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Journal Alerts
Journal Alerts & Current Awareness Services
Current Awareness Services help keep scholars informed about the latest journal articles published in their areas of interest. The Library provides a variety of current awareness services to accommodate your research needs.
Below are several options for keeping up with newly published literature. If these resources do not completely satisfy your current awareness needs, please let your Library Liaison know. Your liaison has information about other specialized current awareness tools in law and non-law disciplines, and will work with you to set up the combination of services that will best suit your research interests.
Basic Current Awareness Services
Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)
-Most Current
-Most Basic
CILP, updated weekly, offers tables of contents for newly published law periodicals, tracking over 500 major law reviews and journals. CILP is available 4-6 weeks earlier than other commercial legal periodical indexes. The latest issue of CILP is available every Friday.
CILP is available in html, pdf, and Word format. The html version allows a direct link to the cited articles in full text articles on Westlaw and Lexis. (You will be prompted for your Lexis or Westlaw password.)
Legal Resource Index Update (formerly known as "Tables of Contents")
-More Comprehensive
-Less Current
Legal Resource Index Update provides table of contents access to over 900 periodicals indexed by Legal Resource Index on Westlaw. Full text of cited articles available on Westlaw may be obtained by following the links to the citations. Links to the Library's FRIDA request form are also appended to each citation. Although updated weekly, because citations are added as journals are indexed, the listings may be weeks less current than those on CILP. Both an archive and a search feature of past Index Updates are also available. (Access restricted to Faculty. Use your email name and password to log in.)
Personalized Current Awareness Services
Harvard Libraries Table of Contents (TOC) Service
- Customized email alerts to journal article citations from approximately 15,000 selected journals owned by Harvard University.
The Harvard Libraries Table of Contents Service allows users to set up and receive weekly email alerts for new issues of selected journals owned by Harvard. You can structure your search by journal title, keyword or author. Email alerts contain direct links to the electronic version of the article if available at Harvard, otherwise to the HOLLIS record showing the location of the print version of the article. Email alerts are delivered to your email box every Monday. If you would like assistance setting up your profile, contact your Library Liaison.
-Customized email alerts to journal article citations from more than 28,000 multi-disciplinary, English-language journals.
Using Ingenta, you can set up a personal profile that enables you to receive regular email with the material selected in the profile. An unlimited number of table of contents and keyword searches may be specified for each profile. The tables of contents and search results you choose will be delivered to your email box every Monday. If you would like assistance setting up your profile, contact your Library Liaison.
SmartCILP
-Customized email alerts to recently published law journal articles
SmartCILP provides a personalized weekly list of citations drawn from the CILP database. After setting up a profile designating specific subject headings and/or journal titles, you will receive an email each week including only new issues of the specified titles. If you would like assistance setting up your profile, contact your Library Liaison.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
-Customized email alerts to new research in specialized areas including law, management, accounting, and economics.
This service is dedicated to rapid dissemination of social science research. You may set up an email alert service in several specialized areas (accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship and management). If you would like assistance setting up your profile, contact your library liaison.
WestClip/Eclipse Searches
-Customized email updates of subject searches in a choice of hundreds of legal and non-legal databases.
Using Westclip (Westlaw) or Eclipse (Lexis), you can set up one or more searches that will run automatic updates on a schedule that you select (daily, weekly, monthly). You can choose for the results to be automatically emailed to you, or you can choose to be notified of new results when you sign on to your Lexis or Westlaw account. If you would like assistance setting up your profile, contact your Library Liaison.
Other Current Awareness Services
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
Through the New England Law Library Consortium, the NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools. Powered by Berkeley Electronic Press technology, the aim of the NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository is to improve dissemination and visibility of a variety of scholarly materials throughout the academic and legal research communities. Twelve schools are currently offering papers through this service. The collection may be searched or the results of a standing search may be e-mailed to you.
Notable Internet Resources (formerly known as Online Update)
This publication is produced by the Langdell Reference Department on a twice monthly basis. These updates feature topical lists and brief descriptions of interesting, publicly available Web sites. Commercial databases purchased by Harvard Law School Library available only to the HLS community are occasionally featured. An archive of past Notable Internet Resource postings is also available.
Langdell BiblioFlash
BiblioFlash is an occasional topical compilation of books selected from Harvard Law School Library acquisitions of recent months. The listings, assembled by a member of the Langdell Reference staff, provide convenient, one-click FRIDA access for materials of interest. (Access restricted to Faculty. Use your email name and password to log in.)