Intern, Fellow, and Resident research resources: Saving your searches as alerts

An intro to library resources intended to help Interns, Fellows, and Residents with their research and work

Setting up alerts

Staying on top of the current literature in your field is a daunting, but necessary, part of the research process--especially when you're writing a grant proposal! Setting up automatic alerts is an easy way to stay up to date on the current research.

Google Scholar
Help yourself keep on top of recurrent Google Scholar searches by setting up alerts for those searches. Google Scholar can also send you alerts when your papers are cited.
My NCBI/PubMed
If you want to save your PubMed searches, you need a My NCBI account. Once your account is set up, you’re able to receive automatic email updates (daily, weekly, or monthly—you pick) for any of your saved searches.
Scopus
To get alerts in Scopus, you’ll need a user account, and can either create an RSS feed for your searches, or have results sent to your email periodically. You can also set up specific author citation alerts or document alerts.
Web of Science
Save your Web of Science searches, and receive daily, weekly or monthly email alerts when new publications matching your search are published. You can also receive alerts for specific articles for any new citations. You’ll need a Web of Science personal profile, but it’s easy to create one.