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Alert Services

Would you like to keep up to date with journals/articles in your area(s) of interest/research? Sign up for Electronic Alerts from Rutgers University Libraries' Indexes and Databases!

Rutgers University Libraries subscribe to a number of Indexes and Databases that make electronic alert services available to Rutgers University students, faculty and staff. Three different types of alert services are:

Table of contents alerts

Table of contents alerts are email updates of the table of contents of the most current issues of the journals you specify while signing up.

Daily/weekly email alerts

Daily/weekly email alerts notify subscribers of articles matching submitted topics. Alert frequencies vary depending on the publisher's database updates.

Saved search alerts

Saved search alerts are email notifications of recent articles matching previously submitted searches.

Please note:
In order to sign up for an alert service an email address is required along with a username and password. Please read the privacy policy carefully before signing up.

If you are having trouble with your electronic alerts, you will need to contact the publisher of the database/journal or the contacts listed on the web site you signed up from.

Services by Publisher Name

American Chemical Society Publications

Types of services: ASAP Alerts and Table of Contents alerts.

To set up your alert visit ACS Publications Free E-mail Alert Page and fill out the appropriate form. Please note that Rutgers has an institutional subscription. So the answer to question number 8 How do you currently access the journals selected above? (Choose all that apply.)" on each form is Web (Institutional Subscription) & Print (Institutional Subscription)

To find out the paper and electronic holding of these journals, search the Library Catalog/a> enter acs, select the library RU-ONLINE, and click on "WORDS Anywhere".

AnthroSource

Type of Alert: Table of Contents, Journal Citations, and AnthroSource announcements from the American Anthropological Association

Procedure: You will be required to register an account with the database to be able to access the email alerts option. Click on the My Profile link. Once you have registered or logged in, click on the Alerts link on the menu, select from the list of journals, and check whether you would like to receive updates from the AAA.

To receive Journal Citation alerts, click Browse or Search to access specific issues of a journal. Click the Citation link; then click the Alert me when new articles cite this article link. This alert will be listed in your My Profile account.

BioOne

Provider: BioOne
Publisher: BioOne

Type of alerts available: Table of Contents alert (will e-mail the table of contents from the most recent online journal title you have selected)

Procedure:
Direct link: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=myprofile&a=alerts

Use direct link to enter your e-mail address and password, or to register for a free account. BioOne will notify you instantly by email when the latest issues of journals on BioOne are published online. The body of the email will contain a table of contents of the issue in question and a link to the TOC on BioOne.

Bowker

For databases: Booksinprint.com

Type of Alert(s) available: BIP alerts (updated searches)

Procedure: To access this feature, patrons must create an account with Bowker. http://www.bowkersupport.com/quickguides/bip/QuickGuide-BIP2005-05.pdf

IntelliConnect, formerly known as CCH Tax Research NetWork

For databases:

• IntelliConnect

Type of Alert(s) available: Tracker News via e-mail (Allows you to keep up-to-date on state and federal tax news.)

Procedure: From the main menu, click on the button titled "Tracker News". Choose the link marked "Sign up for Report Letters". A new window will appear with a menu of choices of newsletters.

Computing Reviews

Type of Alert(s) available: Saved searches, Journal Alerts, Author Alerts, Reviewer alerts, Item and Forum Alerts.

Procedure: If you already have an account, enter your user ID and password. If you don't, scroll down on the Login page to create a Member Account. Enter your name and email, and set your User ID and password. Select your primary and secondary interests from the pull-down menu of Topics, and click on Create Account in the lower right. This creates your first Alert Strategy. Reviews (if found) are shown in every category of your Alert Profile: Topics, Saved Searches, Journals, Authors, Reviewers, Items, and Forums. To the right of each category name is a MANAGE button you can click to view and/or edit that part of your alert profile. You can also click ADD NEW to immediately add new alert settings to that category.

Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

For databases: CQ Researcher

Type of Alert(s) available: Daily/weekly email alerts. Alerts available via e-mail on user-selected topics.

