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Faculty eResources Guide

This guide is intended to provide instruction on accessing and using e-resources in support of teaching and scholarship at Florida International University (FIU) College of Law.

About HeinOnline

HeinOnline is an online fully-searchable, image-based research database, providing comprehensive coverage to U.S. and foreign legal materials, including legal journals, U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and more. HeinOnline provides the images of the original documents in PDF format just as they appear in the print format.

Hein Databases

Selected sources provided by Hein OnLine:

Law Journal Library: ABA Journals and Core U.S. Journals

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)

American Indian Law Collection

American Law Institute Library (ALI)

Association of American Law Schools (AALS)

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

Federal Register Library

Legal Classics

Session Laws Library

State Attorney General Reports and Opinions

State Statutes: A Historical Archive

Subject Compilations of State Laws

U.S. Attorney General & Department of Justice Collection

U.S. Code

U.S. Congressional Documents

U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals

U.S. Federal Legislative History Library

U.S. Presidential Library

U.S. Statutes at Large

U.S. Supreme Court Library

U.S. Treaties and Agreements Library

Tutorials

Training guides, videos and webinars are found on the Help page of the database. Listed below are only selected titles:

Getting Started on HeinOnline (1 hour recorded webinar)

Searching in HeinOnline

Hein’s ScholarCheck

Using the Code of Federal Regulations · 

Using the Federal Register Library

Searching the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

Searching the Law Journal Library

Using the United Nations Law Collection

Using the United States Code

Searching U.S. Congressional Documents 

Training on HeinOnline

Law Library staff is available to provide individual or in classroom training on the use of HeinOnline. To schedule training please contact us via Ask a Librarian.