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In general, "alerts" refer to email notifications when something of interest to you has been published or added to a database. These can be on specific topics or from specific journals. Definitions, terminology and frequency of notification vary from publisher to publisher. These services are not available for all databases and journals, but are becoming popular features. Email notifications will usually require you to register your email address and preferences. Any email address will work, it does not need to be your official university email address.
Saved search features or subject alerts do not save the records you were looking at in your search; they save only the topic so it can be easily re-run to look for newer articles.
Users can elect to be notified via email when additional content of interest is available in ABI/Inform. Publication alerts - be notified when the latest issue of your favorite publication is available. Search alerts - periodically receive email containing the latest matching articles for your favorite searches.
To set up an alert - go into ABI/Inform and search by subject or publication title. The next screen should provide a yellow button labelled "Set Up Alert." A window will open with a request to fill in your email address and pick how often (or for how long) you wish to receive the alert. You will receive an email message asking you to click on a link to "confirm" your alert request. Once you have confirmed the request, your alert will be activated.
ABI/Inform alerts that you receive by email will only contain the first 10 articles in a given issue or on a given topic. At the bottom of the message will be a link that will connect you into ABI/Inform to access the remainder of the articles.
To cancel an alert - near the top of the email you will see a "Delete this alert" link. Click this link to delete the alert, so you no longer receive updated results.
Complete directions for setting up these alerts is available from the ACS
website at:
http://pubs.acs.org/journals/asap/
ASAP Alerts (e-mail alerts) notifies you when an article is posted to the Web—either the day it is published as an Article ASAP (As Soon As Publishable) or on a weekly basis. ASAP Alerts is different from many alert services in that it provides you with a list of very broad subject areas to choose from and allows you to specify which ACS journals you want it to search. Examples of the subject areas are: analytical chemistry, polymer science, chemical engineering, and crystallography. Unfortunately, more narrowly-defined subject searches are not available.
Articles ASAP notifies you when the entire contents of a new, complete issue of the selected journal is posted on the Web.
To set up a Table of Contents Alert for a particular journal, go to the above page. Select the journal you are interested in and look for the gold envelope and the words Table of Contents Alert. Click on this area of the screen to register. You will need to follow this procedure for each individual journal you wish to receive regularly.
Go to the library e-journals page (link to it here at: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/cfora/journalaz.cfm).
Click on "locate", select "Annual Reviews" from the box and click on Go.
Scroll down the resulting page and select the specific Annual Reviews title that is of interest.
Once the journal page loads, Log-in (Register) to set up your account.
After you have registered, you will need to Log-in, click on the Profile tab and select Alerts.
Follow the directions for setting up Table of Contents Email Alerts.
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/db/indexabst_name.html#c
Saved Searches:
Each user may save up to twenty search strategies for a period of six months.
Select Search History/Alerts in the left navigation bar.
Any searches you have performed are displayed under the heading of Current
Searches. Mark the searches you wish to save, click on Save
Marked Searches. Enter an email address and password and click Continue.
Whenever you wish to run the search again, from the CSA main page, mark the
database you wish to search, select Search History/Alerts
and then List Saved Searches. After you enter your email
address and password, the saved searches will be displayed. Searches may be
resaved to extend the expiration date or deleted to make room for new searches.
Save an Alert:
A saved Alert will be used to automatically search your selected databases
for new content every week. You will receive an email message that contains
up to 250 new records from each database that has new matching content. To
set up a new Alert, run a search in your selected databases. Click the Search
History/Alerts button. Any searches you have performed are displayed
under the heading of Current Searches. For the strategy you
wish to save, click Save as Alert. You will be prompted to
enter an email address and personal password which can be the same as you
used when you saved searches. Click Save Alert to complete
the process.
See the following help page for additional details about saved searches and alerts within Cambridge databases:http://oh1.csa.com/csa/HelpV6/CSA/saved.shtml
Connect to America History and Life: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/db/amhist.html
Connect to Historical Abstracts: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/db/histab.html
CLIO Alert Profile allows a researcher to set up a research profile. The system e-mails the researcher when items matching the profile are added to the database of choice. The screens for setting up a new profile or modifying an existing one can be reached via the CLIO Alert Profile link on the search screen.
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/db/compdx.html
In the database, on the left side of the screen, is a Personal Account box where you may register or login . After you register, you will be able to save records and searches, as well as receive weekly E-mail Alerts. E-mail Alerts are messages that contain any new records that match a saved search when updates are added to the database. It is not possible to sign up for Tables of Contents in this database, but you can save a search that equates to a particular journal name search – then, whenever new articles are added to the database from the journal you specify, you would be notified by email. For example, in the Search for box type in "Chemical Engineering News" and in the Search In box click on the down arrow and scroll down through the list of options and click on "Serial Title." Then, click on Search. This will run your search. When it finishes running, click on Search History at the top of the page. Notice there is a column/box you can click for E-mail Alert. Clicking on this box will automatically save the search as an E-mail Alert and you will receive an email notice any time new articles from this journal are added to Compendex. You can save up to 125 saved searches and have up to 15 weekly e-mail alerts.
For more assistance on this process, go to the Help Screen within Compendex:
http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=help&database=Compendex#
To log into one of the EBSCOHost databases - to to the Indexes page at:
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/db/indexabst_name.html
From the indexes page, locate the link to one of the following databases & click on it:
To set up an alert - go into one of the EBSCOHost databases and search by subject or publication title.
