Current Awareness

The following electronic services provide facilities whereby you are kept up to date with recent journal articles, judgments, or news, in your area of interest, by first creating a subject search or profile.

Westclip on Westlaw

Westclip is the Westlaw service for email advice on searches run automatically by Westlaw from your chosen search strategy.

• Login to Westlaw.
• Run your search.
• At the Search Results screen in the left hand margin will be the Westclip button. Click on Westclip and you will be taken to a screen prompting you to name your search, select frequency of notification, email details and save.
• Remember that it is useful to be aware how frequent the source file is updated by Westlaw.

ECLIPSE on Lexis/Nexis

ECLIPSE is similar to Westclip on Westlaw, offering an electronic clipping service for saved searches within particular Lexis source files.

• Login to Lexis/Nexis.
• Run your search.
• Click on Save as ECLIPSE located at the middle top of the screen.
• You will then be prompted to name your search, indicate frequency of search updates, delivery method (online, email, etc), notification request, and save.
• ECLIPSE searches can be edited or deleted at any time. Simply login to Lexis/Nexis and click on ECLIPSE in the upper right corner of the screen to access all your saved ECLIPSE searches.

Current Contents Connect

Current Contents Connect indexes journal articles in all disciplines from the last four years. Download the guide to searching Current contents connect and setting up your search alert profile. Remember first that Law titles are to be found in the Social and Behavioural Sciences Library, so you will need to select only that Library file and 'submit limit changes' before proceeding with your search.

Ingenta

Ingenta now offers an email alert service for the Tables of Contents (TOC) of up to five journals per individual. To see a listing of all the electronic journals available for Law in Ingenta:

• Login to Ingenta.
• Select 'Browse subject area resources'.
• Select 'Social sciences'.
• Select 'Law'.

To set up your email Ingenta TOC alert:

• Log in to Ingenta.
• Select 'Manage my Ingenta' from the left hand toolbar.
• Select 'E-Journal alerting' and proceed as instructed.

Individual publishers webpages display tables of contents of their journals, often in advance of the publication. Links to legal publishers' sites are available from AcqWebs' Directory of Publishers and Vendors – Law Publishers.

The following web services provide email and/or newsletter legal alert services on a daily or weekly basis. This is a sample only.

Australian Law

CCH

CCH offer a daily email alert service to your email address, on news and events pertinent to law (or a number of other broad categories including Taxation, Business & Management and Industrial relations, as selected), sent as headlines with hypertext links to the full story if desired.

Simply Register your name, email address and preferred area of interest at: http://www.cch.com.au/about_benefits.asp. You will be sent an email confirmation of your registration.

FindLaw Australia

FindLaw Australia offers free email and newsletter services on legal news, legislation and caselaw. Simply Register your details at: http://www.au.findlaw.com/emaillists/register.asp

LawBook

LawBook
Judgment summaries from Australian superior courts are available within 24 hours from LBCs website, with links (via Findlaw) to the full text unreported judgments.

LexisNexis (Australia)

Legal Express is an electronic alert service which replaces ACL Express (previously published in hard copy). Legal Express provids an overview of current legal events, including news stories, short case notes and legislative information.

To subscribe to Legal Express email: delivery.online@LexisNexis.com.au.

UK Law

Daily Law Notes

WLR Daily provides free summaries of reportable UK cases within 24 hours of the decision being handed down.