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Sign up for Alert Services from the Law Library

Select the subjects you are interested in and receive an email each month letting you know what new books we've acquired in your areas of interest, by signing on to our Custom Email Notification. With one or two clicks, faculty can request a book and have it delivered to their New England mailbox.

Many databases and websites let you sign up for email alerts & tailored newsletters.
Any Reference Librarian can help you set it up. Here are some you might find useful if delivered to your inbox:

BNA:

http://webutil.bna.com/emsf/signin.nsf/signin?open&iid=BNASR Offers dozens of weekly email newsletters, covering topics such as criminal law, employment law, health law… The list goes on.

CCH Intelliconnect

Sign up for free emailed tax newsletters at http://tax.cchgroup.com/Email/. Get the tax newsletter, or just headlines.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals

http://0-cilp.nellco.org.portia.nesl.edu/cilp/index.cfm is a very helpful website that indexes law-related articles. As a reference library for the code that will let you sign up for a free, custom-made weekly email update.

EBSCOhost

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.portia.nesl.edu/login.aspx?authtype=cookie,ip,cpid&custid=c5054631&profile=ehost which is a database company, provides alerts for its databases. We currently subscribe to three of these databases: SocIndex (which covers sociology); Academic Search Premiere (which is a multi-disciplinary academic database); and Library, Information and Technology Abstracts (which indexes journals on libraries and librarianship). You can set up alerts for each of these databases. To do so, click on “Publications”, and then find the particular title you’re interested in. Once you’ve clicked on a title, choose “alert” in the upper right.

LexisNexis

Offers a way for you to sign up for alerts on all of their sources, which will be delivered to you based on criteria you select, and on any basis that you choose. To create an alert, click on “save as alert” after executing a search.

PubMed

is a very well-respected medical and science database. It offers a range of alert services. Click here to see the full list: http://0-www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.portia.nesl.edu/feed/rss.cgi?ChanKey=PubMedNews

Westlaw

http://lawschool.westlaw.com/   offers a range of alert services. To create one, click on “Alert Center” in the upper left of your Westlaw screen.

Table of content alerts services:

There are a number of websites that let you set up alerts for certain subjects, keywords, etc. as they appear in journal articles. Here are two of them.