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Company: Services
Throughout our 80+ year history, William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has been serving the law library community as a publisher, reprinter, subscription, continuation, and monograph agent, secondhand bookseller, periodical distributor, law library collection appraiser, and electronic services provider. Our diversification has allowed us to serve the unique needs of our customers, while helping us evolve as their needs have changed.
Original Publications and Reprints of Law and Law-Related Classics
Our research and reference tools for law, international relations, political science, and foreign affairs are among our most important contributions to the publishing world. Throughout the years, many of our publications have been adopted for use in law classes throughout the United States and Canada. If you are an author and would like to submit a manuscript or proposal, please fill out the following form. In addition, we always welcome suggestions from researchers regarding titles that should be reprinted and preserved for future generations. Please send suggestions to marketing@wshein.com.
World's Largest Distributor of Law and Law-Related Periodicals
We are the world's largest distributor of legal periodicals, with thousands of titles in stock. We also warehouse the back issues of more than 900 legal periodicals, and have the reprint and microform rights to hundreds of others. Combined with our secondhand inventory and network of dealers worldwide, Hein is your one-stop source for any legal periodical.
Microform Publisher
In the mid 1970's, as library budgets began to tighten, and shelf space became more difficult to obtain, Hein developed more and more products on microform. Today, with more than 80 million images on microfilm or microfiche, no other legal publisher can offer the combination of microform services available from Hein. We offer hundreds of legal periodicals on microfilm and microfiche, as well as many other major document collections, including complete archives of rare, out-of-print documents and previously unpublished materials available from the most prominent legal organizations and publishers.
Secondhand Book Dealer
Our vast inventory of out-of-print state reports, rare books, secondhand texts, legal periodicals, government documents and codes, and microforms can save your library from 40% to 70% off the price of new materials. In addition, with our extensive network of dealers worldwide, Hein can handle all you requests for unique secondhand law and law-related materials.
Subscription, Continuation, and Monograph Agent
Hein can help you get the most out of your library's resources by consolidating purchasing and standing orders to eliminate paperwork and claiming. We offer single purchase and standing order service of texts, treatises, serials, state reports, and state codes from almost all legal publishers. Today, more than 75% of the academic law libraries in the United States utilize Hein as their subscription agent. We provide the most complete bibliographic information available. If you are a publisher interested in marketing your titles to the law library community, we can help. Simply contact our Sales & Marketing Department for more information.
Online Publishing and Electronic Services Provider
The internet has dramatically changed the publishing and library communities. Recognizing this evolution in its' early stages, Hein is now a leader in this area, with products such as HeinOnline, the world's largest image-based collection of law and law-related documents. In addition , Hein leads other vendors with its' understanding of EDI and INNOPAC, tools that help libraries operate more efficiently.
Law Library Collection Appraiser
If you are in the process of downsizing or eliminating your law library, consider us as a source to provide you with an accurate appraisal of your collection. We will also buy your library for cash, credit, or exchange of other products.
Preservation Services
Through our in-house experience in working with centuries-old legal classics and other law and law-related documents as a reprinter, microform and online publisher, we understand the intracacies involved in preserving legal history for future generations of researchers. We welcome the opportunity to share our knowledge with the library community as it struggles with the preservation of its' own unique collections.