Procedure: To set up an e-mail alert you must first login or create a user profile. Then, select "Create New Alert" to begin defining your own customized e-mail alerts. Use the "Start/Stop" action to start or stop receiving e-mail alerts you have saved in your account.
Link: http://library.cqpress.com/xsite/profile.php?source=cqresearcher

CSA Illumina

Types of services: Search History, Saved Search and Alert Facilities

CSA offers both a saved search and an alerting facility. A saved search includes saving a search strategy, which can be selected from a list and run at a later point in time. If required, the saved search can also be saved as an alert. The alerting facility searches the saved search for new content every week and sends an email message with the records (max. 250) that match this new content. A journal alert can be setup only after searching the database using a Journal Name (JN=) search, then clicking on the alerts link to select journal alerts link from the sidebar. The saved search and other alert options maybe accessed from Search History/Alerts button on the database search screen.

For databases:

Aquaculture Abstracts (AFSA) Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality Abstracts (AFSA) Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts ARTbibliography Modern (AFSA) ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts Biological Sciences and Living Resources Biotechnology Research Abstracts Conference Papers IndexEcology Abstracts Criminal Justice Abstracts EIS (Digests of Environmental Impact Statements) Environmental Engineering Abstracts Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management GeoRef Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts Human Population & Natural Resource Management Library and Information Science Abstracts LLBA, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (AFSA)

Marine Biotechnology Abstracts Microbiology Abstracts: Industrial & Applied Microbiology Microbiology Abstracts: Bacteriology Oceanic Abstracts (AFSA) Ocean Technology, Policy, and Non-Living Resources Abstracts PAIS International and Archive PILOTS Political Science Abstracts Pollution Abstracts Risk Abstracts Toxicology Abstracts Sociological Abstracts Social Services Abstracts Sustainability Science Abstracts TOXLINE Water Resources Abstracts Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Procedure: Click on the "Alerts" link located on the right hand side of the search page to login and create alerts.

EBSCOhost

For databases:

Academic Search Premier Africa-Wide Information Alternative Press Index America History & Life Applied Science and Technology Full Text Art Index Retrospective ATLA Religion Database Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Business Abstracts with Full Text Business Source Premier CINAHL Communication & Mass Media Complete Criminal Justice Abstracts Current Biography Econlit Education Full Text Essay and General Literature Index ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center Family & Society Studies Worldwide Film & Television Literature Index General Science Full Text Historical Abstracts Humanities Full Text Humanities Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984

Index to Printed Music International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Left Index Library Literature & Information Science Full Text Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts MLA International Bibliography Music Index Online Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition Philosophers Index Philosopher's Index Play Index Professional Development Collection PsycCRITIQUES Readers' Guide Full Text Mega Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 Regional Business News RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals RISM: Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 Social Sciences Full Text Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 Social Work Abstracts Women's Studies International

Types of alerts available:

• Journal alerts
• Search history alerts

Procedure:
Select and connect to any of EBSCOhost databases. Click on Sign into My EBSCOhost in the upper left hand corner. There you may either login with username and password or select I am a new user and create a personal account. For detailed instructions on how to setup journal alerts and Search history alerts select Help in the upper right hand corner of the page and choose directions for either Setting up journal alerts or Saving a search as an alert. Also click on the Folder icon (to the right of the search box) to learn about marking and selecting records for saving and creating alerts from your search.

Engineering Village

For databases:

• National Technical Information Service
• INSPEC
• Compendex

Type of Alert(s) available: Weekly email alerts.

Procedure: Select the "My Alerts" quick link from the upper right corner of the main screen. New users will be prompted to register with the site.

Factiva

Factiva offers a subject or topic-based search that can be run automatically and linked to a URL (web site). To set up a URL for a particular topic, click on the "Direct Link" button after running a search. Factiva does not offer email alerts.

IEEE Explore

Types of services: Table of Contents Alerts

Click here to register a free account and setup email alerts for IEEE journals and magazines.

Procedure: To find out the paper and electronic holding of these journals, search the Library Catalog/a> enter IEEE, select the library RU-ONLINE, and click on "WORDS Anywhere."

Ingenta

Types of services: saved search and table of contents alerts

Procedure: To set up alerts you must first register at the IngentaConnect site. Once registered, you can set up alerts by signing in and selecting Manage My Ingenta at the right of the screen. A user guide for the InTouch service is accessible at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/download/ingentaconnect/intouch_userguide.pdf

Institute of Physics

Types of services:Two types of alert services are available: subject alerts and Table of Contents alerts (as well as other services).

