Heinonline provides full-text access to the great majority of law journals published in the U.S. Unlike the journal articles you can find on Westlaw and Lexis, Heinonline provides: (1) PDF scans of journal articles, and (2) complete coverage of a journal, back to the very first issue. Thus it is the first place to check if you need to find a law journal article. Many law school libraries in the U.S. have removed their print holdings of law journals because of the easier access how provided by Heinonline.
Articles can be distributed in both print and online formats but it is most likely that access on our campus will be online. The law library now has very limited holdings of print journals. Steely's library still has some print holdings of journals, but has much broader access to online journals. If the article you are cite checking cites journal articles in disciplines other than law then it is likely that you will need to use resources made available through the Steely Library.
To check journal holdings for campus libraries, do a title search on either the law library online catalog or the Steely Library online catalog.
Steely Library has a convenient A-Z listing of all journals that it has full-text access to in print or online.
If campus libraries do not provide access to the article you need, you will then need to request a copy of the article through our interlibrary loan service
On-campus
The most efficient way to search for the full-text of PDF journal articles is be on-campus and use Google Scholar.
Simply use the main search box to look for books and journal articles. If you are on-campus, you will be recognized as a NKU user and your search results will include links to articles in resources we have access to such as Heinonline, JSTOR and any other licensed resource.
Off-campus
Google Scholar provides citations to articles and links to any free articles. But you will not see links to articles through our licensed databases.
For Heinonline, you can access the full-text of articles through that database after authenticating as a NKU user.