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Our current awareness services can help you keep up with the latest news and research in your field or the latest publications from your colleagues here. We can route periodicals to your office daily and send you regular digests of the latest new acquisitions. If you need something we don't have in our library, please contact your liaison or a reference librarian.

NOTE: To unsubscribe from any personalized services, from e-mail updates to routed journals, just send an e-mail to the reference desk and say what you wish to cancel.

Library Update E-mails

Customized Updates

  • Routing - have journals delivered to your office
  • CILP - get weekly e-mail updates on specific legal topics
  • Custom News Alerts - get assistance setting up custom e-mail or RSS feeds
  • Liaisons - full time faculty can receive updates through their liaisons

Print Periodicals

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Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education provides daily updates for the latest news in academia. To sign up for an email update, contact the library reference desk at refreq@kentlaw.edu. You can also access the Chronicle's website directly through our E-Resources:

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CILP

The Current Index to Legal Periodicals provides weekly SmartCILP email updates on the latest articles in topics you select. CILP will also include full tables of contents for journals of particular interest. Citations include built-in links to Lexis and Westlaw, where available. Library liaisons have sign-up information about setting up your customized SmartCILP email.  A weekly listing of all articles indexed is also available from the Library here.

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Custom News Alerts

If you'd like to learn more about services that can provide custom updates from news websites, blogs, custom web searches and more, the reference librarians are glad to help. We can help you locate resources or configure e-mail alerts or RSS feeds to provide this information directly. For more information, you can contact your library liaison or our Educational Technology Librarian, Debbie Ginsberg:

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Document Delivery

The Library Document Center can copy articles, text excerpts, and other documents for faculty upon request. To request printed copies of articles from our collection, Faculty members may email requests for photocopies to the Library Document Center (doccente@kentlaw.edu) or send a research assistant or faculty administrative assistant to request them in person at the Circulation Desk on the 9th floor.

The Library Document Center can also provide scanned pdf copies of articles via e-mail. Requests are normally fulfilled within 24 hours, though timing will depend on staff workload and availability. Adjunct faculty are limited to scanned pdfs via e-mail or print pickup at the Circulation Desk, as the library does not provide a mail delivery service for articles.

Document Services requests will be delivered once a day to faculty mailboxes. Faculty may also arrange to have copies picked up at the Service Desk. Bulk copying requests should be directed to the College Service Center (312-906-5095).

Notice: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Photocopying and scanning printed works and/or downloading, saving, and printing information and from databases licensed by the Library is limited to personal, academic use only; all other uses are prohibited.

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Faculty Lounge

The latest issues of popular journals are placed in the Faculty Lounge for one week after they have been added to the collection. National newspapers are available by 9 am on weekdays. Titles include:

  • The New York Times
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • Investors Business Daily
  • Financial Times
  • Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

Weekly papers such as Barron's, Crain's Chicago Business, and Chronicle of Higher Education are also available. Earlier issues are placed in the library's Current Awareness section on the 9th floor with a limited back file. For help locating older articles, contact the Reference Desk or check our online journal search to find out if it is available in any of our databases.

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Faculty News

Published four times a year, Faculty News features the latest news about Chicago-Kent faculty activities, including recently published books and articles, as well as participation in academic and national conferences, committees, and forums.

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Liaisons

Library liaisons can help set up customized WestClip (Westlaw) and Eclipse (Lexis) automated clipping service searches, as well as inform faculty when they see recent literature or news concerning their research interests. To learn more about the liaison program, read more on our Faculty Research page, or to contact a liaison, see our Library Staff Directory.

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Library Collections

Although the library provides direct access to current awareness print materials through the faculty lounge and routing services, you can also find print materials in our special collection locations:

  • Current Awareness - on the northeast corner of the 9th floor library, we have a section of stacks where older periodicals are shelved for a limited back file (normally 2 weeks for newspapers and 1 year for magazines). Older issues are available through the Library's electronic resources.
  • Law Journals - 7th floor
  • Business Journals - 8th floor

If you need assistance finding articles or books from our library, please feel free to contact the reference desk (refreq@kentlaw.edu) to locate the material or, if you have a citation, you can ask the Document Center (doccente@kentlaw.edu) to send you a print copy or scanned pdf.

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New Books List

The library publishes lists of the latest new book acquisitions each month and updates these lists on a weekly basis. All lists are organized alphabetically by title, listing the authors and call number location with links to the library catalog that can show if the item is available for checkout.

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Routing

Full-time faculty can request to have specific journals automatically routed to their office by contacting their library liaison or the reference desk (refreq@kentlaw.edu). Adjunct faculty are welcome to subscribe to the Table of Contents e-mail updates, but will need to request specific articles as directed below.

Journals are typically routed approximately one week after they appear in the Table of Contents e-mails to allow for copy requests. If another library user requests a routed item, library staff may request that it be returned.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Pages are emailed weekly to make conveniently available the tables of contents of the most recent legal and business periodicals.

If you would like to receive a full copy of any article from these journals, please send a full citation to the Document Center. They can provide print copies or send e-mail pdf scans. Off-campus adjunct faculty are limited to scanned pdfs via e-mail or print pickup at the circulation desk, as the library does not provide a mail delivery service for articles.

If you would like a customized table of contents email, please contact your liaison.

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