Alerts & Current Awareness Services
Databases with Alerting Services
| Publishers with Alerting Services
Several databases and electronic journal collections allow
you to set up a search profile or have new tables of contents sent to you
by email. These notification services help researchers keep up with what's
being published on their topic. This page provides links to instructions
for setting up profiles for online resources available to the Tri-College
community.
Humanities
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Social Sciences
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Sciences
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News Sources
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Detailed Instructions by Vendor
Each database vendor has its own interface for setting up your alerts.
Go to the database and follow the instructions, usually located under Search
History.
| ABC-CLIO |
Click Personal Profile, New Profile to s ign up for alerts for new articles
based on your preferred subject heading, author, document type (books,
book reviews or articles), and historical time period covered. Notifications
are sent on a monthly basis. |
America:
History and Life
Historical
Abstracts |
| AnthroSource |
Set up a "My Profile",
and sign up for tables of contents notifications. You may also save
your preferred searches to run later, and/or receive search results
daily, weekly, or monthly as email alerts. |
| AnthroSource |
| Google News - Alerts
Help |
Receive emails when new items with your search
terms appear in online news sources, on the web, or in online discussions.
Messages can be sent as new items enter Google, or on a daily or weekly
basis. |
| Google
News |
| NCBI - My
NCBI help |
Set up up to 100 unique alerts, based on your
preferred searches or journal titles. You can request that alerts can
be emailed daily, weekly, or monthly. You can also specify the maximum
number of items to receive per message. |
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PubMed
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| Project Muse - Journal
Alerts Help |
Receive tables of contents by
individual journal title or by journal group (based on subject area).
You will receive alerts when new issues are made available. |
Project
Muse
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| ScienceDirect - Alerts
Help |
Set up any of several types of alerts: preferred
search results, predefined "topic" results, new issue tables
of contents, and citation notifications (i.e., when a selected article
is cited by new articles). Specify alert frequency (daily, weekly, monthly,
or inactive). |
| ScienceDirect |
| SilverPlatter - Setting
up an SDI |
Save any search as an "SDI" (selective
dissemination of information) after creating a username and password
with SilverPlatter. You will receive a notification email with new citations
each time the database is updated, typically on a weekly or monthly
basis. NB: this service is a bit clunkier to set up than the others. |
ATLA
Religion Database
EconLit
PsycInfo
Social
Work Abstracts |
Publishers
with Alerting Services
