Current
Awareness / Alerts
Current Awareness/Alerts are available in the following
subscription databases:
ProQuest Interface:
ABI/Inform, National Newspapers, Research
Library, Trade & Industry
To set up a topic search alert:
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Run your desired search from either the Basic or
the Advanced page.
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On the Results page, click Set Up Alert.
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You will see the Set up Your Search Alert page.
Complete the required information and click Save.
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You will see a confirmation page, summarizing your
information. If the information is correct, click Done.
Otherwise, you can click Delete this Alert to delete the alert.
To create a Publication Alert:
- Locate the desired publication using Publication search.
- From the Publication page, click the Set up Alert
button.
- You will see the Set up Your Publication Alert page. Complete the
required information and click Save.
- You will see a confirmation page, summarizing your information.
If the information is correct, click Done. Otherwise,
you can click Delete this Alert to delete the alert.
Ebsco Interface:
Academic Search Premier,
Art Abstracts, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, ERIC, Health Source:
Nursing/Academic, Medline, Professional Development Collection,
PsycINFO, Regional Business News
Saving a Search as an Alert:
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Perform a Search. Click Search History/Alerts.
Then click Save Searches/Alerts. (If you have not
already logged into your personal account, you will be prompted
to log in. Enter your user name and password; or register as a new
user.
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In the Save Search History box, type in a search
name and description. Select Alert in the Save
Search as... box.
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Select how often the search will be run by making
a choice from the Frequency drop-down list.
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Limit which articles are to be searched by making
a choice from the Articles published within the last drop-down
list.
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To be notified by e-mail when your alert runs, click
the E-mail Notification field. Select if you want
the e-mail in ASCII or HTML format.
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To have your search string included in the e-mail,
click Include query string in e-mail.
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In the Subject for E-mail field,
enter a subject you will recognize that will appear in the subject
line of the Alert e-mail.
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In the Address(es) field, enter
your e-mail address. If you want to enter multiple e-mail addresses,
place a semicolon in between each e-mail address.
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When you have finished making changes, click Save.
ACM Digital Library
To sign up for Alerts:
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Register (registration link is at top of page)
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Then login.
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Click on the TOC Service link
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Select the journals for which you'd like TOC alerts.
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Click Submit.
MLA Bibliography, Literature Online (LION)
In the MLA Bibliography and LION databases you can register to receive
notification via email when new records about authors are added.
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When entering MLA Bibliography or LION, click on
the My Archive link on the left hand side of the
screen to register.
- Click the Register for Author Alerts link, then
the "select new author>>" link to
add an author to the list.
- Using the My Archive feature you can also access saved searches
and records.
Computing Reviews
Follow the My Account link to register and set up
alerts in the Computing Reviews database.
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When registering, select primary and secondary interests,
and the system is automatically set up to send you an e-mail when
new reviews are published in your areas of interest.
- Once you have created an account, you can log in and manage your
Alerts.
- Topic alerts appear at the top and correspond to your areas of interest.
- Scroll down, and you can add new alerts for Topics, Journals, Authors,
Reviewers and Items by clicking on the appropriate Add New
buttons and following the on-screen prompts.
Criminal Justice Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts
These two databases permit a user to save a search strategy that
will be used to automatically search the particular database(s) 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.
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First run a search strategy in your selected database.
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Click the Save Search/Alerts button.
Any searches you have performed are displayed under the heading
of Current Searches.
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For the search you wish to save, click Save
as Alert.
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You will be prompted to enter an email address
and personal password which can be the same as you used when you
saved searches. Your search, selected databases and a box for entering
comments are displayed.
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Click Save Alert to complete the
process.
Hoover's
To use the E-mail Alerts feature in the Hoover's database, you must
first complete a FREE registration - follow the E-Mail Alerts
button at the top of the screen to complete the registration
process, then after completing your registration, click the E-Mail
Alerts button again to begin to set up your Alerts.
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To receive updates on companies, industries, keywords,
or a combination thereof, follow the "Create a News
Alert" link.
- To receive updates on significant developments for a particular
company, enter and search for your company name or ticker, select
the appropriate "Watch this Company" link and follow the
on-screen instructions.
American Chemical Society Journals
To sign up for Alerts:
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Enter the ACS Journals database.
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Click on the Sign Up for Email Alerts
button near the top of the page.
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Then click on Register for ASAP Alerts
or Register for ToC Alerts and follow the on-screen
instructions
Once you have run a search in the Ingenta database,
you can set up a Search Alert and be notified via e-mail when new items
appear in your search results.
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Once you have run at least one search you can click
on the Saved searches button to see your recent
searches.
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Click in the box to the left of the search that
you want to Save, then click the Go button to save
your search.
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Next, click on the Saved searches and alerts
tab above your list of recent and saved searches
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Scroll down to the list of searches and select "Search
Alert ON" for the search that you would like to receive updates
on, and then click the Update Alerts button.
Table of Contents alerts are also available in Ingenta
- After logging into Ingenta using your username and password, follow
the Manage Profile link/button on the left hand side
of the screen.
- Click on the TOC Alerts link.
- Browse or search for the publication you would like to add to your
Alerts and follow the on-screen instructions.
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