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Makes me look like a rock star when I can quickly pull an article someone is looking for.
I love the resources that are available on HeinOnline, especially the Law Journal Library, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, and U.S. Congressional Documents. The databases are easy to use, and the LibGuides help answer questions that I or our users may have with searching and browsing. I love MyHein and the ability to bookmark articles for later reading. Awesome!
Ethical publishing, customer focused and family owned.
I’m so impressed that HeinOnline is a trusted partner with libraries. You listen to our concerns and suggestions and treat us as colleagues at all levels of your organization.
It is wonderful that Hein has so many historical documents. I always enjoy seeing students’ reactions when I show them how quickly they can find historic documents on HeinOnline after they have spent so much time looking elsewhere.
HeinOnline has been instrumental at helping me find information on legislation during my work term as a library student in the legal field!
Beyond their database, Hein as an organization is dedicated to education and information sharing. They have a newly launched YouTube channel with dozens of training and informational videos to ensure users get the most out of the experience. The HeinOnline blog is absolutely top-notch, with timely, accurate information not just about their services, but also about the world in which they work and live. Guides to help the public arm themselves against fake news, articles delving into the history of race relations in the United States and legislative biographies of famous historical figures are all covered with equal veracity and equity.
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.
HeinOnline has been my favorite legal database for more than 15 years. When I was practicing as a law librarian, I used it every day and never failed to teach it to my students. In my current work as an academic editor and a legal research professor, it is still an invaluable tool for an impressive variety of legal research tasks, including and especially finding secondary literature from outside the United States, researching US federal legislative and administrative law, and locating international treaties and agreements, particularly those that were completed prior to the founding of the UN.
The Blog is great, it provides tidbits of information and insight into the versatility of the HeinOnline platform.
PDFs of the journals! It allows specific pages to be cited via Bluebook.
The customer service is top notch. I always find the blog really thought provoking as it highlights unique historical cases or relevant current events through the Hein collection. I’ve had some fascinating conversations within academia and personally thanks to the information I’ve learned from the HeinOnline Blog
I love keeping up-to-date on the new datasets! HeinOnline is a unique resource for legal professionals. It respects libraries and the skills required for careful, steady research.
Ease of use, great customer service, affordable content.
Looking for an online legal database for research? HeinOnline is one of my go-to sources, and on more than one occasion has saved my bacon … The database has multiple options available for emailing, printing and downloading pages and sections of a volume, all for free!
Y’all have an incredible collection, from the Serial Set, to the state historical codes, to the social justice materials, and everything in between. I love revealing the gems on Hein to my students.
I love the broad coverage – domestic, foreign and international. I love that the people at Hein are incredibly friendly and helpful. I love that I can count on finding what I need there.
Top notch service and the continuing partnership with law librarians
We love the HeinOnline interface as it’s so much more intuitive than Lexis. Our stats are solid and I think the interface is professional and works well with discovery.
The state body said free access to HeinOnline would make the process of bringing Georgian legislation closer to European Union legal standards more effective, strengthen activities based on scientific findings and analytics within the ministry, and promote human rights-oriented approaches and evidence-based policies.
Hein is a family company that is responsive to user needs. I love their customer service. When I send a request, I know it will be answered in a timely fashion with a personal touch. Thank You, Hein!
HeinOnline is unmatched in providing full-text, fully searchable PDFs of legal materials from volume 1 forward. That archival depth is a goldmine for legal historians, faculty doing doctrinal work, and anyone needing original context.
The time a product like this saves is potentially huge-having to do something like this on your own would quickly prove both tedious and expensive. At typical paralegal billing rates, saving three or four hours of research time would pay for the title. It is hard to imagine a resource that provides more bang for the buck.
Curated deep content, organized well for easy browsing and searching. A go to for me as a reference librarian and a fabulous resource I can use with undergrads and non-law grad students.
