Alerting services
Keep up to date with the latest research in your field of study with alerting services.
- Saved search alerts will regularly email you the results of a favourite search
- Table of Contents alerts send you the table of contents each time a new issue of a journal is published
- Citation alerts notify you when a particular article is cited by another article
Setting up alerts
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What is RSS?
Watch this short video to learn how to receive updates via RSS.
Journals
ticTOCs is a service you can use to see the most recent Table of Contents from over 11,000 journals from 400 publishers. Create RSS feeds for your favourite journals.
Databases
The following databases offer alerting services:
| Database/Publisher | How to set up alerting service |
|---|---|
| American Chemical Society | Subscribe to receive e-Alerts |
| American Society of Civil Engineers | Go to My Tools |
| Cambridge Journals | Subscribe, go to My CJO Links then Content Alerts |
| EBSCOhost | For instructions go to Help then Saving searches and alerts |
| Emerald | After you run a search, click on manage saved search alerts |
| IEEE Xplore | Sign in and go to My Settings |
| Informaworld |
Go to Set up Alerts |
| Gale | You can save a search using Infomarks |
| Google Alerts | Enter your topic to receive email updates |
| Institute of Physics | Create account to receive alerts |
| Knovel | Go to My Knovel |
| Nature Publishing | Go to My Account and subscribe |
| Oxford Journals | Go to My Account and subscribe |
| PubMed | Subscribe to PubCrawler |
| ScienceDirect | Go to My Alerts and subscribe |
| Scopus | Go to My Alerts and subscribe |
| SpringerLink | Go to My Springerlink then Saved Items and subscribe |
| Web of Knowledge | Go to Customize Your Experience and subscribe |
| Wiley Interscience | Register and set up My Profile |