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HeinOnline

The Law Library provides access to HeinOnline. Please note that HeinOnline is a subscription database and off-campus access requires a login with NCCU username and password.

HeinOnline
HeinOnline provides full-text, PDF files of a variety of legal resources. Its 70+ sub-databases include a comprehensive law review and journal library; U.S. and international government materials such as the U.S.C., C.F.R., Papers of the Presidents, U.S. Reports, and world constitutions; and resources organized by topics such as gun regulation, civil rights, intellectual property law, and indigenous American law.

Users can search across all databases at once, browse databases by categories like Case Law or International Resources, or select a specific database by name, like LGBTQ+ Rights or Military Legal Resources.

ABA Law Library Collection
Digital collection of all current and historical periodicals from the American Bar Association that cover all areas of American law. Includes 44 titles previously only available to ABA section members.

Journals include: Civil Rights Litigation, Environmental Law Reported, NC Law Review, Social Justice and Equity Law Journal, and more.

Learning to Navigate HeinOnline

Using HeinOnline's One-Box Search

Locating A Title in HeinOnline

Searching Across Multiple Databases

ScholarCheck

HeinOnline’s ScholarCheck is a series of tools and features integrated throughout HeinOnline to help researchers quickly locate related material throughout the interface. Below are some of its features:

Analyzes the most-cited journals, articles, and authors
Enables users to view and access articles and cases cited by other articles and cases, and to see how many times an article has been accessed by other HeinOnline users within a rolling 12-month period
Provides inline hyperlinking so users can quickly access related material across HeinOnline and Fastcase content
Allows users to sort search results by most-cited and most-accessed content
Calculates metrics for ranking scholarly authors and displays these metrics in Author Profile Pages

From both search results and from within HeinOnline and Fastcase documents, easily link to lists of articles and cases that cite the current article.

Users may also view how many times the article has been accessed by other HeinOnline users within a rolling 12-month period. This helps the user retrieve the most accurate and relevant search results, as well as to see what's trending in legal research. Within documents, citations and websites will appear as blue highlighted hyperlinks.

Learn more about ScholarCheck with this PDF guide.

Civil Rights and Social Justice Resources

HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice 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. Contains scholarly articles, hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, and more to explore the way that civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time.

Civil Rights and Social Justice Guide from HeinOnline
Find out more about the HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice Collection.

Selected List of HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice Titles

Additional Civil Rights and Social Justice Resources From HeinOnline

Slavery in America and the World Collection

This collection 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 passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law Guide
Explore the HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law Collection.

Additional Slavery in America and the World Resources From HeinOnline

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