UPCOMING WEBINAR: July 15th, HeinOnline's Code of Federal Regulations

Our 4th webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15th and will focus on "Using & Searching the Code of Federal Regulations" in HeinOnline. This webinar will be given at two different times; 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada) and 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada).Please click on the corresponding time below to register.

• July 15, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada), Click here to register
• July 15, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada), Click here to register

The webinar will focus on:

• Browsing by years, titles, bindings or browsing the indexes & finding aids
• How to quickly pull up a title, part or section using the Title/Part/Section Quick Locator tool
• How to pull up a section using the CFR Citation Locator
• Searching for a word/phrase
• Searching by title number, title name, part number, part name, section number, subpart, ppresidential proclamation or executive order
• How to refine a search and build a multi-term search query to refine results
• Using the List of Sections Affected to determine if a regulation is current
• Using the Citation Navigator or Citations on Page to cross-reference Federal Register citations

If you missed our most recent webinar focused on HeinOnline's Federal Register, you can view our archived recording anytime from the HeinOnline Wiki at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnline:WebinarFederalRegister.

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Cross Library Searching is Now Live Within HeinOnline's Law Journal Library

When searching in the Law Journal Library in HeinOnline, you will now see search results from journal titles found in the Kluwer Law International Journal Library, Part I: International Yearbooks and Periodicals of the Foreign and International Law Resources Database, and in ALI-ABA Publications which are found in Part III of the American Law Institute Collection. This cross-library searching will further enhance your searching experience in HeinOnline by retrieving and displaying results across all relevant journals and periodicals from these collections. Below is a brief video illustrating this new enhancement. To share a link to this video or embed it on your own site, visit our video library at http://www.screencast.com/t/JeDqah03Hb. Or you can continue reading for a full description and screen shots of how it works.



If you click on a link to a result and the result is within a collection you are subscribed to, you will be able to quickly link to the article. To identify the results that are from a collection outside of the Law Journal Library, we have shaded the result gray rather than blue. Additionally, we have added a line at the end of the result that indicates which collection the article resides in.

NOTE: The Kluwer Law International Journal Library, Foreign and International Law Resources Database and the American Law Institute Library are all a-la-carte libraries available as an addition to your HeinOnline subscription. In order to view the full text of the results from these collections, you must be subscribed to the collection within which the result resides. For more information about subscriptions to these libraries, please contact your sales representative or email us at marketing@wshein.com.

In addition to these modifications, we have given you the option of turning this feature off when doing a search in the Law Journal Library. From the search input screen, there is a checkbox at the bottom of the form that says "Include articles from other select HeinOnline collections in the search results". To disable this feature when doing a search, uncheck this box when entering your search criteria.

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WEBINAR: June 30th - Using & Searching the Federal Register in HeinOnline

Last month we hosted our second webinar focused on Using & Searching the Law Journal Library. We had a great turnout and again received a lot of good feedback. To view the recording from this webinar and the questions and answers, please visit the wiki page at http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnline:WebinarJournals.

WEBINAR CONTENT

Continuing our webinar series this month, we will host a "Using & Searching the Federal Register" webinar on Tuesday, June 30th. Based upon feedback we received from our first two webinars, we will be hosting the webinar at two different times, once in the morning at 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada) and once in the afternoon at 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada), to accommodate a variety of different schedules. This will provide an opportunity for more folks to join us, as we understand that not everyone can be tied up at the same time!

This Webinar "Using & Searching the Federal Register" will focus on:

• Browsing to a specific day of the Federal Register
• Retrieving a Federal Register page when you have a citation or know the date
• General Overview of Searching in the Federal Register
• Searching by word/phrase
• Searching FR Doc.
• Searching for a Release, Agency Docket, File or RIN number
• Searching by Agency Name
• Searching across a specific day
• Searching across a specific page number
• Refining a search to refine results
• How to Print a Specific Section or Document Within the Federal Register
• Using the List of Sections Affected to determine if a regulation is current or to understand the history

DATE & REGISTRATION:

The webinar will be hosted at the following times:

June 30, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (United States & Canada)
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June 30, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (United States & Canada)
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When registering, if you are in a time zone other than EDT (United States & Canada), click on the link that says "Show time in my time zone", then select your time zone from the drop down menu, and the time of the webinar will be displayed according to your selection.

