Power Point Presentation on the benefits of HeinOnline Law Journal Library

1. Benefits of HeinOnline’s
Law Journal LIbrary
James Parks
James.Parks@eagles.usm.edu

2. Law Journal Library
HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library contains over
1,500 law and law-related journals. Coverage is
usually from the first issue published for all
periodicals and goes through the most-currently
published issues.
The site is easily searchable and is an excellent
tool for law libraries to consider purchasing in
making the decision to either continue to
purchase or not purchase law journals in print
format.
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3. Accessing HeinOnline
• Begin on the Library’s Home Page
• Select Online Resources
• Click on the Link to HeinOnline
• Click Log in to HeinOnline if using the Library’s
internet server
• Click Log in to HeinOnline and provide your
school username and password if accessing
the site by proxy server
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4. Our Law Library’s HeinOnline homepage
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5. Subscribed Libraries in HeinOnline
The “Libraries” our
Library subscribes to will
appear on the left side of
your screen.
The “Law Journal Library”
is listed first. To search its
journals, click on the link.
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6. Search/Browse Options in the Law
Journal Library
Search Options Browse Options
• Text • Publication Title
• Article Title • State
• Author • Country
• Citation • Subject
• Publication Title • Most-Cited
• Description
• State
• Country
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7. Example: Searching for Law Journals
based in Mississippi
• Click on Browse by “State
(U.S.)”
• Select “Mississippi”
• Browse the List of Law
Journals based in the
state of Mississippi
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8. Example, Continued: Browsing Articles
in a Mississippi based Law Journal
• Select a Journal from the list of Mississippi
journals
• Search the entire Title, or
• Select the Volume/Year
• Click on the article link once you have
browsed the list of articles from the specific
volumes.
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9. Example, Continued: Search the Title or
Select the Volume/Year then Click Article link
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10. Once you have selected the desired article,
you are provided the article in PDF format
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11. What can you do with the article?
• Print certain pages or the entire article
• Search the article for key words or key phrases
• Download the article to your computer
• Copy the article’s Link to other Documents
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12. In conclusion
Benefits to Your Library
• HeinOnline continues to add new journals and
oftentimes posts articles before print volumes
arrive at the library.
• Patrons are able to search for law journals
throughout the country and not just the select
journals in print your library may hold in its
collection.
• Patrons can print and download articles for easy
access.
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13. Thank you for your time and attention.
Questions?
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