Use auto-alerts in databases and get new articles in your inbox!
March 18, 2010 – 10:12 AMIf you are conducting ongoing research on a topic, and want to be sure you see all new articles published, try setting up a citation alert in a GALILEO article database. We’ve got a new subject guide showing how to do this in PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCO databases (which include a number of our article databases, from Medline to Business Source Complete) and CSA databases (which include Social Services Abstracts and ERIC).
While the specifics vary from database to database, the general idea is you do a search, then click on a special link, usually with the word “Alert” in it. In many cases you need to create a free “Account” with the database, which allows you to save searches, individual citations or sets of citations, and create alerts. Once in, you choose how often you’d like the database to perform the search and email you the results – daily, weekly, etc. In the example page for EBSCO‘s Academic Search Complete, Elizabeth has asked the database to search for articles on Crohn’s disease every day, and email her citations for all those that are newly added to the database and published within the last year (sometimes there is a delay between an article’s publication and the date it’s added to a database.)
Let the database do the work and deliver the latest research to your inbox – set up a citation alert today!
