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Current Awareness Services
A number of databases and collections of electronic journals provide an alert feature whereby you can set up a search profile/strategy. These are automated current awareness services that result, depending on the type of profile or strategy, in table of contents of your chosen journals or a list of individual article citations being e-mailed directly to your e-mail box. Most databases and collections require registration to access this feature. If you have any questions or comments, please contact David P. Moore 256-824-6285; mooredp@uah.edu).
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Databases that Provide Alerts
- Ingenta
The ingenta database provides table of contents information (about 15 million article citations) taken from over 27,000 current journals and magazines in a very diverse range of disciplines. Journals are indexed within 24 hours of receipt. Coverage is from late 1988 to the present and includes journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. The journals indexed encompass a broad range from popular to the more scholarly.
- Some Useful Alerting Features in ingenta:
Research Alerts
Research alerts are a subject and author alerting service where you can create up to 25 keyword or author search alerts. You enter the keywords or author names you want to search against and, on a weekly basis, ingenta runs your searches against any new content in the system and sends you the new citations by email.
Table of Content Alerts
Sometimes known as TOC alerts, table of content alerts allow you to receive table of contents of new issues of your chosen publications by email, as soon as they are available on ingenta. Select up to 50 titles per year.
To Register for Alerts and TOCs:
- After accessing ingenta, click on the Need to register? Sign up here link in the left-hand frame. Then complete the Personal Registration form.
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- Research Alerts: Run a Search on ingenta. Then go to Search History (near the top left corner) and select the Search Alerts tab to activate a Search Alert.
- TOC Alerts: Select My TOC Alerts. Enter the name of a publication in the box or select a title from the alphabetical list of publications in the second box. After you've choosen a title, click Add.
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CSA Databases
The CSA databases permit one to save a search strategy as an Alert 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.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from CSA Databases.
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EBSCO Databases
EBSCO Databases allow one to save one's search and to create alerts. These alerts (saved searches) are run automatically against specific databases at set intervals. The results of these searches are e-mailed directly to the user.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from EBSCO Databases.
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Web of Science
This database from Thomson Scientific is the online version of Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It is an invaluable tool for citation searching (following research through the years) and determining who is citing your work. Provides seamless access to current and retrospective multi disciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research, peer-reviewed journals in the world.
Web of Science offers a Citation Alert service. This allows you to receive an e-mail alert each time an article on the list is cited in a new article.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from Web of Science.
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Collections of Electronic Journals that Provide Alerts
ACM Digital Library
- ACM Digital Library provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947, together with selected works published by affiliated organizations. The database provides a table of contents service via email as new issues or proceedings become available.
To sign up for Alerts:
- Click on "Manage/Create your acm.org web account" on the right-hand side of the page.
- Create an account and login.
- Click on the TOC Service link
- Select the journals for which you'd like TOC alerts and Submit.
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- American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals & Magazines
- This database provides the electronic full text version of 50+ ACS journals. Its alert system, entitled ASAP Alerts, features announcements of newly available A.S.A.P (As Soon As Publishable) articles from each of ACS' electronic journals. Users can sign up to receive e-mail notices on a weekly basis or on the same day the articles are posted. The message contains the title, author, journal name, official Web publication date, and direct URL link to the full article on the Web. Thus users can have access to articles published two weeks to three months before the print version appears.
Another service, TOC (Table of Contents) Alerts, provides email alerts of the TOC for specific issues on the day the complete issue is posted on the Web, enabling you to scan the issue's entire contents at once.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from the American Chemical Society.
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- Blackwell Synergy
- Blackwell Synergy is the online journals service from Blackwell Publishing. It holds the content for over 700 of Blackwell's journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. A wide range of subjects are covered, including Business, Engineering, Health Science, Humanities, Law, Life & Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Social Sciences, and The Arts.
This publisher offers two types of alerts: Search Alerts and TOC Alerts. For both types, you must sign up as a registered user. Click the blue "Register" box at the top of the page to do this. Create a Search Alert by filling out the information on the right-hand side of the page after running a search. Click here to learn how to set up a TOC Alert from Blackwell Synergy.