The other day a law professor informed me that HeinOnline is a “goldmine”—but I already knew that. Recently, I have used HeinOnline to help patrons find colonial-era laws about cross-dressing, an 1805 Louisiana Territory law, and early federal health and safety regulations. Some of these patrons had wasted time looking on Westlaw and Lexis, which simply don’t have what they needed.
Boy! We are loving HeinOnline!! This has to be the ultimate Gov Docs database. Thank you so much for setting up the trial for us!
HeinOnline was very user-friendly and had such a wide variety of sources. It felt like it was built by researchers for researchers. So many buttons made the citing, PDF’ing, and recording URLs a breeze.
I’m a huge fan of Hein and your products. The number of resources you have that aren’t available elsewhere, the image-based documents (as opposed to West and Lexis removing all of the context).
It has been a pleasure to work with William S. Hein & Co. on our Supreme Court of Nevada digital case files project. Our collection of microfilm spanned from 1862, before statehood, to 1999. When we were considering partners, we wanted a vendor with prior experience and knew the Virginia State Law Library had success working with Hein on a similar project several years earlier. We needed our collection to be available to legal researchers throughout Nevada, indexed by year and docket number, and keyword searchable. During the digitization process, we received several requests from the Court and library patrons for specific case files. As our entire microfilm collection had been sent to Hein, we would pass these requests on to Hein and they would scan the requested case file and return it to us, often within 24 hours. We appreciate the care given to our microfilm collection and the speed and attention they gave to our patron requests during the digitization process. We look forward to having the entire digital collection of case files available to all Nevadans by November 2025 through the HeinOnline platform.
I use it regularly for legal research – my go-to for law reviews but also have answered many research questions with other resources.
The blog provides valuable insights into HeinOnline’s resources, offers research tips. It keeps users informed about new databases, features, and content updates. The blog covers various subjects, from legal history and current events to practical advice on using HeinOnline effectively.
Students and faculty think I am magic when I find things for them.
The subject headings and jurisdictions explored in this database cover a broad basis for comparative legal research. The sources selected for each subject or jurisdiction have been vetted by editors for their usefulness and comprehensiveness-they should help with both common and rare questions.
HeinOnline Blog is a great summary of Law publications, interesting historical posts, and a great reminder of all of the information available in the database.
I love being able to access the CFR, Federal Register, bar journals, and law journals in one place.
IFLP is an irreplaceable tool for international research.
I simply love how the blog connects HeinOnline’s holdings to current events. It proves to us all that history and archives are more alive than we might think!
HeinOnline: The platform’s ease of use, range of materials (time, location), PDF access. HeinOnline Blog: Posts are always interesting. I always learn something new about an area of law or legal research.
Outstanding product to mine and find the treasures indexed by IFLP.
HeinOnline is indispensable – you have the things that no one else has (and things I never knew existed!)
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Great customer service!
I enjoy the history articles that you post– the ones in which you tell a story and track down various documents from within Hein Online that depict the events in the story. Some that I remember were about the history of football, Muhammad Ali’s court cases, and the Irish couple who went to visit an island but the wife died mysteriously while they were there.
Hometown company helping the international law community.
HeinOnline is easily my favorite research tool. The platform hosts the most useful library of government records, scholarly journals, and leading treatises. What truly sets HeinOnline apart from other legal research systems is how easily users can find exactly what they are looking for. When I was a law review editor, HeinOnline was my first and last stop whenever I needed to check any citation. Whether I was looking for transcripts of a congressional subcommittee hearing in 1913 or the text of a recently adopted international treaty, I found it faster on HeinOnline. As a practicing lawyer, HeinOnline remains my favorite tool because I am confident in the results it delivers. From comprehensive legislative histories to publications at the vanguard of legal innovation, HeinOnline is a one-stop shop to find resources that can give lawyers a crucial advantage.
