Hein-On-Line is an ever-expanding, comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals. This new online database, which was awarded the 2001 Best New Product Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, offers a number of search and browse features that make it a very useful legal research tool for faculty and students alike. One of the best features is that Hein-On-Line, being image-based, provides the exact page images of legal journals, meaning that you can view the page as it originally appeared in hardcopy (footnotes are where they belong!).
Unlike other periodical databases that supply post-1980 volumes, Hein-On-Line provides each journal from its inception and continues to the most current volume allowed under contract between Hein and the journal. This provides easy access to some of the best law review articles ever written (including the famous article, "The Right to Privacy", by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, which remains the most-cited law review article of all time). Currently, there are more than 180 journal titles available, and by the end of 2002, more than 5.5 million pages will be available.
For complete information on the development and philosophy behind Hein-On-Line, please see the Overview.