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Learn of numerous options researchers can choose to keep up with specific topics or discipline areas including Table of Content Alerts, Article Notifications, and RSS Feeds.
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The Library offers access to  databases and websites that will create automatic alerts, based on your criteria, to inform you when new writings on your research topic have been published. Some also offer Table of Contents (TOC) notifications, forwarding content information for newly published issues of selected journals. These notifications can be delivered through e-mail or RSS feeds.

 

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Databases and Websites Offering Alert Services

 

Database Description and Instructions for Setting Alerts

ACM Digital Library

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery). Provides access to bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full text articles published in ACM journals, transactions and conference proceedings since the founding of ACM in 1947, together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.

How to Set Up An E-mail TOC Alert in ACM Digital Library:

  • Click on Login and register
  • After submitting your registration information, you'll receive an e-mail on how to activate your registration; follow-instructions
  • Go back to ACM page and login
  • Choose TOC Service
  • Choose journals. You'll be notified when new issues of those journals are published.

American Chemical Society Journals (ACS)

ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals  Full text access to all ACS journals. 

How to Set Up An E-mail ASAP Alert or TOC Alert in ACS:

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in ACS:

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journals

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journals  Full text journal article access to all the journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

How to Set Up An E-mail TOC Alert in ASCE Journals:

  • Click on E-Mail Alerts.
  • Register

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  The Annals series (approximately 30 volumes per year) provides multi-disciplinary perspectives on research in fields of current scientific interest.

How to Set Up An E-mail TOC Alert in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences:

  • Click on "Set E-Mail Alert"
  • Register

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences:

Anthrosource

Anthrosource. Online, full-text access to 31 anthropology periodicals, including journals and newsletters. Some titles in the AnthroSource collection include: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, City & Society, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

How to Set Up A E-mail Alerts in Anthrosource:

Cambridge Journals Online

Cambridge Journals Online. This database provides full text access to 200+ journals published by Cambridge University Press. Journals represented are from a wide range of disciplines: archaeology and anthropology, biology, computer science, economics, history, literature, mathematics, medicine, etc.

How to Set Up Content Alerts in Cambridge Journals:

  • Click on 'Register' on the left hand side of the screen
  • Your free registration will allow you to sign up for alerts

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Databases

Animal Behavior Abstracts An index to the scientific literature on the study of animal behavior, including such subject areas as aggression, behavioral ecology, communication, learning, dominance, genetics of behavior, foraging, memory, neurophysiology, parental-filial and reproductive behavior.

Criminal Justice Abstracts Citations and summaries of U.S. & international journal articles, books, dissertations, papers, government and other reports from 1968 on many criminal justice topics.

LLBA  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts contains citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, book reviews (with links to full-text where possible).

PAIS International  Index to public policy, social policy, and social science documents from journals, books, government publications, and other resources.

PsycINFO The leading research-oriented journal indexing service created by the American Psychological Association (APA).

How to Set Up An E-mail Alert in CSA Databases:

  • First, conduct the search for which you'd like to set up an alert.
  • Next, click the words 'Alert Me' toward the top of the page and follow registration instructions.

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in CSA Databases:

Commerce Clearinghouse: CCH Tax Research Network

CCH Tax Research Network Full text federal and state tax information including cases, regulations, and rulings.

Users can receive updated tax news headlines from CCH. Because the Library connects to the CCH service through IP addresses, users can't sign up for this service on the database page. Follow the directions below instead.

