LibGuides: Current Awareness Sources: Alerts

General News Alerts

Conference Alerts - Academic Conferences Worldwide This link opens in a new window
A list of upcoming conferences worldwide, in a wide range of disciplines including law, organized by topic. Email updates available.

Federal Register Table of Contents Service (U.S. Gov’t Publishing Office )
The daily Table of Contents bulletin includes links to the actual text of the Federal Register.

Google Alerts This link opens in a new window
E-mail updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries. Enter a topic you want to follow. To change your settings, click "Show options." You can change:
how often you get notifications, the types of sites you'll see, the part of the world you want info from, and how many results you want to see.

Law360 Newsletters
You can subscribe to the daily newsletters of your choice based on subjects/practice areas and industries: Click on the “See all sections” link at the top right, and choose a topic. Your topic page will have a “Newsletter” button at the top. Click on this button, and follow the instructions

bealerts bepress Legal Repository/Berkeley Electronic Press (
The bepress Legal Repository is a network of law-related research materials from law schools, institutes, centers, etc. You can subscribe to “bealerts” to keep track of newly published content, tailored to your interests. Click here; then enter a keyword or author name in the Notification Criteria field and then click Search. A new screen will appear with your results. Click Save this search on the new page to receive weekly updates based on your criteria.

Bloomberg Law Subscription & Alert Management This link opens in a new window
Registered NYLS users of Bloomberg Law can subscribe to weekly email notifications of developments in bankruptcy, corporate law, labor & employment, privacy & data security, securities and Tax. To use this service you must obtain a Bloomberg Law user name and password .

Google Scholar alert services
Google Scholar provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, and books. Google Scholar also allows you to search and read published opinions of US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and US Supreme Court cases since 1791. To create an alert for a query, do a search on Google Scholar and then click on the Create Alert link and envelope icon on the left side of the page.

Law.com Newswire Alert This link opens in a new window
A daily e-mail alert that allows you to scan the day's headlines from legal publications such as, The New York Law Journal, The American Lawyer, and The National Law Journal.
Paper Chase - JURIST This link opens in a new window
A daily digest of legal alerts available in email or RSS feed.

PLI PLUS (Real Estate) Search Alerts
PLI PLUS provides a comprehensive library of real estate-related treatises, course handbooks, and answer books from the Practising Law Institute (PLI).

After you've conducted a search, click on the bell icon on the top right of the page to create an alert for your search.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Legal Scholarship Network
Register for e-mail subscriptions (with your NYLS email address) to subject journals in the Legal Scholarship Network that gather abstracts of works-in-progress, working papers, and articles accepted for publication.

Bloomberg Law Dockets search
Bloomberg Law Subscription and Alert Management
Using Lexis+ Alerts
Westlaw Edge
The alert service automatically runs a saved search in your chosen Westlaw files on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. (Alert searches will also work in case law databases.) Results are reported to your email address or held online in your account