The Health Services Research Library (HSRL) offers a range of alert services for HHS staff. Create an alert in any of the resources below to stay up-to-date with the news or literature in your areas of interest. No one service will discover all the relevant information on a topic. To find the most comprehensive search, HSRL staff recommends utilizing a combination of alert services.
Alert Services Comparison Chart [PDF 44k]
Embase.com 
Store searches and receive weekly automatic updates on your topic from Embase(TM), a premier european pharmacological and biomedical database. Click the information icon for instructions.
My NCBI (formerly PubMed® Cubby) 
Save searches, set up email alerts, display links to web resources, and choose filters that group search results in PubMed (MEDLINE). Click the information icon for instructions.
news@nature.com
Keeps you abreast of science news and information from Nature Publishing Group's science news service. Information from their suite of Nature publications including Nature and Nature Biotechnology is included also. An e-mail is sent to your inbox at the time of online publication, allowing you to browse the latest content immediately. Register on the Nature website.
OVID® Email Alerts 
Save your searches in MEDLINE, PsycINFO®, CINAHL® (a nursing database), Econlit, Sociological Abstracts, Ageline or Wilson Social Science Abstracts, and receive email notification with the latest information on your search topic. Click the information icon for instructions.
ProQuest®
Create an alert for a search and receive an email notification with new search results OR create an alert for a publication, and receive an email notification of new issues published.
Scopus(TM) 
Create alerts to receive e-mail notification on new information added to the Scopus database that is relevant to your area of interest. The Search Alert feature notifies you by e-mail of newly loaded documents in Scopus that match the query of the alert. The Document Citation Alert feature notifies you by e-mail of newly loaded documents that cite a selected document.