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ACM Digital Library |
From the homepage you can click on the ‘Research Library’ button and then the ‘Contents Alert Email’ link to establish ToC alerts. |
Annual Reports Online (Aspect Huntley) |
The alerting tool will email you new ASX announcements and reports. |
AustLit |
A Personal Alert service which registered users can use to gain information from up to 10 saved searches. This weekly or monthly service is sent via email. |
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) |
Provides an Email Notification system to communicate latest releases of products through the ‘services we provide’ link on its website. |
CSA Databases (e.g. PsychINFO, Biological Sciences) |
Saved search alerts (up to 20) are available through the search history folder. |
CSIRO Journals |
The Early Alert service can be used to receive information on new items. |
| Current Contents |
This hosts the Web of Knowledge Table of Contents Alerts service. This is the primary tool for setting up TOC alerts as it is multi-discipline and multi-publisher in its coverage. |
Ebsco databases (e.g. ANZ Reference Centre, CINAHL) |
Search alerts and ToC alerts. Registered users can use the search history/alerts tab from the results page to establish search alerts. |
EMBASE |
Weekly alerts can be established by registered users from saved searches using the Email Alert button.
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Emerald |
Creating a personal profile allows you to save searches and turn them into alerts as well as establish ToC alerts. Using the alerts menu you can also subscribe to an email digest listing journals which have been updated in the past week. |
IEEE Databases (ASPP and POP) |
You can click on the email alert link available on the IEEE Explore homepage to set up ToC alerts. |
MDConsult |
Establishing a Personal Account enables you to access email updates of changes to the database
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Project Muse |
Registration gives you weekly emails of new issues of journals added to Project Muse. |
ProQuest |
Search alerts can be established from the results page by using the ‘set up alert’ button. |
Medline (PubMed) |
Creation of a My NCBI account allows you to establish alerts for saved searches as well as for new articles form favourite journals. |
Science Direct |
Registration entitles you to create Search alerts, journal issue alerts (which let you know a particular issue has been added to the database) and citation alerts. Search alerts are created after executing a search and saving the search as an alert. Citation alerts are created when viewing an article and clicking on the ‘Save as Citation Alert’ link. |
Scopus |
Scopus – Register to create a personal profile. Save searches or create search alerts from the search results page. The ‘Alert me’ link within the full record of an article will enable you to establish a citation alert.
Link to Scopus Alert help sheet found at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/apps/Scopus_Alerts_06SC.pdf
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SourceOECD |
Table of Contents alerting is available to registered users. This service covers books, journals and databases which are new to SourceOECD. |
Synergy (Blackwell) |
Creation of a My Synergy Account allows access to ToC alerts by clicking on a box next to the journal title and then choosing the ‘submit’ button. |
Taylor & Francis (Informaworld) |
Registration gives you access to email alerts. Alerts may be updates (new issues of journals and updates to particular databases), saved searches, ToC, or citation. Use the ‘set up alerts’ button under the heading ‘For Readers’. |
Web of Knowledge |
Registration entitles you to create a set of preferences to guide your searching. |
Web of Science |
Once registered through Web of Knowledge you can establish alerts within Web of Science. The search history folder enables you to save searches and create alerts. Table of Contents alerts can be created from the ‘My journal list’ section. Citation alerts are created from the full record of search results.
Link to Web of Knowledge Alert help sheet found at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/apps/WoK_alerts_06sc.pdf
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