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LGBTQ+ Rights

LGBTQ+ Rights charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today.

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Main Search Bar Tips

  • The main search bar is stationary throughout HeinOnline.
  • Once inside the LGBTQ+ Rights Library, the search bar will search only within this database, unless the Search All Databases box is ticked.
  • Need something more robust? Click Advanced Search to perform a search using custom drop-downs.
  • Need a refresher on how to construct a perfect search? Click Search Help for a quick reference guide to commonly used search syntax.

Start your search in the main search bar

Using the Main Search Bar

  • For example, enter the phrase "don't ask, don't tell" inside quotation marks into the search bar
    • Select where you want to search for this phrase: as an Author, appearing in the Title of any document or article, as a Citation, or in our Catalog as a title. Want to see your search in any of these fields, or appearing in the full text of a document? Select Just search for.

Start typing in the main search bar to see search options

 

  • Use the facets on the left side of the page to narrow your results by Date, Section Type, Title, Document Type, Subjects, Organization, Person, or Location.
  • Terms matching the search query appear in bold text within the matching text page snippets.
  • Sort search results by relevance, volume date, or title.
  • Save to your MyHein account, email a result, display download options, or download a PDF using the icons on the right side of each search result.
  • Use the icons next to the sort-by bar to modify your current search, to search within results, to toggle all matching text pages, or to turn OFF infinite scroll.

A basic search example

Using Advanced Search

  • Click Advanced Search to be taken to a page with custom facets to help maximize your research within this collection.
  • Use the drop-downs to choose a variety of ways to search: Text, Title, Creator/Author, and Description.
    • Add another search field if three isn't enough.
  • Select a subcollection to search within, Ctrl + click to select multiple subcollections, or search in all.
  • Pick a title by citation to search within.
  • Restrict results within a date range and change how results are sorted.

advanced search in LGBTQ+ Rights database

How to use advanced search options

About Venn Diagram Search

  • Venn Diagram Search offers a visual representation of how search terms interact with each other
  • Helps users both refine their current search terms and become better researchers going forward
  • Find the link to Venn Diagram Search on the Advanced Search page
  • Searches are constructed by stringing together multiple terms separated by the Boolean operator "AND," with phrases grouped together in quotation marks
    • In this example, we also used the wildcard * to search for various permutations of our keywords:
      • athlet* will search for athlete(s), athletic(s), etc.
      • trans* will search for trans, transgender, transsexual, etc.

Venn diagram search displaying intersection of search terms

  • Results on the right side of the page pertain to the search as we originally constructed it (represented by the red slice in the center of the intersecting circles)
  • Select Clear for the ability to hover over the different segments of the diagram and see all possible search term combinations from our original query.
  • In our example, we can see results for:
    • title ix AND trans
    • title ix AND athlet*
    • trans AND athlet*
    • the terms trans*, athlet* and "title ix" individually
  • Sort the results, save or export, turn to the specific page of a result, or start at the beginning of a given title