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Hein Online

Overview of Hein Online for searching legal information

Advanced Search

Advantages to using Advanced Search:

  • Often the easiest and most efficient way to search

Disadvantages to using Advanced Search:

  • You may inadvertently exclude a document you want if you search too narrowly
  • To take full advantage of the search features, you must already know a little bit about what you want to retrieve

Using Advanced Search: 

  • Search by title, author, text, and date
  • You can search all of the databases, or limit by database or periodical 

 

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Filtering Results in Advanced Search

If you make use of the many Advanced Search features, you will not even need to filter your results.  However if you wish:

  • Along the left-hand side of the page we can filter our results by date, collection library, title, section type, or authors 
  • You can also search your results by clicking on the second box to the right of the search bar with the downward arrow and then entering new search terms   

 

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Searching within results

If you decide to "search within results" you will be taken to a page that looks like this:

 

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As you can see you can further limit your search by date, but additional titles, text search terms, authors, subjects, citations, and by section types (like reviews, articles, comments, legislation, etc).