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Current Awareness Services

Current awareness services are available to help members of the law school community stay current in their areas of interest. They provide the following:

Journal, database & newspaper alerts - researchers receive an email showing the Table of Contents for new issues of journals or newspapers or highlights from online databases as they are published

Search alerts - researchers compose a search (for example, Sarbanes-Oxley, homeland security, etc.), and receive an email when a journal or highlight from an online database is published which satisfies the search)

Blackwell-Synergy
BNA Email Alerts
Business Source Premier
Cambridge Journals Online
CILP (Current Index to Legal Periodicals)
Haworth Press
Ingenta E-journal Alerts
Kluwer Journals Online
Law Review Title Pages
Legal Scholarship Repository
Lexis Eclipse
MetaPress
National Law Journal
New York Law Journal
Proquest
ResearchNow
Sage Online Journals
Smart CILP
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SpringerLink
Taylor & Francis
US Law Week
WestClip

Blackwell-Synergy

To create an account
• Go to any Blackwell-Synergy page, either by going to https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.blackwell-synergy.com, or doing a Journal Title search
• Click "Register"
• Enter information
• Click "Register"
• Enter information
• You will receive a registration confirmation by email

To set up a journal alert
• Go to any Blackwell-Synergy page, and click "My Synergy"
• Enter information
• Enter Username and Password, login
• Enter information
• Click email alerts
• Enter information
• Check desired journals
• Select a format [plain text (recommended) or html]
• Click "Submit"

BNA Email Alerts

BNA provides over 100 different email alerts to law faculty and students in all subjects - antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, criminal, environmental, family law, international trade, labor, taxation, to name a few.

Set up an email alert

Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier is a full text database for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including 1000 peer-reviewed business publication. Its full text coverage goes back to 1922 for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals. To activate email alerts to new articles:

To create an account
• Go to Business Source Premier
• Click Continue
• Click "Sign In To My Ebscohost"
• Click "I'm a new user"
• Fill in all required fields to create your new account
• Click OK

To set up a journal alert
• Click on Publications near the top of the page
• Enter words in the search box, or browse the title lists for publications of interest
• Click on the publication title link
• Click on Journal Alert in the upper right
• Fill in relevant information, and click Save
• Repeat for each journal for which you wish to receive an email alert

To set up a search alert
• Select the Advanced Search tab
• Do a search
• Select the Search History/Alerts tab again
• Put a check mark in the "Add to search" box
• Click Save Searches/Alerts
• Click the Alert button in the "Save search as" box
• Give the alert a name, fill in all required information, and click "Save"

Cambridge Journals Online

To create an account
• Go to Cambridge Journals Online
• Click Register, fill in information, click Submit

To set up a journal alert
• Go to Cambridge Journals Online
• Click Log-in
• Browse Journals until you have one on the screen
• When viewing a journal title on CJO, click "New Content Email Alerts"
• Click "Journals of Interest" in the Content Alerts section
• Check the journal(s) for which you want alerts
• Click Submit

To set up a search alert
• Go to Cambridge Journals Online
• Click Log-in
• Browse Journals until you have one on the screen
• When viewing a journal title on CJO, click "New Content Email Alerts"
• Click "Advanced Search" in the Periodic Searches section
• Enter search terms and click Submit

Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)

CILP (https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://cilp.nellco.org) provides timely topical access to approximately 500 law school reviews and other selected legal journals under 100 subject headings. It is not an email alerting service, but a web service that updates weekly, and displays Tables of Contents for issues received by the University of Washington Law Library that week. CILP is available 4-6 weeks before commercial legal periodicals indexes such as the Index to Legal Periodicals and the Legal Resource Index

You can view CILP in HTML, MS Word or pdf format. The HTML version places a Lexis and Westlaw link next to each article citation (you will be prompted for your password), so you can easily view the article.

CILP has an email alerting component, called SmartCilp (see below).

Haworth Press

To create an account
• Go to any Haworth Press page, either by going to https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/viewlibraryetext.asp or doing a Journal Title search
• Click "Table of Contents Email Alerting Service" in the right-hand column
• Click "Click here to continue to set up your profile", and "Click here" again
Enter email address and choose a password

To set up a journal alert
• Go to any Haworth Press journal page, either by going to https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/viewlibraryetext.asp or doing a Journal Title search
• Click "Table of Contents Email Alerting Service" in the right-hand column
• Click "Click here to continue", and "Click here" again
• Enter email address and password, Sign-In
• Check off desired journals, "Finish and view my selections"
• Check "Done and continue browsing"

IngentaConnect Alerts

IngentaConnect is a database of over 27,000 publications, more than 6,000 of them full text. You can receive email alerts when either new issues of online journals become available, or when search results for specific articles that meet your search criteria are met.

Register on the Ingenta website
• Go to https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com
• Click on Register
• Click on Personal
• Fill in all required information (Make sure the box requesting full-text access to your institution's subscriptions is checked)
•Click Continue

Create a new alerting profile for e-journal alerts
• Click My E-journal Alerts
• Click Create a new alerting profile (you can use the same password you used when you registered at the Ingenta website)
• Locate e-journals by entering words in the search box, or browsing through the title lists
• Check the boxes next to the titles you want to receive alerts about
• Click Update Alerts

Create a search alert
• Do a search in online articles (do not choose fax/ariel articles, or a charge will be imposed)
• Select Saved searches
• Check the box next to the search you just performed, and click "Add to Alerts"

Kluwer Journals Online

Create a new alerting profile & setting up journal alerts
• Go to https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.kluweralert.com
• Enter email address, Login.
• You will be directed to the Profile page. Fill in required information, click "Save and continue".
• You will be directed to the New Product Announcement page. Fill in required information, or don't, and click "Save and continue".
• You will be directed to the Journal Table of Contents page. Select the journals for which you would like to receive alerts, and click "Save and continue".

