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ABI/Inform Global To set up a saved search alert
  • From the Result List or Search History Screen, select the Set Up Alert link.
  • Select how often you would like to receive the alert and the length of time the alert will run for
  • Add in your email address.
  • Click Save
To set up journal alert
  • Select the Publications link on the sub-toolbar. Once you have found the desired publication, select the Set Up Alert link.
  • A pop-up screen displays with the journal alert information. Add in relevant information and click Save
Academic Research Library
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Click on 'Sign in' and register your details to create a MyEbscohost account. To set up a search alert
  • From the Result List or Search History Screen, click the RSS alert icon, or the Create alert for this search link.
  • A pop-up screen displays with the search alert information. Copy the Syndication Feed URL into your newsreader.
  • If you decide that e-mail delivery of the alert information is required, click the Sign in and create a new alert link. Once you sign in to My EBSCOhost, the Search Alert Screen appears.
To set up a journal alert
  • Select the Publications link on the sub-toolbar. Once you have found the desired publication, click the RSS alert icon to the left of the publication name.
  • A pop-up screen displays with the journal alert information. Copy the Syndication Feed URL into your RSS reader.
  • If you decide that e-mail delivery of the alert information is required, click the Sign in and create a new alert link. Once you sign in to My EBSCOhost, the Journal Alert Screen appears.
Note: Be sure to add the feed to an aggregator within one week of its creation. An alert will not expire unless the aggregator does not automatically update results (extremely unlikely) supplied by the feed for two months.
AccessMedicine
  • Newsletter or RSS alert for AccessMedicine Updates
  • Select the RSS icon under AccessMedicine Updates.
  • Copy the Syndication Feed URL into your RSS reader.
AccessScience
  • Newsletter or RSS alert for AccessScience Updates
  • Select the RSS icon under AccessScience Updates.
  • Copy the Syndication Feed URL into your RSS reader.
Accounting & Tax
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
ACM Digital Library (Association for Computer Machinery)
  • After registration select "Personalised Services" (login required)
  • ToC alert service and My Binders (saved search results and queries)
Ageline
  • Enter email address and select 'Sign me up!' to receive bimonthly newsletter on AgeLine and related resources
American Chemical Society
  • Select "E-mail Alerts & RSS Feeds"
  • Email Alerts: select 'Sign up or modify email alerts'
  • ASAP Alerts? select 'Register for ASAP Alerts' for daily or weekly e-mail alerts.
  • Table of Contents Alerts?select 'Register for ToC Alerts"
  • RSS Feeds: select 'Choose RSS'
  • Copy and paste URL of chosen title(s) to your RSS reader
Annual Reports Online
  • Select 'Alerting tool'
  • Fill in required information fields and select 'Next'
  • Either select 'Save' at this point or fill in further information fields to refine the alerting tool
  • When completed, select 'Save query'
Annual Reviews
  • Select 'Register now'
  • Fill in required information fields and click 'Submit'
  • Select areas of interest from Table of Contents Email Alerts list, choose email format and click 'Submit'
Art Abstracts (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
ARTbibliographies Modern (CSA Illumina)
    • Select 'Alerts'
    • Select 'New user? Create a personal profile'
    • Enter email and password and click 'Continue'
    • Click 'Browse'
    • Choose journal title of interest and select 'New issue alert'
    • Option to save search terms as alerts provided after selecting documents from searches
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) (ISI)
  • Select 'Please register for more features'
  • Enter registration details, set preferences and select 'Submit registration'
  • Email entered is given as sign-in, select 'Continue'
  • Select 'Create My Journal List and Table of Contents Alerts'
  • Select 'Add more journals' under 'My journal list'
  • Select journals for alerting service
AUSTLII
  • Select 'About'
  • Select ''News from AustLII' Mailing List'
  • Follow instructions at the bottom of the page: "Send an e-mail message to "majordomo@austlii.edu.au" with the message "subscribe austlii-news". You can leave the subject line blank. Do not include anything else in the message body."
AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway
  • Select 'Personal Alert Service'
  • Select 'Register now'
  • Enter email, user id and password and select 'Continue'
  • Email is sent to your nominated address.? Follow instructions.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
  • Select 'Services we provide'
  • Select 'Email notification'
  • Select 'New subscription'
  • Choose preferences, enter email address and click 'Submit'
  • Select 'RSS'
  • URL provided to copy and paste into RSS reader
Banking & Information Source
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Bibliography of the History of Art (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Biological Sciences (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Biology Digest (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
BioMed Central
  • Select 'my Biomed Central'
  • Select 'Register me' under 'New users - register now!'
