Database Alert Services

Many databases offer alert services that enable you to keep up-to-date on the most current research in a particular topic. Some alerts are sent periodically as emails; others may be received as RSS feeds. To set up an alert, databases typically require you to create a free personal user account and login.

Information about web feeds, RSS, and the XML icon

Current Contents Connect

Current Contents Connect® is a multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.

My Journal List
Each title on My Journal List is linked to the table of contents for the current issue of the journal. To view the table of contents, click the journal title.

Search History Alerts

Table of Contents Alerts

ACM Digital Library

Table of Contents (TOC) Service (email)

To sign up, log in on the DL main page, and on the link next to "Personalized Services" click on the TOC Service link.

Save search results and queries from the My Binders link

ACS (American Chemical Society)

email alerts and RSS feeds

BioMed Central feed icon

Email updates -- sign up from the homepage for monthly newsletters

About BioMed Central RSS feeds (Feeds are available for individual journal titles)

BioOne

register for email alerts

ComAbstracts

Tables of Contents of current serials

CSA Illumina

  • ArtBibliographies Modern
  • Ceramic Abstracts
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
  • Design and Applied Arts Index
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Abstracts
    • Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
    • Health and Safety Abstracts
    • Toxicology Abstracts
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • Social Services Abstracts
  • Sociological Abstracts

How to set up search alerts

Dialog1 (Thomson)

Alerts

Dialog RSS Feeds ("latest news on products, content and services")

EbscoHost

  • Academic Search Elite
  • Business Source Elite
  • ERIC
  • General Science Collection
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  • Hospitality & Tourism Index
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
  • MAS Ultra - School Edition
  • MasterFILE Select
  • MEDLINE
  • Military and Government Collection
  • Newspaper Source
  • Primary Search
  • Professional Development Collection
  • PsycArticles
  • PsycINFO
  • Regional Business News
  • Serials Directory

Creating a Search Alert

Creating a Journal Alert | Set up a Search Alert for a Journal Title

RSS feeds

EI Engineering Village

  • Compendex
  • INSPEC

Create email alerts

RSS feeds

Elsevier ScienceDirect

Accessing alerts (email)

Factiva

RSS options

In Internet Explorer, connect to Factiva, then click on "RSS" at the top to view Editor's Choice feeds.

To read individual Track folders, use a free NewsGator account.

To read the full text of articles via your feed reader, it is not necessary to enter a username/password. Simply open another window and connect to Factiva here. You will now be able to access articles through your feed reader.

Firstsearch

No Table of Contents or search alert services.

Searches may be saved to run at a later time: choose "My Account" and set up a Personal Account.

IEEE Xplore

RSS feeds

Table of Contents alerts by email

Ingenta

Receiving email alerts
registered users may create up to 5 free New Issue alerts (tables of contents)
no institutional alerts are available

To set up New Issue alerts:

  1. Having logged into IngentaConnect with your username and password, choose "New Issue alerts" from Manage My Ingenta in the right-hand navigation.
  2. Click on the Add
    tab and browse or search to choose a title for which you would like to
    be alerted when new issue or archival content are made available.
  3. Check the box next to your chosen journal(s) and when you're done for that page, click on add at the top of the column.

If you exceed your limit of 5 free new issue alerts, you will be offered the chance to purchase an InTouch license.

To view your chosen New Issue alert, click on the Current tab within the New Issue alerts section of Manage my Ingenta in the right-hand navigation.

RSS feeds

ISI Emerging Markets

RSS feeds

ISI Web of Knowledge

  • Web of Science
    • Science Citation Index Expanded
    • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Current Contents Connect
  • ISI Proceedings

Setting up a Citation Alert * A Citation Alert notifies you by e-mail whenever a record you choose has been cited by a new record when it is added to the database.

Linguistics Abstracts

E-Alerts

MathSciNet

RSS Feeds

Links are provided on the page for each journal covered by MathSciNet.

Optics InfoBase

Table of Contents alerts by email

Project Muse

Tables of contents from latest issues: RSS Feeds

more information about RSS feeds

ProQuest

  • ABI/Inform
  • ProQuest Newspapers
  • Research Library

How to set up search alerts

RSS Feeds

  • Curriculum Match Factor
    topics in marketing, management, finance, international business,
    Entrepreneurship & Innovation, economics, Leadership &
    Organizational Behavior
  • Dissertations & Theses
    topics include Education, Engineering, Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Political Sciences, Sociology, Physics

PubMed

Automatic e-mail updates

RSS feeds

SAGE Journals Online (multidisciplinary)

Email alerts

SIAM Journals Online (applied mathematics)

Email alerts

SilverPlatter WebSPIRS

  • Social Work Abstracts
  • Philosophers Index
  • Intl Film Archive (FIAF) (Alerts not available for this database)

SDI Alerts

  1. Do a search. Click on the Search History button.
  2. Click the checkbox next to your search.
  3. Click on the icon to the right of your search to create an SDI.
  4. Create a personal account, entering your email address as your username.
  5. Fill out the form and click OK at the top.

Silverplatter does not have a Table of Contents alert but creating a search for your desired journal title in the Source field will give you similar results.

To view your alerts, choose the SDI link at the top of the screen. If prompted, login with your personal account (email address and password.)

SPIE Digital Library

Email alerts

RSS Feeds:

  • To save any search query as a dynamic RSS feed, right-click the RSS button, copy the URL, and add it to your feedreader or RSS-aware browser. As new articles are published that meet your search criteria, you will be automatically alerted via your reader or browser.

SpringerLink

Register as an individual to set up RSS feeds for search queries

Wilson Omni

  • Education Full Text
  • General Science Full Text
  • Humanities Full Text
  • Readers' Guide Full Text
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • Wilson Business Full Text


  • Applied Science & Tech Full Text
  • Art Full Text
  • Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
  • Index to Legal Pers & Books Full Text
  • Library Lit & Info Science Full Text

Create an SDI Alert from the Search History screen
(not available in all Wilson databases)