Alerts to New Research

Sent by email or RSS feed - weekly or monthly

Different kinds: Table of Contents Search Alert Citation Alert

Purpose: tells you when new journal articles are published in your research area.

How to set up an Alert

1. Sign up for a personal account.

2. Choose a search statement which gives “good” results. Save this search as an email alert.

OR

Choose an RSS reader. Enter file address of your search statement.

EXAMPLES

1. Table of Contents E-Alerts

• T of C for current issue • Automatically emailed to

you when a new issue is published

• Links to articles for journals UW owns

• Free service – sign up• Available for most journals

Some examples:

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

IEEE (journals only)

UW LibraryElsevier journal alert in email inbox

Journal website – set up Alert

Bloglines

Journal

2. Search Alerts - from online databases

PublisherSeveral

PublishersResearch Index

AIChE J.

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

& Automation

IEEE Xplore

Science Direct (Elsevier)

Scholarsportal Compendex2

INSPEC

Web of Science

Set up a search statement and save it as an alert. Choose how often it’s sent to you.

You need a search statement on your topic

OR joins similar terms; enclose them in ( )

or more terms ? broaden search, more results

AND joins different concepts or subjects

add more subjects ? focus search

* different endings of root word (wild card)

boat* boat, boats, boating, boater etc.

Example:

(plastic or lithium or rechargeable) and batter* and electrolyt*

Compendex or EI and Inspec

• Compendex: All engineering topics • Inspec

Physics and AstronomyElectrical Engineering, Electronics,Communications, Computers, Information Technology

• Search journals, conferences, reports

• Weekly updates• Subject E- alerts available• Blog UW Library

Engineering Village Subject Alert – received by email

• 5,900 journals from 150 disciplines• 1945 – present• Subject and Cited Reference searching

• Get It! link to fulltext & TRELLIS• Email and citation alerting• Analyze results feature

3. Citation Alert - e.g. Web of Science

UW Library

Search Alert – Web of ScienceRun a search. Go to Search History and save the search. Select Alert.

Citation Alert from Publisher’s website

Summary

1. Identify relevant journals and set up alerts to monitor table of contents.

2. Search large databases (Compendex, INSPEC, Web of Science) and save good searches as search (subject) alerts.

3. Citation alert when 1 specific paper is cited. (Web of Science; journal article webpage)

4. Delivery: Email results to desktop or RSS feed