Frankly, Hein’s database is very user-friendly. If you can use Google (and who can’t?), you can use HeinOnline! Looking for a case, there’s a link for that! Looking for a periodical, there’s a link for that! Interested in international law? Well, you guessed it, there’s a link for that, too! Hein designed their interface to suit any user, not just us sophisticated legal geniuses.
The blog is a super way of understanding the bigger picture for the database contents.. it gives great guidance and brilliant contexts.. refreshing!
LOVED seeing the “Women and the Law” database … This incredible database is filled with really great articles/work that helps combine the WGST discipline with the study and practice of law.
Independent ownership; reasonable pricing; great content!
As a new subscriber to HeinOnline I have appreciated the well organized interface, which has made this resource easy to introduce to students and to faculty. Students value the wide variety of information that can be integrated into their research papers; teachers across the curriculum enjoy having another resource to support classroom learning. As a librarian I’ve been pleased with the ease of setup, the training that was provided and the low cost. HeinOnline has been a valuable addition to our collection of databases.
Hein is one of my longtime favorite companies. Y’all have a great product and I’ve never (NEVER!) had a bad customer service experience with Hein. Everyone I’ve ever asked/talked to/whined at has been knowledgeable and kind. And this has been the case for over 20 years. I don’t dread getting in touch with y’all, even if my question/situation is weird. Thank you from the bottom of my withered little heart.
It’s such a great resource for materials that I can’t find anywhere else! If I’m looking for older material – it’s always the first place I check!
HeinOnline allows me to access broad legal research on a variety of topics, from easements in 20th century Mexico to the latest developments on nonhuman personhood. There simply is no substitute for HeinOnline, it is utterly indispensable for anyone engaged in legal research.
You guys make us look good, especially when someone asks for that one obscure article from the 1960s.
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.
The decision to go with HeinOnline was simple. Hein offered a robust search engine, an ability to link to the full text of journal literature, and an interest in further developing the database.
I love how easy it is to download from Hein. It also makes me look like a wizard at work with how quickly I can pull older documents. It is wonderful!
Indispensable for the research work we do.
I like having one location to have an entire overview of products, services, and preservation policies and practices. HeinOnline is our go-to for archived content. I admire your willingness to be transparent.
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.
Hein is a family company in so many ways! It’s a loyal supporter of law librarians, and I love that Dick, Steve, Dan, and so many others at the booth know me personally. I’ve been working in libraries long enough to remember calling in journal claims to Loretta, so I appreciate a company that keeps its employees long-term and forges such strong relationships with customers, but also isn’t afraid to innovate with a wonderful product like HeinOnline. Bravo, and here’s to another 100 years at least! 🙂
I love the quick and easy access to the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, and all the law reviews!
I love that HeinOnline works to preserve important historical legal resources. The availability of digital scans of original materials helps in teaching law students about the history and development of important legal research tools. I always use the state reports and statutes collections to help my students understand the development of U.S. state law over time.
I like how everything is always being updated and content is being added.
I am not sure if I love HeinOnline for the vast amount of information that I find there and is available (which makes me look so impressive) or if I love HeinOnline more for the amazing people who work there. The Blog is filled with such interesting and timely topics and facts and some great catchy titles for things that I had no idea that I needed to know. Happy anniversary.
Hein was a gem that I didn’t truly understand until after law school (sadly). It’s user-friendly and straightforward. The company actually listens to law librarians (which I love) and makes meaningful changes when we request them.
Love that you continue to digitize so much of the print research materials we rely on and give us a much better reading experience than OCR text.
HeinOnline is easy to use and reliable. Our debate coach and students use HeinOnline all the time.