  • Enter details and click 'Register me'
  • Enter preferences under 'General scientific interests' and click 'Continue'
  • Select 'Validate email' and enter preferences under 'Email preferences' and click 'Continue'
Blackwell-Synergy (Publisher)
  • Select 'Sign up for email alerts'
  • Select 'Register now'
  • Enter details and click 'Register now'
BuildingGreen.com
  • Select 'sign up now' under 'Free E-mail News Bulletin From BuildingGreen'
  • Enter details and select 'Subscribe'
  • Confirm subscription request by replying to confirmation email
Business Source Premier
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Cambridge Journals Online (Publisher)
  • Select 'Register now'
  • Enter details and click 'Submit'
  • Manage preferences from sidebar once logged in
Career & Technical Education
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
CBCA Business
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
CBCA Education
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
ChemWatch
  • There are two email lists that you can join. Send an email to one of the following addresses to subscribe:
  • Chemwatch-Announce: Announcements from Chemwatch about upcoming features, events, updates.
  • Subscription address: ChemAnnounce-reqest@Chemwatch.net
  • Chemwatch-Bulletin: Bulletin board weekly updates.
  • Subscription address: ChemBulletin-reqest@Chemwatch.net
  • To subscribe to any of these, send email to the subscription address with the word subscribe in the body of the message.
  • To unsubscribe, send mail to the subscription address with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message.
CINAHL (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Clinical Reference Systems (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Cochrane Library
  • 'Sign in' and register.
  • From the 'Result' List, click the 'Saved searches' link.
  • Click 'Activate'
  • Click 'Run' to obtain a list of the results
Commonwealth Legislation (ComLaw)
  • Select 'Notify me when' from left sidebar
  • Enter details, preferences and security code (provided) and click 'Submit'
Communication Abstracts (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Communication Studies: a SAGE full text collection (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Computer Database (Thomson-Gale)
  • Select 'Title list'
  • Select "E-newsletters" from left sidebar
  • Enter details and preferences and select 'Subscribe'
Computer Source (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Conference Papers Index (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
CSIRO Online Journals
  • Select 'Early alert' or RSS logo
  • For Early alert enter email address for electronic and/or print mailing lists and click 'Submit'
  • Enter name, preferences and click 'Submit'
  • For RSS, choose titles of interest and select 'add to Google' tab
  • Select 'Add to Google homepage' or 'Add to Google reader'
  • Sign in to 'Google Reader' using email and password from pre-existing Google account or select 'Create an account now'
Current Contents Connect
  • Select 'Register' from right sidebar
  • Enter details and select 'Submit registration'
  • Click 'Continue'
  • Manage preferences and create journal and ToC alerts from within profile
DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
DatAnalysis
  • Select 'Alerting tool'
  • Under 'Create a new alert' enter the name of the alert, your email address, the alert type (HTML or text) and enter the ASX code of the company or companies desired.? Leave the ASX field blank if requesting alerts for all companies (add criteria at next step).? Select 'Next'
  • Choose preferences and select 'Add alert' (multiple alerts can be constructed)
  • Select 'Save alert' when completed
  • Click 'Save'
EBSCO Megafile Premier
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Ecology Abstracts (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Econlit (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Ei Engineering Village 2 (Compendex)
  • Select 'My alerts'
  • Select 'Register now'
  • Enter details and email address and select 'Submit'
  • Select 'Continue'
  • To create an E-mail Alert after searching, go to Search History and check the E-mail Alert check box next to the "Save" button. You may create up to 125 E-mail Alerts.
EJS E-Journals (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Emerald Fulltext
  • Select 'Register'
  • Enter details and select 'Next'
  • Choose membership area and select 'Register'
  • Saved search, ToC alerts and RSS ToC feeds can be set up and managed from with 'My Profile'
ERIC (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Essential Science Indicators (ISI)
  • See Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) above
Google Scholar
  • Select 'more'
  • Select 'even more'
  • Select 'Alerts'
  • Enter preferences and email address and select 'Create Alert'
  • Return to the 'Google Alerts' home page to create more alerts
  • Option to 'sign in to manage your alerts' - requires a pre-existing Google 'My Account' and entry of a password
  • Email will be set containing a link that must be selected to verify alert
Grove Art Online
  • Select any option from the left sidebar aside from 'Guided Tour'
  • Select 'email updates and news'
  • Register for this service by e-mailing listserv@webber.oup.co.uk with a message consisting of the line subscribe GROVEARTNEWS-L. Leave the 'subject' line blank. Alternatively, use the 'subscribe' mail link. When the message window appears, just click 'Send'?there's no need to add anything to the message.
