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Creating Research Alerts
Sarah Lester & Mike Nack, Stanford Engineering Library
Winter Quarter 2011
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What is a research alert?
Different technologies (email vs. RSS)
Creating alerts in Scopus
Creating alerts in Web of Science
Creating alerts in xSearch
Other sources for alerts
Pre-built alerts @ the Engineering Library
What is a research alert?
• Research alerts are notifications from a research source that
notify you anytime a new result or item is found that matches
criteria you’ve provided
• Examples:
• Search in a database that notifies you when there are new results
matching your search criteria
• Table of Contents alerts that show you the titles of articles in a new
volume of a journal
• Author alerts that tell you when a particular author has a new paper
published
Technologies (Email vs. RSS)
• Alerts used to only be via Email
• Set-up alert
• Provider sends email the at the specified rate requested
• Now you can use RSS
• Notification is constant
• Each new item shows up in your RSS feed as it becomes available
• Many RSS readers from which to choose.
Creating alerts in Scopus
• Before you get started you need to create an account on
Scopus
• To do this click on the Register link in the top right corner of any
page on Scopus.
• You can create an alert in Scopus from any search result, just
click on the Set Alert or Set Feed icon
Creating alerts in Scopus
Creating alerts in Scopus
• You can also create alerts from individual papers
Creating alerts in Scopus
• Or create alerts for a particular author or organization
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• Like Scopus, you will first need to create an account at Web of
Science
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• To create a alert you must first perform a search
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• If you are happy with the results, click on Search History in the
top navigation bar
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• Select the search or searches that you want to use for your
alert
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• Give your alert a name and choose the frequency you want to
receive it
• If you plan to use RSS instead of email, uncheck the box next
to send me e-mail alerts
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• If you plan to use RSS, on the confirmation screen you will see
the icon to connect to the feed
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• Alternately, you can create a “Citation Alert” for a single
paper, to be notified when the paper is cited by another
author
Creating alerts in Web of Science
• To edit your Citation Alerts, access the “My Citation Alerts”
link in the upper right of the page when signed in
• You can access and edit your Saved Searches in this same area
Creating alerts in xSearch
• Like Web of Science & Scopus, you can create an alert based
on a set of search terms
• xSearch uses your SUnet so you don’t need to create an
account
Creating alerts in xSearch
• After your search is completed, click on “Create an alert from
this search”
Creating alerts in xSeach
• Give your alert a name, and set the alert frequency
• If you plan to use RSS change Alert Email Delivery to Never
Creating alerts in xSearch
• Once the alert is created, you’ll have the icons available to add
the alert to your RSS reader.
Creating alerts in xSearch
• Tip – Want to get alerts from Web of Science but don’t want
to try and figure out there interface?
• You can run alerts on just Web of Science in xSearch by
selecting only Web of Science for your search source
Other sources for alerts
• Publishers, database companies, Engineering
Library Website.
Pre-built alerts @ the Engineering Library
• The “What’s New” tab at the library website
http://englib.stanford.edu
Pre-built alerts @ the Engineering Library
• Articles
Pre-built alerts @ the Engineering Library
• E-Books
Pre-built alerts @ the Engineering Library
• Books
Pre-built alerts @ the Engineering Library
• News
More on RSS
• How to view RSS feeds
• Click on RSS icon
More on RSS
• Choose an RSS reader (Yahoo, Google, Windows,
etc. (First sign in)
More on RSS
• Example of ‘My Yahoo’ RSS reader.
More on RSS
• Example of ‘IE/Windows Gadget’ RSS reader.
• From within IE, click on ‘Subscribe to this feed’.
More on RSS
• Click ‘Subscribe’.
More on RSS
• To view feeds within IE, click on ‘favorites’ and
then ‘Feeds’.Click ‘Subscribe’.
More on RSS
• To view feeds using Windows Gadgets, right click
on your desktop, and click on ‘Gadgets’.
• Drag the “Feed Headlines” gadget onto your
Desktop.
More on RSS
• Click on ‘Options’.
More on RSS
• Select your feed and click ‘OK’.
More on RSS
• Now the feed is displayed on your Desktop.