Often, these commissions have an investigatory function and their reports prove to be of great value by gathering together information that would otherwise be scattered; in all cases, their reports are a primary source of use to historians, political scientists, economists, and other scholars. However, the reports are not necessarily included in the Public Papers of the Presidents, nor in the Weekly Compilation of the Presidential Documents. Bookheim has performed the valuable service of locating publication information for nearly all of the commissions’ reports (some are classified), and plans to continue to add new entries to the online version of the book. Where reports are found in the Congressional Serial Set, Bookheim provides citations; otherwise, he offers full title entries, along with, as relevant, SuDoc numbers, OCLC record numbers, or archival locations. Researchers should, with a quick reference to the entry and access to WorldCat, be able to immediately identify a library or archive that holds a given report … This volume is especially appropriate for law libraries and research libraries.
HeinOnline is my go-to for any academic readings. The Blog is so rich in content that any academic wobbles always land me here. Besides, the Blog is the most user-friendly I have been interacting with since my years on campus. You enter your search characters, and in a split second, the results pop up, some even incorporate authorities as early as the 19th Century. Alongside these search results, there are always matching recommendations from a global collection for comparative studies. I can’t appreciate you guys enough!
The National Survey of State Laws has saved countless researchers and librarians significant time and effort in performing multistate research.
I LOVE the Law Journal Library. It’s such a great resource for my students, and I find they are able to easily run searches and find responsive material.
They have been laser focused in providing a usable repository of legal literature. They have not been roped into the new “hot” technology of the minute and thus have been able to continue to add value by being excellent at what they do.
Everything! I love that HeinOnline provides easy access to fundamental legal research materials and allows me to find a multitude of gems no matter my topic.
I love Hein because I feel like they actually know me and care about me as a customer.
I love getting the blog notices. The topics covered by the blog are interesting and I find it fun to learn something new.
HeinOnline offers extensive legal resources and filtering facets, providing access to various legal materials, including case law, statutes, regulations, and scholarly articles. This variety and narrowing options ensure that I can easily find relevant and current information on numerous legal topics. The multiple search functionalities simplify the process of locating specific information efficiently. I value refining results by criteria such as section title, citation navigator, catalog subjects or date, which helps me work more efficiently and saves precious time. Moreover, HeinOnline comes equipped with PathFinders, Venn Diagram Search, and citation tools, enabling researchers to narrow their search to their immediate needs. Our library utilizes its ILS’s ability to share HeinOnline metadata with popular search engines, which provides a familiar avenue to trustworthy and reliable content from the library to our users.
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.
IFLP is a terrific resource. We use it to find articles by specific authors, find articles in specific languages or concerning a certain country. I really like the “You may want to look at these subjects as well” feature. We think it’s a very help search tool for the foreign legal periodicals. Hein’s Law Journal Library is so large that it’s important to have many different methods to search it, as with a simple search what you are really looking for can be buried under the many results. I particularly like the subject search in IFLP because it suggests different subgroups and tells you what types of materials will be found there in different languages.
Good family run company that tries to respond quickly to customer needs.
The people are friendly, knowledgeable. Easy to work with! Great customer service. Responsive … need I say more because I can!
I love the selection of foreign and international journals and the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals!
Today was the first day I used your database to assist a student. It was so easy to use and I located the case I needed. I am so happy.
I love to deep dive on legal marginalia and there’s no better place to get lost in the academic literature than HeinOnline!
You guys preserve a ton of content that other publishers aren’t willing or interested to preserve. PDFs of this material are invaluable to our work.
So grateful for HeinOnline, particularly in the COVID context, but really, always. Your Keyword Search Building & “More Like This” features are fantastic, and our students especially are always blown away when I demonstrate how to use them!
Thank you so much for finally posting The Legal Intelligencer 1842-1924. This is the last of the PA court reports/newspapers that has not been available only in select volumes in HathiTrust. It is big help for doing research in 19th century Philadelphia and for state and county court cases. It is cited in the Pennsylvania digests for 19th century cases. Only select libraries contain runs of the newspaper that is a large folio similar to a New York Times. For those who use it, it is sometimes easier to download the document and read it in a pdf format than the original version online. There is an index to the cases and an index to editorials and other materials in the volume (usually in the first pages of the newspaper, iii-iv.).