Procedure: To set up alerts visit the Institute of Physics main page, select journals, and then alerts (upper right hand corner). From the alerts page, see User Options in the left sidebar to read about other powerful features.

Note: This service requires a postal address as well as an email address.

To find out the paper and electronic holding of these journals, search the Library Catalog/a> enter iop, select the library RU-ONLINE, and click on "WORDS Anywhere".

Literature Online

Type of Alert: Author alert (updates on new material by a particular author)

Procedure: Search for the author and add the name to your Author Alerts page by clicking the Receive alerts for this author link. You will be prompted to create an account with My Archive (or log in if you already have an account) by registering your email address and selecting a password. You will arrive at the Author Alerts page, where you can add or remove additional authors to your list. For more information, please refer to http://lion.chadwyck.com/help/author_alerts.jsp.

The Medical Letter

Type of Alert: Table of Contents alert

Procedure: Direct Link: http://medicalletter.org/html/email_notification.htm
Use direct link to enter and submit your email address to subscribe to the alert.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

For databases: PubMed

Type of Alert(s) available: Set up e-mail alerts for new content.

Procedure: Create a NCBI account via the hyperlink on the front page. When you click on Save Search you are asked if you would like to receive email updates of new search results automatically. Automatic email updates of search results are sent according to a schedule that you determine. You can choose their display and format and add some text to them (up to 200 characters).

OVID Databases

For databases:

Project MUSE

Types of Alerts: Table of Content of journals and/or subject selections alerts.

Journal Alerts from Project MUSE allows you to set up alerts by journal names or by subject area or both. You will need to set up an alerts account with a username and password and an email address. You can make selections for journal titles individually or with a mix of subject collections. For more information please refer to the Project Muse Journal Alerts page.

ProQuest Information and Learning Company (formerly UMI)

For databases:

• Dissertations and Theses
• Ethnic NewsWatch

See also databases listed under CSA Illumina

PsychiatryOnline

Type of Alert: Table of Contents alert

Procedure: Access the list journals available in this database by clicking on the Journals link on the menu at the top of the screen (underneath the search field box). Click on the View Current Journal link underneath each journal abstract. Next, click on the [Sign up for eTOCs] link at the top of the screen. You will be required to register your email address in order to set up these alerts.

Royal Society for Chemistry

Types of service available: Table of Contents alerts

To subscribe to this service fill out RSC's Journals Email alerting service form. .

To find out the paper and electronic holding of these journals, search the Library Catalog/a> enter rsc, select the library RU-ONLINE, and click on "WORDS Anywhere".

ScienceDirect

Types of service available: Save Searches, Create Search Alerts, Journal Issue Alerts and Citation Alerts.

To set up your alert visit ScienceDirect's Login page, select Register, and fill out the form.

To read the description and to connect to ScienceDirect, please see the description page.

SPIE Digital Library

Type of Alert: Table of Contents alerts for Journals and SPIE Proceedings

Procedure: Click on the My Email Alerts link on the home page of the database to enter your email address and select the journal titles and proceedings for which you would like to receive alerts; proceedings are grouped by topic.

Springer Verlag

Types of service available: Table of Contents alerts & Daily/weekly email alerts

Click here to register a free account and setup alerts.

To find out the paper and electronic holding of these journals, search the Library Catalog/a> enter springer, select the library RU-ONLINE, and click on "WORDS Anywhere".

For a complete list of journals available from Springer click here

Wiley Interscience

Types of service available: Table of Contents alerts

Click here to setup alerts.

To find out the paper and electronic holding of these journals, search the Library Catalog enter wiley, select the library RU-ONLINE, and click on "WORDS Anywhere".

To read the description and to connect to Wiley Interscience Journal Finder, please see the Wiley Interscience Journal Finder description page.

Web of Science

Create alerts from:

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Social Science Citation Index
• Science Citation Index Expanded

Type of alerts available:

• Table of contents alerts for journals
• Citation alerts (will receive an e-mail alert each time an article on the list is cited in a new article)
• Saved Search Histories

Procedure: Click and connect to the "Web of Science" database. Register with an email and password, if you have not already done so. For detailed instructions on how to setup alerts for journal content and citations, click on "Tutorial" link on this page and follow the steps to setup alerts.