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U.S. Congressional Serial Set Coming to Hein Online
We are excited to announce that the U.S. Congressional Serial Set is coming soon to HeinOnline! The Serial Set is an ongoing project in HeinOnline with the goal to add more than four million pages each year until completion.
It’s important to note that HeinOnline has always contained substantial portions of the Serial Set, including the American State Papers, comprehensive coverage of Foreign Relations of the United States, and thousands of House and Senate reports and documents inside compiled federal legislative histories. The current endeavor will ultimately complete and organize the content of the set into one easy-to-use, comprehensive location.
About the Collection
U.S. Congressional Serial Set
1817-Date
The United States Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, is considered an essential publication for unveiling American history. Spanning more than two centuries and with more than 15,500 bound volumes, the records in this series include House and Senate Documents, as well as House and Senate Reports. The reports are usually from congressional committees dealing with proposed legislation and issues under investigation. The documents include all other papers ordered printed by the House or Senate. Documents cover a wide variety of topics, including reports of executive departments and independent organizations, reports of special investigations made for Congress, and annual reports of non-governmental organizations. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, executive-branch materials were also published in the Serial Set.
American State Papers
1789-1838
United States Congressional Documents from the period 1789 to 1817 are published under the title American State Papers, which consists of 38 volumes. The two series overlap, as American State Papers covers through 1838. Full coverage of the American State Papers are available within this collection inside HeinOnline.
Project Status
The Serial Set in HeinOnline currently includes:
- Full index containing more than 380,000 records
- 3,000 volumes and 3 million pages of integrated
full-text volumes - Linking to more than 80% full-text volumes in HeinOnline
or HathiTrust Digital Library
Project Status (as of 7/19/18)
Full-text volumes will be added monthly until completion.
Service Interruption – Access Medicine – June 2, 2018
Access Medicine will be unavailable on Saturday, June 2, 2018 from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. on Sunday June 3, 2018 for maintenance.
Le Monde via Eureka.cc Unavailable – May 31, 2018
The database system Eurkea.cc has undergone a complete transformation and access to all French-language newspapers, including Le Monde, has been stopped. We have notified the vendor and are attempting to repair the issue. Please check back here for more news.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
New Eresource – United Nations Digital Library
Access to a new eresource has been added on the Databases A-Z list on the Library Web. The United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) is now a freely accessible online resource.
Current and historical: provides a single access point to UN information. Allows for exploration of documents and publications, voting data, maps, speeches, images and sounds, and more. Additional collections of digital materials will be added as they are created or are made available by UN departments, offices, and agencies. Covers most UN bodies such as the General Assembly, the International Court of Justice, the Human Rights bodies, and many more. [This resource is publicly available.]
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Ovid MEDLINE(R) 23,392
Slavery and Anti-Slavery 12,660
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Global 12,174
Business Premium Collection-
>ABI/INFORM Collection-
>ABI/INFORM Global 11,949
Eighteenth Century Collections
Online 11,905
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
The New York Times 11,474
US Newsstream 8,346
US Newsstream->US Major Dailies 7,690
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
The Wall Street Journal 7,548
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
The Baltimore Sun 7,538
US Newsstream->US Northeast
Newsstream 7,051
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
Chicago Tribune 6,936
US Newsstream->US Major
Dailies->The Wall Street Journal 6,899
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
The Washington Post 6,884
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
The Boston Globe 6,806
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
Los Angeles Times 6,775
US Newsstream->US Major
Dailies->New York Times
6,772
US Newsstream->US West
Newsstream 6,661
ProQuest Historical Newspapers:
New York Tribune / Herald Tribune 6,588
Ethnic NewsWatch 6,524
Update: NYT and JAMA Resources Available as of 11 a.m. 4/4
Both the NYT new registration link and JAMA are both up and running this morning! Thanks very much for your patience while we resolved these issues.
Eresources Outages April 3, 2018 – NYT Registration and JAMA
New registrations for the NYT Academic Pass are currently not being accepted. Already registered users should have no problems using their accounts and accessing their NTY accounts. We are working on fixing the issue.
JAMA is currently unavailable. The vendor has been notified and is working towards a resolution to the problem.
Please check back here for updates, and thank you for your patience while we resolve these issues.
Update 5:30 p.m. Nature Journals Working!
Nature ejournals are working again. If you continue to have problems, please try clearing your cache/history before trying again. This clears up problems in Chrome, especially.
Thank you very much for your patience while we resolved this issue.
Nature Journal Outage Reported 4/2/2018 – 4:12 p.m.
Nature ejournals are currently unavailable. The problem has been reported to the vendor and we will let you know just as soon as they are working again.
We apologize for any inconvenience.