WACHS Library: Library: How to ... set up Alerts

Keeping up to date and setting up your own alerts

Set up table of contents (TOC) alerts to receive details of new issues of journals that cover your areas of clinical practice or research. Some alerting services will also send details of new articles prior to publication.

There are several options for setting up TOC alerts:

OVID Discovery TOC alerts

Set up an Ovid Discovery account and then login
Search for a journal title in the eResources tab
Click on Activate Journal Alert
These emailed alerts will incorporate the Library authentication for seamless access

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BrowZine TOCs

BrowZine

Set up a BrowZine account
Check the box to receive email notifications when journals that you follow publish new content
Log in
Go into your BrowZine settings and set your email notifications frequency
Search for a journal title or browse by category
Click on Add To My Bookshelf

TIP: A BrowZine app is available for convenient access on mobile devices.
View more information on BrowZine

Publisher Alerts

Search for a journal title on Google
Go to the journal home page on the publisher's website
Look for the option to sign up for email alerts and enter your email address
Alerts received directly from publisher websites will not contain Library authentication. For seamless access to content from these alerts use one of two options:
- Library bookmarklet
- Library LibKey browser extension

Set up subject alerts to receive details of new articles in your area of clinical practice or research; and set up author alerts to track prominent authors in your field of practice.

There are several options for setting up subject and author alerts which are shown below.

If you are interested in doing this, please access the relevant resource from the Library homepage.

Click on My Account and create a personal account
Log in
Click on search and undertake a subject or author search
Click on Create Auto-Alert
Select the required frequency and format
Click on Save
To modify or delete alerts, go to My Searches & Alerts and click on AutoAlert (SDI) Searches

Click on My Research (the person icon, top right of screen) and create a personal account
Log in
Undertake a subject or author search
Click on Save search/alert and then Create alert
Fill in the alert criteria and schedule the alert
Click on Create alert - your choices will be confirmed
Click Close window
You will receive an email confirming the alert details
To modify/view or delete existing alerts, log in to your personal account, and click on Alerts

Click on Log In and create an account
Log in
Undertake a subject or author search
Click on Create alert
Select the frequency
Click on Save
To modify or delete alerts, access alerts via your account dashboard

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LinksMedicus.com - Content Curation and Alerts in Medicine
A free content curation service across 400 medical journals and news sources. Subscribe to receive alerts on the latest relevant articles in all medical specialties.
LitSuggest
A web-based recommendation and curation system for biomedical literature that uses AI to find and rank publications pertinent to topics of interest.
Media Clippings [Intranet link only]
These media clippings are provided to the Communications Directorate by an outside agency – iSentia - Monday to Friday, and are for internal use only. They may not be copied or distributed to external parties without authorisation.
Medicine Matters diabetes (free with registration)
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Medicine Matters rheumatology (free with registration)
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Medicine Matters oncology (free with registration)
Updates for health professionals caring for people with cancer on the latest advances in oncology to promote good clinical practice and improve patient care.
Nature News and Comment
Set up alerts for new content from Nature.com
PubPeer - the online journal club
The PubPeer Foundation is a California-registered public-benefit corporation with 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in the United States. The overarching goal of the Foundation is to improve the quality of scientific research by enabling innovative approaches for community interaction. The bylaws of the Foundation establish pubpeer.com as a service run for the benefit of its readers and commenters, who create its content. Our current focus is maintaining and developing the PubPeer online platform for post-publication peer review.
Research Review Australia
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ScienceDaily - Health and Medicine News
Free access to the latest news in health, science and more, from leading universities, scientific journals, and research organizations via RSS newsfeeds that you can subscribe to.
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