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Alerts to New Research

Alerts to New Research. Purpose: tells you when new journal articles are published in your research area. Sent by email or RSS feed - weekly or monthly Different kinds: Table of Contents Search Alert Citation Alert. How to set up an Alert. 1. Sign up for a personal account.

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Alerts to New Research

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  1. Alerts to New Research Purpose: tells you when new journal articles are published in your research area. Sent by email or RSS feed - weekly or monthly Different kinds: Table of Contents Search Alert Citation Alert

  2. How to set up an Alert 1. Sign up for a personal account. 2. Choose a search statement which gives “good” results. Save this search as an email alert. OR Choose an RSS reader. Enter file address of your search statement. EXAMPLES

  3. 1. Table of Contents E-Alerts • T of C for current issue • Automatically emailed to you when a new issue is published • Links to articles for journals UW owns • Free service – sign up • Available for most journals Some examples: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology IEEE (journals only) UW Library Elsevier journal alert in email inbox

  4. Journal website – set up Alert Bloglines

  5. 2. Search Alerts - from online databases Research Index Several Publishers Publisher Journal AIChE J. IEEE Transactions on Robotics & Automation IEEE Xplore Science Direct (Elsevier) Scholarsportal Compendex2 INSPEC Web of Science Set up a search statement and save it as an alert. Choose how often it’s sent to you.

  6. OR joins similar terms; enclose them in ( ) or more terms ? broaden search, more results AND joins different concepts or subjects add more subjects ? focus search *different endings of root word (wild card) boat* boat, boats, boating, boater etc. You need a search statement on your topic Example: (plastic or lithium or rechargeable) and batter* and electrolyt*

  7. Compendex or EI and Inspec • Compendex: All engineering topics • Inspec Physics and Astronomy Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Communications, Computers, Information Technology • Search journals, conferences, reports • Weekly updates • Subject E- alerts available • Blog UW Library

  8. Engineering Village Subject Alert – received by email

  9. 3. Citation Alert - e.g. Web of Science • 5,900 journals from 150 disciplines • 1945 – present • Subject and Cited Reference searching UW Library • Get It! link to fulltext & TRELLIS • Email and citation alerting • Analyze results feature

  10. Search Alert – Web of Science Run a search. Go to Search History and save the search. Select Alert.

  11. Citation Alert from Publisher’s website

  12. Summary 1. Identify relevant journals and set up alerts to monitor table of contents. 2. Search large databases (Compendex, INSPEC, Web of Science) and save good searches as search (subject) alerts. 3. Citation alert when 1 specific paper is cited. (Web of Science; journal article webpage) 4. Delivery: Email results to desktop or RSS feed

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