How to Receive A Tax Headline E-mail from CCH:

  • Go to http://tax.cchgroup.com
  • Click on the "Sign Up Today" button for CCH Tax News Headlines
  • Register

EBSCO Databases

  • Academic Search Premier Multi-subject database covering thousands of journals; most full-text. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • America: History and Life Index to over 2,000 journals covering the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes book and media reviews and dissertations
  • Agricola Citations to journal articles, books, technical reports, etc. covering all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Many links to databases that will show the complete article. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • BIOSIS A complete collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Business Source Premier Access to thousands of business publication; most full-text. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) Index to professional literature in nursing and allied health fields. How to Set Up an Alert.
  • Communication and Mass Media Complete. CMMC indexes more than 400 communicatio/mass-media related journals with full text online available for about half of the journals. Many of the journals in CMMC have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present, dating as far back as 1915. How to Set Up an Alert.
  • ERIC. Citations and abstracts to journals and reports in education and many related fields as well as non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Fuente Academica.  Provides access to articles from Spanish-language academic journals from well-known and respected publishers worldwide. Provides full-text coverage for over 150 journals covering many academic discipline. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • GeoRef Citations for U.S. and international journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, theses, and maps in Geology and the Earth Sciences. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition Covers the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Historical Abstracts  Index to over 2000 journals covering world history from 1450 - present. Includes book and media reviews and dissertations. Excludes U.S. and Canadian history.
  • LGBT Life. LGBT Life indexes literature regarding Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual issues. Comprehensive coverage includes traditional academic, lifestyle, and regional publications, as well as non-periodical content such as non-fiction books, bibliographies and dissertations. Disciplines include athletics, health, law, sociology, family, religion, civil liberties, employment and entertainment. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • LISTA. LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings in online information retrieval, information management, librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, etc. Note:  Unrestricted access.  How to Set Up An Alert.
  • MAS Ultra -School Edition Useful for high school and community college level research, this database provides full text for over 500 general interest publications, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • MedicLatina  MedicLatina is a Spanish-language collection of medical research published by well-known Latin American medical publishers. Provides full text for 125 periodicals, including over 50 peer-reviewed medical journals. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Middle Search Plus also contains 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Newspaper Source Full text for 159 regional U.S. newspapers; 18 international newspapers; newswires from 6 sources including AP Online, Asia Pulse, Canadian Corporate News, Canadian Press Wire, Newsbytes News Service and World Stream Newswires, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times, and indexing and abstracts for USA Today, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Philosopher's Index. Indexing and abstracting for books and journals in philosophy. Fields covered include aesthetics, political philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social philosophy and logic. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Primary Search Designed primarily for elementary school students, this database provides full-text for more than 60 popular magazines. Also provides indexing and abstracting for nearly 100 magazines. Also included: full-text for over 100 pamphlets, the third edition of the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, and a large image collection of photographs, maps, and flags. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Professional Development Collection Provides abstracts of articles from 530 periodical titles for professional educators at all levels: elementary, secondary, and post-secondary. Provides searchable full text for nearly 440 journals. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • Regional Business News  This database provides full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • SportDiscus Indexes periodicals, theses, conferences and other writings on sports, leisure, and physical fitness. Updated weekly. How to Set Up An Alert.
  • TOPICsearch This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,500 full text periodicals. How to Set Up An Alert.

How to Set Up An E-mail Search Alert in the EBSCO Databases above:

  • Conduct the search for which you'd like to set up an alert (it can be a search by subject or journal title.)
  • Click on Search History/Alerts tab.
  • Click on Save Searches/Alerts
  • Click on 'I Am a New User' and register or, if registered, log in
  • Once registration is confirmed, click on back button.
  • Save search as 'Alert' and choose your options, such as indicating how often you'd like to receive e-mail alerts.

How to Set Up A Table of Contents e-mail Alert in the EBSCO Databases above for particular journal titles

  • Click on the Publications tab at the top of the page.
  • Select a journal for which you'd like to have a table of contents e-mailed to you
  • Click on Alert
  • Click on Save an Alert
  • Click on 'I Am a New User' and register or, if registered, log in
  • Follow online directions for setting up alert

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in the EBSCO Databases above:

Emerald Full-Text

Emerald Full Text. Provides full text access (click on 'Fulltext' icon to search) to over 130 journals in management, human resources, information management, library and information services, marketing, operations management, production management, and training and education. Also includes engineering journals.

