Research & Subject Guides: Social Welfare: Alerting Services

Types of Alerts

In general, there are three types of alerts:

Search Alerts - You do a search on your subject (eg. William Shakespeare and television adaptations) and receive alerts when new articles have been published on the topic.

Journal Alerts - Receive an alert when the new issue of a journal has been published. Some journals send the Table of Contents (TOC) and some send the TOC and Abstracts.

Citation Alerts - If you are interested in knowing when someone cites a specific article, you can set up a Citation Alert. These are not available from all databases and publishers.

Alerting Services

BrowZine
BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and University Libraries subscriptions, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common virtual newsstand.
PubMed
My NCBI features saved searches to generate updates and filters to group your retrieval by topics of interest to you.
ScienceDirect
Alerts notify you by email either daily or weekly when new journal issues or articles of interest have been added from a collection of over 2,500 journal titles.
Web of Science
Create alerts on topics relevant to your research interests or receive alerts each time articles are cited using the My Cited Articles List feature.
Wiley Online Library
Receive email alerts for new content and saved searches from over 1,500 journal titles.

Receiving Alerts

There are generally two methods for receiving ALERTS:

1) EMAIL - Alerts will be sent to an email account. If you are going to set up a lot of alerts, consider creating a separate email account for this purpose using a free service such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.

2) RSS FEEDS - You will need a RSS FEED READER of some kind for this method. See the article below.

How RSS Works

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