NOTE: When registering for the webinar, please review the System Requirements and Frequently Asked Questions regarding the GoTo Webinar platform that we use to host the webinars to ensure that you are able to access the session when it starts. For questions regarding access, we recommend emailing us at least 48 hours prior to the start time to allow us time to get back to you with suggestions. To test your ability to access the program, click on the link in the eamil you receive after you register that allows you to access the webinar. If you are unable to access the site or receive an error message, then we recommend checking with your Technical Support or Information Security teams to determine if you will or will not be able to attend. For more information, continue reading our System Requirements or email us at marketing@wshein.com.

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IN THE NEWS & IN HEINONLINE: President Obama Nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice

On Tuesday, May 26th, President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice. From the White House Blog:

"If confirmed for the Supreme Court, Judge Sotomayor would bring more federal judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any justice in 100 years, and more overall judicial experience than anyone confirmed for the Court in the past 70 years."

"In 1998, Judge Sotomayor became the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, one of the most demanding circuits in the country. She has participated in over 3000 panel decisions and authored roughly 400 opinions, handling difficult issues of constitutional law, to complex procedural matters, to lawsuits involving complicated business organizations."

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her nomination as Supreme Court Justice would replace the retiring Justice David Souter. Judge Sotomayor has had rulings across a variety of areas including copyright, first, second and fourth amendment rights, abortion, employment discrimination, antitrust, civil rights, property rights, constitutional law, environmental law, corporate law, and much more.

To read scholarly law review articles related to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's rulings, we ran a text search in HeinOnline for "Judge Sotomayor" OR "Sonia Sotomayor", and retrieved 175 law review articles related to Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Many of the articles discuss key areas of Sotomayor's previous rulings, including:

• The 1994 baseball strike
• Her nomination by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and appointment as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• The high profile copyright case New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini
• Her rulings in international law cases, discussions about property rights including the Krimstock v. Kelly case
• Anti-trust issues
• The New York City Campaign Finance program, of which Judge Sonia Sotomayor served as a member of the New York City Campaign Finance Board
• Fourth amendment rights as ruled in the N.G. Ex Rel. S.C. v. Connecticut case
• Civil rights issues and much more!

Click here for a full list of results.

In addition to these 175 articles that discuss various rulings and law-related issues, there are also three law review articles/comments written by Judge Sotomayor in HeinOnline from 1996-2005.


For additional information and various links to articles about Judge Sonia Sotomayor view the Wikipedia entry. Or check out the SCOTUS blog where they have a series of blog posts discussing some of Sotomayor's civil cases, her leading criminal law opinions, other opinions and notes about her record, discussions leading up to her nomination, and more.

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PRESS RELEASE - HeinOnline Awarded 2009 AALL Best New Product Award

BUFFALO, NY, May 6, 2009 - The American Association of Law Libraries has selected HeinOnline’s Subject Compilations of State Laws Database for the 2009 AALL Best New Product Award. HeinOnline converted the well-respected, leading research guide, Subject Compilations of State Laws publication compiled by Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast, into an online, searchable database. This revolutionized historical state subject searching by providing researchers with digital access to more than 18,000 bibliographic records, many with extensive annotations.

The bibliographic records in the online database are enhanced to include thousands of links to law review articles and U.S. Supreme Court decisions that are available in HeinOnline. Entries also include live links to the Internet where state surveys are located, as well as links directly to WorldCat in cases where OCLC numbers exist. Legal researchers can browse by subject, search across a specific subject, search by entry number, journal title, article title, court and more. New bibliographic entries are added to the database quarterly, bringing researchers updates faster than the annual print series. The exact replicas of the bound volumes are also included to provide researchers the same browsing capabilities as they would have with the print product.

The New Product Award honors a new and innovate commercial legal information product that enhances or improves existing law library services and/or procedures. New products may include, but are not limited to, printed material, computer hardware and/or software, or other products or devices that aid or improve access to legal information, the legal research process, or procedures for technical processing of library materials. Any product that has been re-introduced in a new format or with substantial changes is also available. A new product is one that has been in the library-related marketplace for two years or less.

About HeinOnline -- HeinOnline is a product of William S. Hein & Co., Inc. who has been serving the library community for nearly 90 years as a legal publisher, periodical subscription agent and the world’s largest distributor of legal periodicals. HeinOnline is Hein’s premier online product with more than 45 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. The content includes legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and much more. All content is in PDF format, fully searchable and from inception. Now, in more than 3,200 locations in over 150 countries, HeinOnline is the world’s largest image-based legal research collection and contains more than nine centuries of legal history.

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