TTU Faculty - Texas Tech University School of Law

Keeping Current & Alerts: TOCThe Law Library offers services to keep faculty abreast of current developments in their area of study orinterest. The Keeping Current service is tailored to meet the needs of faculty and is available through the followingservices (just to name a few): SmartCILP—This service is provided by Gallagher Law Library (University of Washington). TheLaw Library downloads information from Gallagher and sends notifications directly to faculty’s emailannouncing new law review articles published. Articles are arranged by subject and by the Table ofContents. Faculty receive CILP notifications via email every Monday. The CILP list can also be accessedthrough MyTechLaw. LexisAdvance and Westlaw Next—Both Lexis Advance and WestlawNext have alert notification features.This service can be set up one time with research queries. Faculty can ask Law Librarians todesign research alerts to their specifications and have notices delivered daily, weekly, or monthly. Bloomberg BNA Email Updates—Faculty members have the option of signing up to receive regularupdates to titles of their choice. BNA provides titles on various legal subjects such as antitrust, banking,bankruptcy, criminal, environmental, and family, just to name a few. RSS Feeds for Blogs—The Law Library can assist you with setting up RSS feeds to particular blogs ornews sites. Email Alerts Available Chronicle of Higher Education—Academe Today (weekdays)—Receive news from the authoritativesource of news, information, and jobs for academia and higher education. This source links to fullyaccessible articles and offers email alerts for Academe Today. Texas Lawyer—Two e-mails every weekday BNA Highlights (150+ to choose from)—Weekly The Texas Supreme Court Journal—Weekly, every Monday in PDF. SSRN—Includes LSN Legal Writing eJournal, LSN Law Educator, LSN Professional Announcements,and Call for PapersFor a complete list of databases or blogs that offer email alerts in your area of interest, please contact EugeniaCharles-Newton at eugenia.newton@ttu.edu OR dial 806-834-6813.New/Recent Acquisitions: TOCFaculty who are interested in learning more about NEW books received by the Law Library can visit the LawLibrary website at http://www.law.ttu.edu/lawlibrary/ OR in the OASIS catalog under the “Recent AcquisitionsList.”Faculty can also peruse the bookcase located on the main floor of the Law Library across from the stairwell.Many NEW books are placed on this shelf before they are shelved in the main collection.NEW databases or electronic resources are announced to faculty via email.15