Using HeinOnline
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LibGuides: A Librarian’s Best Friend
We know how valuable LibGuides are for librarians and researchers alike, which is why we have created them for almost all of our databases. Keep reading to learn more about how you can take full advantage of HeinOnline’s wealth of LibGuides!
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HeinOnline in the Classroom: Helping Students Develop Research Questions
School is back in session, and we’re introducing a new, occasional series from the HeinOnline blogging team: HeinOnline in the Classroom. In this post, we’ll go over ways you can use use HeinOnline to help students develop research questions.
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5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Research
It’s the morning and you’re well rested, sitting down at your computer with your coffee ready to start your research. And suddenly you hit a road block. Where do you start? We’re here to share some quick tips to improve your research.
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Law Journal Library: Your Partner in Research
We’ve got you covered with easy access to over 3,200 online scholarly journals in our fully searchable image-based database—the Law Journal Library. See for yourself why this database is our most-used and most-popular option for researchers.
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Tip of the Week: How to Use the Image Toolbar
HeinOnline’s image toolbar allows users to perform a variety of functions inside any HeinOnline document. Within the image toolbar, users can print or download a document, search across the text, find similar articles, and much more.
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HeinOnline’s Journal Library: A Multidisciplinary Bank of Scholarly Content
When HeinOnline was initially launched, it contained just 23 law journals. Even though our research platform has expanded to include government documents, international resources, and more, our journal content continues to be the most popular material.
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Ace the New Semester: 6 Back-to-School Tools in HeinOnline
With a new school year comes new research projects, but no need to fear—HeinOnline has the tools you need to make research a breeze! Utilize them to conquer any research-related challenge that this semester throws at you.
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Tip of the Week: How to Easily Locate Content with Third Iron
Did you know that HeinOnline integrates with Third Iron products BrowZine and LibKey? Third Iron is a leading library technology company whose services are used by more than 1,500 libraries across 35 countries.
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Tip of the Week: How to Run Proximity Searches
Proximity searching is a powerful technique that allows you to search for words or phrases within a specific distance of each other. It enables you to narrow down your search results and find precisely what you’re looking for.
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HeinOnline in the Classroom: Letter from Birmingham City Jail
In this month’s HeinOnline in the Classroom we focus on a particular historical document from HeinOnline’s collection: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” Keep reading for more about King’s letter, and for two activities that you can use in your classroom.
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HeinOnline in the Classroom: Four Tips for Preventing Plagiarism
For students, the consequences of plagiarism can be severe. Keep reading for four tips on preventing plagiarism, and a lesson you can use in your own classroom.
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HeinOnline in the Classroom: Helping Students Develop Research Questions
School is back in session, and we’re introducing a new, occasional series from the HeinOnline blogging team: HeinOnline in the Classroom. In this post, we’ll go over ways you can use use HeinOnline to help students develop research questions.
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November Webinar: Researching Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Join our HeinOnline gurus as they discover the wealth of material available on indigenous American life and law, and share the tremendous influence that indigenous peoples and their cultures have had on the development of the United States of America.
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October Webinar: Democracy in America
This month we want our customers to experience Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America in an entirely new way. We’re offering a webinar on HeinOnline’s interactive digital edition of de Tocqueville’s classic work, with a special guest appearance from the editor himself, Alan Keely.
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Subscriber Webinar: Searching 101 and PathFinder Overview
With some of the recent changes made to the HeinOnline interface, we thought it was would be a great opportunity to hold a subscriber training webinar. Learn how to use our one-box search and see our newest tool PathFinder in real time.