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.
For undergraduate and graduate students conducting interdisciplinary research involving legal information, HeinOnline offers authentic and more comprehensive information than what can be found in the open web. HeinOnline is easy to use and provides both keyword and citation searches in all collections as well as unique search tools for primary source collections, making it unique among competitors. HeinOnline also offers superb support and fantastic user and librarian tools.
When it comes to tracing historical development in the legal field, HeinOnline feels like a “one stop shop.” The collections are vast and broad in range (i.e. periodicals, case law, statutes, journal articles, presidential libraries, treaties, and so much more), it is incredibly easy to use, and the image quality of the documents is “second to none.” There is even an option to archive documents for future use. I love the functionality of the website because it is clearly labeled and streamlined, which makes it very user friendly. This is a database that deserves to be on everyone’s radar!
HeinOnline has a comprehensive collection of resources and is my go-to for law reviews and certain historic primary law materials. I also enjoy the topical and timely blog posts!
VERDICT: HeinOnline’s Water Rights & Resources collection provides access to thousands of U.S. legal, federal, and state documents from one easy-to-use database. For both students and legal scholars, the collection is highly browsable and intuitive to search, reducing the challenges involved in accessing legal documents in print. The accompanying LibGuide provides valuable insight into the subjects and documents available, augmenting use of the collection. An excellent resource for legal and environmental studies, as well as political science, U.S. history, and related subjects.
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.
Hein has always been so great and I think a big part of that has to do with the fact that there’s not a huge turnover like there is at the other big companies. The Hein customer service has always been the best since I’ve been in libraries (since 1991!).
When people (attorneys, clerks, pro se litigants) realize how easy it is to use HeinOnline, they want to use it more because they realize how powerful this resource really is. Hein has been around for like forever but it has been in maybe the last decade that people have finally realized its utility in day-to-day litigation. It’s become the ultimate diamond in the rough that will help you achieve success, every time (in any situation). Typically, attorneys have used HeinOnline at the appellate level. In recent years, however, I have seen that attorneys discover the utility of Hein to help knock out cases at the trial level. Simply put, if you can knock out a case with a summary judgment motion, why wouldn’t you use the power of HeinOnline. Easy to use, easy to see how it can help in any situation.
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.
Easy to search, great resources relevant to many different subject areas, PDF downloads, citation tools – and you offer lots of training and consistently update your resources!
I love the incredible possibilities for research solutions. Please keep adding material!!!
Librarian and patron friendly, this company responds to feedback and is constantly improving its interface.
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!
Easy to use, logically arranged, comprehensive.
Hein provides me with access to virtually every law review ever published. Since we don’t have a law school, our library is limited, and Lexis only goes back to about 1980. Through Hein, I get access to all the law review articles I used to have to drive to UCLA to read.
Easy to use and find relevant and useful resources. Has been instrumental in gaining my Law LLB!
We appreciate your support of librarians and the collegiality of your staff. You provide great content, at reasonable costs, you’re responsive to suggestions, and are always adding new content. You’ve worked with librarians on special collections and AALL publications, even when they may not be the most lucrative projects to take on. Thanks for being fantastic partners!
Fantastic access to official U.S. reports for Supreme Court opinions!
This publication continues to be most useful for law libraries serving the public as well as for lawyers and judges who need to review more than one state’s laws. Especially helpful are both the criminal and civil statute of limitations. This book continues to be updated and expanded, making it an excellent addition to any law library, and even public law libraries.
You are my staple in training! I start talking about Hein to the 1Ls in their Legal Research Class and go all the way through to Alumni who have questions about the HeinOnline Fastcase integration.
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.
It’s great that you are able to cater to large and small organizations. You are always responsive to suggestions for new resources to add. And you are independently owned!