There is a tab on the search screen for Search History/Alerts. Click on Save Searches/Alerts. The next screen will ask you to sign in. If you have not yet registered with EBSCOHost, click on I'm a new user and follow the directions for setting up an account. This is a free service, but requires you to register in order for them to set up an automatic alert with your email address.
Additional help for setting up EBSCOHost alerts and saved searches is available at:
http://support.epnet.com/help/index.php?help_topic_id=8
http://www.gateway.ingenta.com/patron/authentication/Start/iowast
Ingenta offers a weekly current awareness service, Reveal Research Alerts, that delivers search alerts or table of contents alerts (TOC) to you via e-mail. Search alerts automatically run a predetermined search strategy against the Ingenta database to create an updated list of citations. The table of contents alerts provide the user with tables of contents of journal of interest.
All Institute of Physics articles are freely accessible for the first 30 days. Setting up alerts will ensure information on relevant articles is recevied before this 30 day grace period.
Databases currently available on the FirstSearch software (ones marked with an asterisk are only available from certain library workstations - ask at the Reference Desk for assistance in locating them):
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Project MUSE can provide weekly e-mail notifications when new journal issues are added to the database.
See the following help page for links to set-up and modify a list of journals for notifications: http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/journal_alerts.cgi
http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/ej_update_form.htm
This electronic collection contains a wide variety of subject areas, including life and physical sciences, Business Management, Economics and Social Sciences.
There are 3 types of "alerts" you can have in ScienceDirect: Search Alerts, Journal Issue Alerts, and Citation Alerts.
You can specify whether you want Search Alerts and Citation Alerts to be run daily, weekly, monthly, or be inactive for a while.
There are green buttons across the top of the page - click on Alerts. It will prompt you to type in your username and password. If you have never registered, click on the words Register Now and it will walk you through the process. When you have finished registering, click on the Alerts button and type in your new username and password. The next screen you will see should say you currently have no alerts assigned and will give you detailed instructions on how to set up each particular type of alert.
The Science.gov ALERTS feature is a serviec that will notify you weekly of new Science.gov information in your specific areas of interest.
Register for the service and then sign up for topic(s) which will be matched automatically against each new weekly update. You will receive an ALERT email each Monday.
Alerts are not currently available within SciFinder Scholar. Search history may be saved by clicking on the History button. Then click on File, and Save As – assign it a file name and location for the file. This will allow you to save it either to a disk or onto the hard drive of the computer you are using. You can not pull up a search history and re-run it within SciFinder. The "Save As" feature is merely intended to give you a way to download the citations or search history to use in creating a bibliography, and keeping tracking of what searches you have completed. You can not re-run these saved searches.
Can set up saved searches and alerts to run in Web of Science, Current Contents, or ISI Proceedings.
Connect to Web of Knowledge from the following webpage: http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/db/websci.html
The welcome screen has on the right side links to register if you are a new user, or to view My Journal List or Citation Alerts.
a) My Journal List provides you with tables of contents email alerts for the journals you select. The link will say "your journal list is empty" until you click on Add More Journals and select titles to add to your list. Once a title is on My Journal List, you can use Modify Settings to remove the title from the Web of Knowledge home page or to cancel the e-mail alert. The title remains on My Journal List unless you explicitly remove it from the list. Click on the Help button if you need additional assistance with this feature.
b) Citation Alerts allows you to receive an e-mail alert when articles you select are cited. Alternately, you can use this feature to keep a list of your favorite articles. To add an article to this list (and receive an e-mail each time it is cited), perform a search in one of the ISI Web of Knowledge citation database products (such as Web of Science) and, when viewing a Full Record, click the Create Citation Alert button (not all Full Records in all products will have this button -- read Help for more information).
c) Open Saved Search – the first time you click on this link it will say "you have no saved searches." In order to save a search, you need to go into one of the Web of Knowledge databases (Web of Science, Current Contents, Biosis Previews, or ISI Proceedings) and search for topics of interest.
Once you have some actual article citations on the screen, click on either the Search History or Advanced Search button at the top of the page. Your search history will open and you must select the search you wish to save. Click Save History You will have the option to either save on the ISI Server or a save on Your Workstation (this will allow you to save to a disk or the hard drive of the machine you are on). This will allow you to go in and run the search whenever you want without needing to re-type in the topics. If you choose the ISI Server– you can opt to have the "results of the last query in your search history emailed to you weekly." Once you give your history a name – be sure to click on the Save button or it will not be retained when you log out. There is a limit of 20 search histories you can save on the ISI server. The next time you login to Web of Knowledge, click on Open Saved Search and it will take you to the Open/Manage Saved Searches page and display your saved searches.
In Current Contents your search history displays every time you go back to the search screen.
Alerts are not currently available within ISU WebSPIRS databases; however, you can save search histories. Databases currently available on the WebSPIRS software:
After you have completed a search that you wish to save, click on Search History near the top of the screen. Locate the icon of a computer disk and a file folder on the right side of the page.. When you click on the computer disk icon, you will be prompted to sign in with your personal user name. If you have never registered before click on New User. The user name is your email address (Be sure you type it in correctly as you will not get a second chance to correct anything). Once you sign in, you will be asked to name your search, and choose an expiration date for the saved history. The default is set to save the search for a year.
Anytime you wish to re-run your search, log into the database(s) you wish to search and click on the Search History tab. On the right side, near the middle of the page should be a icon of a computer disk and a file folder. Click on the file folder to load your previously saved search history. You will be prompted to type in the email address you used when you saved the search and a list of all the saved searches you currently have will appear. Choose the one you wish to run and click on Load History.
In general, there are 2 ways to locate instructions for other databases or journal alert services:
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