Grove Music Online
  • See Grove Art Online above
Health & Medical Complete (Proquest)
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Health Business Fulltext Elite (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Health Source ? Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Health Source ? Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
HighWire Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries (includes Medline)
  • Select 'Alerts'
  • Select 'Register'
  • Enter details and select 'Submit'
  • Email is sent to your nominated address containing an URL that must be visited to complete registration
  • Visit URL, re-enter password and select 'Sign in'
  • Create and manage alerts under 'Alerts' tab
IEEE Explore
  • Select 'Visit Alerts'
  • Enter name, email address and select 'Submit'
  • Choose ToC alert preferences and click 'Submit Selection'
Index Islamicus (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Informaworld
  • Select 'Register'
  • Select 'Personal Registration'
  • Enter details, check 'terms and conditions' box and select 'Create Account'
  • Take note of account identification number
  • A validation email is sent to your nominated address ? click on link provided to complete registration
  • To create alerts browse to the content you are interested in being alerted about and select 'Create Alert' from the 'Choose an Action' drop-down box
  • Manage alerts by selecting the 'Alert'? tab when signed in under 'My Account'
IngentaConnect
  • Select 'Sign up here' under 'Need to register?'
  • Enter details, check 'terms and conditions' box and select 'Register'
  • A confirmation email is sent to your nominated address
  • Create new issue alert, latest ToC RSS or recent issue RSS for a particular title by selecting desired option under 'Alerting Options' after selecting an article
  • Create a saved search alert by viewing 'Search History', saving desired search and selecting 'Create Alert' from drop-down box under 'Saved Searches' (Note: Search Alerts are only available with the purchase of an alerting license)
  • Manage alerts by selecting either 'Search Alerts' or 'New Issue Alerts' from under 'Manage My Ingenta'
  • Note: Maximum of 5 New Issue Alerts
Institute of Physics
    • Select 'email alerts'
    • Select 'create an account'
    • Enter details and select 'create account'
    • Select 'Create ToC alert' or 'Create enhanced alert' (keywords), enter preferences and select 'Create profile'
International Financial Statistics
  • Select 'Options'
  • Select 'Data finds you'
  • Enter name, email address and country/countries about which you would like to be notified
Journal Citation Reports (ISI)
  • See Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) above
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
  • Select 'My profile'
  • Select 'Register now'
  • Enter details and preferences, check the box under 'Email alerts' and select 'Submit registration'
  • Authentication email sent ? click on URL provided to validate registration
  • Select 'Wiley InterScience Mailing Lists'
  • Enter email address and select 'Continue'
  • Enter preferences and click 'Submit'
Lexis.com
    • Select 'Alerts'
    • Shepard's Alerts (citation)
    • Select 'Shepard's Alerts'
    • Enter citation and select 'Set up' (guide to citation formats used ? mostly American ? provided beneath text box)
    • Enter preferences and email and select 'Continue'
    • Select 'Save'
    • Courtlink Alerts require credit card payment for individual registration
Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Linguistics and Language Behavioural Abstracts (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
MD Consult
  • Select 'weekly e-mail newsletter'
  • Select 'Subscribe to eNews'
  • Enter email address and profession and click 'Submit'
MEDLINE (through Highwire, Science Direct)
  • See Highwire above
Mims Online
  • Select 'Email updates'
  • Enter details and click 'Submit'
MLA Bibliography Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Mosby's Nursing Consult
  • Select 'Subscribe to eNews'
  • Enter email address and profession and click 'Submit'
Music Index (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Oxford University Press
  • Select 'Services for Librarians'
  • Select 'Log in here to manage your account'
  • Select 'Click here to register as a new user with Oxford Journals'
  • Enter details and select 'Register with Oxford Journals'
  • Select 'View alerting preferences'
  • Select 'Add eTOCs'
  • View journals either alphabetically or by subject area, checking those of interest
  • Select 'Save eTOCs' when finished
  • Cite track: To add new CiteTrack alerts to your account you should navigate to the article you wish to track and click on the 'Alert me when this article is cited' link on the right of the screen.
PILOTS Database (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Plant Science (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Project Muse
  • Select 'About Muse'
  • Select? 'Sign Up for Journal Alerts'
  • Enter email address and select 'Make or Change Selections'
  • Make selections and choose one of three saving options
  • RSS: From 'About Muse' select 'RSS Feeds'
  • Select one of three RSS Feed options
  • An e-mail service, which allows users to receive weekly announcements of new titles and new issues added to Muse. Subscribers can customise 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.