How to Set Up An Alert in Emerald Full-Text:

  • After each search from within Emerald you will be given the option of adding the search strategy to your alert profile.  Register to sign up for this service as well as Table of Contents alerts.

How To Set Up An RSS Alert in Emerald Full-Text:

Engineering Village II

Engineering Village  Engineering Village 2 offers resources in the applied science and engineering fields. It provides access to Compendex and INSPEC.

Compendex Online version of Engineering Index.

INSPEC The major database that indexes scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in the fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. Includes abstracts. Updated weekly.

How to Set Up An E-mail Alert in Engineering Village Databases:

  • Click on My Alerts and register to set up alerts.

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in Engineering Village Databases:

Google

Google. Internet search engine. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results based on your choice of query or topic. Google RSS Alerts are available only for the news portion of the search engine.

How to Set Up A Google E-mail Alert:

See instructions on this page: http://www.google.com/alerts

How to Set Up A Google News RSS Alert:

Highwire Press

Highwire Press  A large database of back issues of selected scholarly journals in the sciences and medicine. Many of the articles are full text and freely available, while some require a subscription. eTOC's allow you to receive in e-mail either complete Tables of Contents (from both current and future content) or notification that an issue has just gone online. You can also sign up to receive announcements from journal publishers and, where available, weekly or daily pre-print publication announcements through CiteTrack.

How to Set Up An E-mail Alert in Highwire Press:

  • Click on Alerts tab
  • Register and follow instructions

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in Highwire Press:

IEEE

IEEE Xplore. Provides full text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.

How to Set Up An E-mail TOC alert in IEEE:

  • Click on Visit Alerts at the bottom of the page.
  • Register and choose journal titles.

How to Set Up An RSS alert in IEEE:

Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals Full text article access to all Institute of Physics (IOP) journals, with a rolling 10-year full-text electronic backfile.

The standard TOC alerting service enables users to receive the Tables of Contents of your favourite IOP journals as soon as issues are published online. You can also use the enhanced alerting service which allows you to enter more flexible alerting criteria including key words, so that whenever articles matching your criteria are published, you automatically receive alerts containing their details.

How to Set Up An E-mail TOC in IOP:

  • Click on Alerts in the top frame and follow instructions.

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in IOP:

Kluwer

Kluwer Online. Provides indexing, abstracts and full text article access to Kluwer Publishers (now available thru SpringerLink) online journal collection. Includes journals in most subject disciplines.

How to Set Up An E-mail TOC in SpringerLink's Kluwer Online:

  • Register or log in on the left side of the page to sign up for the table of contents, keyword and favorites alerts services.

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in SpringerLink's Kluwer Online:

Project Muse

Project Muse Provides full text of over 100 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

How to Set Up An E-mail TOC in Project Muse:

To receive weekly e-mail notifications of new journal issues or new titles available in Project Muse:

  • Click on Tools and Resources
  • Click on Sign Up For Email Journal Alerts

How to Set Up An RSS Feed in Project Muse:

PubMed

Medline (PubMed) The free version of Medline with a keyword search engine.

How to save searches on Medline:

The 'MyNCBI' feature (in the top right corner of the screen) on PubMed allows you to create an account in Pubmed to save searches so you can run them in the future. It also allows you to create e-mail alerts so that you're notified of new articles that match your search strategy

To Save a Search

  • Log in using the MyNCBI box. You must first register (there's no fee) and your browser must accept cookies.
  • Once you've registered, completed the sign-in, and run a search, you'll see a new option to the right of the search box, a link that reads 'Save Search'. Click this link, name your search and click OK.

To Save a Search as an E-mail Alert

  • Follow the same steps above. Note that you can create a search/alert based on an author name, a journal name, or a set of subject-based search terms.
  • Once you've created your search, click 'Save Search', then indicate that you'd like to receive e-mail updates based upon this search.
  • On the next page, you can customize how frequently you'd like to receive updates, whether you want abstracts, the maximum number of results, etc.

