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Legal News & Current Awareness

This guide provides information on legal news and current awareness services available at BC Law.

Legal Scholarship

HeinOnline Alerts

You can remain current on legal scholarship using two tools available on HeinOnline, the eTOC Alert and SmartCILP. 

SmartCILP: The Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) indexes articles published in over 650 American law journals. Through HeinOnline you can subscribe to a weekly alert of new publications. In addition, you can set up a customized alert by selecting your topics of interest that will send an email with a list of new journal articles on those topics which include links to the full text articles.  

To set up a SmartCILP,:

  1. Locate the link to the Current Index to Legal Periodicals on the HeinOnline landing page.
  2. From the drop down menu select Create New SmartCILP User and type in your BC email and click Create.
  3. Then select the topics, subjects or journals for which you want to receive email alerts each week.
  4. You can manage your SmartCILP subscriptions in your MyHein account.

eTOC Alert:  The eTOC Alert allows you to set up an electronic table of contents for one or more titles available in HeinOnline's Law Journal Library. You will receive an email each time the journal is updated in HeinOnline.

To set up an eTOC Alert:

  1. First, create a personal HeinOnline account.
  2. Locate the law review or journal for which you want to receive alert and select Create eTOC Alert.

 

Interdisciplinary Scholarship

There are a number of resources available that allow you to set up alerts to be notified of new scholarly articles on your topic of interest. The key resources are highlighted below. Please reach out to the Teaching & Research Librarians for assistance in selecting the best tool for your research objectives.  

Catalog Alerts

You can set up alerts in the Library Catalog to receive an e-mail when new books or articles are added on a topic or interest. You can also limit your search to specific journals of interest to be alerted to newly published articles.  To set up an alert:

  • Go to the Library Catalog.
  • Sign in to your Library Catalog Account. 
  • Enter search terms or journal titles and click search.
  • Click on Save this search.
  • Go to Favorites, and set an alert for this search.
  • Confirm or change your e-mail address.

Google Scholar Alerts

Using Google Scholar you can run either a keyword or advanced search for articles of interest. When viewing your search results select Set Alert, which is located on the left-hand side of the screen.

Database Alerts

You also can set up search alerts or individual journal table of contents alerts in BC's subscription databases like Proquest, Elsevier and Web of Science. To use this feature, you will  need to set up an individual account. Once your account is set up, any searches you conduct in the database can be saved as an alert to receive email notifications when any future articles on your topic are published.