Proquest ANZ Newsstand
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Asian Business
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Computing
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Education Journals
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest European Business
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Religion
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Science Journals
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Social Science Journals
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
Proquest Telecommunication
  • See ABI/Inform Global above
PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
PsycINFO (EBCSO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
PubMed
  • Select 'Register' under 'My NCBI'
  • Enter details and select 'Register'
  • Confirmation email is sent - click link to complete registration and select (You may now set up saved search updates) 'here'
  • To set up alert, run search and select 'Save Search'
  • Check the 'Yes' option at the question 'Would you like to receive e-mail updates of new search results?' and select 'OK'
  • RSS: Select 'New/Noteworthy ' from left sidebar
  • Drag RSS icon or copy URL into RSS feeder
Regional Business News (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Select 'About Journals'
  • Select 'E-Alerts Service' under 'Alerting Services'
  • Enter email address,? select titles for alerts and click 'Send'
  • Reply to confirmation email (for each title selected) to complete subscription
  • RSS: Select 'RSS Feeds' under 'Alerting Services'
  • Copy URL of desired feed(s) into RSS reader
SAFARI Tech Books Online
  • Select RSS icon and copy URL into reader for feeds of latest titles
Sage Full-text collections (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) (ISI)
  • See Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) above
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
  • Select 'Not Registered?'
  • Enter details and subject area(s) and select 'Submit'
  • Select 'Login Now'
  • Re-enter password and click 'Submit'
  • Select 'Alerts' from homepage
  • Create search alerts, topic alerts, volume/issue alerts and citation alerts? by choosing relevant links (instructions provided if unsure of how to create alerts)
Scopus (Elsevier)
    • Select 'Register' if not previously registered with Elsevier service
    • Enter details and fields of interest and select 'Submit'
    • Search alert: select 'Add New Search Alert'
    • Perform a new search and click the 'Save as Alert' link on the results page
    • Document citation alert: select 'Add New Document Citation Alert'
    • Perform a new search
    • Click the 'Abstract and Refs' button of one of these results
    • Click the 'E-mail Alert' link below the Citations column on the right
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (ISI)
  • See Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) above
Social Services Abstracts (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Sociological Abstracts (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Source OECD
  • Select 'E-Mail Alerts'
  • Enter name and email address and select 'Next'
  • Enter preferences and select 'Update'
  • Select 'Exit SourceOECD Alert Registration' to exit
SPORT Discus (EBSCO)
  • See Academic Search Premier above
Springer-Link (Publisher)
  • Select 'Register'
  • Select 'Register Individual'
  • Enter details and select 'Register'
  • To create alerts and RSS: run search and save list or items - subsequent page will allow for the options below
  • RSS: copy URL into RSS reader
  • Alerts: select frequency and format of alerts and click 'Register'
Standards Australia Online
    • Select 'Favourites'
    • Select 'I want to become a Registered User'
    • Enter details and select 'Please Register Me'
    • Items can be added to 'Standards Watch List' by checking the 'watch this' box provided on search results screen and managed by selecting 'StandardsWatch Administration' link
Stat!Ref - Medical
  • Subscribe to Stat!Ref Blog via email or RSS feed
  • Click on Stat!Ref Blog button on home page and follow the prompts
Stat!Ref - Nursing
  • See Stat!Ref - Medical above
Taxpoint
  • Select 'Subscribe Now' under 'Taxpoint - Alert'
  • Select desired newsletters, enter name and email and click 'Submit'
Taylor and Francis (now Informaworld)
  • See Informaworld above
TOXLINE (CSA Illumina)
  • See ARTBibliographies Modern above
Vitis Vinifera
  • Select 'A-Z of Services'
  • Select 'MyIntute'
  • Select 'Register here', enter details and select 'Submit'
  • After searching select 'Save this Search'
  • Email alert will be sent whenever a new record is added to the database matching the search terms within the specified subject area (if specified)
  • RSS: Select 'A-Z of Services'
  • Select 'RSS news channels'
  • Copy desired URLS from those listed into RSS feeder
WARC: World Advertising Research Center
  • Select 'login', enter details and select 'Save'
  • Select 'My WARC'
  • Check boxes to enter preferences under 'Industry News' and 'Content Information'
  • Topic Alerts: Select a main topic from the tabs on the top menu
  • Select a sub-category from the left hand menu
  • Select further sub-category from list
  • Select '(Add to) My Topic Alerts' link from beneath the sub-category heading
Web of Knowledge (ISI)
  • See Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) above
Web of Science (ISI)
  • See Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) above
Wiley Interscience
  • Select My Profile at top right hand corner of screen.
  • Tables of Contents Alerts: Click "Set E-mail Alert" on any journal page. When a new issue is published online, the table of contents will be sent to you.
  • Saved Search Alerts: Execute a search (Simple or Advanced), and on the Search Results page, click "Save Search". You can name the search and choose if you wish to receive an alert whenever an article is published online that matches the search criteria.
  • Subject areas - Subject areas - business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials science, psychology, social sciences.


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