Research Alerts -- also known as email alerts, notification services, or SDIs -- provide citations and table of contents for recently published articles, books, and research that are sent to you via email on the topics of your choosing. Research alerts are a great way to stay up-to-date on current publications in your field by having citations automatically delivered to your email inbox!
The names of the services (alert, autoalert, saved search) and the procedures for setting them up vary among vendors, but they generally operate in the same way. You specify the search terms or the journal titles and the database automatically provides you with updated results via email. For some you must register with a password and establish a profile or personal account; for others you simply provide your email address. Some alert services limit the number of searches you can save. In many databases you can define how often a search is run.
The UW Libraries Graduate Student Research Institute site offers instructions for setting up alerts or notifications in some resources, such as UW Libraries Search, journals, Google and Google Scholar, and more.
Ask us if you have questions about an alert service.
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