{"id":508,"date":"2023-08-14T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/?p=508"},"modified":"2023-08-06T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T11:04:14","slug":"new-resource-law-library-of-congress-reports-heinonline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/2023\/08\/14\/new-resource-law-library-of-congress-reports-heinonline\/","title":{"rendered":"New Resource: Law Library of Congress Reports (HeinOnline)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/static\/research-centers\/law-library-of-congress\/images\/banners\/madison-building-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the Law Library of Congress, exterior. A long white brick building with tall recesses indicating windows is shown on a sunny day. The avenue outside the building is lined with trees. \" width=\"1394\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently HeinOnline has added the Law Library of Congress Reports to its online databases offerings. From Hein&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/research-centers\/law-library-of-congress\/about-this-research-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law Library of Congress<\/a>\u00a0was established in 1832 as a separate department of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress<\/a>. Its mission is to provide authoritative legal research, reference and instruction services, and access to an unrivaled collection of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law. To accomplish this mission, the Law Library has assembled a staff of experienced foreign and U.S. trained legal specialists and law librarians, and has amassed the world&#8217;s largest collection of law books and other legal resources from all countries, now comprising more than 2.9 million items, including one of the world&#8217;s best rare law book collections and the most complete collection of foreign legal gazettes in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Law Library produces reports on foreign, comparative, and international law in response to requests from Members of Congress, Congressional staff and committees, the federal courts, executive branch agencies, and others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This database includes more than 3,500 reports from the Law Library of Congress on foreign, comparative, and international law\u2014all in one easy-to-navigate collection. HeinOnline offer a helpful <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides-heinonline-org.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/law-library-of-congress-reports\">LibGuide<\/a><\/strong> which can help you explore the content further, and you can access the database itself via the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/database-includes\/includes-l\/law-library-congress-reports\">Library Databases pages<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Recently HeinOnline has added the Law Library of Congress Reports to its online databases offerings. From Hein&#8217;s website: The\u00a0Law Library of Congress\u00a0was established in 1832 as a separate department of the\u00a0Library of Congress. Its mission is to provide authoritative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/2023\/08\/14\/new-resource-law-library-of-congress-reports-heinonline\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[38,78,24,50,26],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcADqd-8c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/lawlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}