HeinOnline Academic

As a small, undergraduate institution, we have a specific need for a broad-based research database that crosses disciplinary lines to provide the greatest research value to our students. HeinOnline fulfills a niche not provided by other online databases at a cost per student below other research databases. HeinOnline, paired with FastCase, provides unmatched coverage appropriate for our undergraduate law courses. In addition, its coverage of history, political science, gender studies, and environmental issues serves multiple departments across campus and provides extensive resources appropriate for courses ranging from freshman composition to senior seminars. We are particularly happy with its American Indian Law Collection, which provides particular focus to an underserved community. The representatives at HeinOnline are responsive, cheerful, and fantastic to work with.

I have to say, no one is more surprised than I am at the amount of use HeinOnline gets here at Augsburg. When you first contacted me a few years ago, I was reluctant to even set up a trial because we don't have a law school or even a paralegal program. When you offered to do a 6-month trial, in all honesty, I thought "sure, we'll try it for 6 months and then cancel when no one uses it." Boy, was I wrong! Every month I look at our usage stats and am pleasantly surprised to see how many articles were downloaded. We calculate cost per use based on # of downloads for all of our full-text resources (in the case of HeinOnline that translates to articles), and HeinOnline is consistently among our 10 lowest CPU resources!

What makes acquisition of this database exciting is its depth and its application to so many different disciplines and areas of study. While HeinOnline is an excellent resource for researchers looking for articles on legal issues of any kind, the collections have applicability to anyone studying history, political science, public policy and administration, homeland security, criminal justice, international relations, or any topic which involves those subjects.

HeinOnline is fantastic! For some students who are using government documents, it is a one-stop shopping situation. Very powerful search functionality, lots of options and ways to filter. Love it.

It’s super convenient for a number of the political science classes that I teach, particularly in terms of being able to use keyword searching in the main screen that grabs up laws, court cases, and journal articles in one fell swoop … HeinOnline is currently my go-to database for poli-sci, and I’m very happy with it.

My students in SOCL 317 have found HeinOnline useful in identifying primary documents and journal articles.

Our library is excited to provide our patrons with access to HeinOnline Academic for a number of reasons: (1) an outstanding collection of law and law-related journals; (2) excellent coverage of U.S. congressional content, which allowed us to cancel several expensive subscriptions (saving thousands of dollars per year); (3) exceptional coverage of federal law and regulations; (4) access to specialized collections (e.g. Religion and the Law, Women and the Law) which are of interest to a growing number of researchers on our campus; and last, but not least (5) outstanding communication with HeinOnline representatives during all phases of acquisition, from initial trial through online and face-to-face demonstrations, license negotiation and contract-signing This is an outstanding resource that we anticipate will get great use from our paralegal, public affairs, and political science researchers, but also from a wide variety of users from a wide variety of academic departments on our campus.

I began subscribing to HeinOnline this past school year and it is wonderful for history and political science research. It was brought to my attention by a student who found an article through Google Scholar and it was in this database. After speaking with the rep and looking it over, I jumped on this one. And it proved to be very helpful to most all the other students through the rest of the year with their historical research.

Highly recommend if you have a serious, scholarly history research assignment at your school.

HeinOnline has such a wealth of information on many different subject areas. Students love using this resource, as it is very user-friendly. And as the primary contact for our library, I love that it is easy to get in touch with the staff of HeinOnline for any questions I may have. They are always quick with a reply, and are extremely helpful. Would recommend for any library!

I’ve been meaning to send you a note of thanks for getting HeinOnline in the Bismarck State College databases. You can’t imagine how helpful it has been to me.

As a medical library, legal materials are not normally the first thing you go looking for as an addition to your collection. When we initially added it to our medical collection, we were not expecting to see much usage. We were very pleasantly surprised to find that, especially in our current legal climate, that our students are using our access to HeinOnline often. The access to current and historical legal precedence that pertains to medical and social issues has proven to be a valuable resource in training our medical students. Those in our public health program find it particularly useful. Not only is the information relevant, but the willingness of Hein staff to work with us to meet our students research needs has proven to be invaluable to the growth of our collection.

Grinnell College subscribed to HeinOnline many years ago. We did it initially to meet demand for law-related materials from Political Science courses. Since then, HeinOnline has become one of the most reliable and active providers of full-text content across our campus—from the Humanities to even the Sciences. The consistency of demand, even during the summers when we do not hold classes but have active student and faculty research, is remarkable. In addition, I cannot remember the last time we had a technical support issue with HeinOnline. Strong demand for the full text content coupled with seamless, trouble-free access; HeinOnline has been one of the most cost-effective investments we’ve made in the many years I have been at Grinnell.