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HeinOnline's Law Journal Library
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This is an overview of using HeinOnline to find law review articles.
For help and advice specific to your research, speak to a
reference librarian or call (415) 422-6773.
Coverage and Content
The Law Journal Library on HeinOnline supplies exact page images of
law journal and law review articles, so the articles as they appear in HeinOnline
are equivalent to photocopies from bound journal volumes. HeinOnline has
virtually every U.S. law review and many U.K., Canadian, and Australian.
HeinOnline goes back to issue 1 of volume 1 of the law reviews it covers —
much further than Lexis or Westlaw. To see exactly which journals are available,
click the "Title Lookup" tab on the top left-hand side of the screen.
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Access
HeinOnline is available to researchers using USF campus libraries,
and to current USF students, faculty, and staff using remote logins.
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Login
Follow the HeinOnline
link at http://www.usfca.edu/library/databases/heinonline.html. (Follow the
remote access instructions if you are logging in from off campus.)
At the "Welcome to HeinOnline" screen, select the "Law Journal
Library" link.
There are also links to HeinOnline on the Zief Law
Library's Find Articles
(Legal & Other) and Legal
Research Resources pages.
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Finding a Known Citation
If you already have the citation, click on the "Citation Navigator"
tab at the top left-hand side of the screen. Enter the journal's volume number,
journal's title (abbreviated), and the page number of the article in the appropriate
textboxes, and click the "Get Citation" button. (Or, click the "Classic
Citation Navigator" link for a fill-in form that already includes a drop-down menu
of abbreviated journal titles.)
HeinOnline will display an image of the page of the journal volume you entered.
To browse within this particular journal volume, use the drop-down list of page
numbers at the top of the page, use the right or left arrows, also at the top
of the page, or click on the "Table of Contents" tab at the top of
the screen. To print, see Printing and Downloading, below.
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Searching
You can search HeinOnline for a specific article title or author.
You can also do a search of the full-text of all journals on HeinOnline.
To do a search, select the "Search " tab at the top left-hand side
of the screen. All search options appear under this "Search" tab.
To revisit searches you ran earlier in your HeinOnline research session,
click the "Search History" link under the "Search " tab.
Author Search — Click the "Search" tab, then
select "Field Search." Enter the author's name in the "Field search for"
box, then select "Creator⁄Author" from the adjacent
pull-down menu.
Title Search — Click the "Search" tab, then
select "Field Search." Enter the title or a distinctive phrase from
the title in the "Field search for" box, then select "Title"
from the adjacent pull-down menu.
Full Text Word and Phrase Search — Begin by selecting the
"Search" tab. There are then several search option for word or phrase
searches.
The simplest is to enter your search words in the text box at the top left-hand
side of the search page.
The "Field Search" option gives you a fill-in-the-blank and pull-down-menu
template that helps you look for your search words in the title or text. "Field Search"
also gives you the option of using AND and OR search operators via pull-down-menus.
"Advanced Search" lets you compose any search you like using the full power
of HeinOnline's search engine. (A "View Advanced Search Syntax" on the left-hand side
of the screen leads to advice on creating searches.)
Both "Field Search" and "Advanced Search" let you limit your
search to: particular journals; certain types or articles; and specific date ranges.
In all search options, use * to retrieve all forms of a word (e.g.,
discrim*. Use ? to retrieve plurals (e.g., lawyer? and variant
spellings (e.g., super?ede).
(Due to the way HeinOnline's full text searching is performed, you may not
retrieve all articles that meet your search criteria. You may also want to use other
search tools such as the Index to Legal Periodicals, Legal Resource
Index⁄LegalTrac, or the law journal collections on Westlaw and Lexis.)
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Printing and Downloading
Begin by displaying a page from the article you want to print.
Then, select the "Print⁄Download Options" button (the printer icon) at the
top right-hand side of the screen above the article.
You can choose to print the "current section" (the entire article)
or just the page you had displayed.
The default is to download exact page images in PDF format. Most HeinOnline users
will prefer this default. (To view and print a downloaded PDF document, you will need
Adobe Reader or an
equivalent program.)
You can also choose to print the file using HPrint (HeinOnline's printing utility),
or to download and print uncorrected OCR (optical character recognition) text.
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