current awareness tools
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Kate Jackson
Legal Research Librarian
Current AwarenessOctober 17, 2016
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Aims and objectives
Learn how to stay up-to-date with information on websites, blogs, podcasts and legal databases, using
RSS feeds
alerting services
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You can visit websitesto get the latest information
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or, you can use an RSS feed
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What is an RSS feed?
An RSS feed is website content put into a standard format.
Using a feed is a bit like tuning into a radio station, or subscribing to a magazine.
It’s easy to visit the associated site if you want more information.
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What RSS feeds offer
the end user
a way to access the latest information without visiting multiple web sites daily
the feed publisher
a convenient way to broadcast information to “subscribers” and encourage visits to website
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Benefits for end users
Less clutter in inbox, no spam
No subscribe/unsubscribe hassles
You choose when to view information
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Disadvantages for end users?
Can find yourself “oversubscribed” withtoo much to read!
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Ways to read RSS feeds
Built-in readers in browsers, email
Web-based news readers
Accessible from anywhere
Free: Feedly, NetVibes
Paid (for full version): NewsBlur
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How to get started
Sign up for a web-based account
Find feeds that you want to read
Add them to your account
Organise into foldersfor best results
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Web-based service: NewsBlur
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Click on item title to visit website
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What to look for:
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Alerting services
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Alerting services:
Help you fine tune what you receive
Increasingly there is an RSS feed option
Or you can choose email
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Things to look out for Not always called alerts – also look out for links to
Updates, SDI, Save search etc.
Three main types:
Tables of Contents (ToCs) of recently published journals/law reports
Keyword alerts - new materials which match your keywords, authors
Subject area alerts - new in IP, human rights etc
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Keeping up to date with Journals: Tables of Contents Services
zetoc Tables of contents for journals received by British Library Offers email alert or RSS feed http://zetoc.jisc.ac.uk/
Most publishers offer TOCS on their web site
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zetoc: http://zetoc.jisc.ac.uk/
Receive TOCS by email
Receive TOCS by RSS feed
search
alert
RSS
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zetoc RSS option
Select by first letter of journal name
Search on word or phrase in journal name
View list of new journals
Select journals by category
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Journal titles containing ‘international law’
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American Journal of International Law
Right click on RSS button and copy link address (or similar, depending on browser)
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Paste link address into reader
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zetoc email alerts
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Can contain TOC and searches
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Keeping up to date with materials on the legal databases
Lexis Library
Can set up an alert from a search
Set up a subject alert
Westlaw UK
Need to set up a personal profile
Can get subject alerts via email or get RSS feeds
Lawtel
Subject alert only
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Lexis Library
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Create an alert from a search
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Keeping up to date with subject alerts
Lexis Library alerts Cases, legislation from around the World
Choose ‘My alerts’ from drop down and then ‘create’ and browse subject categories
Westlaw alerts Create a profile
Go to the top to alerts or RSS feeds and add content and subjects you are interested in
Lawtel Updates UK cases, legislation, bills in selected subject areas
Choose “Lawtel Updates” and browse subject categories
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Lexis Library – My Alerts
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Lexis Library – My Alerts
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News, views (and twitter)
Jurist (International & US Legal News)
www.jurist.org
Global Legal Monitor from Law Library of Congress in US
http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/
Legal Blog Watch (monitors legal blogs)
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/
Law.com newswire via RSS feed
http://www.alm.law.com/rss/newswire.xml
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Blogs and Podcasts
Blogs – popular way of keeping an online diary on the Web
Most blogs have an associated RSS feed, so you can subscribe to them easily
Podcasts – a special type of RSS feed where each item has an audio or video file enclosed
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Legal Blog Watch
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Searching feeds, blogs and podcasts
Justia Blawgsearch http://blawgsearch.justia.com/
icerocket blog search functionwww.icerocket.com
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icerocket
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Follow icerocket link to blog post
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Law.com newswire
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Directories of legal blogs, twitter accounts
Justia Blawgsearch - http://blawgsearch.justia.com/ Directory of blogs organised by subject, jurisdiction, law school etc
International Law Observer- http://www.internationallawobserver.eu/blogroll/
Legal Birds – list of legal tweeters (US focus)http://legalbirds.justia.com
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Picture Credits
Slide 2 “Melophore” by flickr user dynamosquito, August 27, 2008 (CC BY-SA
2.0) (image altered)
Slide 5 “1959 RCA Victor Dual Speaker Filteramic Tube Radio” by flickr user
Roadsidepictures, November 16, 2009 (CC BY-NC 2.0) (image altered)
Slide 6 “broadcast ariel” by flickr user HerPhotographer, January 8, 2008, (CC
BY-NC-SA 2.0) (image altered)
Slide 7 “untitled” by flickr user Jeff_Werner, March 3, 2008 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
(image altered)
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Picture Credits (cont.)
Slide 8 “’I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I
awoke from sheer boredom.’ Heinrich Heine” by flickr user Geraint Rowland Photography, July 12, 2012 (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Slide 10 “urban renewal, Condemned Durham Warehouse” by flickr user Avius
Quovus, April 1, 2009, (CC BY-NC 2.0) (image altered)
Slide 15 “Radio Tuner on a Marconi VCR670A(?)” by flickr user Tim Sheerman-
Chase, August 26, 2012, (CC BY 2.0) (image altered)
This presentation (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)