Do you have a specific document or section within the Federal Register that you need to print? If so, you’ll find this weeks tip helpful as we illustrate how to use the Table of Contents at the beginning of the Federal Register to identify where a section begins and ends. This will in turn make it easy for you to print the document using our custom page range printing tool.
Each issue or day of the Federal Register begins with a table of contents. The table of contents is organized alphabetically by agency name, including sub-agencies. Within each agency name the documents are organized by classification including rules, proposed rules or notices and each has a page number or range of pages for where the document presides within that days register. Understanding this table of contents is the key to being able to print a section quickly and easily.
Let’s look at an example. We want to find the final regulations within the IRS as presented recently in the Federal Register for the "Disclosure of Return Information to the Bureau of Economic Analysis". We’ve been asked to print off this entire document.
To get started, we will need to generate a search for the document. To do this, open the Federal Register library and open the Field Search option from the Search tab. In the first search box, enter the name of the regulation, Disclosure of Return Information to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, click on the phrase button and select text from the drop down menu. Highlight just the Federal Register from the title listing and insert a date range of 2008-2008 and click search.
This search gives us one result that is a link to 73 Federal Register No. 249 from December 29, 2008. If we click on view matching text pages, we see that our regulation appears on 3 pages within this day of the Federal Register. The first matching page link is to page V, a roman numeral, which indicates to us that this is going to be in the table of contents section within this day of the Federal Register.
Click on this link to view the regulation as it is listed in the table of contents and to view the page range that the regulation appears within, pages 79361-79362.
Now that we know the page range that the regulation begins and ends on, we can pull up the full text and print just that regulation.
On your left menu, click on the Search Results tab if it is not already showing. Now, expand the view matching text pages, and click on the link that says "Turn to page 79361".
Once the page opens, click on the printer icon and choose the page range 79361 to 79362 to print.
HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: How to Print a Specific Section or Document Within the Federal Register
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Training Resources Now Available for HeinOnline's U.S. Code Collection
We have developed a new help page on the HeinOnline Wiki that is dedicated to using the United States Code collection. You can find a link to the Quick Reference Guide, how-to information, and an explanation of search fields. You will also find several examples of searching techniques including how to search for a Statutes at Large Citation or a Public Law Number as it appears in the U.S. Code. For more information on finding a section in the U.S. Code, refer to our earlier post.
This page can be accessed at:
http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/HeinOnlineLibSpec:United_States_Code.
HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Searching for a Section in the U.S. Code
Are you searching for a section in the U.S. Code? Using a full text search, you can search by the section number and section title to retrieve the page links to the section as it appears in the U.S. Code. For example, we are looking for 23 U.S.C. 410 in the 2006 edition of the U.S. Code. We first identify that the section title of 410 is "Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures".
To pull up this section in the U.S. Code, open the field search option. In the first search box enter the section number and title as "410 Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures" and select Text from the drop down menu. Now, to refine our results we must identify the title that the section is located in. So we insert "23" into the second search box and choose Title Number from the drop down menu. Then in the third search box we insert 2006 and choose Edition from the drop down menu in order to narrow our search to just the 2006 edition of the U.S. Code. Now click search.
This search will return a single result with two links to pages within the text where section 410 appears. The first will link you to the page at the start of the chapter within title 23 where the sections are identified. The second link will take you directly to the text of section 410.
HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Where To Find the Current Status of a UN Treaty in HeinOnline
Are you looking for the current status of the parties in a UN Treaty or want to see the entry into force date? In addition to providing you with key treaty data and a link to the text of the treaty as it appears in the UN Treaty Series, HeinOnline now links the most current status of the treaty as it is presented on the United Nations website at http://treaties.un.org.
There are two ways to find the current status of a treaty in HeinOnline. The first is by searching for the treaty. From HeinOnline's United Nations collection home page, click on Search for a United Nations Treaty. Enter the treaty number, for example 10586, select Treaty/Registration Number from the drop down menu and click search.
When the result appears, you will be presented with the key treaty data and a link to the text in the UNTS. Below the key data, you will see a link titled "UN Current Status Information" and the EIF date below that.
Click on the EIF date to view the current status of the treaty as it appears at http://treaties.un.org.
You can also access the current status information when reading the treaty text in the UNTS. From our search result, click on the UNTS citation, 737 UNTS 161, to view the text of the treaty.
Once the page opens, you will see the "Treaty Summary" link located above the page. Click on this link and you will see the key treaty data followed by the "UN Current Status Information" link.
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March 25-28
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HeinOnline's Tip of the Week: Add Notes to MyHein Bookmarks
Along with the February release of new content in HeinOnline, we have added a new feature to the MyHein tool. Users can now add notes to individually bookmarked articles and search queries. If you are unfamiliar with MyHein, check out the description of this great tool.
Bookmarks are still made the same way they always have been. Now, when you are reviewing the bookmarks you've created, you will see that each one has a new "Add/Edit Notes" link.
If you have a note you would like to add to a bookmark, click this link. You will be presented with a text box to enter the note into. When done, click the "Enter Note" button.
You'll see that the note has now been added to that particular bookmark.
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