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Alerting Services in Law
Keep up to date with:
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.
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