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What are alerts?
Alerts are a way to keep up with what's new — an automatic current
awareness service. Typically you register for the service and then create a search
strategy or personal profile which will be matched against each update of the
database, and an email notification is sent to you.
Use alerts to:
- keep current with the latest research on a topic
- track the latest research by a particular author or institution
- receive the table of contents of your favorite journal
- see who has cited a paper or author (in OPPIE only)
Alerts in databases and search engines
| Web of Knowledge |
You can create alerts in Biosis, in Inspec, and in Web of Science.
How to set up an alert: Select a database and do a
search, use "Search history" > "Save History/Create Alert", login and fill in the form.
You can also create Citation Alerts, to know when articles you select are cited. |
ProQuest databases•
(Aerospace, BioOne, GeoRef, Technology Research, etc.) |
Any search can be saved as an alert, which is run weekly. |
| Google Alert |
Daily e-mail when your terms pop up in Google.
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| IHS Standards alerts |
E-mail alerts when documents on lists you have saved are revised
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| Melvyl: Catalog of the University of California libraries. |
Weekly e-mail when a UC library adds a book matching your search. To set up an alert, create a personal Profile, do a search, select "Previous Searches" then "Create Update."
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| Scout Report |
Subscribe to receive weekly notice of new and newly discovered
Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.
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Please email or call (667-5809)
the library with any requests, questions, or suggestions.
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