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Services for Law Part-Time Faculty: Alerting Services

Tables of contents services for over 1500 legal journals are available via email or RSS feed from Current Law Journals Content.  A weekly service covering recent articles from over 500 legal periodicals categorized by subject is also available from Current Index to Legal Periodicals via Westlaw and may be delivered weekly via a Westlaw Alert.   

LexisNexis and Westlaw may also be used to create automated searches with results delivered on a schedule, format and via a method that you choose.  The instructions and tutorials listed below detail how to set up alerts in these services. 

• LexisNexis: Alerts and Shepard’s Alert 
• Westlaw: WestClip, Agency Tracker  and Keycite Alert 

RSS Feeds may be used to follow blogs of interest or to receive alerts from Current Law Journal Content.  Our page on How to Keep Current as a Lawyer provides more information about using RSS feeds for these services as well as RSS feeds for federal legal information.   
You may also contact the legal information librarians (lawlib@bu.edu, 353-3151) for assistance in setting up alerting services and RSS feeds.