Alerting Services

You can use the following resources to receive--usually by e-mail--the tables of contents of new issues of important journals as they are published, and/or the results of searches that are run periodically across important databases or the journals of specific publishers.

Multi-Publisher Alerting Services (journals):

EBSCOhost (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)

*Choose "EBSCOhost Web" from the options listed on the page.

*On the next screen, click the "Sign In" link (at the top right side of the screen) to register a new account or to login.

*The next screen lists the available databases; choose those you wish to search and click "Continue."

*Instructions for creating a journal alert.

*Instructions for creating a search alert.

*Alerts can be received by e-mail or RSS.

IngentaConnect (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)

*Instructions for using IngentaConnect.

*Journals and magazines covered by IngentaConnect.

Proquest CSA--My Research (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers searches)

*Register to create a personal account (in the upper right corner of the screen--"Please log in to My Research").

*Once you have created your account, you can login here -- http://my.csa.com/ids70/personal/

*Create searches (alerts) to run periodically across Proquest CSA databases. These databases include the following:

ARTbibliographies Modern

Bibliography of the History of Art

Biological Sciences

Biology Digest

Conference Papers Index

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt

ERIC

CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

MEDLINE

PAIS Archive

PAIS International

Plant Science

PsycARTICLES

PsycINFO

Social Services Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts

TOXLINE

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

*Alerts can be received via RSS or e-mail.

Individual Publishers (journals):

Blackwell Synergy (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)

*Register to create a personal account (or login).

*Once logged in, click the "E-mail alerts" option on the left side of the screen.

*At the next screen, click "E-mail alerts" under "My Synergy" on the left side of the screen.

*Journals covered by Blackwell Synergy.

Cambridge University Press Journals (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)

*Register to create a personal account (or login).

*At the next screen, click on "My Content Alerts" (left side of screen).

*Journals covered by Cambridge University Press.

Elsevier--ScienceDirect (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)

*Register to create a personal account (or login) in the upper right corner of the screen.

*The "volume/issue alert notifies you by e-mail when a new issue of a particular journal or a new volume of a particular book series or handbook series becomes available on ScienceDirect."

*"A Topic Alert notifies you by e-mail when new articles pertaining to a specific topic are available on ScienceDirect." Topic Alerts are searches created for you; you cannot specify your own search and receive an alert.

Oxford University Press Journals (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers tables of contents)

*Register to create a personal account (or login).

*On the next screen, click "View alerting preferences."

*Journals covered by Oxford University Press.

Wiley Interscience (covers the Social Sciences and Sciences; offers tables of contents and searches)

*Register to create a personal account (or login) in the upper right corner of the screen.

*Look to the upper right corner of the screen for your options.

*The Titles alert will automatically notify you by e-mail "when new content in a saved journal has been published."

*For Search alerts, "you can retrieve, edit, and re-run your saved search(es) to find new or archived material matching your search parameters", or you can be automatically alerted via email "when an article matching your search has been published."

*Journals covered by Wiley Interscience.

Books:

Grinnell College Libraries Catalog (covers the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences; offers searches)

*Instructions for setting up Preferred Searches (that will be delivered to you via e-mail as new materials are added to the library collection which match your search parameters)