Law Review Title Pages

Once a week, the Law Library circulates to faculty photocopies of the title pages of all law reviews/journals that have been received by the library. Faculty can browse the title pages at their convenience. Copies of articles can be obtained via LEXIS or WESTLAW, or may be requested by submitting a Faculty Services Request form to the library (an electronic version of the form is available on the Law Library Web Cite). If you would like to be added to the routing list for this service, contact:
Manina Florez (86301)
E-Mail: florezm@juris.law.nyu.edu

Legal Scholarship Repository

To create an account
• Go to the Legal Scholarship Repository at http://lsr.nellco.org
• Click "My Account" on the left side of the page
• Click "Create a Free Account" and follow all prompts

To set up a journal alert
• Go to the Legal Scholarship Repository at http://lsr.nellco.org
• Click "Customized Email Alerts by Subject Area"
• Check off Subject Boxes, then click "Notify Me of New Content"
• Login when prompted

Note: LSR Alerts are for articles in legal subject areas, not for specific journals

MetaPress

To create an account
• Go to MetaPress
• Click "Alerting"in column on left
• Click "Register", enter information, OK
• A MetaPress ID will be emailed to you, along with the UserID and Password you created

To set up a journal alert
• Go to any MetaPress page, either by doing a search at https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.metapress.com and searching or browsing for a publication, or doing a Journal Title search
• With the desired publication on the screen, click the "Enable" button on the lower right of the screen
• If you have not done so already, login

National Law Journal

For email delivery of the National Law Journal, send an email to lawlibrary@nyu.edu requesting delivery.

New York Law Journal

For email delivery of the National Law Journal, send an email to lawlibrary@nyu.edu requesting delivery.

Proquest

Please note: Proquest alerts only include the first 10 articles in an issue. If a journal is provided by a source other than Proquest, use that source instead.

To set up a journal alert
• Go to any Proquest journal page, either by doing a search at https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.umi.com/pqdauto , or doing a Journal Title search
• Click "Set up an alert", enter required information, and click "Save"
• You will receive an email confirmation of your alert. You MUST use the confirmation link within this email in order to activate the alerting service.
• Save the email, because it contains instructions on how to discontinue receiving the alerts

Note: An account DOES NOT NEED to be created in order to create an email alert.

ResearchNow

ResearchNow allows you to Search or Browse through the quasi-open access Berkeley Electronic Press journals, plus a wealth of unrestricted working paper series, preprints monographs, and other content from institutional and subject-matter repositories hosted by bepress, including New York University Law and Economics Working Papers and New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Sage Journals Online

To create an account
• Go to Sage Journals Online

To set up a journal alert
• Go to Sage Journals Online and click on [Edit] in the "My Content Alerts" blue box on the right of the screen, OR
• From any Sage journal homepage, click on "Sign up for Sage Content Alerts"
• Click Add Content Alerts
• Follow instructions to select the journals from which to receive alerts

Science Direct

To create an account
• Go to Science Direct
• Click "Register", enter information, and click "Done"

To set up a journal alert
• Go to any Science Direct page, either by doing a search at https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com , or doing a Journal Title search
• Click "Alerts"
• Login
• Click "Add/Remove Volume/Issue Alerts"
• Click "Add" next to each journal for which you wish to receive an alert
• Click "Save"

Smart CILP

Smart CILP <http://depts.washington.edu/scilp/scilp3.cgi> is the weekly email service of CILP (see above). Students and faculty can create a profile based on three criteria:

• Topic Headings
• Subject Headings
• Journal Titles

Before creating your profile at the SmartCilp website, you must obtain a SmartCilp authorization code from the Law Library's Password List.

Contact Liz Evans, liz.evans@nyu.edu or 212-998-6319 for help with this service.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

Accounting
Economics
Financial Economics
Legal Scholarship
Management Research

Users can receive email alerts when new papers are distributed in the networks, as well as going to the SSRN website and downloading abstracts and papers. The web-based resources include information on over 77,000 recent research papers and over 52,000 PDF files.

Go to Social Science Research Network Information & Instructions to subscribe.

Springerlink

To create an account
• Go to SpringerLink
• Select either Table of Contents Alert or Keyword Alert
• Click Register
• Follow Instructions

To set up a journal alert
• Go to SpringerLink at https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://springerlink.com/alerting , or doing a Journal Title search
• Login
• Click "Publications"
• Select those Publications for which you wish to receive alerts, click OK

Taylor & Francis

Set up alerts at the Metapress website

US Law Week Email Alerts

To subscribe to weekly email alerts for US Law Week, go the the US Law Week Instruction Page.

WestClip and ECLIPSE

Westclip and ECLIPSE are Westlaw's and Lexis's alerting services, for law reviews, cases, legislation, news, etc. Any search of their databases can be saved and searched for future research sessions.

Westclip
Eclipse

This page was updated October 19, 2007