1. Alerts to New Research Sent by email or RSS feed - weekly or monthly Different kinds: Table of Contents Search Alert Citation Alert Purpose: tells you when new journal articles are published in your research area.

2. How to set up an Alert 1. Sign up for a personal account. 2. Choose a search statement which gives “good” results. Save this search as an email alert. OR Choose an RSS reader. Enter file address of your search statement. EXAMPLES

3. 1. Table of Contents E-Alerts T of C for current issue Automatically emailed to you when a new issue is published Links to articles for journals UW owns Free service – sign up Available for most journals Some examples: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology IEEE (journals only) UW Library Elsevier journal alert in email inbox

4. Journal website – set up Alert Bloglines

5. Journal 2. Search Alerts - from online databases Publisher Several Publishers Research Index AIChE J. IEEE Transactions on Robotics & Automation IEEE Xplore Science Direct (Elsevier) Scholarsportal Compendex2 INSPEC Web of Science Set up a search statement and save it as an alert. Choose how often it’s sent to you.

6. You need a search statement on your topic OR joins similar terms; enclose them in ( ) or more terms ? broaden search, more results AND joins different concepts or subjects add more subjects ? focus search * different endings of root word (wild card) boat * boat, boats, boating, boater etc. Example: (plastic or lithium or rechargeable) and batter* and electrolyt*

7. Compendex or EI and Inspec Compendex: All engineering topics Inspec Physics and Astronomy Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Communications, Computers, Information Technology Search journals, conferences, reports Weekly updates Subject E- alerts available Blog UW Library

8. Engineering Village Subject Alert – received by email

9. 5,900 journals from 150 disciplines 1945 – present Subject and Cited Reference searching Get It! link to fulltext & TRELLIS Email and citation alerting Analyze results feature 3. Citation Alert - e.g. Web of Science UW Library

10. Search Alert – Web of Science Run a search. Go to Search History and save the search. Select Alert.

11. Citation Alert from Publisher’s website

12. Summary 1. Identify relevant journals and set up alerts to monitor table of contents. 2. Search large databases (Compendex, INSPEC, Web of Science) and save good searches as search (subject) alerts. 3. Citation alert when 1 specific paper is cited. (Web of Science; journal article webpage) 4. Delivery: Email results to desktop or RSS feed