Answered By: Research support team
Last Updated: Jan 05, 2024     Views: 106

The RRU Library does not subscribe to HeinOnline, however, we likely have access to the articles you are looking for through a different provider.

First, on the subject of Hein (or any other article provider) encouraging you to pay for an account: Please never pay for access to articles or books without checking with us first. If we do not have a specific article or book, usually get you a copy through Interlibrary Loan. There is no cost to you for this service.  

Finding articles from HeinOnline via another provider:

Search for article titles in NexisUni. This tool is where many of our legal journals are held. You can get to Nexis Uni from the ‘Access the A-Z database list’ link >> ‘N’ on our homepage https://library.royalroads.ca/. Once in, you select the ‘Law Reviews’ button to search across all law reviews in the collection or, if you prefer specifically Canadian material, there are options for narrowing that way lower down on the page.

Regardless of which path you take, be careful about the date range. By default NexisUni only brings back quite recent material, and blocks out the older content. So make sure you are looking as far back in time as you think is appropriate for your question.

Screenshot of the NexisUni search page. A red annotation circles the 'law reviews' filter. Red arrows point to the 'change date range' feature.
 
It may also be worth your while to try a couple of databases on the ProQuest platform. Get to ‘ProQuest MAINMENU’ from the ‘Access the A-Z database list’ link >> ‘P’ on our homepage https://library.royalroads.ca/.

Going in this way auto-selects all the ProQuest databases, which is too much. So click on the ‘Change databases’ link at the top of the screen, uncheck all of the databases, and then check off what, based on the database descriptions, you think might help. As an example, you could select ‘Canadian Business and Current Affairs’.

What if you know what specific article you want?

Usually, if you have a specific citation for which you want the full text, we suggest you try an article title search in Google Scholar @ RRU. This path ends up identifying you as a Royal Roads student. If we have the article you want in one of our collections, you are provided with a ‘Full-Text @ RRU’ link. 

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But this approach is not reliable for Nexis Uni. So if you are looking for a specific article from a legal journal, my suggestion is to search the article title in NexisUni, making sure the publication date range in your search covers the article’s publication date. If approach that does not work, try searching the article from our access to Google Scholar just in case (ProQuest collections are nicely integrated with our Google Scholar link).

What else can you do?

You'll find most Hein articles in our collection, but for any others that elude you:

You can request specific articles from us through Interlibrary loan. Our turnaround time for articles is 1-2 days.

Still have questions? Ask us!

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