Alerting Services

THREE TYPES OF PUBLISHERS' ALERTS

(1) Table of Contents (ToC) alerts. This is the standard alert offered by most publishers. ToC alert enables you to receive the Tables of Contents of your favorite journals as soon as issues are published online.

(2) Keywords/research/personal/alert. This allows you to enter more flexible alerting criteria so that whenever articles matching your criteria are published, you automatically receive alerts containing their details.

(3) Citation alert. This allows you to receive email notification whenever other authors cite authors or articles you have selected.

To sign up for an alert, you may need to log in at the publishers' websites and register using your name, e-mail address and a password you can remember. Each publisher's form is different. Some are more detailed than others. The following is a selected list of publishers with detailed instructions to sign up for alert.

ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS)

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (AMS)

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (ASCE)

BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARG

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

COMPENDEX

EBSCOHOST ELECTRONIC JOURNAL SERVICE

EDGAR ONLINE

EMERALD LIBRARY

HIGHWIRE

IEEE XPLORE

INGENTA

INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

KLUWER ACADEMIC

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (OUP)

PROJECT MUSE

SAGE PUBLICATIONS

THE ROYAL SOCIETY

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

SCIENCEDIRECT

SPRINGER-VERLAG

TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP

WILEY INTERSCIENCE

ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY (http:www.acm.org) Is a product of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).The Digital Library contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since it's founding in 1947 together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.

How to set up alert for ACM Digital Library:

Click Register at the top of page
Click Creat my ACM Web Account now
Click I am Not an ACM or SIG Member - Continue
Fill Web form
Click Continue
Click Complete

You will receive e-mail with instructions to activate your ACM Web Account

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (www.acs.org) provides two types of alerts: ASAP and ToC Alerts. ASAP is the daily or weekly e-mail alerts sent when individual articles are released on the Web, prior to being assigned to an issue. Tables of Contents e-mail the Tables of Contents (ToC) for specific issues on the day the complete issue is posted on the Web, enabling you to scan the issue's entire contents at once.

How to set up alert for ACS:

Select ACS Publications under Quick Find
Click on Sign Up For Email Alerts at the top of the page
Click on Register For TOC Alerts in the middle of the page
Fill in the Registration Form provided
Submit Form

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (www.ams.org) was founded in 1888 to further the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its meetings, publications, advocacy, and other programs. AMS Email Notification Options is a free service available to anyone wishing information on recently posted research articles in AMS electronic journals. The system will deliver weekly notification of new articles meeting your specifications. Email messages will list the journal name, subject area(s), author(s), and article title. These messages will also contain hyperlinks to the table of contents, abstracts, and the article itself (accessible to subscribers). You may choose to be notified when articles are : posted to a journal or set of journals that you select posted containing a selected MSC subject area or group of areas posted under any combination of journal(s) and subject area(s) posted by issue and/or by article.

How to set up alert for ASCE:

At the Homepage, click Sign Up for ASCE's New Publications Alert
Enter name and e-mail address
Select interested subject area
Click SUBMIT INFORMATION

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (ASCE) (www.pubs.asce.org) is recognized globally for its significant contribution and dedication to the advancement of science and education in the Civil Engineering profession through information. Its websites is the most complete listing of its publications, including: reference works, state-of-the-art manuals and reports, conference proceedings, contract documents, standard guidelines, TCLEE monographs, and Journals and Periodicals that cover a comprehensive range of the Civil Engineering profession.

How to set up alert for ASCE

Look for CONTENTS ALERT on the lower right hand corner of page
Click on "Please sign up today"
Enter your e-mail address
Select the ASCE journals for which you want to receive alerts
Select ToC format - HTML or ASCII
Click Subscribe

You will receive table of contents alerts as new journal issues are published in the format you specify.

BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD (www.munksgaard.dk/) is a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical journals servicing the international scientific and acholarly communities.

How to set up alert for BMJ:

Click on All Journals Published by Blackwell Publishing
Click on E-MAIL ALERTS on the left of screen
Click on SIGN ME UP NOW in the middle of the screen
Select a subject(s) by putting a checkmark in the box
Click continue
Click Submit

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (www.journals.Cambridge.org) Journals Online (CJO), provides full text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This upgraded system includes:

a) the facility for all users to conduct searches, view tables of contents, and view abstracts for all journals on the site

b) A procedure by which registered individual can receive alerts regarding articles of interest as well as tables of contents for journals of interest

How to set up alerts for CUP:

Click on Register on the right of screen
Fill in Registration Form. Make sure all fields with asterix(*) is filled out
Click on Submit
Click on Log-in
Fill in Name and Password
Click on Account Options
Click on Personalised
Choose Journals of Interest or Subject of Interest page to set up e-mail alerts

COMPENDEX (www.engineeringvillage2.org) is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with almost seven million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1970. This database is updated weekly.

How to set up alert for Compendex:

Go to Personal Account on the left of screen

Click Register
Fill out form
Click Submit

EBSCOHOST Electronic Journal Service (http://ejournals.ebsco.com) EJS can help you stay on top of the latest literature in your field. It consolidates over 8,000 peer-reviewed e-journals from all major publishers, covering practically all disciplines.

