HeinOnline Blog (www.heinonline.org): September 2010

Where in the World is Hein

Shannon Hein gets his picture taken with his favorite barrister while on a recent trip over seas. Can you guess where Shannon is in the picture below?

E-mail your guess to marketing@wshein.com by October 25, 2010. If you can name where Shannon was visiting, you'll be entered to win a "Where in the World is Hein" t-shirt! Be sure to included your name, organization or institution, and your mailing address. We'll announce the winner in a follow-up blog post and in the monthly HeinOnline Newsletter, so stay tuned!

Where in the World is Hein Contest Winner

We are excited to announce the winner of the September Where in the World is Hein Contest. Congratulations to Cynthia Lewis from Julien and Virginia Cornell Library!

Steve Roses was standing in front of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. Cynthia will receive a "Where in the World is Hein" t-shirt for submitting the correct answer and winning our drawing.

Stay tuned for the next contest post!

Cassidy Cataloguing is now Hein's Official Cataloging Partner

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. & HeinOnline are pleased to announce that Cassidy Cataloguing is now the official cataloger for HeinOnline. Hein has partnered with Cassidy Cataloguing to offer customers a source of MARC catalog records for every database in HeinOnline. This partnership will allow Cassidy staff and Hein staff to have an open channel of communication whereby Hein provides advanced and proprietary knowledge of new HeinOnline collections and new titles to Cassidy Cataloguing.

Cassidy Cataloguing will be kept apprised of changes in the Hein holdings as well as changes in embargo policies. The MARC catalog records created by Cassidy will be continuously updated to reflect the most recent information for each title. Records are then sent to the Cassidy subscriber as part of Cassidy Cataloguing's Monthly Update Service.

Upcoming Webinar this THURSDAY 9/23/10 -> Search Tips in Law Journal Library

Don't forget to register for our upcoming webinar Thursday, September 23, 2010!

This webinar will be held at the following times:

10:00am - 10:30am EDT (US & CA), click here to register
2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT (US & CA), click here to register

During this thirty-minute webinar, we will discuss the various searching shortcuts to the Law Journals Library that have been added over the past twelve months. We will also discuss the new enhancements to this library and take a look at the new search tools using various search examples. Please review the system requirements when registering.

Hope you can attend :)

Still Time to Complete Survey & Be Entered to Win a Kindle!

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Thank you to those who have already completed the survey! We appreciate your feedback :)

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Happy Constitution Day!

Today marks the 223rd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, signed September 17, 1787 at the Philadelphia Convention.

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In spirit of Constitution Day 2010, we'd like to highlight HeinOnline's

World Constitutions Illustrated:

Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources

Introduced just this past April, World Constitutions Illustrated has been growing substantially and is continuing on the path of becoming the world's greatest collection of constitutions and constitutional resources. This collection is presented in a new platform that brings together constitutional documents, books, articles, bibliographic references and websites all into one database.

New Feature - Google RSS News Feeds!

By early October, each country's page will feature a Google RSS feed linking to the latest news about the Constitution for that country. This new feature has already been added for Afghanistan and Kenya!

Upcoming Webinar - Search Tips in HeinOnline's Law Journal Library

Please join us for our upcoming webinar:

Search Tips in HeinOnline's Law Journal Library

Thursday, September 23, 2010

This webinar will be held at the following times:

10:00am to 10:30am EDT (US & CA), Click Here to Register
2:00pm to 2:30pm EDT (US & CA), Click Here to Register

Please review the system requirements when registering to ensure you have a seamless experience when the session is scheduled to start. If you are unsure if your system will allow you to participate in an online meeting, please consult with your technical support team.

To view the recordings of past webinars, please click here.

If you have any questions, contact marketing@wshein.com

HeinOnline Enhancement Recap!

We've been busy adding new enhancements to HeinOnline. Following is a list of HeinOnline Enhancements we've posted to our blog since January. Click on the title to view the original post.

We hope you have taken advantage of some, if not all, of these enhancements. If you have any suggestions please contact marketing@whsein.com.

Rhode Island & Massachusetts Digital Session Laws Back to Inception!

In August, we completed the back files of the digital session laws for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, making each available back to their inception date. With the addition of the back files for these two states, we now have twelve U.S. states and the Acts of the Parliament of Canada and the Acts of the Parliament of Australia available back to inception. The other ten states are California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.Coverage for the remaining U.S. states and jurisdictions is currently back to at least 1980, and we are taking various states back even further.

This month Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Bahamas, Connecticut, and New Jersey were taken back additional years. View this month's complete list of content updates to see the added coverage for these states. The goal is to take every state back to inception, and by the end of this year, we plan to have Connecticut, New Jersey and Utah back to inception!

Click here for a full brochure for the Digital Session Laws Library!

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Completing Communications Survey!

As you may have seen in our recent newsletter, we are in the process of revising our email communication strategy in an effort to serve you with information and news most relevant to you.

We invite you to complete a short survey about our current communications efforts. The goal of this survey is to obtain feedback and subsequently explore ways to improve our communications strategy to help better accommodate your preferences.

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Full MARC Catalog Records for World Constitutions Illustrated!

1,775 full MARC21 catalog records for only $1,079.00?

What about $225.00?

It is possible - just by saying "yes"!

HeinOnline has partnered with Cassidy Cataloguing who is offering full-MARC21 catalog records for World Constitutions Illustrated! Cataloging has already begun on these MARC21 records, which follow Provider-Neutral guidelines. Records are being created for the constitutions, books and periodicals, as well as all the websites and other electronic resources in this library, such as "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" and "ConstitutionMaking.org."

The pricing model for this collection will follow a structure based on the level of interest in the set. For example, if 101 libraries say "yes" to having these catalog records, the price for 1,775 records will only be $1,079.00! (That's about $.60 per record!) However, if 600 libraries say "yes" the price drops to only $225.00 per library! Click here to view a detailed pricing schedule

HeinOnline Enhancement: Faceted Searching Expanded to more Libraries!

Faceted Searching now available in the following libraries:

Kluwer Law Journals
Bar Journals

This past month, we added faceted searching to two additional HeinOnline Libraries: Kluwer Law International Journals and Bar Journals. These libraries offer cross-library searching which means you will get search results from both libraries when you run a search in either one, provided the results are relevant to your search terms. To make it easier to interpret and navigate these results, we have added faceted searching, which will allow you to quickly narrow a results set by section type, title, date, country published or state published.

August 2010 Content Release

Below is a snapshot of the August Content Release, featured in our August Newsletter

23 libraries updated
14 journals added & 210 updated in the Law Journal Library
19 titles added to Legal Classics
14 titles added to World Trials
3 titles added to History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & Economic Reform in America, Part III
9 titles added to the Law Librarian's Reference Library
22 titles added to Taxation & Economic Reform in America, Parts I & II, including Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Staff Reports
3 books added to the Treaties & Agreements Library
2 titles added to U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals, including 9/11 Commission Report including Executive Summary
2 titles added to New York Legal Research Library, including Reports of Cases decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, H.E. Sickels, et. al. 130 Volumes (1864-1885)
46 titles added to World Constitutions Illustrated

Click here for a detailed list of new titles and content updates, or click here to download a CSV file of the new content loaded.

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