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HeinOnline is a publisher and database for legal materials specializing in historic and page-image accurate reproductions of many primary and secondary legal materials, as well as several current awareness services, and the most comprehensive online collection of US academic law journals.

For more a detailed explanation of HeinOnline's content, see the "What is HeinOnline?"

MyHein is HeinOnline's suite of personalized research tools that helps individual researchers save and track their research by enabling them to:

• Bookmark documents
• Save search queries
• Set eTOC alerts
• Edit author profiles
• Manage SmartCILP notifications
• Favorite databases
• Manage author alerts
• Manage search history and more!

Additional information can be found on MyHein User's Guide.

After creating a MyHein account, you can create Electronic Table of Contents (eTOC) Alerts as a way to ensure that you will never miss a new issue of your selected list of titles. Alerts will be sent to you as soon as content is uploaded to HeinOnline.

To create title-specific eTOC Alerts, find the title that you wish to receive alerts for. After you've found the title, click on it to open the title's landing page, where you will see a list of available content, and a button to "Create eTOC Alert." Click that link and your alert will be created. 

To manage existing alerts, log into your MyHein account, select the "eTOC Alerts" tab, and you will be given a variety of options to manage your alerts, including editing and removing alerts. 

For more information on managing eTOC Alerts, you can read this HeinOnline Knowledge Base article or watch this video. 

In addition to eTOC alerts for specific titles and journals, MyHein users can also create alerts for specific authors that will notify you when one or more of the following occurs:

• When new material for an author is added to HeinOnline
• When new articles in HeinOnline cite that author's articles
• When that author's articles are accessed on HeinOnline each month
• When articles are published that are similar to that author's works

To set up an author alert, go to the author's profile page, which can be found either by clicking on the author's name in an article they wrote, by going to the Author Profiles tab in the Law Journal Library, or simply by searching for the author by name using the search bar. Once on an author's profile page, simply click the Bell Icon image to set up an alert.

A context menu will open, which will let you select the type of alert and the email address for delivery. Once an author alert has been created, it can be managed within your MyHein account under the Author Alerts tab. 

For more information about setting up author alerts in MyHein, you can read this HeinOnline Knowledge Base article or watch this video.