An HCLL barcode is your key to powerful research tools.  With your barcode you can access many of our electronic resources from your office:

• LegalTrac contains references to articles in over 875 legal periodical titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.  Full text of some articles is available on line.
• Star Tribune -- full-text from 1986 to present.
• ProQuest Newsstand Complete -- full text database with over 500 state, national, and international newspapers, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
• Academic Search Premier (read more)
• Business Source Premier (read more)
• Regional Business News (read more)
• Master FILE Premier (read more)
• Professional Collection - 300 full text journals for educators
• HeinOnline (read more)

Library barcodes are available to all subscribers. Request a barcode online at our Web site.

New Legal Database Now Available at HCLL

HCLL now offers access to HeinOnline, an expanding digital collection of legal information that includes the full text of over 400 legal journals since their inception, the Federal Register from 1936-1986, U.S. Supreme Court cases, U.S. treaties and more.  HeinOnline provides scanned page images so that the user can view each page as it originally appeared in hard copy.

The HeinOnline legal journal collection provides searchable full text, focusing on pre-1980 journals that are not generally available on Westlaw or Lexis.  The collection navigation panel allows the user to retrieve articles by citation, author, title or by keywords or phrases in the full text.  The database contains two versions of an article:  an exact image version and an uncorrected OCR text version, which makes full text searching possible.

HeinOnline documents can be printed or downloaded.  There is no direct e-mail function.

HeinOnline is available to all users on the public computers in the Law Library.  Remote access is available via the Law Library's home page (click on "Legal Journal Indexes") to subscribers with certain vendor-imposed restrictions. Contact the Reference Desk at 612-348-2903 for further information.

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New EBSCO Databases

The Hennepin County Law Library provides subscribers with access to a number of non-legal databases.  The databases available to HCLL subscribers changed on July 1, 2004.  MINITEX, the library consortium through which HCLL gains access, replaced the Gale databases (e.g., Expanded Academic ASAP, InfoTrac OneFile, General Business File) with four EBSCO databases: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Regional Business News and MasterFILE Premier.

The EBSCO databases are similar in content to the Gale InfoTrac databases, but contain more journals with full text coverage.

Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database containing indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,050 publications and full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. Subjects include biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, and sociology.

Business Source Premier offers indexing and abstracts for the 350 most important scholarly journals back to 1965 or the first published issue.  Subjects include management, marketing, international business, accounting, finance, and economics.  Business Source Premier contains full text from top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing, and Administrative Science Quarterly.  The database also includes country economic reports and company profiles.

Regional Business News includes full text articles from more than 50 regional business journals, newspapers and newswires.  Included in this database are Finance & Commerce, Minnesota Lawyer, St. Paul Legal Ledger, Arizona Business, Orange County Business Journal, Des Moines Business Record, and titles from Crain Communications (e.g. Crain's Chicago Business, Crain's New York Business).

Master FILE Premier, designed for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,005 general periodicals.  In addition to the full text, MasterFILE Premier indexes and abstracts more than 2,700 titles. Subjects include general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, etc.  Full text journals include such titles as Forbes, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Time.

Among recent acquisitions are new editions of the Nutshells on landlord and tenant, people with disabilities, intellectual property, children, evidence, elders, real estate finance, and domestic relations.  Sometimes the problem may seem "hard" or esoteric.  Even then, the Nutshell series may have a relevant introductory title. There are new nutshells on American Indian law, NAFTA and free trade, the European Union, and even national security.

The website contains public data on criminal convictions for 15 years following completion of the sentence.  Public information includes the offense, date of the offense, court of conviction, date of the conviction, sentence, level of conviction, and probation agency or place of confinement.  The data covers felony, gross misdemeanor, enhanced misdemeanor and some misdemeanor offenses.  The public information does not include an individual's arrest history.