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Due to inclement weather and potential treacherous travel conditions the law school will be closed today, Monday, January 6, 2025.
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There will be a time when you will need to see the version of a statute in effect for a specific date or will need to see how a law changed over time. See Toolbox Tuesday for tips on using Westlaw and Lexis for your research.
An additional Study Room has been made available in the library. The new room is labeled Study/Conference Room CR #10 in the reservation system and is located near Study/Conference Room CR 9.
If you have a citation handy, this will be the fastest way to pull up an article. To begin, simply enter the citation into the one-box search and select the citation option from the drop-down menu. This will bring you directly to the article.
If you don’t have a citation handy, but you know the title of the article, you can also enter that into the search bar, but this time select the title option from the drop-down menu.
Let’s say you don’t know the full title of the article, but you happen to know an author’s name. Using that same one-box search, enter the author’s name and select the author option from the drop-down menu. This search result will include any chapter or article written by that author. Click the author’s name to be brought to their author profile page where you can see a comprehensive list of all articles authored by this person in HeinOnline.
Lastly, you can use the Advanced Search option located underneath the one-box search to locate an article.From here, enter the name of the article using the ‘Section Title’ option. You can also search by author if you have the name available. This again will provide any results of a book or article with that title.
HeinOnline helps take all the guesswork out of creating citations. Simply select the Cite button on any document page to view a variety of citation formats, including MLA, APA, Chicago, Bluebook, and McGill. Users also have the ability to export journal citations to RefWorks, EndNote, NoodleTools, or as a text or RIS file.
