Current Awareness Services - Keeping Your Research Up to Date

Book Alerts

• Amazon.com Alerts
• ACQWEB Directory of Publishers - check individual publishers, such as MIT Press for new book alerts
• New @ Gordon Library - no email alert available, but visit this site to see our new items

Tables of Contents Alert

Does the library subscribe to the online version of the journal you have in mind?

Check our Searchable Collections => Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers search to find your favorite journal.

If the library does not subscribe to the online journal:

You can often receive notification of the latest table of contents through an aggregated database vendor such as IngentaConnect or EBSCO.

Selected Journal Collections

• American Chemical Society ASAP Alerts
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Publications
• EBSCOhost Business Source Premier
• ECONbase
• Emerald
• HighWire Press
• IngentaConnect
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE Xplore
• Institute of Physics (IoP) Filing Cabinet and Journal Alerts
• Oxford University Press Journals
• Project Muse
• ScienceDirect Alerts
• Springer LINK
• Web of Knowledge
• Wiley InterScience

Citation Alert

Wake up in the middle of the night wondering who in the world is citing your research? Find out when someone cites your research by setting up an email alert.

• Web of Knowledge - within the record view, choose Create Citation Alert
• HighWire Press - check out their CiteAlert
• ScienceDirect - allows up to 10 citation alerts

Saved Search & Alerts by Your Search Terms

Create a profile and your searches can be stored on the system. Visit the site to rerun the search. Or create a profile and your searches can be stored on the system and emailed to you on a frequency that you choose. References to any new articles on your topic will be sent to you in the future.

Research Alerts

• Cambridge Scientific Databases (Ceramic Abstracts, Metals Abstracts, etc.) - click please log into my research
• EBSCOhost Business Source Premier - sign into MyEbscohost
• Emerald Library
• Engineering Village (CompendexWeb/INSPEC) - set up Personal Account
• Ingenta
• IoP Electronic Journals - Saved Searches
• PubMed - My NCBI Cubby
• ScienceDirect
• informaworld - Taylor & Frances Alerting
• Wiley InterScience
• Web Of Knowledge

Free News Alerts

• Google News Alert
• Yahoo! News Alert

Specialty Topics - Email Alerts

• EEVL - Keeping up with the Latest Web Sites
• Patent Alert
• TechStreet - allows free standards tracking
• Track Changes in Web Site Content:
• ChangeDetection - monitor changes on web sites
• WatchthatPage
• Current Awareness Tools - Search Engine Showdown - more web site change tracking, and news and some search engine results alerting services
• Science.gov Alerts - set up keyword alerts on 12 government agencies web content (DOE, AGRICOLA, FDA, NIST, EPA, ERIC/Education, PubMed/Medline, and more)