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- Cambridge Journals Online
- This provides access to nearly 200 scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects published by Cambridge University Press. UAH subscribes to full-text for approximately 33 of these journals. The database offers a number of different ways to set up alerts via the My Contents Alerts page. Depending on your preferences you can receive tables of contents or information about individual articles.You can also opt to run saved searches periodically and receive the results by email.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from Cambridge Journals Online.
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- Emerald Library
- This database is a collection of over 100 electronic journals spanning subjects such as: marketing, general management, human resources, quality, property, operations, production & economics, library & information services, information management, training & education, and engineering. The Emerald Library has several e-mail alert services available including a Saved Search Alert, a TOC (Table of Contents) Alert, and a Weekly Digest Alert.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from the Emerald Library.
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- HighWire Press
- Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press began in early 1995 with the online production of the weekly Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC). HighWire now produces over 300 sites online, with many more planned, and is one of the world's largest archives of FREE full-text science journals.
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- My Alerts
- eTOCs allow you to receive in email either complete Tables of Contents (from both current and future content) or notification that an issue has just gone online. You can also sign up to receive announcements from journal publishers and, where available, weekly or daily pre-print publication announcements.
To sign up for Alerts:
- Click on the Alerts tab at the top
- Click on Please Register to create a free account.
- Complete the form and hit Submit.
- Follow the instructions.
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- IEEE Explore
- This resource provides full-text online access to publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Their Alert Service provides regular email notification of recently posted journals and magazines. Each email contains a direct link to the latest issue’s table of contents.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from IEEE Explore.
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- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- This database of physics journals has an e-mail alerting service that is designed to keep you up-to-date with the publication of new articles within your chosen subject area. Whenever a new article corresponding to your selection becomes available, you will automatically receive an e-mail message containing the article details. You may set up a maximum of five different alerts at any one time. Both TOC Alerts and Enhanced Alerts (key word, etc.) are available.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from IOP.
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- Oxford University Press Journals
- All OUP journals, which cover a wide range of scholarly subjects and academic disciplines, are available in full-text to the UAH community. The Press provides a Table of Contents E-Mailing Service.
To sign up for Alerts:
- Click on My Account in the upper-right corner of the page
- Click on the link to register as a new user with Oxford Journals.
- Click on the Submit button and follow the instructions.
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- Project Muse
- Project Museoffers over 250 full-text journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. The database 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 has a Journal Alerts e-mail service, which allows users to receive weekly announcements of new titles and new issues added to Project Muse. Subscribers can customize exactly what kind of journal alerts they want to receive, including selecting new issue alerts by individual titles, subject groups, or collections. The new issue alerts include direct links to tables of contents.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from Project Muse.
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- ScienceDirect
- This database provides full text access to over 1,800 peer reviewed academic journals in the sciences and social sciences. Please note that ScienceDirect's alert service may inform users of citations in non-consortia held journals. The database's Alert features include Search Alerts, Topic Alerts, Volume/Issue Alerts and Citation Alerts.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from ScienceDirect.
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- SourceOECD
- SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The database comprises 20 Book collections by theme, containing all OECD monographs and reports; 20 periodicals; some reference titles; and the OECD statistical databases.
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- OECDdirect is the email alerting service built in support of SourceOECD. Whenever OECD publishes something new in each Book theme, Periodical, and Statistical database you can register for an e-mail to be sent to you. You can pick and choose to receive emails about just those publications you need.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from SourceOECD.
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- Wiley Interscience
- Wiley-Interscience provides full-text access to 78 John Wiley + Sons, Inc. journals; access to abstracts for the remaining journals. Subject areas include business, chemistry, computer science, earth science, education, engineering, law, life and medical sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, and psychology. Coverage is from 1995 to present. Table of Contents and Saved Search Alerts are both available.
Click here to learn how to set up an Alert from Wiley Interscience.
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