Research Guides: Law Faculty Guide to the Law Library: Current Awareness Resources

Current Awareness Services

ABA Journal Headlines Every week, the ABA Journal publishes news from across the legal spectrum. The newsletter is delivered first thing Friday. Subscribers also get the Tech Monthly roundup of technology-related legal news.
Berkeley Electronic Press (BePress) One of the services that BePress offers is to act as a repository for working papers and preprints. You can browse the repository by recent publications, popular papers, and peer reviewed articles, or by institutions or subjects. You can also search full-text or fields such as author, title, subject, and institution. You can set up notification alerts of new articles on particular subjects.
Bloomberg Law Newsletter Alerts Law students & faculty only. Bloomberg Law provides newsletter alerts to law faculty and students in multiple subjects - construction, environmental, health, labor, taxation, to name a few.
Bloomberg Law BNA Email Alerts UC Law students & faculty only. From this page you can manage your Bloomberg Law BNA e-mail alerts.
EBSCO Journal Alerts How to set up EBSCO Journal alerts
Google Alerts A tracking service for search-engine results that watches for online new content by monitoring Web pages indexed by Google and e-mails users when it locates new items.
HeinOnline e-TOC Alerts Create an electronic table of contents (eTOC) alert for one or more titles in order to receive an email each time the selected titles are updated in HeinOnline. Browse to the desired title and select Create eTOC alert. To view saved alerts, click on eTOC Alerts from the MyHein menu. You can add notes to alerts, and delete alerts you no longer wish to receive them.
How to Create eTOC Alerts in HeinOnline
JOTWELL (the Journal of Things We Like (Lots)) JOTWELL (the Journal of Things We Like (Lots)) is a blog where law professors review interesting books and articles. It is meant to create "a space where legal academics can go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new scholarship relevant to the law." Jotwell’s content is available online at no charge. You can subscribe via RSS, or you can subscribe by email. You can also follow them on Twitter or Facebook.
Jurist Legal News JURIST (http://jurist.org) is an award-winning online legal news service powered by a global team of over 80 law student reporters, editors, commentators, correspondents and content developers from 30 law schools on six continents. JURIST’s mission is to engage law students with the most important events of their time, giving them an opportunity to document and defend the rule of law while preparing them for success and leadership in later professional and public life.
Justia Newsletter Subscriptions Justia invites you to sign up for free daily and weekly newsletters. We provide daily summaries of opinions from all federal appellate courts and all 50 state supreme courts. US Supreme Court opinion summaries are also available and are sent out as the Court hands down their decisions. Justia also offers weekly summaries of opinions in certain practice areas. Finally, you can sign up to receive newsletters from Verdict, which is an online legal news and commentary magazine to which professors, scholars, and other commentators contribute.
Law360 (website) Available to law students & faculty only. You must VPN in or be on-campus. Law360 covers 45 practice areas and provides news on litigation, legislation and regulation, corporate deals, major personnel moves, and legal industry news and trends. You can search, create an alert, or browse articles.
Lexis Alerts Law faculty & students only. Automatic searches of Lexis databases can be set to run according to your needs and interests. Results can be delivered to you electronically or in hard copy.
ProQuest Journal Alerts How to set up journal alerts in ProQuest
RSS Feeds for Blogs and/or News Sites
The Law Library can assist you in setting up RSS feeds for particular blogs or news sites in which you are interested. Contact your liaison.
SmartCILP This service selectively lists articles indexed in the Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) according to your subject interests. The Law Library will submit a profile for you, listing the subject headings and/or the periodicals that you wish to track. Based on this profile, you will receive weekly e-mail updates listing the new articles that are of interest to you.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) SSRN is a for-profit collection designed to promote greater dissemination of social science research. In the Legal Scholarship Network, scholars will often post pre-publication drafts of papers and law review articles. To browse subjects, look at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayjel.cfm. You can also search by author, title, or find keywords in the abstract. You cannot search full-text.
Westlaw Alerts Law faculty & students only. Westlaw has several different alert options: (1) WestClip - runs a terms and connectors or Boolean search through selected document and database types. (2) KeyCite - monitors the status of cases, statutes, and regulations and automatically sends updates to you when there has been a change that potentially affects the validity of these documents.
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(3) Docket Alert - keeps track of when new cases are filed that meet your specifications for jurisdiction, case type, party, attorney, etc.
(4) Publication Alert - sends you new issues of publications when they become available on Westlaw.
Any of these alerts can be set up using Westlaw's alert management screen.

Law Conferences & Calls for Papers

The following sites cover conferences and calls for papers. If you only have time to look at one, look at the Legal Scholarship blog.

Legal Scholarship Network Professional Announcements Part of SSRN, this site includes calls for papers for conferences, competitions, research projects, and journals and books, It also links to calls for fellowships, grants, authors, and more.
Conal Conference Alerts (Academic Conferences Worldwide) To subscribe to receive conference information in your areas of interest, click on Subscribe. You will begin receiving conference information after you have confirmed your subscription.
The Faculty Lounge: Calls for Papers