The Complete Periodical Literature of Law Librarianship is a game-changing resource for anyone researching the field. Painstakingly compiled over decades by Michael J. Slinger and Sarah C. Slinger, this unparalleled tool distills and annotates over 5,000 articles spanning the history of the profession—covering every major author, topic, and era. With expertly crafted summaries, subject indexing, and evaluations of each article’s significance, it dramatically simplifies the research process. As a law library historian, writer, and editor, I can’t imagine tackling any issue in law librarianship without it. My only regret is that it wasn’t available sooner.
HeinOnline is my go-to resource for legal periodical research. It’s a treasure trove of historical codes, session laws, and even pre-statehood materials. It seems like there’s something new every time I sign on! And best of all, new features are not offered as an additional subscription tier, but are just available to use when they are released. I don’t know what I’d do without Hein.
I love that HeinOnline is such a thorough and expansive database. It was very useful to me in my undergraduate degree. I could bet my bottom dollar that I would find a journal article there to help me with my assignments and readings for class. Very informative.
I love the great customer service that Hein offers! I have worked with Steve Roses for years now, he always is quick to answer questions and is very helpful helping us select the right products for our library.
We at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library have had a working relationship with William S. Hein & Co. for 12 years or more. In exchange for us batching and releasing books that have been identified for scanning and inclusion in their legal databases, we receive digital copies of all of those books and have requested many special scanning projects over the years. Our specially requested scanning projects have included multi-volume scrapbooks for local historians, some rare books for remote scholarly researchers and poor house ledgers for genealogists. Hein has scanned many items for our rare book exhibits too, including our valuable copy of The Federalist, a locally prominent woman’s 1920s diary, and, most recently, a landscape architect’s book with difficult-to-capture “before and after” tabbed overlay illustrations. We trust the people at Hein with our rare and valuable material because we know they keep our materials safely and always handle them with care. Without a full-time scanning operation in our library, the digitization of the materials mentioned would not have been possible. We are grateful that the people at William S. Hein & Co. are willing to digitize our special collections whenever we have a need for this.
I love that Hein has so many old, elusive sources digitized that would otherwise be impossible to find. I love Hein’s extensive state statutes collection, world treaties, congressional publications…so much more. Hein makes legislative history not only easier, with many compiled legislative histories, but is the most comprehensive source for all documents needed to compile federal legislative histories. I love the blog because without it, I would not know about all the cool new sources Hein is adding all the time, and ways of searching across this vast universe of documents. The blog also provides great ideas for my library newsletters. I don’t know what I would do without Hein – thank you!
It should be considered a required tool in any cataloging department that produces more than a handful of law cataloging records annually
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.
Love the historical resources.
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!
Content that we cannot get anywhere else. Great format and ease of use.
I use Hein almost every day. I can’t imagine functioning as a law librarian without the resources made available by Hein.
I’ve been a user of HeinOnline products for nearly 20 years and find that the content is some of the most valuable I use in my legal research. It is one of the starting places in which my librarians, researchers, and attorneys begin their research because of the wealth of information HeinOnline contains. As a Chief Knowledge Services Officer, I also look for research tools which bring me a good return on our investment. HeinOnline is one of [those] products. In fact, I would say that HeinOnline gives us the most bang for the buck.
I think HOL offers tremendous value (price point) for the quality and quantity of available content. I also like that HOL provides personable customer service. You can call and talk to a human and get answers to your questions. Its people are at the core of its excellent service!
Hein offers great research resources for the legal investigator. I appreciate the search improvements made to the interface.
I like to use the HeinOnline Blog to find interesting portions of the serial set for tours and teaching. The “Secrets of the Serial Set” is a fantastic feature that allows me to put together short lectures that make our collection “come to life” for our tours. Thank you for all the work that your team puts into this effort!
Absolutely love the HeinOnline searchable format. The historical journals on HeinOnline are such a remarkable tool for any library.
Easy user interface which offers niche electronic access to archived state session laws not found elsewhere.
With articles and legal texts that it’s hard to source anywhere else, HeinOnline often saves the day!