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Email Alerting Services
How would you like to receive email alerts when new documents are published that relate to your area of research or even cite your work? These might be not only for journal articles or journal tables of contents, but other types of information as well. This webpage discusses services that offer these alerts.
Alert services fall under two broad groups. Many databases on the library's list of databases provide alerting services. Publisher websites can also include alerting services.
The library may or may not provide electronic access to, or own the print version of, materials listed in an email alert. Check ASA to determine if the library has the material. If not, consult the resources under the "Interlibrary Loan" category on the library homepage.
If you notice anything that needs updating in below, let the webpage maintainer know.
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Email Alerting Services: Library's Database List
The library's list of databases includes some that alert you when they add new bibliographic records or other kinds of information. Depending on the resource you can set up: alerts for literature about a subject you specify, or alerts for items that cite a document you specify. These examples give a flavor of how to locate information about setting up email alerts associated with various types of resources that appear on the library's full list of databases: bibliographic database, book index, encyclopedia, working papers and book chapters, and government website.
Check databases as well for the ability to save a search that you can manually run at a later time. See the help or faqs of a database to see if it provides this capability. You may contact your subject librarian for assistance in setting up an alert or saved searches.
Below is some further noteworthy information about setting up alerts for some other databases, including the interdisciplinary Web of Science.
(i.) Web of Science
Web of Science includes coverage of sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and enables users to set up alerts notifying that a given work has been cited. Subject alerts are also possible to set up. For information about setting up Web of Science alerts, see here and here (Links about Web of Science mentioned here were good as of 12/9/05). See also list of training modules.
(ii.) Ingenta
Ingenta enables you to set up table of contents alerts for up to five journals. Also check other resources in this guide for the same capability. (Note to former Carl Uncover users. You may have signed up for "Carl Uncover" alerts through Ingenta. This service is no longer available after December 2005. The consequence is that you will no longer receive alerts based on keywords or authors via this service. If you were receiving table of contents alerts but they no longer appear after December, sign up again for them through Ingenta--again, up to five.)
(iii.) Other databases
Here is information about how to set up alerts for (just) some of the databases that appear on the library list of databases.
Please contact webpage maintainer if there are any heavily used databases for which you would like to see information listed here.
Email Alerting Services: Publisher Websites
Email alerts are available at various publisher websites:
You may contact your subject librarian for assistance in setting up an alert or identifying websites specific to your subject area of interest.
Note: Not included here is a listing of RSS feeds, such as those described at this University of Chicago Press website. (See "content alerts". ) People interested in setting up RSS feeds may want to look for this capability in websites like the ones categorized below.
Other Resources Listing Email Alerting Services
Check these webpages for other sources of information about alerting services possibly not covered above.