Alerting Services - What are they?

Alerting services help you keep up to date with:

• industry developments in the news
• articles published in recent journal issues
• recently published books
• developments in case law
• legislative developments
• government announcements

Alerting Services - Why use them?

There are serveral benefits in using alerting services:

• Save time: find resources that fit your interests by selectively subscribing to alerts.
• Read brief overviews of news: read the whole article only when it is of interest.
• Keep up to date: stay abreast of recent developments in your areas of interest.
• An outstanding grade: diligent students will be aware of the latest legal developments - A great way to impress your Lecturers!

Registering to receive alerts means you will receive e-mail updates on a regular basis. In many cases you can select journals, jurisdictions, courts or subject areas relevant to your interests. Some web sites now offer RSS feeds as an alternative to email.

Some web sites will need to be visited regularly instead because e-mail notification is unavailable.

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

Publisher Alerts

Publisher alerts generally include the tables of contents of recent journals and in some cases links to the full text article. These are often e-mailed to you before the journal issue is published. Some publishers will also notify you of new materials published in your area of interest.

Cambridge Journals Online
Go to "Browse Journals" to select the kind of updating service you would like to receive.

Hart Publishing
Subscribe to receive updates on new legal materials published by Hart Publishing in your areas of interest.

LexisNexis AU
LexisNexis provides auto alerting of table of contents via e-mail for their journals, reports and bulletins. Just register your e-mail address and indicate which resources you would like to receive the table of contents for. The documents are sent in .pdf form.

Oxford University Press
Select the journal title from the list in Law and then choose the kind of updating service you would like to receive: email table of contents, email advance access, Citetrack or RSS.

Springerlink Alerts
Select from RSS feeds or email alerts for the latest news on books, journals and other products published by Springer.

Daily Alerts

CCH Daily Email Alert
Register with CCH to receive RSS news feed and daily email alerts.

Daily Unreported Judgements Notifer
The Daily Unreported Judgments Notifier is produced by LexisNexis Butterworths. 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 jurisdictions or the jurisdiction of your choice.

Findlaw
You can register to receive via e-mail for free, 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.

Total Alerts
Total Alerts is a subscriber service that is emailed to you once a day. It contains a list of the latest legislation, cases and news alerts relevant to your area of practice or interest. The service is split by jurisdiction and by Court and offers a choice of content from web alert offerings, internet updates, client websites, government websites, RSS feeds and blogs.

WLR Daily
WLR Daily is a service from the UK Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, providing free case summaries from ICLR (part of the Daily Law Notes Service) within 24 hours of the judgement.

Legislation Alerts

TimeBase LawOne - UQ staff and students only
This email notification service, advises when Commonwealth, State or Territory legislation is newly added to or modified. A broad range of customisable fields are available to establish feeds from very specific legislative areas.

Queensland Legislation
To receive free e-mail updates on any changes made to the Queensland Legislation web site.

Government Alerts

ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission)
Visit this site regularly to access media releases and speech digests. The most recent appear at the top of the page. The archive is available from 1995. You may subscribe to have email alerts mailed to you, including details of news releases and speeches.

ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission)
Keep up with what the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is doing by subscribing to a variety of newsletters, Credit Reform Update, FSR Update, FIDO News or inFocus.

Australian Government
Register to obtain free e-mail notification of new media releases made by any or all of the departments and agencies of the Federal Government of Australia. You can indicate which portfolios you would like to receive media release notification from, as well as refining the search to specific terms of interest.

Australian Taxation Office
By joining the ATO's free e-mail update service you will be notified when information on the site is updated. This includes content new to the site or changes to existing content and 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
IP Australia provides a number of subscription-based mailing 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.

Parliament of Australia
Select RSS Feeds to subscribe to from the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Parliamentary Library.

Queensland Government
You can register to obtain free e-mail notification of new press releases made by ministers of the Queensland Government.

Other Alerts

Bar News - The journal of the NSW Bar Association
Issues of Bar News can be viewed in full text online. It is published in summer and winter of each year.

beSpacific
Subscribe to receive a free, daily email update from beSpacific, a blog that focuses on law and technology.

The Law Report
Presented by Damien Carrick every Tuesday at 8:30am, repeated at 8pm on ABC Radio National. You can subscribe to receive RSS Feeds, Podcasts or email notifications of the latest legal stories across Australia and overseas or just check out transcripts on the website.

LIJ - Law Institute Journal
The current month's issue of the Law Institute Journal, published by the Law Institute of Victoria can be viewed in full text online. Visit each month to view new articles.

LLRX - Law Library Resource Xchange
LLRX.com provides legal and library professionals with up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research resources and tools, related to law. Register to receive the monthly newsletter.

Internet Sites

Practice Source
Visit this site regularly to stay up to date with what?s happening in law firms and the legal industry.

Law Firms

Allens Arthur Robinson
Regularly publishes articles and updates on a wide range of legal topics, the most recent publications are on their website. You can also register to be notified when new publications are added to the site.

Baker & McKenzie
Produces Law Alerts on various legal subject areas, which you can view regularly.

Ashurst
Various publications on a range of areas of law can be viewed online and you can also subscribe to receive BDW publications.

Clayton Utz
Publish a variety of online newsletters, which you can view.

Corrs Chambers Westgarth
A list of regularly published articles, updates and newsletters on a wide range of legal interests is available online and is fully searchable.

Herbert Smith Freehills
Publishes articles on various areas of law, the most recent of which are available to view online. You can also subscribe to their RSS Feed.

Minter Ellison
Produces a number of Legal Insights which you can view online. You can also subscribe to receive new editions of these newsletters.

Newspapers

NewsBreak
This site from Fairfax provides updates on news from around Australia and the world.

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. Subscribe to either morning emails or RSS feeds.

Newspapers - Information
For general information on UQ Library holdings of newspapers and how to find news or newspaper articles.

UQ Library

Library News
Provides general current information and news about the UQ Library and its services.

Additions to the Collections
Follow the Quick Link "Recent Additions to the Collections" from the Library catalogue page to find information on new titles added to the UQ Library collection. The lists are updated weekly. Click on the link to Law Library for the latest additions to the Law Library's collection. Other links of interest can be found under the headings Databases (including trials), Electronic Journals, Websites and Ebooks.