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Keeping up to date

Researcher resources Keeping up to date

Keep up to date with the published research in your field by using automatic alerts. Alerts are available through FindIt@Flinders and most other databases. They can be used to:

Search Alerts

You can save your searches in Findit@Flinders and most other databases. New results for your queries can be sent directly to you by email or RSS allowing you to keep up to date with recently published research, saving you time and effort.   


Table of Contents Alerts

No longer worry about missing an issue of your favourite journal! You can have the table of contents (ToC) of journals emailed directly to you. This function is available in most databases. You can also go to most individual journal websites to set up ToC alerts if the database you like using does not offer this service.


Article Citation Alerts 

Want to know when your work is cited? Many databases offer a citation alert service that will inform you when a chosen work is cited.


Author Alerts

Want to know when a key researcher publishes new material? In many databases you can follow an author to receive email updates every time a new work by that author is indexed in that database. You can also set an author citation alert in some databases such as Scopus that inform you whenever anyone publishes a work that cites a particular author.


Librarian Tips

1.To set up alerts, we recommend you to design and run a focused search first. This prevents receiving lots of articles via your email account.

2.Manage your Alerts and avoid your email alerts becoming SPAM . Delete or change the frequency of your alerts are if they no longer relevant or of interest.

Scopus

How are Alerts used in Scopus?

Scopus Tutorial: How to save searches and set alerts

Web of Science

Setting citation alerts in Web of Science

Web of Science: Saving your search and setting alerts

Create table of contents in Web of Science

Google Scholar

Google Scholar alerts help page.

Informit

Informit allows you to set up email alerts for your saved searches. It also offers RSS feeds of table of contents for new journal issues.

You will need to create an account in Informit. Click on your name and then My Account.

Informit alerts


On the left hand panel is information about setting up alerts.

Informit account
JSTOR

JSTOR allows you to save articles to your workspace and create an alert on journals table of content

Proquest

Proquest allows you to save your searches and  set up email alerts. You can also have the table of contents of new journal issues sent directly to you. The ProQuest Help guide is here. When opened search for “Alerts” in the menu.

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