Legal Current Awareness Resources

1. Staying Current: Current Awareness
Resources
Lisa Smith-Butler
September 10, 2013

2. Today
• We’ll talk about:
• current awareness services to faculty;
• current awareness resources; and
• creating alerts.

3. Services
• CILP (Current Index Legal Periodicals)
• JURIST
• The Barrister
• New Books
• RSS Feeds
• Blogs or Blawgs

12. Traditional Current Awareness Legal
Resources
• BNA
• Casemaker Digest
• CCH
• Law.com
• Law Ratchet
• South Carolina
Lawyer’s Weekly

13. BNA

18. Casemaker Digest

23. CCH

29. Law.com

33. Law Ratchet: Already Prepared for You!

35. South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

36. Creating Alerts: AdvanceLexis, Google
& WestlawNext
• Researchers can create a variety of
alerts via AdvanceLexis, Google and
WestlawNext.
• These alerts can be delivered directly
into the recipient's mailbox.

37. AdvanceLexis

42. Google Alert

46. WestlawNext

55. Readers: Feedly (Google Chrome
Only!)

60. Other Readers?
• Aol Reader
• Digg Reader
• The Old Reader

64. Check Out CVN for Your Students

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70. Want to see it again? Check out
Sharepoint/Faculty/Links

72. Questions?
• Contact your library liaison or the
Reference Desk @ x 4020 or
reference@charlestonlaw.edu