Journal Notifications: Journal Alerts in Library eResources

Many of the databases that the Beatley Library subscribes to offer alert services. An alert is an email or RSS notification that the database can automatically send to you when new items are added to the database that match your specific search.

There are two types of alerts:

• Journal Alerts - These alerts automatically send the tables of contents of newly published journal issues to your inbox or feed reader.
• Search Alerts - These alerts automatically run your saved queries on a regular basis. Types of search alerts include topic searches, author searches, and searches that you've just run. Search alerts are covered in this guide. Learn more about Search Alerts and how to set them up on the Search Alerts page.
  
  

Journal alerts, or table-of-contents alerts, are automatic notifications of the publication of new issues of journals you follow.

Setting up journal alerts is an efficient strategy for keeping up with the literature in your field or research area.

• Current Awareness- These services can help you keep up with articles in your subject area of interest and the contents of newly published journals
• Customized Content- Alert services allow you to control the information delivered, the amount of information and the regularity of received information
• Time Management- Information is automatically delivered to you without rerunning the same search all the time
• Organization- These services can help you to maintain a personal database in bibliographic management software