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Many databases provide email and RSS alerting services to highlight new content as it is added to the database. These kinds of alerts can be more useful than publisher-based alerts when your research topic is covered across multiple journals or is multi-disciplinary. Unlike publisher-based alerts, you will need to make use of Off Campus Sign In to setup and access profiles or accounts at database web sites, and the alerts you receive often provide the proxied version of the link to the article.
BioOne offers email table of content alerts for their indexed journals and a few books.
You can set up search alerts in CSA databases that email you whenever new matches to your search criteria are added to the database. After performing a search in any CSA database, look for the Alert Me link at the top of the screen next to the search results number. Login or create a personal profile. once logged in, you'll be presented with your search again. You csn change the databases search, choose the format of the emailed citations, add a comment to appear in the emails, set an expiration date and the email format. you can also choose to receive new results as an RSS feed.
You can create email alerts for search in any (or multiple) EBSCOhost databases.
IEEE Xplore offers table of contents alerts. You will need to create and login to an account before setting up alerts.
ingenta is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary current awareness service, covering more than 30,000 publications from more than 190 publishers.
ingenta offers a free service - ingenta select - that allows registered users to create and maintain up to 5 ejournal Table of Contents (TOC) alerts from the online journals component of the ingenta database, with delivery format options of plain text, HTML, or Procite and Endnote compatible attachment. There is also a subscription service - Reveal Alerts - where authorized users may select an unlimited number of TOC alerts as well as keyword search alerts from the full ingenta database. The Virginia Tech Libraries subsidize the Reveal Alerts service for university faculty, staff, and students.
ISI Web of Science databases allow creating saved search alerts (emails new citations that match your search criteria) and citation alerts (emails new article citations that include references to a chosen article).
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