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Alerting Services in Law

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Registering to receive alerts means you will receive email updates on a regular basis. In many cases you can select journals, jurisdictions, courts or subject areas relevant to your interests. Some alert services need you to visit their web site regularly instead because email notification is unavailable.

The following are either free or free to Murdoch staff and students through Murdoch Library subscription.

Legislation alerts - WA & Commonwealth

State Law Publisher - WA legislation

  • Information Bulletin
    Subscribe using form on left of the screen. Email sent every Friday afternoon containing details of changes to all Western Australian Legislation.
  • Alerts for individual Acts or Regulations need to be made once you have worked through the A-Z Browse screens. Once you are viewing a section of an Act or regulation click on the "Notify me when this title changes" link and fill in the form.

  • ComLaw "Notify me when…" (Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department)
    Search for legislative information in selected databases. Use these search terms to set up email notification for updates to this search. For instance if you were setting up a notification service for the changes to the Family Law Act you would check the appropriate boxes and type (altTitle family law).

New Case Law - Australia

  • Daily Unreported Judgments Notifier from LexisNexisAU
    Cases hot off the bench are emailed to you twice daily, each business day. You can subscribe to this service to be notified about the latest cases in all Australian jurisdictions or the jurisdiction of your choice. *Case summaries removed at the end of each day? each week?

Daily alerts - Australia

  • Daily Email Alert - CCH Australia.
    A free daily email briefing of the key developments in your chosen field, sent as headlines to your desktop, with links to the full story. Legislation updates, rulings from the Commissioner of Taxation and ASIC, and case information are included in the alerts.
  • Findlaw Australia Newsletters & Alerts from Thomson Legal & Regulatory Limited
    Register to receive via email daily news pertaining to the legal industry, daily legislation alerts for Commonwealth, Victoria and New South Wales jurisdictions, cases from various courts and newsletters on Criminal Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property Law, Privacy Law, and Information and Technology Law.
  • Legal Express from LexisNexis AU
    A free legal news alert service that is emailed each business day: It contains a list of legal news headlines, short case notes, a concise list of all newly released legislative information and a "word of the day", extracted from the Butterworths Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary.

Publisher alerts -Table of Contents (journals)

Publisher alerts generally include the tables of contents of recent journals and in some cases links to the full text article.

  • * Eclipse on LexisNexis International
    (For Academics and Post Graduate students only.)
    Set up searches to run on individual titles, across all the law reviews or for a specific topic and set the updates to be emailed to you. Ask the law liaison librarian for more information.
  • Contents Pages from Law Reviews from the Tarlton Law Library
    A keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications related to the law. Updated daily, the database lists journal issues received over the past three months by the Tarlton Law Library.
    RSS feeds also available
  • Findlaw - Law Reviews Project (USA) Receive an email containing abstracts and updates to recently published Law Reviews in nominated subject areas.
  • Alerting services - not specifically law
    See this page for links to alert services from publishers such as Cambridge Journals Online, Oxford University Press. Links on this page to Conference Alerts etc.

Australian Newspapers

  • Australian Newspapers directory from the National Library of Australia
    List of all Australian newspapers, check each paper to find if they offer an email alert service
  • f2)network
    This site provides access to articles from leading Australian newspapers such as Australian Financial Review, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. It is updated throughout each day.
  • News.com.au
    This site covers major Australian newspapers such as The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Advertiser, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and The Mercury. To receive daily news headlines by email each morning subscribe to the service.

Government alerts

  • ACCC media releases and speeches digest
    Subscribe to the media releases and speeches digest of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to receive a daily digest of all of the ACCC's media releases and speeches
  • ASIC News
    Keep up with what the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is doing by subscribing to ASIC News, their short monthly newsletter. Each issue helps financial services industry operators and small business, with short pieces on enforcing and applying the law, mistakes to avoid and much more. If you would like to receive ASIC News: email: it@cmrdirect.com.au
  • Australian Taxation Office
    Join the ATO's free email update service to receive notification of updates including new content, changes to existing content, and updates to the SuperUpdate Newsletter, a newsletter for superannuation providers. Please enter your email address, choose the categories and click submit. You will be sent and email asking you to confirm that you wish to subscribe.
  • IP Australia - Mailing Lists
    IP Australia provides a number of email lists to keep users up to date with recent events and changes at IP Australia. Choose from the options to receive updates on when new material is added to the web site, new trade mark hearings that have been published, or to receive SNIPER updates. SNIPER is a bibliographic database of journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about issues in intellectual property.
  • Wagenet
    Register to receive email updates on new versions of Awards, Agreements or Decisions for all states and territories of Australia that are added to this website
    You may need to search for the document name or print number prior to registering.
  • WA Ministerial Media Statements
    Signup for notification service from all or selected Ministers at the bottom of the left frame. Past Media Statements can also be browsed on the site.

Other alerts

  • ABC's Law Report - Radio National
    Presented by Damien Carrick every Tuesday at 8:30am, repeated at 8pm. You can subscribe to receive free email notification of what's on this week
    Visit the site to read the transcripts of the latest legal stories across Australia and overseas. RSS and podcasting also available.
  • Jurist Australia
    Visit this site regularly to get an update on the latest Australian legal news from newspapers, the Attorney-General, the High Court and other sources.
  • LLRX - Law Library Resource Xchange
    LLRX.com is a unique, free international web journal dedicated to providing legal and library professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools, since 1996. Register to receive the monthly email newsletter.
  • Practice Source
    Visit this site regularly to stay up to date with what's happening in Australian law firms and the industry, and join their legal alerts service (top right of screen).

Law firms - Australia

Many large firms publish legal information for their clients and potential clients. Browse our list of Australian lawyers to see a more complete list of law firms. The following is a list of firms with offices in Perth, who regularly publish material on their website.

Other law firms: Findlaw directory search

Publishers alerts - new books

Some publishers will notify you of new materials published in your area of interest or you can browse their online catalogue.

Australian Publishers:

  • CCH -Australia Browse the front page and catalogue for legal news, new books and other publications
  • Federation Press (Australia) Subscribe to receive email updates on new legal materials published by Federation Press in your areas of interest.
    Book supplements updating published titles maybe viewed online

Major Bookshops

  • Blackwell Bookshops - Browse their catalogue
    Murdoch staff may set up email alerts to receive information re latest books received in the UK & US bookshop. Discuss setting alerts in your research area with the law liaison librarian.
  • DA Australia - Browse their catalogue or set up email alerts using MyDA.

For Murdoch Staff and Students

  • New books added to the Murdoch library.
    The list arranged by the Dewey Classification system and is updated weekly when the new books display is changed on Tuesday. Items on the new books display may be requested to be held for loan at the end of the display week. Law numbers are 340-349 and 364 although relevant multidisciplinary texts may be found at other numbers.