Law-related alert services
This page provides links and instructions for subscribing to both freely
available email alert services from legal publishers and firms, and alert
services available from databases subscribed to by the Monash University
Library (these alerts are available to Monash University staff and HDR
students only). The Law Library also provides specialised alert services
to Monash University staff and HDR students.
Law
Institute of Victoria
- Free membership for law students allows a number of services including
email bulletins in a range of practice areas, along with the monthly
Law Bytes bulletin for new lawyers and the weekly Friday Facts bulletin
featuring legal profession news.
Legal publishers (Australia)
CCH
- Upon free registration, set up a free daily email alert profile for
news headlines with links to the full-text news article on the CCH
web site. A number of areas of interest may be selected, including
Law, Accounting, Financial Planning, Tax, etc.
ComLaw
- Free registration for email notification of new and/or modified documents
from a range of Commonwealth legislative databases.
Findlaw
Newsletters and Alerts
- Free newsletters compiling key legal developments in the areas of
Criminal Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property Law, Privacy Law, Information
and Technology Law, and Small Business.
- Daily legal news
Lawlex
- Email alerts on legislative changes are available to Monash University
staff. A very specific profile can constructed, so that alerts include
legislation covering topical areas of law in your area of interest
and may also be limited to alerts covering specific Acts. Certain industry
newsfeeds may also be subscribed to. See the detailed instructions.
- As part of the Premium Research provided to Monash users, the Alert
Summaries can also be viewed at the Lawlex site. Go to Lawlex and
search by keyword for the Act you require. At the entry for the Act,
look under Premium Research and click the link to Read
Alert Summaries.
LexisNexis
Legal Express
- Free daily email alerts containing a selection of news stories, new
cases and new legislation
- Content can be customised - cases by subject area and jurisdiction,
and legislation by jurisdiction.
WorldLII News
- free alerts highlighting new and updated databases added to WorldLII.
Overseas
beSpacific - Law
and technology news
- Free email alerts from the editor of the well-known legal research
site LLRX.com. Topics include FOI, e-gov, privacy, copyright, data
protection, legal research, KM and search engine features.
Global Legal
Monitor
- Online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal
news and developments worldwide. It draws on information from the Global
Legal Information Network, official national legal publications, and
reliable press sources.
Info4local.gov.uk
- This site provides the first one-stop portal for quick and easy access
to information on the web sites of U.K. central government departments,
agencies and public bodies. It is run by a group of six departments,
with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the lead. More than
50 departments and agencies add data to info4local.
- Select to receive email alerts by subject, department and document
type.
Law firms (Australia)
Database alert services (Monash Law Faculty staff and HDR students
only)
Lexis Alerts
- Sign on to Lexis using your personal ID and password (contact the Law
Library staff if you don't have one).
- Create an Alert by first conducting a search and
then clicking the "Save as Alert" link at the top of your
results page.
- Choose Frequency (daily or weekly) and Delivery options. Enter your
email address and click Email Options to select the Document Format
(Cite, KWIC or Full). Click Set
- Click Save
- Click the Alerts tab on the navigation bar to view, edit or delete
your saved searches.
Westlaw Alerts
- Sign on to Westlaw using your personal ID and password (contact the Law
Library staff if you don't have one).
- Click Alert Center at the top right of the screen
- Next to WestClip, click Create Entry
- Enter a name for the search, enter the database identifiers of the
databases to search and then enter your search query
- Click Edit next to Delivery Options to change the frequency and add
your email address for notification.
- Each entry you create is displayed in the WestClip Directory. The
directory shows the name of the entry, the database in which the query
will be run, the query and the next date on which the entry will run.
To run a WestClip query from the WestClip Directory, click Run. To
remove an entry from the WestClip Directory, click Delete. Click the
name of an entry in the directory to modify the settings; for instance,
you may need to change how often the query is run.
- KeyCite Alert is also available for tracking case history and citations.
Social Sciences Research Network
(SSRN) - including Legal Scholarship Network
- The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing
abstracts on over 70,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers
and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 46,700
downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary
also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner
Publications. Law Faculty academics and HDR students may subscribe
to the SSRN email alert service. Contact the Law
Library staff if interested.
Current Contents
Detailed instructions are
available for creating an Alert using ISI Current Contents Connect
Workplace Info
Contact the Law Library
staff if you would like to receive email alerts for new information
appearing on WorkPlace Info in the area of Australian workplace relations
news and analysis.
World Trade Online
Contact the Law Library
staff if you would like to receive email alerts for new information
appearing on World Trade Online in the area of International trade-related
news and information.
Law Library alerts
High Court of Australia new judgments - notification
of new HCA judgments as soon as they are available [email Kay
Tucker to be added to this list]
New Law titles for the past week are available from
the New Titles
link in the Catalogue and also available as an RSS
feed.
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