How to set up alert for EJS:

Enter e-mail address in the box on the right
Click Subscribe
You will receive an e-mail confirming your subscription

To Unsubscribe to alert:

Use same form to unsubscribe to alert
Enter e-mail address in box
Click the Unsubscribe button

EDGAR ONLINE (http://www.edgar-online.com/start) is a leader in the business information industry, specializing in the extraction, packaging and distribution of public company information contained in SEC filings.

How to set up EDGAR EMAIL alert:

Click EDGAR Search at the top of page
Click Email Alerts
Type your e-mail address
Click Edit My Alerts
Enter Ticker Symbols and click Add Alerts
OR enter Company Name or CIK and click Search

Your alert list will appear at the bottom of screen

TO Unsubscribe to alert:

Put a check mark in box besides Company Name and click Delete

EMERALD LIBRARY (www.emerald-library.com) publishes the world's widest range of management and library & information services journals. Its portfolio is made up of over 140 leading management and library and information services titles. In addition, its strong specialist range of engineering, applied science and technology journals provides important additional materials. Emerald offers a range of customized e-mail alerting services designed to keep users informed about the latest research. Emerald Alert includes table of contents, Weekly/Monthly Digests and Saved Search Alert options.

How to set up ToC alert for Emerald:

Click on E-mail services at the left of page under SERVICES FOR ALL
Click on Emerald Alert at the top right of page
Click on ToC Alert
Fill out form and select journals from the list provided by checking box besides title
Click Submit

How to set up saved Search Alert for Emerald:

Click Saved Search Alert
Conduct a search within Emerald and addd to profile
Select database appropriate for your search
Enter name and e-mail address
Click Submit

HIGHWIRE (http://www.highwire.stanford.edu/about/) published by Stanford University libraries, High Press began online production of the weekly journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) in 1995. Scientists and societies rapidly saw the potential for new forms and features of scientific communication, and science and proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences soon joined JBC online.

How to set up alert for Highwire:

Click My E-mail Alerts
Click register for a free account
Create a Free Account by filling form
Click Submit

You will receive an e-mail with a URL to complete your registration

IEEE XPLORE (www.ieeexplore.ieee.org) publishes thirty percent of the world's technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Email notification of IEEE journal and magazines are posted each week to IEEE Xplore. You choose the titles that you want to know about. Each email contains a direct link to the issues' latest tables of contents.

How to set up alert for IEEE XPLORE:

Click on Title Lists
Click on IEEE XPLORE
Click on Email Alerts on the right of page
Fill in your name and email address
Click Submit

INGENTA (www.ingenta.com) is a multi-disciplinary database. It provides online access and scholarly research. For libraries, it offers a customizable research retrieval and collection management services. For Web users, it offers a broad based article search and delivery service. It also provides two types of alerts: search alerts and table of contents alerts (TOC).

How to set up search alert for INGENTA:

Look on the left corner of screen and click on Register
Sign up for personal account by clicking on Personal
Click on Personal Registration
Fill out Registration Form. Make sure all fields with an asterix(*) is filled out
Check box for My Institution's/Company's Subscriptions
Click on Continue
On the next page, your name will appear on the upper right hand corner
You need to run a search to be able to set up your research alerts
Now, run a search using the search options
Click on Saved Searches
Select Add To Alerts alongside the searches you would like to add to your alerts
All saved searches will be run against new citations in Ingenta on a weekly basis and a list of citations forwarded to you through your e-mail

How to set up Table of Content Alert (TOC) for INGENTA:

Click on manage my Ingenta
Click on my table of contents
Select a letter to browse publications
Put a check mark in box alongside title of interest
Click on OK to activate the list
When new issues of your selected publications are published, the tables of contents (with links to the article citations in Ingenta) will be forwarded to you through your e-mail

How to remove titles from alert list:

Check the box(es) next to publication name
Click Remove Selected
Click Yes

INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (www.iop.org) whenever articles matching your criteria are published, you will automatically receive e-mail messages containing their details (including the abstracts if you wish) provided you have created an alert profile. You can also create profiles to receive the tables of contents of your favorite IOP journals as soon as issues are published online. To create a profile, select "Create an Account" at the bottom of the Main Menu. Whenever articles matching your criteria are published, you will automatically receive e-mail messages containing their details (including the abstracts if you wish). Access to the full text of any document will be allowed if your library has a subscription to that title.

How to set up alert for Institute of Physics:

Click on Journals
Click on Alerts at the top right corner of page
Click on Create an Account, on the left side of screen
Fill out form
Click Create an Account
Click on create new EJ profile
Complete the fields listed

KLUWER ACADEMIC (www.kluweronline.com) provides the highest quality information products and services to academic and corporate researchers in humanities & social sciences, environmental & plant sciences, physical sciences, behavioral sciences, engineering & computer sciences and bioscience.

