Creating Alerts

Search Alerts
Search alerts will periodically e-mail you a list of new articles that match your search when they are added to the database. This can be helpful for keeping up-to-date in a particular area as well as finding very current content to add to course readings.

Ebsco

1. Create and refine a search in a database.
2. Click on "Search History/Alerts" (just below search boxes)
3. Click on "Save Searches / Alerts"
4. Log in (or create a free account)
5. Name it, etc. Change to ALERT if you want to be alerted by e-mail of new articles that are found by the search

Gale (Infotrac)

1. Create and refine a search in a database.
2. When looking at a list of results, click on "Create a Search Alert" at the top of the result list.

Publication Alerts
Publication alerts will e-mail you (or provide an RSS feed) the table of contents of a selected journal with links to each article. This allows you to efficiently keep up with what's being published in a particular journal and read only the articles of interest (often available free from the library's subscription).

Ebsco

1. Click on "Publications" (top) and search for your journal (using the lower search box)
2. Click on "Alert / Save / Share" (on right near top)
3. Login (or create free account)

Gale (Infotrac)

1. Click on "Publication Search" (near top) and find your journal.
2. Click on journal title
3. Click on "Create a Journal Alert" (top right)