Guide: Staying Current
Email Alerts
Most library databases and journal publishers provide an alerting service that informs you by email when a new journal issue is published and/or when articles on a particular topic are added to the database. There are several types of alerts:
Topic
You will be notified by email whenever new articles on a topic defined by the database are published.
Search
You will be notified by email whenever new articles matching your search terms are published.
Table of Contents (TOC)
You will be notified by email whenever new table of contents are published for selected journals.
Citation
You will be notified by email whenever a new article cites a particular journal article. The following databases provide a citatoin alert feature: Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science.