How to set up alert for Kluwer Academic Press:

Click on Kluwer Alert at the top of the page
Type e-mail address in the box provided
Click on Login
Fill registration Form
Click save and continue
Check box besides each subject
Click save and continue
Check box besides each journal title
Click save and continue

You will receive e-mail confirming your registration

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (www3.oup.co.uk) is widely recognized as one of the world's premier journal publishers, successfully combining traditional values of quality and service together with innovative use of the latest technologies. Oxford publishes books for professionals, medicine, psychology, and business. It offers a wide range of scholarly works in all academic disciplines including law, the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

How to set up alert for OUP:

Click on Academic and Professional Books and journals
Click on Journals
Click on Content Alerting
Enter your email address
Select Journals by checking box along side of titles
Click Subscribe

PROJECT MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu) was lunched in 1995 at the John Hopkins University Press. It covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. Currently, Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers.

How to set up alert for Project Muse:

Click Information
Click What's New
Click Journal Alerts
Type your e-mail address
Click Make or Change Selections
Select journal (s) from list
Click Save and Go to Subject
Select Subject
You can combine title, subject and collection
Click Saved Changes and Exit when finished

SAGE PUBLICATIONS (www.sagepub.com) offer full-text access to the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Politics and International Relations and Sociology published by Sage Publications and participating societies. The collections include more than 75 journals, 20,000 articles, book reviews and editorials with all the original graphics and tables.

How to set up alert for Sage Publications:

Click SIGN UP FOR E-MAIL
Click E-MAIL LIST on the right of screen
Fill form
Click subscribe

THE ROYAL SOCIETY (www.royalsoc.ac.uk) is an independent scientific academy of the UK dedicated to promoting excellence in science. It publishes five internationally respected peer-reviewed journals, including Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's oldest title, which first appeared in 1665.

How to set up alert for The Royal Society:

Click About The Royal Society
Click Publications
Click Journals
Click on desired journal titles
Click Alerts
Enter Full Name and E-mail Address
Click Submit

How to Unsubscribe to alert:

Select desired journal titles
Check box (es)
Click Update Alerts

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY ELECTRONIC JOURNALS (www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournal/rsc.htm) these are the primary and review journals of this society covering all branches of chemistry in electronic form back to 1997.

How to set up alert for RSC:

Select and click journal title
Fill in your e-mail address
Click Send

SCIENCEDIRECT (www.lib.rpi.edu/resources/databases/ScienceDirect) one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical literature. There are two kinds of alerts available at ScienceDirect: one is Citation Alert and the other is Journal Issue Alert. End users can creat their own ID and password simply by clicking on "Create a Personal Profile" from it's home page and then follow the instructions on the screen. Once registered, users can: Create a Search Alert to notify them by e-mail when a saved search retrieves new results.

How to set up a citation alert for ScienceDirect:

Click on Alerts
Click on Register Now on the right side of the screen
Fill-in required fields with name and e-mail address
Select at least one subject area
When you are finished, click on done
On the next screen, click the log now icon
Enter your user name and password in the ScienceDirect browser
Click the submit icon
Click on Add Alert
To create a search alert you must define and run a search
Type in search terms
After selecting search results, click on Save as E-mail Alert

A Citation Alert notifies you when a new article is published that cites your article. You will receive an e-mail message with a link into ScienceDirect to access these new articles. This function allows you, as an author, to keep track of all those papers in ScienceDirect that refers to your articles.

How to set up Journal Issue alert for ScienceDirect:

Click on Alerts
Click on Select the Journal
Click on a letter to see all publications beginning with that letter
Select journal by checking the boxes and clicking submit
You will see a summary of the journals you have selected
When you are finished making your selections click on save

A journal Issue Alert notifies you by e-mail when a new issue of a particular journal becomes available on ScienceDirect. You can add or remove journal from alert list at anytime by clicking My Alerts.

SPRINGER-VERLAG (www.link.springer.de/alert) will automatically send the table of contents of any Springer journal that interests you as soon as it is retrievable via link. Subjects covered are: chemical sciences, geosciences, law, life sciences, mathematics, physics and astronomy.

How to set up alert for Springer:

Click on Springer Alert
Click on register here
Choose one or more journals from the complete list
Mark the journals you would like information about
Enter your name and e-mail address
Click Submit button

You will receive an e-mail confirmation of your registration

TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP (www.taylorfrancis.com) has been publishing peer-reviewed journals for over two centuries. These journals include titles from the imprints of Taylor & Francis, Carfax, Routledge and Spon Press.

How to set up alert for Taylor & Francis:

Click on Journals Menu on the left of screen
Click E-mail Contents Alerting
Click type of service desired
Fill in e-mail and password
Click Register

WILEY INTERSCIENCE (www.interscience.wiley.com) offers an online service that delivers the full-text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works.

How to set up alert for Wiley:

Click on Become a Registered User
Click on personal Home Page and its functions
Below Contents Alerts click on login to Wiley Interscience
Click on Register
Fill out Form and Submit
Go to any journals "All Published Journals" select subject
Click on any journals
Click on ADD ALERT at the top of page
Click on Confirm Content Alert

Clifton Sawyerr 01.05.05

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