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Setting up Search Alerts


Search Alerts, also known as Current Awareness services, help users stay current in what is being published in their area of interest through automatic e-mail updates from databases. 

Depending on the database, users can opt to have the latest table of contents from a particular journal sent to them, or the latest article citations on a particular topic sent to them. 

Below is a sample list of e-journals and databases that offer this service with links to setting up a search alert. 

E-Journal Packages

American Chemical Society's ASAP

Sign up for Tables of Contents alerts for particular journals or ASAP alerts for newly published articles. 

American Physical Society

Receive e-mailed Tables of Contents or abstracts or set up RSS feeds for APS journals including Physical Review.

American Society of Civil Engineers

Tables of Contents alerts available.

Astrophysical Data System (ADS)

Alerts on preprints of articles in astrophysics.

BioMed Central

Alerts on articles in your area of interest.

Cambridge Journals Online

Tables of Contents alerts available for journals in sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Emerald Alert

Tables of Contents alerts as well as alerts on articles in your area of interest for journals in sciences, social sciences, humanities, and business and management.

IEEE Alerting

Tables of Contents alerts available.

Institute of Physics (IOP)

Tables of Contents alerts as well as alerts on articles in your area of interest.

International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

Tables of Contents alerts for journals and proceedings.

Springer Journals

Tables of Contents alerts available for journals in science, technology, and humanities.

Science Direct Alerts

Select "Alerts" and register for tables of contents alerts and well as alerts on articles in journals in sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

  

Individual E-Journals

Nature

Science

The Scientist

Databases

This link opens a new window - Info About Annual Reviews Annual Reviews  (All US JHU)
This link opens a new window - Info About Compendex Compendex  (All US JHU)
This link opens a new window - Info About Criminal Justice Abstracts Criminal Justice Abstracts   (All JHU (incl. International))
This link opens a new window - Info About International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)  (All US JHU)
This link opens a new window - Info About Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)  (All US JHU)
This link opens a new window - Info About Sociological Abstracts Sociological Abstracts  (All US JHU)
This link opens a new window - Info About Web of Science Web of Science  (All US JHU)
This link opens a new window - Info About Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  (All US JHU)


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