What is an alert?
An alert is notification of new research published in your field.
Table of Contents (TOC) Alerting:
Just create an alert at the website of your favorite journal!
Just keep in mind that access to the full-text depends on how GW Libraries subscribes to the journal.
Or get it all in one from a free online service that covers 20,000 journals: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/
Saved Search/Keyword Alerts:
Article databases will often let you set up email alerts when articles matching your search criteria are published.
Develop a keyword search in your favorite database and the latest articles matching your keywords will be sent automatically to you.
A great tip if you've finished Chapter 2 of your dissertation!
You can even set this up in Google Scholar by running a search and then clicking on the envelope on the left that says “Create Alert”.
Citation Alert:
Get an alert when your favorite article or author has been cited. And this is good way to see if your research is being cited too!
Do a search for your author or citation
Click on “Cited By” then click the envelope on the left that says “Create Alert”
WoS is more exclusive only looks at a select 6000 journals and their bibliographies.
Do a "Cited Reference Search" and you can set up a saved search in the database
