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ALERTS / CURRENT AWARENESS
-Receive automatic email alerts on new articles on topics
you follow, or by authors or from institutions who interest you.
-Learn when your own articles have been cited by someone else.
-Have the newest table of contents of journals you read emailed
to you.
These indexes, with the exception of the journals'
own sites, are accessible to computers on the campus network / University of
Utah community. Check the
library's "article database" list for current URLs and access
information.
Almost all publishers and scholarly societies which issue journals online
offer to email the table of contents of new issues automatically. You can receive
the alerts even if we do not subscribe to the journal.. When we do subscribe,
these alerts usually link directly to the fulltext. Use a search engine to go
to the journal's home page. Then look, usually in a sidebar, for "alerts"
or" e- table of contents" . Example: Highwire
(distributes Science (AAAS), Oxford UniversityPress, many biomed journals)
Web of Science (Science
Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation
Index)
Despite the name, this actually covers 8500 major journals in the sciences,
social sciences and arts and humanities. You can set up alerts for articles
on a certain topic, by a certain person or from a given institution, or articles
which subsequently cite a specific article. This index is probably the best
single choice we have for alerts to scholarly articles, since it has broad subject
coverage and indexes articles very quickly. how
to set up alerts
Digital
Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts); Doctoral
and some masters theses. Downloadable fulltext for most dissertations since
1997. how
to set up alerts
SUBJECT SPECIFIC DATABASES
Some of the databases used for specific disciplines also have an alerting feature.
These databases tend to cover their discipline deeply, but may take longer to
index articles than Web of Science. Each publishe handles alerts a bit differently,
but the basic concept is that you do a search and then save it. You'll need
to register your email address. Look in the databases's help screens for "alerts"
or "current awareness" for more advice.
ARCHITECTURE / FINE ARTS
Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals : Architecture, city planning how
to set up alerts
BUSINESS
Business
Source Premier; Business how
to set up alerts
Newspaper
Source how
to set up alerts
EDUCATION
ERIC;
Education how
to set up alerts
ENGINEERING
Compendex/ INSPEC ; Engineering,
physics, computer science how
to set up alerts
Computer
Source; Computers how
to set up alerts
CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX
; Materials science, metals and alloys, engineered materials, ceramics how
to set up alerts
NTIS;
Government-funded research reports how
to set up alerts
HEALTH / MEDICINE / NUSING /PHARMACY
AltHealth
Watch; Alternative medicine how
to set up alerts
CINAHL;
Nursing and allied health how
to set up alerts
Health
Source-Consumer edition; Health how
to set up alerts
Health
Source-Nursing/academic; Health how
to set up alerts
Medline
medicine how
to set up alerts
Physical
Education Index ; Physical fitness, health, sports medicine how
to set up alerts
SportDiscus;
Sports and fitness how
to set up
HUMANITIES
Communication
and Mass Media Complete; communications how
to set up alerts
GenderWatch;
Women and gender how
to set up alerts
MLA
International: Literature how
to set up alerts
Index
Islamicus; Islamic and Middle East studies how
to set up alerts
Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts; Theoretical and applied linguistics, speech
therapy how to set up alerts
SCIENCE / MINES
Agricola
agriculture and natural resources how
to set up alerts
Biological Sciences
: Biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology how
to set up alerts
Biosis
how to set up alerts
Compendex/ INSPEC ; Engineering,
physics, computer science how
to set up alerts
CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX
; Materials science, metals and alloys, engineered materials, ceramics how
to set up alerts
GeoRef;
Geosciences how to set up alerts
Meteorological
& Geoastrophysical Abstracts; Meteorology how
to set up alerts
Plant
Science; Plants how to set
up alerts
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES / SOCIAL WORK / LAW
Criminal
Justice Abstracts; crime and sentencing how
to set up alerts
Ethnic
NewsWatch; Ethnic and minority groups how
to set up alerts
GenderWatch;
Women and gender how
to set up alerts
Legal
Collection ; Law how
to set up alerts
Military
and Government Collection; Armed services how
to set up alerts
PAIS
International; Public affairs, international relations how
to set up alerts
PsychInfo;
Psychology how
to set up alerts
Social
Services Abstracts ; Social work, social policy how
to set up alerts
Sociological
Abstracts ; Sociology how to
set up alerts
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts Politics, international relations how
to set up alerts
Questions?
Science and Engineering Library reference staff 1-7533
Barbara Cox, Collection Development 7-9167
BC 12May2005
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