Alert Services
Database alert services allow you to save search strategies and receive automatic alerts of new results matching your strategy. In addition to those suggested below, many other search services and databases offer alerts and the ability to save search strategies. Look for references to "alerts" or "saved searches" in the help section or guide.
- BrowzineInstall the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Browzine can also be used on a computer through their website.
- Ecology AbstractsProQuest allows you to set up an automatic alert to email results to you daily, weekly, or monthly. See Help for more information on saved searches.
- Ingenta ConnectCompleteIngenta's ConnectComplete is a table of contents service covering 11,000 journals in multiple disciplines. Ingenta can also alert you to new articles on topics of interest. The Dartmouth College Library's site license allow affiliated individuals at the College and DHMC to register and set up profiles. Caution: Ingenta's table of contents alerts contain links to Ingenta's version of the journal, usually not accessible by Dartmouth's users.
- JournalTOCsJournalTOCs is a free tables of contents alert service covering over 20,000 scholarly journals from over 1,200 publishers. JournalTOCs allows you to ssearch, follow, and set up alerts.
- PubMedRegister for MyNCBI; links are in the upper right corner and in the blue column at the left of the PubMed screen. MyNCBI saves search strategies and has an option to automatically update and email search results on a schedule of your choice.
- Web of ScienceWeb of Science allows you to set up an automatic alert to email results to you weekly or monthly. You can register or sign in on the first Web of Science screen, or at the point of saving a search strategy. See "Help" within Web of Science for more information.
