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April 11, 2006
Keep Up to Date with AutoAlerts
Are you finding it difficult to keep up to date with the latest research in your field? Are you concerned about missing new research that may impact your work? Now you can automatically receive regular email notices of newly published articles customized to your interests!
What is an AutoAlert?
An AutoAlert, also known as SDI or Selective Dissemination of Information, is a saved search that runs automatically each time new data is added to a database of research literature. Your AutoAlert profile retrieves any new article citations on a topic of interest and emails them to you without any effort on your part.
Why would I want to set up an AutoAlert?
AutoAlert searches allow you to keep up to date on the latest published research on a topic or author of interest to you. Since search results are delivered to you automatically by email, it saves you time.
What kind of information will I receive?
You will receive citations and abstracts of newly published research papers on your topic or author. Web links allow you to go to the database record and to full text when available. Depending on the database, search results can be delivered to you on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
What kind of searches can I use to create AutoAlerts?
You can create AutoAlerts using keyword topics, journal names, or author names. In Web of Science you can create an alert to notify you when a newly published journal article has cited a paper of interest to you.
What databases are available?
AutoAlerts are available for research article databases in most subject areas. You can also create AutoAlerts in multidisciplinary databases like Scopus and ISI Web of Science (use the Current Contents interface for creating AutoAlerts with Web of Science data).
How do I get started?
Go to this web page: http://www.library.yale.edu/science/help/auto.html, select a research article database to create your alert, and follow the step-by-step directions.
Posted by dstern at April 11, 2006 04:00 PM
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