Better WestClip Naming Options

WestClip is a great service from Westlaw, which allows you to monitor news or legal developments. Law students, faculty, and staff can use WestClip to receive e-mail announcements about important developments in case law, statutes, legislation, regulations, or news.  For some odd reason, Westlaw only allowed you to use 10 characters to name your WestClip.  Naturally, you often ended up with an unrecognizable name for your search, which created difficulties when you needed to distinguish between multiple WestClip searches.

Now, West has kindly increased the number of characters that you can use when naming WestClip searches from 10 to 40, so you should be able to create WestClip labels that will still make sense to you a couple of months after you create them.

To create a WestClip search, sign on to Westlaw, then click on the "Alert Center" link, which is located on the top right-hand side of the Westlaw law school home page.  Next, click on the "Create Entry" link for "WestClip."  And of course, if you're more comfortable with Lexis, you can use the Lexis Alert feature to keep you up-to-date.  If you need help with using either Lexis or Westlaw's alert services, please contact Amy Wright, Zief's Online Research Services Librarian, at x5112 or e-mail her at ajwright@usfca.edu.