This conference, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Split (Croatia), features an international Organizing and Program Committee and takes place annually in May.

Three titles were updated and 16 titles were added, including:

Corporate Governance: The Changing Environment: Course of Study Materials
1v. Philadelphia: American Law Institute/American Bar Association, 2008

Nontax and Tax Aspects of Life Insurance: Study Outline
1v. Philadelphia: American Law Institute – American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, 1980
Colson, Earl M.

21 titles were updated and one title was added:

Catalog of the Law Library of the Indianapolis Bar Association
1v. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1935-1940
Ringer, Gladys Wells

48 titles were added, including:

Great Unsolved Crimes
1v. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935
Alan, A. J.; et al.

Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics
1v. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1899
Morselli, Henry

Four titles were added, including:

Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery (New Series)
2v. New York: Banks & Bros., 1865
Simons, Nicholas; et al.

Reports of Cases, upon Appeals and Writs of Error, in the High Court of Parliament, from the Year 1701, to the Year 1779, with Tables, Notes, and References
7v. London: Printed by His Majesty’s Law-Printers, 1779
Brown, Josiah

15 titles were added, including:

Bibliographie Methodique de l’Histoire Economique et Sociale de la France Pendant la Guerre
1v. Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1925
Bloch, Camille

Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the Foreign Office
1v. London: H. M. Stationery Off., 1926

Naval History of the World War
3v. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924-1926
Frothingham, Thomas G.

20 titles were added, including:

Cyberpower and National Security
1v. Washington: National Defense University Press, 2009
Kramer, Franklin D.; et al., Editors

Six titles were added, including:

History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the Secret Archives of the Vatican and Other Original Sources
40v. St. Louis: B. Herder, 1912-1969
Pastor, Ludwig; et al.

Four titles were updated and 37 titles were added, including:

Beginnings of Printing in Arizona, with an Account of the Early Newspapers and a Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides Printed in Arizona, 1860-1875
1v. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1937
McMurtrie, Douglas C.

Bibliography of New Jersey Official Reports, 1905-1945
1v. Trenton: State Dept. of Education, Division of State Library, Archives and History, 1947
Lucas, Dorothy Fordyce, Compiler

Catalogue of the Law Library of the Supreme Court Appellate Division, Fourth Department, and Index Digest of Cases in the Fourth Department Reported in Volumes 1 to 115 of the Appellate Division Reports
1v. Rochester: [s.n.], 1907
Taylor, Irwin

Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society
1v. New York: Printed for the Society, 1859

Incunabula in American Libraries: A Second Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Owned in the United States, Mexico, and Canada
1v. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1940
Stillwell, Margaret Bingham, Editor

Law Volumes Microfilmed by the Library of Congress
1v. Washington: Library of Congress, Law Library, 1980
Dobbs, Kimberly W., Compiler

List of City Charters, Ordinances, and Collected Documents in the New York Public Library
1v. New York: New York Public Library, 1912-1913

Reader’s Guide in Economic, Social and Political Science: Being a Classified Bibliography, American, English, French and German, with Descriptive Notes, Author, Title and Subject Index, Courses of Reading, College Courses, etc.
1v. New York: The Society for Political Education, 1891
Bowker, R. R.; Iles, George, Editors

Visual Outline of Legal Research: Covering the Search for Judicial Decisions
1v. Cambridge: The Author, 1936
Dwyer, Francis X.

Four titles were updated and six titles were added, including:

Banking and Commercial Lending Law: Resource Materials
20v. Philadelphia: American Law Institute – American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Legal Education, 1980-1999
Nassberg, Richard T., Editor

There was a large update to the U.S. Congressional Documents database. See below for a breakdown:

70 new congressional hearings
204 new Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports
8 new committee prints

Here are some notable titles:

Congressional Hearings

Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, First Session
Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 2025

Everyday Expenses and Everyday Americans: How High Costs Impact Children and Families: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, U.S. Senate, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Second Session
Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 2025

Unmanned Aerial Systems and Emergency Response: The Impact of Drones and Other Emerging Technology on U.S. Law Enforcement: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology and the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Second Session
Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 2025

Congressional Research Service Reports

Federal Assessments and Warnings of Potential Post-Fire Debris Flows: Examples from the January 2025 Los Angeles County Wildfires
February 10, 2025 IN12507
Rowan, Linda R.; Lipiec, Eva

TikTok: Frequently Asked Questions and Issues for Congress
Updated January 21, 2025 R48023
Sutherland, Michael D.; et al.

Committee Prints

Business Meeting of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability U.S. House of Representatives One Hundred Eighteenth Congress Second Session
1v. U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2025

One title was added:

Opinions on ‘Slavery,’ and ‘Reconstruction of the Union,’ as Expressed by President Lincoln
1v. New York: J. A. Gray & Green, 1864
Lincoln, Abraham; Whiting, William

Six titles were added, including:

Women in Government: Your Guide to More than 600 Top Women in the Federal Government
1v. Washington, D.C.: Interdepartment Task Force on Women, 1980
Weddington, Sarah


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