How to Set Up an RSS feed about Medline news:

ScienceDirect from Elsevier

ScienceDirect Provides indexing, abstracts and full text article access to the Elsevier Science journal collection online. Auraria Library's subscription includes access to all the journals held by the CU-system libraries, approximately 900 titles. The collection includes journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, social sciences, and a few in the fine arts and humanities. The database's Alert features include Create Search Alerts, Volume/IssueAlerts and Citation Alerts.

How to Set Up An E-mail Alert in ScienceDirect:

  • Click on the button Alerts in the top frame.
  • Complete the Registration boxes.

How to Set Up An RSS Alert in ScienceDirect:

  • Register as a new user or log in. You can find these links at the top right corner of the screen.
  • Click on the “Alerts” tab.
  • Click on the “Search” link located in the instructions “How to set up a Search Alert.”
  • Conduct the search for which you’d like to set up an alert
  • Click on the “Search feed” link located to the right of the orange RSS symbol.
  • Highlight and copy the entire syndication feed link provided.
  • Follow your aggregator’s instructions to add the feed to your subscriptions.
  • Click here to see the RSS Feed Trouble-shooting tip for feed set up to Auraria Library subscription resources.

Taylor and Francis Online Journals.

Taylor and Francis Online Journals (Informaworld).  Provides access to fulltext electronic journals in most subject areas, including arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, education, history, engineering, medicine, business, economics, psychology. Note that you can look up the journals in a specific subject by clicking on 'Journals by Subject'.

How to Set Up Alerting Services in Taylor and Francis/Informaworld:

Web of Science

Web of Science.   A multidisciplinary database that provides access to Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. Over 7000 scholarly journals are indexed.

Two types of alerts are available in Web of Science.

  • Citation alerts - You receive an E-mail alert each time an article on the list is cited in a new article.
  • Saved Search Histories -You receive an E-mail alert when new articles on a subject of interest are added to the database.

How to Set Up A Citation Alert in Web of Science:

  • Register (in the Sign in area) with your email address and a password.
  • Perform a search in Science Citation Index, SocialScience Citation Index (or both).
  • When viewing a Full Record (click on hyperlinked title to see Full Record), click the 'create citation alert' button on the right side of the page.

How to Set Up A Saved Search Alert in Web of Science:

  • Register (in the Sign in area) with your email address and a password.
  • Perform your search as usual.
  • Click on the 'Advanced Search' icon.
  • Click on the 'Save History' button.
  • Enter a name and description for your search.
  • Check the Send Me Email Alerts box.
  • Select an Alert Type, Email Format and Frequency.
  • Click on Save and then Done.

Wiley Interscience

Wiley Interscience Provides indexing and full-text to journals in the areas of business, science, engineering, education, law, medical sciences, mathematics and statistics, and psychology.

How to Set Up An E-mail Alert in Wiley:

  • Register in the upper right hand corner to gain access to the My Profile features.

WilsonWeb Databases - Note when you go into this suite of databases be sure to check the box in front of the database you wish to search.

Biographies Plus Illustrated. Full text biographical articles on Nobel Prize winners, authors, artists, politicians, world leaders, film directors, American reformers, musicians and composers from the ancient world to the present.

Book Review Digest Plus.   Reviews of books, journals and magazines includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and text of book reviews from eleven other technical and science databases from Wilson.

Education Full Text. Leading publications in the field of education (over 200 journals). Updates monthly. Formerly known as Education Abstracts Full Text and as Education Index.

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text.  LLIS indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.

Readers' Guide Retrospective.   Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Covers the years1890 through 1982.

How to Set Up An E-mail Alert or RSS Feed in WilsonWeb Databases:

  • Do a search on the subject for which you wish to receive notifiations
  • Click on the words "Create Alert."

 

 

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