HeinOnline Academic

HeinOnline Academic is a fully-searchable, image-based academic research database. View documents exactly as they appeared in their printed formats, with unprecedented coverage. All content is available back to inception, and most journals are also available through the current issue or volume.

HeinOnline Academic contains more than 80 million pages of content across 80,000 titles and 195,000 volumes. HeinOnline bridges the gap in history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,400 periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of journals, the database also contains the Congressional Record bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the United State Supreme Court cases back to 1754, constitutions for every country in the world, classic books from the 18th & 19th centuries, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations from inception, collections devoted to timely subjects like religion and international relations, and much more! Take a look below at the breakdown of research libraries available within the Government, Politics & Law subscription:

The titles lists for each library are available at heinonline.org/content/... by clicking "Browse list of titles". They are subject to change since we add, on average, more than 1,000,000 pages of content per month to HeinOnline GPLA (including a-la-cartes). Spreadsheets of the monthly updates are available at heinonline.org/content/monthly....

Religion and the Law is a new HeinOnline collection consisting of more than 2,000 titles and 1 million pages that include books, periodicals, and bibliographies, this collection provides a research platform on the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. The collection also includes the Christian Legal Society publications, an assortment of Canon Law, and rare historical bibles. This collection will grow tremendously as we continue to add new material in the future. Catholic University of America, the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States; the Christian Legal Society; the Jewish Law Association; and Regent University are key contributors to the initial content of the Religion and the Law collection. 

Freely available without any subscription or commitment is HeinOnline’s Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law which brings together, for the first time, all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.  This includes every statute by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and much more.  For more information, or to register for free access for your institution, please click here.

Also newly available for free is HeinOnline's Gun Regulation and Legislation in America database, with over 500 titles from periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. HeinOnline began development on this resource after the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 with the goal of educating the public at large. Current HeinOnline subscribers have already been provided with complimentary access, and any institutions interested in complimentary access may register by contacting SCELC or using this link: home.heinonline.org/content/gun-regulation-and-legislation-in-america

New for 2021 - In the midst of Black Lives Matter protests, and what some are calling the next civil rights movement, HeinOnline is pleased to offer a new free database, Civil Rights and Social Justice. This database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States, as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans. Civil Rights and Social Justice is included free of charge to all U.S. and international Core subscribers and to the libraries of any other interested organization or institution. For more information visit https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2020/10/new-database-civil-rights-and-social-justice/