Legal Research

Starting this week, HeinOnline allows you to create and organize bookmarks and save search queries.  All you need to do is use the MyHein tab when you sign into HeinOnline, create your own user account, and you're ready to start creating bookmarks and saving search queries.  (If you're wondering, "what the heck is HeinOnline, see our earlier post or the HeinOnline "About Us" page.

I think it's fairly obvious why you would want to save a search query, but why would you want to bookmark articles?  Here are a few reasons why you might want to organize the articles that you find on HeinOnline with various labels: 

• If you're working on a citation-checking project for law review, and you have lots of cites to several law review articles, bookmarking those articles allows you to access them again quickly and easily without running another search for the item. 

• If you're working on cite-checks for multiple draft articles, you can label or "tag" the articles that you look up on HeinOnline with each author's name so that you don't get mixed up about which HeinOnline articles were cited by the authors.

• If you're working on research for a large paper, you can use the tagging feature to label articles that address different arguments in your paper.

I've tried them out, and I'm happy to say that the bookmarking and search query saving features are really easy to use.  Hein has already released a handy user guide and video tutorial that explains how to use these new features.  If you need additional assistance with HeinOnline or any other online resources,  contact the reference librarians!