HeinOnline Alerts: Email Notification of New Articles in a Journal

Like reading law review and journal articles on HeinOnline?  HeinOnline’s pdf format looks just like the book and is often easier to read than the Lexis and Westlaw versions.  Now you can get emails whenever new articles appear in your favorite journals. Or, you can get emails whenever there are new results to your search, similar to the Alerts on Lexis and Westlaw, or a Google Alert.  This is accomplished by setting up your own MyHein account.  Click here to view a MyHein User’s Guide.You can also bookmark articles and store the bookmarks in your MyHein account.  (Thanks to the HeinOnline Blog).

Here’s how to do it:

• Go to HeinOnline.
• Create an account by:
  • clicking on the Law Journal Library (link on the left), then click on the MyHein Tab at the top.
  • click on Create an Account (on the left, underneath the grey box that says Login)
• Once you are logged in with your MyHein  account, browse to the journal you are interested in, using the alphabetical list.  Click on the journal title, and you will see a link that says Create eTOC alert, which you click on to create the alert.

To create an alert for a search, After you run a search, scroll to the bottom of the results and select the “Save to MyHein Search Queries” from the drop down menu that says “Save to MyHein Bookmarks” (with the grey Save button next to it).  See  MyHein User’s Guide.