Alerts and RSS Feeds in Databases

ACM Digital Library

Follow the link at the top of the page and register (free).  Create an ACM Web Account.  Once your account has been created you may click on TOC Service on the ACM search page.
 

ACS Publications (American Chemical Society)

RSS feeds to ACS journals may be established by going to http://pubs.acs.org/alerts/rss/index.html and copying the RSS url for the desired journal and pasting it into your RSS reader.  Email alerts may be set up at http://pubs.acs.org/journals/asap/index.html.  Users have a choice between ASAP (As Soon As Published) alerts and TOC (Table of Contents) alerts.

Cambridge Journals Online

To establish RSS or feeds to Cambridge journals, go to http://journals.cambridge.org/action/byFeeds.  You may then click on a title. You will be asked to register for services.  You will then be able to sign up for email and RSS feed alerts as well as save searches and book marks.
 

EBSCO

To create RSS feed alerts, perform a search.  On the results screen, click on Create Alert for this Search. To set up saved search alerts and journal alerts, click on the Search History/Alerts tab on the Advanced Search screen.  Next, click on the Save Searches/Alerts link.  You will need to set up an account if you haven't already done so.

Emerald

To set up Alerts in Emerald (after registering), click on My Profile and follow the instructions.
 

Gale General OneFile (InfoTrac)

Perform a search using the desired words.  When the results screen comes up, click on Create a Search Alert.  You then have the option of signing up for email alerts or RSS feed alerts.  You may also set up alerts for journals by clicking on the Publication Search link at the top of the page, searching for the desired journal title and then setting up the alert by clicking on Create a Journal Alert.
 

Ingenta ConnectComplete (formerly UnCover)

Faculty may register for services by clicking on Ingenta above and entering the last six digits of their social security number in the box labeled "UNI faculty". They may then set up profiles for Table of Contents Alerts and Search Alerts. Table of Contents Alerts will be sent when new journal issues are loaded into Ingenta. Search Alerts for keywords or author's names will be run against new citations on a weekly basis. Faculty are entitled to create profiles that include up to "25 keyword or author searches, plus a maximum of 50 publication titles from the Ingenta system."  However, Table of Contents Alerts are limited to 5 titles for electronic journals.

• Document Delivery Instructions on registering and using the Ingenta subsidized article delivery service.
• Creating saved searches
• Receiving email alerts
• Subscribing to *RSS feeds
  

Library News
To sign up to receive the Library News *RSS feed, copy this shortcut:
Subscribe to this feed into your blog reader (news aggregator).
 

Project Muse

Users may request journal alerts and RSS feeds by clicking on the Journals button at the top of the page and then making a selection in the left column.  To create alerts for journals by subject area, click on Journals, click on  Request Journal Alerts from the left menu and then enter your email address  Next, click on Make or Change Selections.  You may then click on Save and Go to Subjects to select a subject areas on which to receive alerts.
 

ProQuest

Setting up Alerts in ProQuest (This slide show requires PowerPoint.)
Email alerts may be established by selecting the desired journal from the list of journals under the Publications tab. Next, click on Set up Alert.
In ABI/Inform,  RSS feeds may be established for your subject area.  First, perform a search using your terms.  You can then click on the link in the upper right corner.  This will take you to another list which provides a more specific breakdown of subject groups from which to choose.  RSS feeds to these more specific areas may be established by clicking on their icon.  Alerts can also be established for specific searches by clicking on Set up Alert after a search is performed.
 

Sage Journals Online
Perform a search in this database and refine it until you are receiving the desired results.  Next, click on the Search History tab at the top.  After selecting the search you wish to save, click on Save as Alert.

ScienceDirect

Users may save searches, create search alerts, journal issue alerts, citation alerts, and create a favorite journal list which can be browsed and searched.   First, click on Alerts and register.  You may set up an alert by performing a search and then selecting Save as Search Alert.  You may also create topic alerts by clicking on the Alerts button at the top and then Add/Delete Topic Alert.  Volume and issue alerts may be set up by selecting Add/Remove Volume/Issue Alerts on the Alerts page.  Citation alerts may be created by selecting Citation Alert while the document is being displayed.  You may also set up a list  or RSS feeds to your favorite journals by clicking on Manage Favorites after signing in.

SciFinder Scholar

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SilverPlatter ( ERL' WebSPIRS)
Authorized users may create, edit or delete an SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) profile.  Click on Help and then select the Manuals tab at the top.  See instructions on page 34-37 of the manual WebSPIRS 5 User's Manual .  You may also set up Alerts (see instructions on page 38).  All databases in a "family" will be searched when a SDI is set up while searching one member of that "family."  Example: a search set up while using the most recent Biological Abstracts database will search all of the Biological Abstracts databases.  To get started, perform a search for a prospective SDI profile and then click on SDI in the red bar at the top of the results screen.  Use your UNI email address as your "Personal User Name".  This will help identify you as an authorized user of this database and allow you to proceed.

SpringerLink (formerly Kluwer)
Faculty may register for features such as Table Of Contents Alerts, Keyword Alerts, and Favorites (journals).  After clicking on SpringerLink above, click on Register in the left column. After registering, you may set up your Alerts and Favorites.

Wiley InterScience

To establish RSS feeds to Wiley InterScience journals, go to the page for your desired journal and click on the icon.  You may then click on Subscribe to this feed.

*About RSS Feeds

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